Reverie?

[abbie777]

What do you think of this name? Heard it on a list and thought it was beautiful but is it too out there? Bare in mind I have a Durham accent but I think it sounds fine? We’re now going between this and Aurora. Which one do you prefer?

Aurora. Reverie is way too airy-fairy; it literally means ‘daydream’.

Do you know what it means, OP? As well as suggesting dreaminess, it does also sound like the name a branding consultancy would suggest for an aspirational brand of lingerie.

It's not a name (or shouldn't be) because, as a pp said, it's a well known word for something like 'day dream'. It will sound daft. Aurora is nice, and an actual name.

It just makes you come off like you didn't know what the word means.

I think people will think you said 'Beverly'

This is a list of associated names I found on "nameberry". Some are absolutely crazy (IMO) but this is what nameberry associates with Reverie. I like Aurora. It's your choice of course though :)

Boheme
Fable
Mazarine
Peregrine
Eldridge
Fable
Whimsy
Vesper
Thessaly
Espen
Aylin
Larkin
Severine
Enya
Louella
Oceane
Revel
Amaranta
Fawn
Story
Evelia
Faolan
Dulcinea
Sonnet
Vermilion
Aurelie
Prairie
Arcelia
Harbor
Florian
Cielo
Sian
Aubrielle
Geoffrey
Eulalia
Timber
Tali
Jubilee
Galen
Rhapsody
Larkin
Anjali
Tarquin
Astoria
Leela
Kalani
Danae
Monroe
Phoenix

Not a fan of Reverie, feels too MUCH like a word and a rather cheesy one at that. Sorry Op!

Much prefer Aurora.

berrygirlie

IMHO most babyname websites are ill-informed rubbish.

Quite apart from anything else, the list includes names that have been male for 2000 years and more eg Galen, Tarquin, Florian, Geoffrey (that one maybe for 1500 years) as well as proper nouns (Harbor?? Timber?? Prairie??)
Just why?

I’m in Teesside and I don’t think it sounds nice in the kinds of accents she’s going to meet everyday if you live in durham. They will put too much stress on the last syllable and not enough on the first.

How about my username? 🤣 It means golden in Latin.

It's not good I'm afraid. I immediately think the syblings would be dreamy, sleepy and airy fairy.

Not keen, way too gimmicky.

I mean, yes, it’s a lovely word - the way it sounds, and the meaning.

But it’s just silly as a name.

Aurora is lovely.

I’d have serious words with my parents if they’d called me Whimsy (just going through that list!)

@florascotia2

berrygirlie

IMHO most babyname websites are ill-informed rubbish.

Quite apart from anything else, the list includes names that have been male for 2000 years and more eg Galen, Tarquin, Florian, Geoffrey (that one maybe for 1500 years) as well as proper nouns (Harbor?? Timber?? Prairie??)
Just why?

Absolutely true but Reverie itself is quite an interesting / odd name to pick anyway as well as being a noun. Name choices are shifting!

It sounds like how Scooby Doo would pronounce Beverley

It sounds like how Scooby Doo would pronounce Beverley

^ just spat my tea across the room! 😂😂😂

Not Reverie.
Aurora is quite popular at the moment. If you want something which sounds similar but isn't so common have you considered Harmony or Rhapsody?

It's a word, not a name.

@Myohmy123

It sounds like how Scooby Doo would pronounce Beverley

Reverie is one of my guilty pleasure names. I think it's beautiful, with a lovely sound and meaning. I wouldn't be brave enough to use it in the first name spot (luckily judging by the comments on this thread!) but I think it would make a lovely, unusual middle name.

Aurora is fine - popular and pretty enough, but I understand why you want to use Reverie (and I don't think it's any odder than a lot of word names out there eg. Saga, Hope, Liberty, Mercy etc - they just happen to have been used as names longer so we are used to them!).

One thing to note though is that Aurora has obvious nn's (Rory/Aura), but Reverie could get shortened to Rev (rather than Ev/Ever).

Trying to remember in which fantasy novel Reverie was the name of the evil shadow world of faerie...

It could be shortened to Rev as in Reverend

No. Not for me. It means daydreamer.

I don’t know any Aurora’s in my area, I think we’re gonna go with it that though because it’s not wayyyy out there and everyone’s heard of it, but it’s not super common.