Agnes & Agnus - Yay or Nay?

[Teethingpainagain]

Am I the only one that find these names terrible?

Does this “Agn” start reminds you of the words angry & ugly somehow merged into one word which apparently is a name ?!

Plus that my tongue is partially strangled….

I just don't like the sound of Angus that's as far as it goes, but I detest Agnes Its very harsh and unfriendly and frumpy sounding. To me its in the same vein as Judith Constance. Henrietta. Veronica. Hilda. Hilary and Ethel.

I love Angus

Really like both names.

I like both names but would definitely not use them for siblings. For one thing I would never give siblings the same initial anyway, for another these two names really are very similar in terms of letters and sounds, but most importantly of all, I think they have very different "feels" that kind of clash. Angus is rugged, outdoorsy and tough. Agnes is classic and dignified.

I like them both, although I too was worried that somebody might be using both of those names for twins, which would be a bit de trop!

Angus does a little bit make me think of Hangus the Monkey, mind; and wasn't Desperate Dan's Aunt Aggie's full name Agnes? I'm not a fan of Senga, which has grown quite popular now; if it were just an individual name in its own right, I wouldn't object, but I find the whole deliberate reversing things a bit twee - although nowhere near as much as Neveah!

I really love Seth, though, although I agree with PP that you have to tread very carefully with 'th' names if your local accent always renders them as 'ff'. Arthur is lovely, but 'Arfur' is awful (or awthul ).

I really like Agnes and also really like Agatha

I think 'gn' might be difficult for a lot of people to say in English. Dagny. Ignacio. Magnolia. Ragnhild. Zbigniew. It gets softened or smoothed out a little in some of the versions of Agnes in other languages like Agnetha, Agnieszka.

I like Angus. And Ingrid.

They're both fine, but don't use them if you don't like them. A while back the name Senga was popular in Scotland because it's Agnes backwards. I was treated by a Glaswegian nurse called Senga a few years ago!

A while back the name Senga was popular in Scotland because it's Agnes backwards.

I'm amazed that Trebor (as in the strong mints) never took off as a baby name, tbh!!

I know some Trebors

I know the most gorgeous Agnes so I couldn’t love the name more

Agnes is an old ladies name.
Angus sounds like a medium rare steak.
No to both.

Oh gosh it does show how different people are because I would a thousand times rather be an Agnes (like the model Agyness Deyn, who changed her name FROM Laura Michelle Hollins) which is a bit cool and different than Sophia L which is nice enough but super bland and generic these days. (Sophia used to be one of my favourite names 20 years ago as so unusual, only 1 friend called it!). But then I know so many people who have scoured the top ten and gone with Olivia and Jack or Emily and Harry (all lovely names but I know of one class where there is more than one Olivia P) so I can see that fitting in to a popular tribe is really important to some people which is fair enough!

They are both great names. I know several lovely people called either Agnes or Angus, and no, they are not "old people".

I know some Trebors

Wow - eyes opened!

When used as a welsh name it's said as Treb-or (or like in orange)

I hate Ag- names (Agatha for example), Agnes makes me think Agnes Dei.

I agree OP - ugly names. But not as ugly as Morag and Maud - bleugh!

Oh phew!

I thought you were about to have twins and call them Agnes and Angus.

I like both those names - yay.

But as twin combo, worse than Topsy and Tim - nay!

@KirstenBlest that's how I pronounce the mints anyway (I'm Scottish). What do other people call them? Tre-buhr or something?

We always used to call them 'TREE-bore mints' - which, iirc, is how they used to refer to them on the TV adverts:

"New TREE-bore mints are a minty bit stron-gerrrrr! Stick 'em up your bum and they last a lot lon-gerrrrr!"

@Laureatus , the chap in the link says his name as Trebb-or (or like in orange).
I think he also says his surname as Ed-wadds (wadds rhyming with adds).

The mints are said as Tree-bore, or they were in the tv ads.

😂 sound effect names-Josh sounds sloshy like water in the bottom of a boat and Seth sounds like a slow puncture in an airbed.

Agnes and Angus sounds like a dog food manufacturer that charges £10 for 100g of food.

I know an 18 year old Agnes. She's gorgeous and such a bright young lady. The name sounds positively electric on her

I also know a baby Martha, Edith and Phoebe. These names are making a comeback and are beautiful sounding to modern ears again.

Maud reminds me of a slow fart done in a library.
Also seasickness.
Maud was the name of a nauseating ferry that ran between Ireland and England and people who saw Princess Maud waiting at the harbour sometimes cancelled til. Better weather because she made them so sick.