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Thoughts on this combos?

64 replies

PoemBeatrice · 11/06/2022 10:50

we are considering these names:
August Roland Hart
Cedric Amaury Storm
Magnus Roland
Cecily Beatrice
Charlotte Idony
Juliet Melusine Flora

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MissMaple82 · 12/06/2022 09:23

All awful

PoemBeatrice · 12/06/2022 09:38

SleepingStandingUp · 11/06/2022 23:46

Says grass and bath with an extra r sound
Contemplating private school
Kids booked in for tennis and cricket lessons, not rugby tots and football

so you're saying you got no class or culture?

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BaaCake · 12/06/2022 09:39

SleepingStandingUp · 11/06/2022 23:46

Says grass and bath with an extra r sound
Contemplating private school
Kids booked in for tennis and cricket lessons, not rugby tots and football

Wtf

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 09:43

I do mean this kindly, but everyone has class and culture? I presume you mean upper class and the culture that goes with that, which I think is what you’re trying to imitate with those names. But we all have a class we identify with/as. We all have culture.

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 09:43

But regardless I still think the names are a bit much. The first names (some of them) are nice, but the middle names together with them sort of give me the impression of a teenager on nameberry deciding what she’ll name her quadruplets and three sets of twins.

Summerwetordry · 12/06/2022 10:09

August was used by a royal. It was the subject of much discussion as the baby wasn't born in August. Do you really want to copy the RF? I think Augustus is far better.

Some of your other names are beyond pretentious. I might use them for a dog, but not a child.

Ikeameatballs · 12/06/2022 10:13

I’m really not keen on some of your name combinations so I’m going to comment on individual names.

Boy’s names
August - becoming trendy since Eugenie named her baby. I would avoid as a first name on that basis.
Cedric - I really like
Magnus - I really like
Roland - I’m of an age where I think of Roland Rat or a dog from Eastenders many years ago. I strongly dislike the nn Roly and I don’t think you can definitely prevent this.
Amauray - awful
Hart - ok
Storm - awful

Girl’s names
Cecily/Beatrice/Flora/Juliet/ Charlotte are all pretty, classic names. I think I like Flora best but don’t dislike any of them.
Melusine - ok
Idony - ok

Ideas

Cedric John +/- Hart
Magnus Peter +/- Hart
Laurence Vaughan
Francis Albert

Cecily Jean
Beatrice Melusine
Flora Vivienne
Juliet Idony
Charlotte Luna
Ianthe June

Toottooot · 12/06/2022 10:14

Just dinna. Peer geet lumbered with any of those names.

Ouchmytoe100 · 12/06/2022 10:20

I only like Cecily Beatrice as a full name.

I like Juliet and Flora but I'm not sure about as a combo. I don't really like any of the boy names (especially the first two) but Magnus is best (without that middle name).

PoemBeatrice · 12/06/2022 11:16

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 09:43

I do mean this kindly, but everyone has class and culture? I presume you mean upper class and the culture that goes with that, which I think is what you’re trying to imitate with those names. But we all have a class we identify with/as. We all have culture.

No I meant common decency and basic respect to other people. If you don't have common decency to rethink your position, or desire to do basic respect to other people who are different than you, then you have zero class and zero culture.

I liked August way before royal was born

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Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 11:22

But… you do still have culture. Someone not conforming to your ideas of decency and respect doesn’t mean they don’t have culture. Literally everyone has culture. It’s just basically how you’re influenced by the ideas and behaviours of your societal group. Culture isn’t reserved for good behaviour - everyone has it.

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Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 11:25

Same with class - class is just a way of organising people by how they ‘fit’ in society. I guess you could argue you meant it’s not classy, which probably comes from an association with seeming higher class, but you can’t say people who behave in a way you dislike don’t have class/culture. Class and culture aren’t complimentary words to describe people’s behaviour, that’s not what they mean.

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 11:27

Okay, you clearly don’t understand what the words mean. I do presume from your name choices and the nameberry/writing my future kids’ names in my notebook feel that you’re quite young though, which explains your attitude.

Mymoneydontjigglejiggle · 12/06/2022 11:28

I like all the names. I particularly like Magnus, August and Juliet. I think the middle names work fine.

Sallypally0 · 12/06/2022 11:46

Cedric? Oh my days..

Not in love with the name Cedric but 'oh my days'.....really?

Are you a teenager stuck in the year 2005?

Sallypally0 · 12/06/2022 11:48

Melusine Flora

This sounds like a weird foodstuff.

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 13:19

which I think is what you’re trying to imitate with those names.

Why can you not just simply like the names??

Why the assumptions about trying to 'imitate' something or someone??

Personally I really like most of the op's names and I find them much more interesting and memorable than, say, Jack or Evie.

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:30

SleepingStandingUp · 11/06/2022 23:46

Says grass and bath with an extra r sound
Contemplating private school
Kids booked in for tennis and cricket lessons, not rugby tots and football

@SleepingStandingUp

A huge number of regional accents produce grass and bath with a long r. Cricket is not a posh game in many places.

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:35

August Roland Hart - much prefer Augustus but nice

Cedric Amaury Storm - I quite like Cedric, in an Ernst sort of way, Amaury fine if it’s a family name, storm a bit naff

Magnus Roland - I don’t like Magnus but it’s getting popular

Cecily Beatrice - lovely

Charlotte Idony - too many Charlottes, Idony is quite nice, due a revival

Juliet Melusine Flora - prefer Julia, or Flora as a first name, but Juliet is perfectly nice. Melusine doesn’t work well in English so unless it’s your beloved French granny I’d rethink

Luredbyapomegranate · 12/06/2022 13:36

ERNEST sort of way, not Ernst..

WhatIvedone · 12/06/2022 13:45

All very meh names in my opinion. Charlotte, Juliet overused and boring. Boys names aren’t nice - Cedric conjures up a weedy insipid character. Magnus reminds me of magnums. August - even if you liked it before everyone will just think you’re calling it after Eugenie’s baby. Roland the rat. Cecily not a very nice name. Reminds me of Cecil again conjures up an insipid weak man.

Second names are pretty much irrelevant in day to day life so use whatever you like but together they’re all a bit of a mouthful and don’t flow together.

Kanaloa · 12/06/2022 14:26

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 13:19

which I think is what you’re trying to imitate with those names.

Why can you not just simply like the names??

Why the assumptions about trying to 'imitate' something or someone??

Personally I really like most of the op's names and I find them much more interesting and memorable than, say, Jack or Evie.

They just seem over the top and try hard to me. And actually some of them (Charlotte/Juliet etc) are not that interesting. Perfectly nice, normal names. It’s the ridiculous ‘Amaury Storm’ middle names that sound like something from a romance novel. If you like it, fine. I don’t. Presumably op did want to know people’s thoughts since she asked.

Hadtocomment · 12/06/2022 14:37

I like the name Cecily a lot. And Cicely.

pinklavenders · 12/06/2022 16:04

They just seem over the top and try hard to me.

Try hard to what? You keep implying that someone liking these names has some ulterior motive to imitate someone or to try too hard to be someone or something they're not?!

Can you not imagine that someone simply likes the names?