Ways to honour the family name Drusilla

[mum1993]

Hi all,

Finally have narrowed down Baby 3's name to 2 choices per gender (gender is a surprise!) but if baby is a girl I would like to incorporate my Grammas name Drusilla as she is sadly no longer with us.

The name choices for a girl would be Ivy or Isla. For a bit more context my Gramma was known as Dru, pronounced droo.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this? X

Surely there is only one way to 'honour' it, and that is to include it as a middle name, in full.

Isla Drew sounds quite cool as does ivy Drew

Drew. Obvs.
Works for boy or girl.

Ivy Drusilla is nice. My dd has my grandma's name as her middle name - not a name I would have chosen otherwise but it's grown on me and nobody even knows anyway

@Andacherryonthetop

Isla Drew sounds quite cool as does ivy Drew

This is what I was going to say

Why can’t you just use Drusilla as a middle name

@Andacherryonthetop

Isla Drew sounds quite cool as does ivy Drew

I agree, Ivy Drew/Dru is nice.

Ivy Drew is good.

Drusilla as her middle name.

Just make Drusilla her first or middle name. Not rocket science.

Cilla Dru

Sorry! In my haste to post I forgot to say I wanted to use it in some form as a middle spot. Wasn't sure whether to go full name as it's a very old fashioned name or to shorten it!

Apologies again!

Just make it a middle name. No one ever knows middle names - except at birth, marriage and departure.

It doesn't 'honour' someone to use a name that is different to theirs, even if it sounds similar. You are either all in, or not.

Frankly, Drusilla is pretty effin cool and by the time she is a teenager she'll be rockin' that name. Seriously. She'll probably never know another Drusilla. Children with interesting names are destined for greatness!! Call her Drusilla.

For a boy Drew works. Not so cool. Not gonna lie.

I agree it's a mega cool name go for it as a first name

Just use it as a middle name!

I have to disagree about it being cool though.

Give it as a first name op, didn't there used to be a character called Drusilla in the kids TV show the worst witch?

As others have said, Drusilla is awesome.

For heaven's sake not 'Drew' for a girl. That's the second half of Andrew which, as we all know, literally means 'manly'.

Drusilla is the insane murderous vampire in Buffy, with the terrible accent.

Of course it honours the person if the name you choose is done so with that person in mind.

Sorry but Drusilla is not a pretty name. Drew is much nicer .

@GoodSoup

Drusilla is the insane murderous vampire in Buffy, with the terrible accent.

But she was great though and her back story was so sad

@GoodSoup

Drusilla is the insane murderous vampire in Buffy, with the terrible accent.

She was also my gramma who passed before meeting my children. So this comment is completely unnecessary

Sorry but Drusilla is not a pretty name. Drew is much nicer .
Not to me, I think Drusilla is a lovely name.

Name her Drusilla! That’s so cool.