Enola for DD?

[scarletm]

me and DH watched Enola Holmes recently with his nieces and would love the same name for DD. We do thinks it's a little different though! Any thoughts??

Enola Gay - you can't - terrible teeeible association!

Enola Gay - no. It was a long time ago but just too terrible a connection.

Sorry I read ebola

I don't care if you don't know. Chances are the vast majority of everyone she will ever meet will know.

Ebola or Granola? No thanks.

I'm aware of the Netflix film but would also think of Enola Gay.

Nope. Sounds like a disease and is Alone backwards.

Absolute BANGER of a tune on the plus side.

@hollyandkit

Absolute BANGER of a tune on the plus side.

Agreed! The name would make me think of Enola Gay too so it's a no from me

I think this thread just proves that people can make a negative association with pretty much any name.
No child is going to associate that name with a plane.

As for Enola- Ebola, that could work for anything. Do people called Cole get called ‘Cold’, does ‘Isabella’ get teased for being ‘Influenza’? Mary- Typhoid Mary? Never happens.

If kids are going to tease someone, they will. Whether they are called Enola or Jane.

It’s a perfectly reasonable name.

(And Lenora was a girls name long before it was a detergent ffs)

I really like it.

Terrible.

Terrible name. Sounds like an enema. They'll definitely be called Ebola.

Awful sorry

Never heard of Enola Gay (am late 20s) but don't think its a nice name tbh.

Nola? Noella?

First thought was Ebola!

I immediately thought of Enola Gay so no.

Never heard of Enola Gay either and I don't think some song in the 80s is all that important. It may be a generational thing as so many on this thread don't know the reference.

However it's an ugly sounding (and looking) name OP so I'd avoid.

I’m watching it now - alone backwards

I am 34 and I've never heard of Enola Gay

That's pretty alarming. Presumably, though, you have heard of Hiroshima? Nagasaki? The atomic bomb? World War 2??

And you understand that it's not a great thing to give a child a name associated with nuclear warfare?!!?

A generational thing? The dropping of the first ever atomic bomb is a bit more than that.

Too much like Ebola sorry