Bracing myself... Hero?

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For a girl. Tell me your honest thoughts please, I am bracing myself!

That’s very true about names, I have a very ordinary name but when I was young kids still use to add things onto it to make fun of it

I love it.

I love it. I would think Shakespearian, not the English word.

Absolutely awful! The vast majority of people will think of the English word rather than Shakespeare

I really really like it

Love it.

I think it's beautiful. I'm also a huge fan of the play and the film.

I really don't think you should worry about what other people think. It's not like you're thinking of calling your daughter Arse-Monkey.

Love it!

I understand why but your child will be teased and adults will think wtf -

Imaging how grim school will be for her. Please don’t.

It's a lovely name and being able to separate the wheat from the chaff by people's response to her name is useful. And as the parent of 3DC with unusual names children are a lot less funny about names than adults these days. Kids just accept names, it's just men grown ups who try and make bad jokes.

Why will it be grim? Think of all the people you know with unusual names, have any of them been picked on more than the average child? No.

I like it in theory, as I love the sound of it. I think it would be lovely on a girl. However, I feel like it could open to scrutiny by their peers. Also, I think it puts on a bit of pressure for the child to live up to that namesake, if that makes sense.

I love it - it’s beautiful!

As an aside, Hero is the name of a flower in Kurdish and a fairly common woman’s name there.

Thinking more about the name I remember a dc at my dc's nursery was called it.
It didn't cause any comments at the time and that was in Yorkshire, so OP's dc should be safe enough.

Love it (on a girl). Very classy sounding, but I must admit wouldn't be brave enough in the first name spot - I'd be concerned that she might be the shy sort and could be uncomfortable with standing out. At least in the middle name spot, she could more easily choose to be known as Hero or not.

I know of siblings called rufus(m) hero(m) and tiger(f) and they have an imminent sibling due anytime. Bunch of absolute gorgeousness.
Go for it.

Noooooooooo!

Makes me think of Hiro the train from Thomas and Friends.

Just no...it's a dog's name at best. Also hero is the masculine version of the word.

It's ok but I met a girl called Nandi recently. Very sweet kid.

No

Love.

I do agree that many people will probably just think it’s a really modern word name, which does put me off a bit.

Who’s most people? Not most of the posters on the thread.

Does it matter what uneducated people think?

I love it but I associate it with Kurdistan not Shakespeare