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Venus, Story, Ember or Apricot?

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Spaghetti0h · 11/03/2022 10:54

Venus, Story, Ember or Apricot?
I've narrowed my name list down to these.
I want something a little different to the top 20 names if possible.
Middle name would be Jean.
Which is your favourite in order please or what do you think?
Tysm for the help x

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DiscoBadgers · 11/03/2022 14:51

Why not Jean as a first name? Jeannie is really cute as a nickname. And to be honest the rest of your list does sound like they’re dog names.

Im2022 · 11/03/2022 14:52

Ah OP is 19. Bless her, that’s why those names 🤣. I had dd at 24, and I’m 39 this year… I’d still choose the same name now, which is a good sign 😁 so OP you need something timeless, not something you’ll look back on and think wtf was I thinking?

Honestly, go for something simple and nothing too “out there”. I blame these dumb influencers for ruining a whole generation of children’s names with their need to be different.

FairWindClearSailing · 11/03/2022 14:53

Oh I'm sorry but poor child 🤦🏼‍♀️
Can we remember they are human beings with feelings?

RavenclawsRoar · 11/03/2022 14:53

I like Ember (I know a baby Ember!) and Venus. Also like Cherry and Sage if you are still considering those. I agree with the pp who said bullies bully regardless of names. I've been a teacher for over 10 years and I've never known anyone be bullied for their name. I get kind of goddess-y vibes from the names you like, so will suggest Celeste, Thalia and Athena.

maddiemookins16mum · 11/03/2022 14:53

None, they’re all ridiculous (especially three of them).

Blossomtoes · 11/03/2022 14:55

Thing is she’ll probably do what I do and just use her middle name. My first name was seriously uncool when I was a kid - ironically it’s now deeply fashionable. Nobody, including my parents, has ever used it, I’ve been called my middle name all my life. Chances are she’ll be called Jean for most of her life, whatever’s first on her birth certificate.

RobertaFirmino · 11/03/2022 14:55

How about C'Aujette if you want something different? Then there's Brockley, Cayle, Spinnashe and Karatte. If you want Jean as a middle name, what about Oberre?

lizziesiddal79 · 11/03/2022 14:55

[quote QuirkyStick]@Spaghetti0h the trick to make sure that a name is a good fir for your child is the life stages and jobs trick. So don't just think of a baby with the name, think of a pimply teenager, or a fat middle-aged lady with that name, or a little elderly lady.

For example, if a family name their son "buddy bear" then that's going to be really cute on a newborn, but then it really won't suit a pimply teenager or a fat middle-aged man.

Also, the jobs trick of, could you envisage someone working as a highbrow job (i.e; a barrister) or in a service job (i.e: at a chip shop) with that name?

So for example, if you call your child Princess, then that might limit their ability to be taken seriously enough to do highbrow jobs, but if you give your child a long and grand name without thinking of a shortening, then similarly they may get frustrated when people at their Saturday job laugh at them or never get their name right.

There are so many decisions to make with children. For a lot of them it doesn't matter what anyone but you thinks (thank god Brew ) . With names, your child will bear that name for (probably) the rest of their life, and people will make assumptions about all sorts of things like their socioeconomic class, how you've raised them ..etc from the moment they learn your child's name, so it's good to mull those things over.[/quote]
This is so true. There is a poem by Kahlil Gibran in which he declares ‘Your children are not your children… though they are with you yet they belong not to you’. You are not naming a pet. You are not naming a dolly. You are naming a person who, if lucky, will live in this world for 80 plus years. The naming of a child is for them not for you. I wanted a less usual spelling of my daughter’s name, but chose the common spelling in the end to save her a lifetime of hassle. She will have the name all her life, long after I am gone. You are young, OP, but please think carefully about the name you give your child.

Andoffwego · 11/03/2022 14:56

Ember is just about ok as a name. The other three would just invite bullying and I think you’d cringe about using them a few years down the line. Story and Apricot are particularly bad. In fact, I thought this thread was going to be about which brand of razor was best, not baby names.

FindingMeno · 11/03/2022 14:58

Ember
Story
Venus
Apricot

I like them all though

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 11/03/2022 14:59

Brontë is gorgeous!

ShreddedMarmalade · 11/03/2022 15:01

My dog is called Meadow. I know a baby Called Lyric which I think is quite lovely.

ValkyrieVik · 11/03/2022 15:01

A 40 year old secretary confused

Wow, aim high why doncha grin

All right then - a 40yo Prime Minister called Apricot Jean! 😂

maggiecate · 11/03/2022 15:06

I remember an interview with Peaches Geldof where she said kids took the piss out of her name - “oi, Peaches - are your parents bananas” etc. Ember would be OK except she’ll constantly be correcting people who hear “Amber.”

GhoulWithADragonTattoo · 11/03/2022 15:07

The sisters in The Queen's Nose by Dick King Smith are called Melody and Harmony which are pretty but unusual names.

LaTangerina · 11/03/2022 15:09

Venus & Ember stand out to me.

KirstenBlest · 11/03/2022 15:11

@GhoulWithADragonTattoo

The sisters in The Queen's Nose by Dick King Smith are called Melody and Harmony which are pretty but unusual names.
Add Destiny, Symphony and Rhapsody and you have Angels... Captain Scarlet
LaTangerina · 11/03/2022 15:11

And Bronte is very nice!

BellatrixOnABadDay · 11/03/2022 15:11

Not only have I got Bananarama in my head but now daydream believer.
Cheer up sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean....

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 11/03/2022 15:11

I remember an interview with Peaches Geldof where she said kids took the piss out of her name - “oi, Peaches - are your parents bananas And I'm confident she went to one of those expensive private schools where a previous posters thought the suggested names would be acceptable.

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 11/03/2022 15:12

poster not posters.

BiBabbles · 11/03/2022 15:13

I was 19 when I had my first and his name was in the top 30 at the time (now just out of the top 100). There are likely many mothers here who aren't 38+. I know plenty of younger mums who use older names (my pregnancy-brain names were archaic) and plenty of older ones who try to be unique.

Trying to think of similar sound names:
Ember reminds me of Emory, Amery, Avery

For cute nature-y names, Mirabel has been suggested though with Encanto that might be an issue.

If going for a noun - remember that birthday presents of the future will probably be based on it. Apricot soap could get boring.

Yes, I had that being raised with a mythological name. People thought they were so clever (even when they were discussing the wrong one) and assumed I must have an interest.

In the nicest possible way why didn't you just change it?

The person you asked, but I did change my name. The name on my birth certificate is still on my naturalization certificate alongside . It and the name I was raised with are on my DBS paperwork.

I'm well aware that as much control as I try to take of my name, society treats the name I was given at a week old as essential or my real name, even having immigrated and changed it at 18 and not raised with it.

VeryQuaintIrene · 11/03/2022 15:13

I know a Melody who is actually a professor of music, so her parents did well there!

KirstenBlest · 11/03/2022 15:13

Bronte was a made up surname, I think it was originally Brunty

viques · 11/03/2022 15:15

@RobertaFirmino

How about C'Aujette if you want something different? Then there's Brockley, Cayle, Spinnashe and Karatte. If you want Jean as a middle name, what about Oberre?
Those are lovely names, though for a girl I prefer the spelling Brockleigh.

I have a friend who has called her children Cos, Arugula and Romaine, she has just had a new baby who is adorable and who has been called Little Gem.

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