Honest opinions on Beatrix?

[Effy95]

Yay or nay?

What impression does it give you?

I really dislike it and Beatrice. I find the Bee/Beet sound very unattractive and it does make me think of beetroot.

Love it. DS would have been Beatrix had he been a girl.

Beautiful name! Makes me think of princess Beatrix of the Netherlands (the former queen, the king's mother).

I love it. I can never decide if I prefer Beatrix (because of Beatrix Potter) or Beatrice (which looks and sounds slightly nicer IMO)

Awful. Frumpy, old-fashioned, lives in the country dahhhling and is married to Tarquin.

All the Queen Beatrix from years gone by will probably agree with you!!!

Ditto

mines a Beatrix, you’ll get Beatrice too many times to count even when you tell them, repeatedly!

Haha well there you go, I was never good at history. Still how it sounds to this ignoramus!!

What do you call a barmaid who can balance 5 pints on her head? Beatrix

(Sorry)

Lovely
but strongly dislike Trixi

Prefer Beatrice and Beatrice means you won't get the awful Trixie as a nn.

Appreciate all the responses! Interesting that so many prefer Beatrice because I don’t think there’s a huge difference in how common they are, is there?

If we shortened it, we’d go for Bea/Bee but I don’t mind Trix/ie either.

Beatrice is a little too prim and proper for me, but I like the X in Beatrix. I guess they would get mixed up a lot though, hmm…

Love it. I know a 5 year old Beatrix she's lovely and fiesty. Always known as Beatrix so far

Beer tricks

Great name.

Like it.
Helen George’s character in CTM (shortened to Trixie which I’m not so keen on)

Love it. Bee or Trix, but also as a full name.

Its nice but I think its starting to become overused and common? not that's problem, just noted.

I love the name Beatrice but always think people who name their child Beatrix are trying to be self consciously 'different'. I find it really awkward to say as well.

What an odd and somewhat condescending comment. My DGD is Beatrix in homage to Beatrix Potter. Both her parents loved the author as children.

Quite apart from that, it’s a normal spelling of an often used name.

I love beetroot so this is a plus 😁

I don't think it's odd to give your opinion about the name Beatrix on a thread titled "Honest opinions about the name Beatrix" 😅

I'll now add "likely to have an easily offended GM" to my opinion of the name.

I don't think it's odd to give your opinion

Neither is it odd to comment on someone else’s opinion. I wasn’t offended, just remarking that the poster was somewhat judgemental in attributing the desire to be self-consciously different when choosing a name, rather than liking it for other reasons.

I love it, it’s punchier than Beatrice.