Could this name suit a child?

[funkimonki]

Dp wants to call our child after his mum. Trouble is her name is Maxine and I'm not sure whether it would suit a child? Middle name would probably be Victoria.

I also love it Very cool

I wouldn't, it reminds me of Maxine Carr. I think it would be okay as a middle name though.

Nice name Max for short. A

I like it a lot, I can easily imagine a toddler/child/teenage Maxine and it's a good name for an adult to be taken seriously with, in contrast with some of the cutesy nonsense names that are popular at the moment.

Not a huge fan myself but I would never use a parents first name as my LOs first name anyway. I like the freedom of using a name we truly like and picked because of personal meaning. No issue with using it as a mn though if your DP is really keen. That's what we did.

There are so many lovely names out there.

Well, they're only a child for a few years.Anyway, I don't think other children would find it 'dated' and it'd get shortened to Max

Maxine to me is like Karen, Linda, etc.

I wouldn't. I'd use it as a middle name. I got lumbered with a dreadful old-fashioned name after my grandmother and nobody knows how to spell it these days, it is constantly misheard as another name because it is a very rare name now, and for years people meeting me were surprised to find I was 30 years younger than they expected. Also, I have a foreign sounding surname and most Europeans assume from the name that I am a man. To cap it all off, it turned out that his mother, who died when he was very young, didn't even have that name which he had misheard as a child. My husband once volunteered to my mother that we could maybe give our son my father's name as a middle name - another awful name - and my mother fell about laughing and said not to land the boy with that horror of a name. It's not really whether a name suits a baby though- it's whether it suits the adult.

I prefer Victoria Maxine.

I actually really like it. As pp said refreshing in sea of Amelia Isabel Eves etc

I think children should have their own name, theybare their own person. Family names can go in the middle. I quite like Max for a girl though (but not Maxine)

Do you want the baby to be named after his mum?

I don’t like the name, it’s very 80s to me.

It’s awful, sorry
Use it as a middle name if you have to

It's quite nice but I think you should pick something both of you love, not just him.
And then perhaps his mothers (maybe your mother's too?) for middle.

It's very dated.

Do you like it op? Cos you have to find a name you and your partner both like.

Will he be expecting baby to have his last name too? Are you having any input into the name?

Not too keen on Maxine but think Max is lovely for a girl! Never really thought of it as a girls name before!

I'm not keen on family names for first names unless you go further back in the generations, my idiot parents called me after my aunt, DB1 after my DF, DB2 after my uncle but DB3 got lucky and got a name all to himself. To compound the matter, another aunt named her DS1 the same as my DF and DB1, when DB1 got married he found himself with a BIL with the same name too - so that was 4 in one family. My SIL has the same name as me too, unfortunately bringing it to 3 in total. Family gatherings are complicated, my aunt will always assume she is being asked the question and answer it, I just let her carry on.

So I would keep Maxine as a middle name if I was in your situation. Having said that, it would shorten nicely to Maxi, we used to have a radio presenter called Maxi with the most glorious voice imaginable - she however was nicknamed from spelling her surname aloud as Mac-C--

Victoria is lovely, Victoria Maxine as someone else suggested maybe

I love it. It strikes me as a name with a lot of pzazz, with a hint of French too. Max is a great NN for a girl. Or Maxi/e.

I think it's far nicer than Victoria as a first name, which imo is very dated and the usual NN of Vicky is right up there with Kathy on the has-been heap.

Maxine Victoria is a lovely combination.

I have nothing at all against using relatives' names - I have a massive extended family and a huge number of names would have been eliminated from consideration if I had waited a few generations.

@funkimonki the idea of family names as tribute is lovely but I feel best kept to middles, for the child’s sake, so that they can have their own name. If you love it then fine but it doesn’t sound like you do... both be involved in choosing a name you’ll both love singing and saying every day

I really dislike Maxine. I think Victoria Max sounds great. Do you like MIL's middle name or perhaps her maiden name? Definitely think a family name is best as a middle name.

I was named after my grandmother and my aunt. Both my names - first and middle. I hate it. Not my actual names but the fact that they are not mine and very little thought was given to naming me.
All of my siblings have their own names.

I actually really like it op. It feels classic to me, without being extremely boring.

I think it's nice, OP. All names suit a child in my opinion, it's more that names for babies don't really suit adults, like Albie

It's lovely, either Maxine Victoria or Victoria Maxine.
I don't understand the concern about whether names suit babies, since almost their entire life will be as an adult.