Do you like our baby names?

[HallieHufflepuff]

Hello,
Currently pregnant with my first child and wondering how people will react to the name we have chosen for our child.
Don't want to tell anyone in real life in case they hate it.

So we have: Cecilia (Cece) for a girl and Nathaniel (Nate) for a boy.

Please tell me your honest thoughts on our names ❤

But any name could become a song/ TV character/ infamous serial killer at any time. My friend used Ruby for her daughter a matter of weeks before the Kaiser Chiefs song came out. She picked something well outside the 100 for her next child only for a baby on a soap to be given the same name a couple of months later and it became a far more popular name.

Yes, but Ruby is a gemstone and slang for curry, so the effect is diluted.
A friend named her DD an unusual name just before a new soap character with the name appeared, and gets asked if she chose the name cos of the soap character quite a lot, but the name is also associated with a film.

I love both names.
Both are beautiful including the shortened versions.
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Really lovely, elegant sounding names, and have the bonus of being well known and yet underused here in the UK. I'm personally less keen on the nicknames though, sorry (one of the reasons the gorgeous Nathaniel and Cecilia didn't make my own list, as I worried they'd get shortened).

Oh, and I personally don't think the "meaning" or the song matters at all for Cecilia. A bigger concern might be that you will get some misspelling it (Cecelia) but the doesn't seem to bother all the C/Katherine's, Susanna/h's etc.

Cecelia is nice although prefer Celia or Cecily

Not keen on Nathaniel, largely because the only one I've ever was/is an absolutely shit. But don't let that put you off 😂😂

@IamnotwhouthinkIam I did Google how to spell the name though and Google said that Cecilia was a more popular spelling than Cecelia

The saint was Cecilia. You like it and your baby's father likes it, so go with it, if the baby's a girl. Nathaniel is nice too.

I know an adult Cecilia, known as CeCe. They are both lovely, classic names. Nothing at all to worry about with either of them, IMO.

@HallieHufflepuff -Cecilia is probably the more popular version as it's very likely the "correct" one, being the feminine version of the masculine Cecil - it's just that is is one of those names that people will misspell and I was just checking you were prepared for that (likely due to the similar name Celia, although this probably comes from different etymological roots)

I love them both op, gorgeous names.

@IamnotwhouthinkIam I've never heard of the name Celia before I made this thread 😛

I see what you mean about the spelling. Apparently my husband prefers Cecelia to Cecilia because the nickname Cece makes more sense with Cecel

I don't know it's a big decision to make for someone we don't know!!

I think you could use the diminutive "Cece" easily for both spellings as it is the prominent sound in the name, more than the spelling imo. I must admit the pedant in me would choose the Cecilia spelling anyway as I always prefer the original/"correct" versions where possible - being the more popular spelling is just a bonus.

Celia is Shakespearean (as well as mentioned in lots of other literature) and has the bonus of the likely meaning "heavenly" from the Latin. But for some reason Celia is often not as well known as Cecilia/Cecelia is, maybe due to Cecilia being a Saints name, but likely also because Cecilia been used more often in songs as it has a nice lyrical feel/rhythm to it (and most people know their music more than their Shakespeare!)

I hate the spelling Cecelia. Cecilia is the original spelling, Cecelia is a variant (probably American). You'd be doing a disservice to the name!! It's like changing the recognised spelling of Nicholas to Nickolas because the nn is Nick.

Love them

Cecelia is Latin root English.

Nathaniel is literally in the bible

both lovely and really like the nicknames - for sone reason I prefer it when nicknames are a shortened form that starts with sonething like the first syllable of the name rather than some random bit from the middle or end. So much prefer Ellie for Eleanor to Milly for Amelia for example. I’m not even sure why!

I’d call them by their full name sometimes too otherwise I think it becomes harder to see them (and for them to see themselves) as Cecelia or Nathaniel. I have a dd with a 3 syllable name and use that mostly and then sometimes her nickname.