Tigerlily

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Has anyone used it? Would it be better as just Tigerlily or Tiger as a first and Lily as a middle. I've recently fallen for this name but I don't know if I'm brave enough to use it. Haven't even mentioned it to DH as I'm still trying to decide how I feel about it.

Love it!

Imagine she grows up and becomes a popstar, a model, an artist, an actor. Cool.

However, what if she decides to be a politician, a policewoman, an accountant, a bank manager, a supermarket cashier, a barrister? Imagine the scene. Cringe!

Some names are only cute on babies and toddlers. Some aren't even that!

I like it, but then most of my favourite names would probably go down like a lead balloon on mumsnet. Depends if you want a mumsnet seal of approval name or not I guess

I like it. I feel I shouldn’t and it certainly isn’t like my own children’s names but I do!

I always imagine how it will feel when the register is taken on the first day of high school (although no idea if this still even happens as a roll call).. "Tiger" - definitely not; "Tigerlily" - I personally wouldn't and would worry how it will be perceived relative to the increase in more traditional names, but is certainly the lesser of two evils!

I think it's a lovely name for a character in a book, or even for the child of a rock star who will probably go to a boarding school full of other children with wacky names and will never have to worry about getting a normal job.

I don't think I would lumber an ordinary child with it.

I do actually know a woman called Tiger whose real name is something pretty ordinary (think Jennifer) and has been known as Tiger since she was a tiny girl.

Hi,
I think Tiger Lily is a great name but that might be because it’s my name. I love it. I am 18 and have not struggled at all. I went by Lily up until i was 11 and ever since then I have gone by Tiger-Lily or Tiger. I have so far in my life not been made fun of or felt as though it has held me back in any way. In-fact I am going to university in a few weeks to study to be a paramedic. My mum nearly just named me Lily and I will be forever grateful that she didn’t. I hope that’s this helps.

I couldn’t get over the racist association with the Peter Pan character personally. And even if I could, I think it’s really naff 😬 Sorry - I know how rude that is but I expect you want honesty if you’re asking on an anonymous forum!

I didn’t know Peter Pan is considered racist. Mind you I haven’t seen it for years.
Not keen on tigerlily.

Tigerlily as a character is considered racist because of the terrible Native American stereotypes. I know it was a product of its time but there’s no need to keep perpetuating them now.

Paula Yates called her daughter Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily so it isn’t even that poor child’s full name. It’s what she gets called for short

I’m gonna say no on the basis that four syllables is too much for a name. It doesn’t flow.

I don't know if I'm brave enough to use it

But it's not YOU who'd be using it. It's your poor child. For her whole life. It's the name equivalent of getting a unicorn horn attached to her forehead at birth, just because you're the President of the Roehampton Unicorn Society.

if you want to be 'brave' why not dye your own hair pink, and call your child something she won't have to explain for the next 25 years.

Just reminds me of the band The Tiger Lillies and I'm not sure that I'd want my child to share a name.

Or buy a cat and call it that

It's my cat's name

What if it turns out that she has big teeth..?

It's not a real name! It's up there with 'Apple' and 'Bear' Are you a wannabe singer??

Just call the poor thing lily

Rupert the Bear. No.

Awful. Poor kid. Love your child enough to not saddle it with a ridiculous name that it'll spend it 's whole life having to spell/explain. As pp have said, if you like it that much change your own name

No.

I love it

No. At best she'll go no contact with you in 18 years time and start calling herself Lily.

I think it will work in some social strata and in others it won’t. As long as you are sure it will work in yours, why not. (I’m assuming that social mobility won’t increase drastically in the UK in the next decades.)

I wanted to call my dd this, ended up not using it because of other people's reactions. It's a big regret, I really wish I had called her it.

I think it’s brilliant and would love to be called it myself. Sadly my very ordinary name reflects the fact that I am a very ordinary person - just as it should, according to this thread.