Which baby girl’s name?

[Rt23]

Hi! Would love some advice on which name is people’s fave from the below list. Really struggling to land on a girls name…

Thea
Coco
Bonnie
Bibi
Alma
Jude
Maya
Juno
Marnie

Marnie is really cute x

Marnie Maya

Oh gosh, it's a great list, don't be put off by MNers saying names are "awful"! I think a lot of people are out of touch with what's in style now.

Love it all, only personal dislike is "Bibi" but just as there's so many people in my area with some variation of it as a surname!

Favourite there is Juno. Love girl names that end in "o" - so poetic, strong and not overly girly. Yes there's a film (Oscar winning!) of the same name, but only millennials and older will remember this. Queen of heaven, protector of women - it's a great name!

My DD is a Chloe nicknamed Coco, and sometimes we really annoy her by 'mixing up the clowns' and calling her Bozo 🤣. But I do love the names Chloe and Coco (the latter only as a nickname I think).

Thea - yes love, Greek muse
Coco - I think of a clown...sorry
Bonnie -love but go Roberta so they can pick Bonnie for short later?
Bibi - personally a nickname for a linger name
Alma - not a fan tbh and v popular
Jude - boys name and Jude was SO miserable in Jude the Obscure (plus very unhappy)
Maya - lovely but popular which doesn't mean it isn't lovely
Juno - lot of dogs have this name around here but love it
Marnie -muh....I think of the unhappy, abused cleptomaniac in Hitchcock but many won't!

Coco, Bonnie and Alma are my faves

Another vote for Coco , so cute

It's a lovely name so not surprised it's on the rise. I wouldn't be bothered by that though. Our other child has a super classic very popular name, which we never thought we'd go for but we love it.

Why ask if you don't want people to answer and some might say 'awful'. I mean some names really are awful, which is why they are extinct.

1 Bonnie
2 Juno
3 Marnie
4 Thea

Bibi and Jude need formalising IMO. And Coco is a no-no.

Thea and Bonnie

Bonnie

I have a Thea and a Marnie so I’m biased and those would be my top choices haha! We have similar taste though as I also love Juno, Bonnie and Coco.

I'd always prefer to give the child a proper name that you could then be shortened to a nickname, so that the child has the opportunity to reinstate the proper name if and when they so desire. I can't imagine a high court judge or a leading neurosurgeon being called Bibi or Coco for example!

So:

Thea - Theodora
Coco - Corinne, Colette, Cordelia, and Chloe
Bonnie - Bonita
Bibi - Birgit, Bianca and Bridget.
Alma - Just no!
Jude - Judith Judy, Juliet
Maya - Maria
Juno - Juliana, Julianne, Julienne, Josephine, Jovanna/Giovanna, and Juanita Janette, Jordana,
Marnie - Marina

My personal favourites are Thea, Maya and Marnie, probably because they are the names that sound most credible when used on their own.

I personally don't like many of those, but Thea and Bonnie are my favourites of the list. Bonnie over Thea

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Yes, apologies if anyone has a coco but it seems like a really "rough" name to me

Why do people always do this? "Can't imagine a neurosurgeon named...."
Why not? If they choose to follow a career in neurosurgery they will be able to do so regardless of name. It's so judgemental to suggest they'd be less able or successful in certain job roles due to their name.
It's the same when people bang on about "can't see them as a high court judge" etc. How many of your kids actually want those roles anyway? Why would their name make any difference whatsoever?
Unless the name is somehow offensive then no it won't matter. I say this as someone who worked with a neurosurgeon named Rolly for years (not a nickname). If that was acceptable then so are other cutesy names.

Of course it doesn't mean someone is going to be less skilled at a particular job because of their name!

But it's disingenuous to pretend that people don't make judgements about names; there's a lot of evidence to back up that they do. We may not like that fact, but we can't ignore it.

Personally I don't like naming children with a diminutive or a nickname. Those can happen organically, but it's nice for a child to have the option of using a full name.

Of course ultimately it's the OP and her partner's choice what to name their daughter but she's asked for opinions and people have given them. Coco isn't a proper name with a history and a lovely meaning... it was Chanel's cabaret name, not what she was given at birth. It's now become very popular as a pet's name, and tbh to many of us just sounds a bit silly. Same with Bibi.

@Inkypot , because the MN versions of High Court Judges have names like Charles, Sebastian or Olivia, whereas real HCJ's have names like Bobbie, Kelyn and Barry.

I didn't make up those names

Some names indicate the age and socio-economic background of the parents.
Nobody on MN would even dream of suspecting that Du'wayne or Halleigh-Boux could not become a neurosurgeon or HCJ , other than in Baby Names

@Inkypot I bet 'Rolly' was really Roland!

For a baby.
For an adult?

No, that's what we all thought too but it was just his name. Not short for anything.

Taste is very subjective.
However, you have to remember you're not naming a baby. You're naming a person. I've known a Bonnie who loathed her name because she was large and a bit clumsy and gender non conforming. We called her by her surname.

@Mostlyoblivious , Jude is not "a boys name"! It is a boy's name.
@Inkypot , Courtney Cox and Cherry Healey both have daughters named Coco.
I don't think that the names of celebrities' offspring always works for ordinary people's DC.