Thoughts on Theodora?

[eleanorsmellstrop]

please? 😊

😂😂😂 You’re so funny. You literally said twice that it sounds made up and now you’re embarrassed that everyone knows it isn’t made up so you’re pretending you didn’t say it even though it’s literally written up thread 😂😂😂 You’re entitled to your opinion but I’m also entitled to think that the opinions of morons and trolls isn’t valuable and that I don’t care about it! Please go away now.

I love this show! It’s actually based on an old book with characters who have the same names as the family in the TV series (although they aren’t related in the book). The book is where I first fell in love with Theodora and the the TV show reminded me!

God you're stupid aren't you. Big difference between saying something IS made up and SOUNDS made up. Not backtracking you're just thick. Poor child has that terrible name for life. Enjoy 😉

You’re really not making yourself sound any less idiotic with these cringeworthy attempts at being offensive 😂😂

It’s nice but i can see kids calling her Dora (the explorer)

😁😁😁

There's a Theodora at nursery, her nickname is Tick.
Which gives me the creeps.

Ohh gosh yeah. Tick isn’t great is it! Of all the lovely nicknames for Theodora, I wonder how they settled on Tick? Maybe it’s one of those names that an older sibling can’t pronounce and makes up a weird nickname and then it sticks? I had a friend who ended up with the nickname ‘Stub’ this way 😄

I really don’t like it sorry, it makes me cringe a bit. Plus there are already so many Theo and Theodore’s about, it kind of just blends into those for me.

I probably should have mentioned previously that we don’t live in the UK and Theodore isn’t a popular name here at all - it literally doesn’t exist in the local language which gets rid of that issue for us.

I can't unhear this...

😂😂😂 I’ve never heard of this but I’m obsessed!

We don’t live in an English speaking country so I doubt anyone we know will have heard of this though.

although now you mention it I might add Wizardora to the list 😁

I think the name is very pretty.

@eleanorsmellstrop haha sorry!

It was a children's programme in the 90's. This was the theme tune:

Too much for me tbh. Too many syllables.

My best friend was called Theodora, never really liked it and neither did she. Kids made fun of it at school but tbh kids are cruel anyway. She changed her name before college and is now called Hayley.

Love it!

Thing is op, it's not what everyone thinks that you care about, is it? It's what the people in your 'tribe' think about it. And it's obvious from the comments on here who's in your tribe and who isn't.
It's great to hear a proper grown up, elegant, historic name with some sort of meaning, rather than just being random syllables. Go for it. It's lovely.

I'm not sure I understand your 'tribe' logic. She shouldn't worry about what everyone thinks but she should worry about what her 'tribe' thinks? People on MN who like the name are part of her tribe but people she may know and like in real life who dislike the name (and hopefully keep that thought to themselves) are not part of her tribe?

Surely the only thing that really matters is that she and her partner like the name.

Well, if that was the case, she wouldn't have asked for opinions here, possibly? At my stage in life I don't care what anyone thinks of anything I do, but when I was younger there were people whose opinions I respected and people whose opinions I didn't give flying fuck about. The divisions are as obvious on MN as anywhere else. We're British. We are attuned to class signifiers. It's disingenuous to argue otherwise.

In my opinion saying that British people are 'attuned to class signifiers' is one heck of an understatement. 'Obsessed with class signifiers' would be more accurate. Hopefully one day you'll manage to move past it.

Absolutely beautiful, it might even make my list 🙂 Sounds very pretty and has many options for shortening.

Like an earlier poster said, go with what suits your family and your circle of friends.

I actually entirely know what you mean and agree. I was thinking about this today actually, so it’s funny that you posted this, such a coincidence!

To be honest, I did an ‘advanced search’ on a poster on this thread who hated the name Theodora and was rude about it to see whether I actually valued her opinion.

Turns out she had recently posted a thread, and when I saw the names that she described as lovely, I realised that her taste in names was ENTIRELY different to mine - her names were all a bit… well, to put it nicely I’d say a bit modern and overdone and nothing-ey. Things like ‘Dakota’ and ‘Nova’ which I just dislike and I know that none of my friends and family (the people whose opinions I care about when naming my baby) would like these names either.

So honestly based on this I just disregarded her opinion because she’s clearly just got a really different taste to me and so her opinion isn’t very helpful.

On the other hand, if the poster who hated Theodora had said they’d liked other names that I’m fond of - classic names, or names with a strong history, like you said - then I’d have maybe thought twice about the name as I’d probably have valued their opinion more as it would make me think that we perhaps had more in common her her opinion might reflect my friend’s and family’s.

As it stands, when I saw her name list I thought I was quite glad she didn’t like Theodora because the names on her list were definitely not the vibe I was going for and so it might have put me off using it 😳

It sounds awful and snobby now I write it down but I don’t mean it to. I suppose what I’m trying to say is just that I agree with you. There are people who we think we have something in common with and so we value their opinion, and there are other people who just have nothing in common with us at all/like stuff we really dislike, and so we naturally sort of shrug off their opinion.

I like the shortened teddy when they are young

Beautiful name