Cherry - love or loathe?

[grumpypreggers]

I mentioned this name to my husband a couple of months ago when I was admiring all the cherry blossom on the trees. I think I've gone off it but he's still really keen. Sibling name is quite unusual so it's good in that sense but I'm really unsure whether or not I like it. What do others think?

@grumpypreggers not keen as concur with others about negative connotations, but I actually have Blossom on my list - don’t think I’d be brave enough to ever use it I see it as a ‘guilty pleasure’ name but I’d think it was super cute if I heard it on a little one and despite the cute factor I think it’s actually twee and cottagey enough to carry through to adulthood. I can imagine on an old lady in the same vein as other flower names.

Pop cherry 🍒- no way

I like it. I have a middle-aged friend called Cherry and I've never thought of it as a stripper name! MN is ridiculous sometimes.

I went to school with a Cherry, she was teased quite a lot about popping etc I don’t really like it as a name anyway. You could go for Victoria nn Plum or Clementine?

Not a fan, sorry!

"She's my cherry pie..."

Sorry, but that's just what I thought of when I read the title... It's "no" from me, tbh.

Blossom is really nice. I also like Clementine, Olive and Mirabelle.

I actually know someone called Cherry, in her 40s now, lovely woman.

Loathe. It reminds me of a 80s/90s blow up dolls name

I love it. I know several people with that name, all lovely. I do think though that a longer name you can shorten to Cherry would be better so that she has the choice.

I do think though that a longer name you can shorten to Cherry would be better so that she has the choice.

I agree...just not sure what the long version would be as not keen on Cheryl. I know there's a Charity nicknamed Cherry in a Charles Dickens book but I'd worry the name Charity could encourage teasing in the same way some PP have said Cherry would 🤔

I had a friend called Cherry. Her teenage years were spent with boys making references to popping her cherry.
I just wouldn't use it for that reason.

Bit of a stripper name imo.

I would only use as a nn personally. If you're not keen on Cheryl or some of the other more unusual Cher-beginning names could always use Charlotte? Is always shortened to Charlie so don't see why you couldn't shorten to Cherry as a nickname. Only other not too out there longer names with Ch in I can think of are Christina/Christine or Chevonne but I think Charlotte is nicer.

Cringe

Dislike- makes me think of a strippers name!

What about Cherida as a full name, I was in school with a Cherida and I’ve never come across another.

It's just kind of a bit naff. I REALLY think that in a couple of years you would regret that one - it's a bit sickly, and if you think of it as a proper name rather than a cutesy one, it's dated.

I would put it alongside Shirley, Sherry, Cheryl, Yvonne, Pat as a kind of uncool gran name-? Not properly retro, something depressing about it.

Sherry is nicer, I new a Sherry short for Sheridan.

Knew