Please please say I can have Clementine

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Hi MNers

A few years ago I posted asking whether I should name my baby Clementine. The answers were a resounding no.
I'm now back again, because I clearly can't take a hint.
So...our surname is Harrowdyne. Can I use Clementine (ending 'tyne' ) or am I once again deluding myself?
Feel free to hand me a grip if I need it.
Thanks!!

Clemency or Clementine with the -teen pronunciation would be better.

I love it. I would have had on a shortlist for a girl but DH poo-pooed it (it doesnt go all that well with our surname)

You have found girls already? Moot point then because your next baby will be a boy.

I think Clementine Harrodine sounds great. I do think there is much more thinking about the name beforehand & once they are here , it is just their name - I would do it . I think nick names just works themselves out over time - all best

I would presume it would be pronounced Clementeen which works better with your surname, but I'm guessing you prefer -ine. I think Clémence Harrodine sounds very sophisticated.

June I suspect DH would be delighted if this was the case. However the odds are stacked more heavily for a girl.

No one mentioning the song?

Here is how I have heard Clem used sometimes:

Clem
1)A term for an employee or co-worker who is slower than most and often makes many mistakes even after considerable time on the job. The term Clem can be said to there face because they are often unaware what it means.

2)A term for a friend, roommate, hallmate, or general acquaintance that makes dumb decisions when sober and even dumber decisions when drunk and continues to make such dumb decisions because they black-out and forget what they have done the previous night.

Also, anything rhyming - you know what kids are like. At beast, it's a mouthful to say in that context.

Its important to remember the baby will become a person and the name will go before her. First impressions etc. It's not about literary characters or fanciful associations. It's a persons lived experience.

The names are fine apart - but not together IMO.

Life is short, if you love it this much then use it. It's not like you are calling her something ridiculous and cruel like Axelabella-Fanny. (Thanks be to MikeUniformMike for coining Axelabella ).

I think Camille would sound a lot better with the surname.

I love it! I really like Clemmie for short x

I really like it. Don’t worry too much about the potential for “ribbing” at school (if indeed that would happen), the kids at my school had great “fun” with my name but as an adult no one utters or implies anything. I actually like my name now.

MrsPeacock
So would you also avoid Clemency and Clemen-teen also as Clem is a potential nickname?
I've never heard those associations you recited.

Clemmie Harrowdyne is gorgeous x

OP I love this - go for it. I think it slows beautifully and sounds very sophisticated and like something out of a fairy tale

Go for it, it's at least 2 steps away from full repetition cf. 'sporting legends' David Davies and...erm, Neville Neville. Hasn't done either of them any harm.

I like it.

In a world where people can call their baby Prince or Princess, you can call your baby Clementine.

Go for it OP!

It doesn't rhyme the way I say it

I have a Clementine (pronounced 'tyne')😊 I fell in love with the name and it stuck very early on when pregnant with her. She's 10 this year.

It was never our intention to shorten it because I was never keen on Clem or Clemmie. So it has never ever been shortened. However just recently her school friends have started to call her Clem. Funnily enough that's grown on me.

In my opinion it's still up there as one of the all time beautiful names.

If you love it, go for it I say people often react with 'oh wow what a lovely name'.

I wouldn't. The name I loved also rhymed with our surname I didn't use it!

I love the name. Go for it OP

I think it’s really easy as an outsider to say it’s a charming rhyming storybook name and that you’ll regret not using it but ultimately it’s not you that has to live with the name, it’s your daughter. She might love having a name that makes her sound like a fictional character... or she might resent you her whole life for saddling her with it, especially when she has four sisters with more normal (for lack of a better word) names. I think generally people grow into/make peace with their names but this is so distinctive due to the parallel syllable count (fwiw, I think it’s the combination of that and the rhyme that kills the flow) that I can’t imagine it being anything other than a Marmite name for the person who has to live with it.

Obviously there’s no way to know what the future holds but in any case I think you should give her a more standard/classic middle name so she has another option just in case.

So sorry but it’s a no from me.

I think you would need to pronounce it clementeen for it to work.