Clemency

[jrt2022]

Thoughts on Clemency as a sister to Jemima, Tabitha and Reuben? Would probably use nickname Cece rather than Clem/mie, but like both!

Also, middle name ideas?

Sorry makes me think of people on death row who are granted clemency! What about Clementine?

Clemence could be nice

Clementine would be better due to the association with 'granting mercy'...

Clemency

🙄no

Clementine yes

Why not something ending in A
Like your other daughters

I like Clemency because of the religious aspect, I think Clementine loses that?And Clementine has also got very popular in my hometown lately. I know 3 under 3 which isn't loads, but also always seeing it on name boards and considering how rare it was before makes me worry it might date badly.

I always like Clémence, not quite as sure about Clemency

How is Clemence pronounced?

Clemency is lovely, I adore virtue names.

Patience is nice too, and I know a beautiful little girl named Confidence

I really don't like Mercy or Clemency as I keep thinking of people pleading for their lives. Can't you find something else. Clementine?

It sounds ridiculous as a name in the Clemency form to me. Clemènce is more of a natural name as well as Clementine.

I’m a MN outlier as I think clementine is awful. It is a fruit. I quite like Clemency.

To me it sounds like a deeply religious name from c1900.

What about Grace or Gracie? Or Charity? Or Verity?

I'd prefer Cecily or Cecile and you could still have Ceci as a nn

I really like Clemency. Beautiful name.

I like the sound of it
Virtue names don't go down well on mumsnet unfortunately though.

Clementine is nicer, I think. And makes me think of Churchill's wife, who I read a book about and who seemed like a very cool lady.

I love Clemmy, but my brain thinks of Clemency as a word rather than a name.

I really love Clemency, much more than any of the other Clem names. Makes me think of Youth and Age on Beaulieu River.

MN always brings up the death row thing but I know a few Clemencys IRL and have never thought of that.

Beautiful name and goes perfectly with your other DC.

I like it. Middle names: Patricia, Frances, Jane.

It's lovely. Go for it

My instinct with it is that it's makes me think she's condescending or in some imbalanced feudal position of power! It's just the image the words conjures for me. Like Prudence does to me too. Like they're somehow pious but not in a good way. (I think Enid Blyton might have influenced this!)

I love it.

It's bloody awful.