Penny or Indie?

[sibbys]

Really love these names. I'm due in forever with our 3rd child (girl) and would love to hear opinions on both names!

We could still change our minds but right now these two are on the top of our list! If you have similar names on your girl's list please do mention them.

These are not nicknames as I live in Scandinavia and people here don't really do nicknames.
So Penny and Indie as they are.
(I know India is a "proper" name, but I've never been there and I don't want to name my child after a place I don't know if I like).

whats I know one male Indy (related) and three female Indies. The oldest being about five. I do vaccinate children though so come across this age group a lot.

I love Indie. I also like Indigo not sure if thats too out there though. I also like Summer.
Penny sounds a bit old fashioned to me.

Indie definitely. Lovely name.

Penny is ok, I feel indifferent towards it.

Love Indie

Now I'm wondering if Indie is going to be a popular name the next 5-10 years since people are responding so well to it - wouldn't want that.. I was really expecting people to be mad at me for wanting to call my daughter something "ridiculous". Especially because people on MN can be so mean I saw it on a unisex name thread and I fell in love with it.

What kind of people would you suspect to call their child Indie?

Previous comment: Forgot to mention which name I meant - Indie.

If I'm 100% honest, I'd expect the parents of Indie to be the annoying type of hipster. I would certainly expect the father to have a beard. The child would probably be 'spirited' and wearing a dodgy clothes/dressing up mix. Oddly, when changed to the name Indigo, I'd expect a chilled, slightly vague hippy type and a nicer child. India an annoying pushy MC parent, probably with their child in a cheap private school.

I am clearly much more judgemental than I'd first realised!

@Herja

That's perfectly fine! Exactly what I asked for! The funny thing is that we are really not hippie at all 🤣

I can be really judgemental when it comes to names too. Not nice, but I can be!

The thing I am most afraid of is for it to end up a chavvy name. I know that's stupid, but I would be so sad if our daughter's name would end up being really downmarket in a couple of years.

I know that if I love it I should pick the name - but I won't love it if the above happened. Now look who is judgemental!

I love both ! I would go with penny , Indie and India have become quite popular here over the past year ( Ireland )

Names just aren't like they used to be in terms of "chavy" and "posh". I know a baby Rupert and Hugo both from a council estate. I tend to be a bit snobby about hyphenated first names but honestly people have such a vast array of names now that a name like Indie just is commonly used enough for people to start assuming ALL Indie's must be chavs.

Penny.