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Alternatives to Sunday

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Peach27 · 29/06/2022 05:40

I love the name Sunday but just feel the connotations are a bit too out there. I don’t want my daughter going through life constantly having to explain their “weird name”
any alternatives esp with similar sounds? (Please just don’t say other days of the week haha)

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Glitterspy · 29/06/2022 13:19

Sundae (as in ice cream)
Wednesday (as in Addams)
Sunny/Sonny/Sunni
Jay/May/Fay

Glitterspy · 29/06/2022 13:22

Leonie also an option: Lay-oh-nee rather than Lee-oh-nee (although someone I know has this name and it’s always being misspelled and mispronounced so you’re practically better off with Sunday)

InnocentWarrier · 29/06/2022 13:23

LosDolses · 29/06/2022 07:02

Ceadaoin, it's Irish for Wednesday.

Kay Deen

Why on earth would you go with an Irish day of the week! 😂😂 and why Wednesday?

motogirl · 29/06/2022 13:25

How about an actual name?Grin

jewishmum · 29/06/2022 13:37

I knew a South African girl called Shonrae (pronounced SHON-ray) meaning 'Sun ray' in Afrikaans.

TheWayoftheLeaf · 29/06/2022 13:40

Sunny/sonny?

TealGuitar · 29/06/2022 13:40

I am also more of a trad names person and I also like Sunday!

Daisy has the day sound

TheWayoftheLeaf · 29/06/2022 13:41

User79865765 · 29/06/2022 05:43

What would you do if she wasn't born on a Sunday?

Plenty of Mays and Junes aren't born in May or June

PiratePetespajamas · 29/06/2022 13:48

I like it. I don’t think it’s out there. But i’d only use it if she were born on a Sunday. I know a January born in August and it seems perverse and just wrong to me.

Cotswoldmama · 29/06/2022 14:08

Sunday isn't that unusual or out there, I know two. I assume they're born on Sunday but tbh I haven't asked and don't really care! I think it's a nice name and don't think people will ask about it, they'll just think that's the day she was born.

PoleFairy · 29/06/2022 14:22

I like Sunday. I don't think it's that unusual. Nicole Kidmans daughter is Sunday and so is Ferne McCann's. I also read a book recently with a character called Sunday. The family was Irish Catholic so I think that's where Sunday came from.

JustMaggie · 29/06/2022 15:01

Cassidy is nice. I think it has the same feel as Sunday.

Tuesdayblu · 29/06/2022 22:50

Sunday is gorgeous! Go for it!

Sloane
Farrah
Maeve
Elspeth
Viola

DasAlteLeid · 01/07/2022 21:43

Loveday is a great underused name that’s fairly similar

Luredbyapomegranate · 01/07/2022 21:50

Sophie

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 01/07/2022 21:52

I think it's a lovely name.

buckleten · 01/07/2022 21:58

I think it's really pretty, maybe use the Sundae spelling rather than the day of the week, but either is fine!

CP2701 · 01/07/2022 22:38

Sunni
Summer
Autumn
Seren - Welsh for Star

AssignedSlytherinAtBirth · 01/07/2022 22:44

Sunday is better than Sundae. You might as well call her Meringue or Pavlova if you go for that. Or Tutti Frutti.

KirstenBlest · 01/07/2022 22:45

Sundae is dreadful. Might as well call her Banana Split or Trifle

MarmiteCoriander · 01/07/2022 22:46

I too was going to suggest days of the week in other languages that might make nice sounds.

Avril/April
Mardi
Jeudi

KirstenBlest · 01/07/2022 22:59

Mardi. oh dear, you been drinking?

merryhouse · 01/07/2022 23:06

Bonnie
Blythe
Dominy

winemedown · 01/07/2022 23:12

I love the name 'Holliday' for a boy but could never use it. Holly for short

FungalNail · 01/07/2022 23:26

I like it. I also like Sunny