Thoughts on the name Lorelei?

[HKCLARK]

Hi all! Me again!! 😅

I'm going to keep these threads coming until we find a baby name unfortunately 😅

Thoughts on the name Lorelei?

I like asking for an outsiders opinion as it highlights points about the name myself & hubby wouldn't have thought of!

Thanks again!! ☺️

Nice name - we had it in our list for our LG. A suggestion from fiancé as he loves the song Lorelei by Styx

Beautiful.

Like most people it reminds me of the Gilmore girls but they spell it Lorelai which I personally prefer the spelling of but either way I think it's a lovely name

Two associations, which both make me say no:

(a) An inadvertent siren

(b) One of Robert A Heinlein's many free-spirited genius redheads

(Of the two, the second is the more unfortunate....)

It sounds like a middle aged American lady from the Midwest! Not a fan, sorry!

Utterly hideous and not what I'd call a classy name. Sorry.

DramaAlpaca it would be interesting to.find out what names you deem as classy...

No.

Look it up @HKCLARKOP.
It doesn't have good associations.
It makes me think of a stage name for a drag artist, but maybe I'm getting my films mixed up,

Never heard of The Gilmour Girls. My parents very nearly gave me this name in 1975. It's been around a while

OP, if you like the name use it. BUT as previous posters have said, it comes with a quite a bit of 'cultural baggage', including (1) a very famous 19th century song about a killer siren, which you can listen to here:
www.deutschland.de/en/the-siren-song-of-the-lorelei

and (2) Marilyn Monroe's performance as Lorelei Lee in the film 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'. Marilyn was sassy and delightful, but the character in the best-selling book on which the film was based was morally much more ambivalent:
www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/25/100-best-novels-gentlemen-prefer-blondes-anita-loos-robert-mccrum

Yesterdayforgotten see florascotia2's post above, which sums up exactly why I don't think Lorelei is a classy name. FWIW the names I find classy tend to be of the timeless and classic variety. Lorelei is neither.

Love it! I love the Gilmore girls and if ds had been a girl he was going to be lorelei, Rory shortened.

Nice name, but I worry people might not be able to spell it. My first thought was the Pokemon character.

How do you say it?

Remember all their lives they will be telling people they said their name wrong and spelt it wrong

I have a pretty strange name and it's the bane of my fucking life

Everyday. All day.

Trust me. Think about it! My daughter had a well known name. People get it wrong all the time and it drives her crazy!

It makes you feel like no one ever really knows you if they can't even get your name right.

It makes me think of Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. I think it's a nice name :)

great pogues song

I love it. Gilmore Girls doesn’t mean anything to me.
It’s a German name and I love how luscious it sounds.

@LockedInMadness then she really would be multitalented, wouldn’t she?

I think it’s one of those names that I’d have no idea how to pronounce unless told so she may be called lots of variants 🤷🏻‍♀️

I find it a bit fussy and yes Gilmore girls and Mermaid. I’d prefer Laura.

Love it. It was in my list but it would definitely be one Lori, which I hate, sounds like a middle aged, cuddly mumsy American ladies name.

Makes me think of shampoo...Timotei, Lorelei...

I love it 🥰

I like it, it does remind me of Gilmore girls. Hate Rory as a nickname though-doesn't seem natural, just copying the character is weird.. I know you didn't suggest that.