Dagnia?

[CottonmouthedJo]

... for a girl. Too out there or nice and unique?

Weirdly, I saw the name Josiah and read it correctly.

People who misread names and other words are actually not proficient readers, even if they're doctors.

They're poor to mediocre readers, and they should consider practicing to get their skills up to a decent standard.

Going by your spelling of 'practicing' and your username I assume you are American, so your correct reading of my son's name is likely to be as much due to its higher occurrence in the USA and your consequent familiarity as it is your reading skills, which I am sure are nevertheless superior .

What a dickhead 😂

😂 Well this thread ended well.

I don't mean to be unkind but I honestly assumed this was a thread about some kind of growth on the skin or something. It sounds like a health complaint somehow.

OP just stop with your mad ideas 😂 That name is terrible. Just terrible. What were you smoking when you came up with that 😂

Seriously. Just go with Emilia or something normal.....

How about Daria or Daphne

It is sad, you're right - faintly embarrassing, to be honest, and it happens a lot! I get that we don't all have the same experience of the world, though, and some people have a more limited worldview.

Dagmar was the name of a nightclub in Eastenders many, many years ago.

Au contraire, I'm Irish, but living in the US, so my phone autocorrects to US spelling.

Josiah is not a very common name in the US. It might have been, way back in Puritan times, but obviously there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then.

My familiarity with the name comes from the British entrepreneur and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the famous Wedgwood china brand.

It sounds like a car. The All New Vauxhall Dagnia.

Came for the comments

if pronunciation of the first syllable is dag
with a hard g

it will depend what country you live in perhaps. It would be a no-no in NZ or Australia:

‘Dag is an Australian and New Zealand slang term, also daggy (adjective). In Australia, it is often used as an affectionate insult for someone who is, or is perceived to be, unfashionable, lacking self-consciousness about their appearance and/or with poor social skills yet affable and amusing.’

‘But in Australia it also has the meaning of ‘manure caught up in wool around a sheep’s anus.’

I thought of not responding to this post because bringing these meanings to you seems mean. But that part of the name is a worry in that kids in NZ and Aust would likely tease or bully your daughter.

So, I guess it depends were your daughter is going to live.

Sorry I first read it as Dagina (Vagina with a D) and now I can't unsee it!

It's quite ugly and harsh.

Josiah is currently ‘having a moment’ and is the most popular it’s been in the USA for a very long time. It’s #49, having peaked at #45 in 2019. It may not be a very popular name in absolute terms in the USA but it is certainly much more popular in the USA than in the UK, where it is #234.

I imagine a person with a child named Josiah has probably heard of Josiah Wedgwood and is unlikely to need an explanation of who he was .

Danya or Dagmar are existing names that sound similar but are nicer IMO.

The girl who plays Gwendoline in Malory Towers on CBBC is called Danya - looks/sounds far nicer than Dagnia imo, and far harder to confuse or mispronounce (although Americans would probably elongate the first 'a', as in the way they say Taaaaaaanya).

I imagine a person with a child named Josiah has probably heard of Josiah Wedgwood and is unlikely to need an explanation of who he was

Not necessarily: the majority of parents with a Josiah are Jewish or Christian, so they're likely going right back to the same Biblical source as Wedgwood's parents doubtless did when choosing the name!

It's not very pretty and I didn't picture a lovely little girl when I read the name. I've never heard it before and so I'd definitely need to give that one time.

I don't particularly love the name, but am surprised by the extremely negative reactions on here. I'm not British or an English native speaker and the vagina association seems incredibly far-fetched to me, but I suppose if this is about a child growing up in the UK, it's best to look at other ideas.

The first thing Dagnia made me think of was Norwegian singer Dagny who is very pretty and has some great catchy pop tunes:

Josiah’s mum here, confirming that despite being practising Christians we do also have a decent general knowledge of history and are very familiar with Wedgwood, although his abolitionism was of more importance to us as a namesake for our DS than his innovations with jasperware.

Josiah’s mum here, confirming that despite being practising Christians we do also have a decent general knowledge of history and are very familiar with Wedgwood, although his abolitionism was of more importance to us as a namesake for our DS than his innovations with jasperware.

I may have phrased that badly, but I was just trying to make the point (possibly badly), following my (maybe incorrect) reading of the comment that Wedgwood probably wasn't THE inspiration for most parents; although that's not to say that plenty of people with a knowledge of history won't also know of the pottery man!

Do you have eastern European connections? It makes more sense if you do. Daga is a similar name (Dar-ga) and you might get fewer misreadings.

I thought this said Dadgina, had to double check if I was on the feminist boards!

Absolutely not.. it sounds like some kind of disease that sheep get around their shitty back ends ..

.. Dolly has Dagnia because I forgot to Dag her .. In case ewe need to know .

www.google.co.uk/search?q=sheep+dagging&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari