Thoughts on the name Lorelei?

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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!! ☺️

I still love it!!!! (Been on here about 3 times now)

Only if you never want your child to visit france/germany.
its also a character who committed suicide over loosing her lover, so i don’t think its appropriate

Sounds like a shampoo...

You basically naming her after continental europe’s most famous victim of suicide.... i would avoid at all costs

Not for me .

I wouldn’t because I live in the midlands. It’d sound dreadful with a Birmingham accent.

Just asked my husband what he would think about the name. answer was “suicide girl turned mass murderess. a lot to live up to for a baby”
so definitely only a name if you want her to stay (very) local.

Reminds me of the Gilmore Girls. But I quite like it

@myself2020 She can't be that famous. I can't find anything on Google that matches that!

I'm not keen. Sounds a bit silly.

I like it.
Reminds me of Gilmore girls too.

@ScarfLadysBag havea look in wikipedia. every german, french, swiss, dutch child will know.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei

Makes me think of Gilmore Girls. I wouldn't use the name if I was called Emily as Emily and Lorelai have an awful mother-daughter relationship. Lorelai as a character is very self-centred and pouty so I would be kicking myself for using the name each time my dd was "difficult"

Sorry I'm not keen.it doesn't sound like a name that I could imagine on a mature woman.
It also sounds iike a name for a southern USA belle, the sort of name you would get in Gone with the Wind or a Tennesse Williams play.

It's the name of a villainess in Superman 3!

Mind you, by the time she grows up, anyone who remembers that film will be long gone.

Interesting comments about never visiting Germany.
My daughter's dad's family are German. They like it!

"Lorelei (aka Loreley) is legendary German mermaid, who was created by Clemens Brentano in 1801. The story went like that: A beautiful maiden named Lorelei who waited for her lover on a rock at the narrowest and shallowest point of the Rhine River."

www.songfacts.com/facts/heinrich-heine/die-lorelei

This is my friend Lorelei, she is the one on the left (slimmer than her sis), who starts the singing:

Ich weiss nicht was soll es bedeuten...

Absolutely love it! But then I'm a huge Gilmore Girls fan and i'd assume you were too if I met you.

Funny you should say that, @Nonnymum. In Gilmore Girls, when one of the Loreleis starts at a posh private school, that's exactly the issue the snobby girls there have with it.

"It sounds a bit... southern."

I think it's lovely.

Lynda07 Heinrich Heine actually. I'm German and think it's an odd name; have certainly never met another German person with this name.

Lorelei .... personally I don't like it.

How is it pronounced? Lorry Lee or Lorry Lay ?

Lor uh lie