Today as a name. Anyone else have a guilty pleasure in out their names?

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For a little girl.

I know I could never use it! It’s too out there and isn’t really a name. My DD is a Lola and I’m due another little girl soon, who I’ve decided to call Maria (H loves this name too)

But I think Today is stunning…. It’s just so refreshing.

For clarification, again, I absolutely won’t use it as I know it’ll get a low of horrible responses and we’ve settled on Maria

But just ponder the name a little and then think. It’s nice isn’t it?

My DD went to nursery with a ‘Maybe’ but it was spelt differently. It really suited her!

I like it too! Probably because I think of the little girl, it just sounds CUTE and neat and round.

I named my kid a guilty pleasure name and it ended up really suiting her she’s very popular and charismatic so can get away with it. If she was shy I would have let her use her middle name but she completely fits her out-there name. Its last recorded use was about 300 years ago so not a ‘made up name’ but definitely unique.

I also like word names that sound namey but aren’t. Like Vendetta. Or Silence. But I’d never saddle a child with that! I also met someone whose legal name was Ever and thought that was pretty cool.

Today? Sounds like something The Kardashians would use!

Please stop watching them immediately 😂

My daughter has a friend called Poet. I believe it's actually her middle name but she loves it and since going to high school has gone by it. I've always been quite fond of it. That might just be because she's such a lovely, well mannered girl, she could probably be called Lucifer Morningstar and I'd be like "aye yes, lovely name for a lovely girl"

I like January.
Much better than May or June - though I guess it would get shortened to Jan which is not as good!
I know a 6 year old April.
I know of a Tuesday too. Slightly better than Today as a name!

I know a couple of Fridays, both shortened from Frideswide which is an old English name. Freyas can also apparently be nicknamed Friday!
I used to think Venetia would be a gorgeous girl's name (Georgette Heyer fan) but didn't use it... I know an Elektra (spelt like that) and she's amazing and suits its lively sparkle!

I'm surprised at someone knowing one person called Frideswide nevermind two!

when I was younger I wanted to call my hypothetical son ‘river’ 😂 what was I thinking? He’s called Philip

Jesus the complications and confusions that would arise from using Today as a name. It's not haters, it's practicality. Can you really not see that?

She does say 'I know I could never use it! It’s too out there and isn’t really a name.'. She's not actually going to give a child the name Today.

I know a Pebble! Mid 20s ish. Perhaps it's the same Pebble, there can't be many out there 😆

Well yes, OP can see that which is why she’s using Maria.

When I was pregnant my bump was called Blossom, we didn’t use it for dd though as it seemed too much.

School nickname would definitely be Toady.

Maeby (Maybe) is a character in the sitcom 'Arrested Development'

Lots of cultures use ordinary words as names and English used to—just read some 16th and 17th century names for goodness sake? Praise God Barebone being a famous one. Some African naming conventions include the day of the week. Chinese and Korean naming styles use ordinary words with carefully chosen sounds or meanings to build connections within and between generations or to serve as a wish for the child.

This thread has reminded me of April Wednesday, a character from an Alistair MacLean novel I read over 30 years ago!

How about TODAY() just to cause confusion in future spreadsheets?

(for people interested in this sort of thing, the story of the THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD is interesting)

I picture Today in the font of the now defunct Today newspaper. I'm showing my age.

I know a Tuesday and I surprise myself with how much I like that (although I have never dared ask if she was born on a Tuesday as I suspect she gets that all the time!). Tuesday is somehow much prettier than Today.

How about Monthly?
Or is that too silly (as well)?

DH and I used to drive past a road sign for Stenton and Garvald, when travelling south down the A1 to visit relatives in England. We often joked we’d name our first son Stenton Garvald, but luckily had two DDs.
I also think some diseases sound nice as girls’ names, but would never dream of using them - such as Chlamydia, Rubella, Scarlatina, Cholera…!

Bestiality Carter, from the Pratchett novels...

Threads like this always make me think of the Horrible Histories sketch about Victorian names. This link has the video and a transcript.

https://thepoetryoftheearth.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/483/

Toilet and Baboon 😃

Today would be a pain to have as a name.
I can imagine the conversation
Person 1: ’can I have you name please’
Person 2 ’Today’
person 1: ‘yes, today’ (other person assuming they’re taking the mick.
‘My name is today’
’Oh’

it also looks a bit like ‘Toady’

Heisenberg.

Oh and I forgot to add my own guilty pleasure name - Sunset. For a boy or a girl.

Ruined by that stupid reality programme called “Selling Sunset” 😤

I think Segue for a boy and Gauzy for a girl.