Woody Benjamin and Orla Clementine

[kitsmummy]

Not sure if we're having boy or girl, but what do you think of our chosen names???

LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM ! quite jealous actually......

Orla Clemetine - sorry, but the two names just sound very odd together to my ear. Orla - connotations of bonny Irish girl. Clementine - sounds very French. Also think Benjamin is a such a lovely, classic name that it jars against something as flippant and modern as Woody. Hmmm.

Woody after Toy STory or what?

I love Clemintine. Not keen on Woody, too many bad jokes . I know A woody but it's a nick name from his surname Woodward.
Orla is also beautiful but becoming quite common now i think (If you were trying to choose an unusual name).

Woody
Plasticky
Watery
Stony

And my particular favourite - Irony!

Sorry, OP coulldn't resist.

Would you like my favourite girl's name to make up for it? How about.......

Orla Clemency?

what about Edward and just call him Woody as a nickname?

I like Orla but agree doesn't go with Clementine (which I really like)

Clementine is such a fantastic name. Don't use it as a middle name. I may well use it for my next girl if I ever have one.

Woody is not my favourite. Benjamin is a great name. Strong and dignified.

Woody is awful.

Really awful.

Quite like Orla but not my preference.

Clementine is pretty.

Benjamin is good and strong.

Do the test

'this is your Captain, Woody Maynard, speaking. Welcome to Heathrow.'

'This is Woody Maynard, News at 10, in Iraq.

Am not sure it works tbh.

No to Woody.

I don't like the name Woody,s orry. Benjamin is nice though.

Not sure about the name Orla; Clementine is fine but not my choice.

woody is really cool.
i prefer SPike though. I might have another baby just incase it might be a boy and I might be able to convince DH that Spike is a good name

goooooooooood i love those names-have a friend called woody-he is a dude

orla clementine is beautiful-actually i might rob that if i ever have a girl.

lovely names x

Woody = hard-on. Sorry, that's what it brings to mind!

Woodrow is preferable i think, shortened to Woody if you have your hearts set on it. Benjamin in nice.
I like Orla but not so keen on Clementine i'm afraid, although i love the fruit variety

Love Orla, was my fave if dc2 had been a girl (we have irish surname, FIL is irish)

Our cat is called Woody. After Tiger Woods. DH's choice

Woody means erection. That's not fair on a kid, cute as it sounds - imagine what a bunch of teenage boys will make of that one. I do think when it comes to names for a person who will have to carry it as an adult, it's best to give them something reasonably conventional on paper, and keep the exceptionally unusual as a family-used name. You can call him Woody, no issue - but send him to school as a Benjamin. Please. I know Zoe Ball called her kid Woody, but when you're Zoe Ball and Fatboy Slim, you also get automatic cool points with your kid's schoolmates to balance it out; us lesser mortals don't.

Orla is a beautiful name. It's also a recognised one, so "oral" jokes are just par for the course - it won't make her cringe when filling out a job application.

I just think Woody is awful and just not fair - sorry. It's be fine if he was a confident, cool dude type of boy, but he might not be - he might be a shy, quiet, reserved sort of person, and then it would be such a burden.

I thought this after I passed the point of no return in calling our dd Grace - what if she's a 6 foot bull-in-a-china shop sort of person with size 11 feet!

She isn't yet, but there's time.

Please rethink!

(you did ask!)

Woody means erection and everybody knows that. This is far worse than Tuppence Buddy as a nn for Brendan or....? would be better imo

FWIW, I like Orla. I'm Irish though, so it doesn't feel weird or madey uppy to me. I hate madeyuppy names.

PS. Aurelian is in the top ten boys' names in France and Aurelia is used for French girls. I've seen Aurelia discussed on various name boards, so I think that sound is out there now. Aurelie, Aurelia, Orla... If one is teased they all will be or none of them will be.

I love Orla. I like the suggestion of Edward being shortened to woody (but they I like Edward and would have it on my list)

MadameCh0let Aurelie is my middle name, I love it but the brits just can't bloody pronounce it! They can do Orla, Aurelia in a not too bad way (probably helped by Love Actually) but Aurelie comes out Orily (O sound like doing kids alphabet A B curly K rather than ay, bee, sea iyswim)

IF you really like Woody then please give your child the name Edward and then call him Woody or even Eddy......Orla is lovely as is Clementine....

I think Edward is a brilliant compromise. Then he can be cute baby Woody, cool teen Ed, Queen's Counsel Edward, mid life crisis Woody again, middle aged family man Ned and OAP Eddie.

Perfect. Problem solved. Well done whoever thought of it!