Very unique girl name (named after a holiday) ❤️ Will she be bullied? Is it cheesy?

[militarychick5260]

My husband and I are due with our first child, a baby girl, at the end of February. I'll likely be induced 2 weeks early due to blood pressure which would fall exactly on Valentine's Day.

We have decided to call her our little lovebug.....

Ivy-Valentine🩷🎀❤️

Valentine pronounced just like the holiday!

It will be a double-barreled first name, but she will probably go by either Ivy or Valentine since it's long. We love having both names included in her first name. A lot of people have been saying to just make it her first and middle name, but we aren't worried about it since most people will call her one or the other and she will have options like I never had.

What are your thoughts?? Do you think she might be bullied around Valentine's Day since it is the holiday of love? Kids can be mean at that age! We are set on the name completely but any opinions are welcome. She will probably be wearing a lot of heart themed clothing and pink and red until she tells me she wants otherwise hehe, is it cheesy 🙈 I love names that have a story relating to the child's birth. Even if she isn't born on Valentine's Day it'll still be close enough so it works for us.

At Valentine was male and also met a particularly gruesome end. If I recall correctly he was clubbed to death, beheaded and burned. Not necessarily the nicest connection for a little child but saying that Valentina is cute. ‘Val’ ans ‘Tina’ are very dated and not very pleasant though

Valentine is a male name. I have a male relative who was born on Valentine's Day. His parents considered calling him Valentine, and he regularly thanks god that they changed their minds and called him something more conventional.

Double barrelled first names are awful

You know it sounds very nice. But initials are IV? What is your surname. Make sure your initial do not spell a well known brand. Unfortunately my son's initials are.... KFC!!! Oops!!😛

Last year I worked with a (mid 20s) woman called Valentina and I can confirm not one person in our entire work place called her ‘Val’ (and it never even occurred to me to shorten her name at all) so all the mumsnetters frothing about that can calm down.

OP, I prefer Valentina for a girl, I think it’s really pretty.

Honestly, some of the comments on here. It’s perfectly ok to theme your baby’s clothing if you so desire. Lots of pink or heart motifs clothes out there that many babies will be wearing (that would only bring playboy to mind for the seriously waiting to be offended crowd).

People will probably only even notice a habitual theme if you’re dressing your baby like Yoda or something, not by choosing pretty normal baby gear that happens to have hearts on it.

Some of the comments on here! Valentine and Valentina are very different names. If the OP doesn’t like Valentina then she doesn’t like it. Her daughter will have a very feminine first name/first part of her name, so there will be no confusion regarding her sex from people who haven’t met her before and she can always drop down to ‘Ivy’ if she doesn’t like Valentine.

And it’s absolutely fine to dress a baby however you want to, so long as their clothes are the right size, comfortable and are weather appropriate. She is not going to know whether she’s wearing a babygrow with hearts on or one with “101 Inspirational Women in STEM”… because she’s a baby. I assume you’re not going to force the Love motif on her forever, OP?

@militarychick5260 , something is either unique or not, it can't be very unique.

Like when the 17th person posts the same bloody thing. That is very much not unique.

Some things bear much repeating.

3 pages in, though, people still feel the need to explain how to use ‘unique’ and that Valentine’s Day isn’t a holiday in the UK sense. And it never occurs to any of them that these points might have already been made.

I do find it a bit funny though that you are so sure it needs a hyphen when even in the one image you shared, that you must clearly love, it isn't hyphened. (Obviously, cause putting a hyphen would make it look shite.) 😍

St Valentine's day is in the first half of February. If she's a little late, you might prefer to call her Ivy-Patrick.

Or you could go the lovebug theme and call her Ivy-Little-Lovebug.

The OP hasn't acknowledged that "very unique" makes no sense. So I'd be happy to see it repeated 20 more times!

Full list of saints who have their day on 14 Feb - from which you can tab to adjacent days if the baby is early/late

CatholicSaints.Info » Blog Archive » 14 February

@EmpressaurusOfCats , what was that again?

FWIW and as you are asking, I don't like Ivy at all and prefer Valentina as it is actually a girl's name and she could be Tina if she chose to be.

It's not my kind of name either, but Ivy is less fuddy-duddy as the memory of the Corrie character has faded considerably (unlike her best mate Vera, who was one of the icons)

Cringe, sorry.

I wouldn't use the hyphen. She can choose to be ivy valentine or ivy as she grows up.

Valentine is a boy’s name.

Lovely name without the hyphen.

I'll likely be induced 2 weeks early due to blood pressure which would fall exactly on Valentine's Day.

I know you aren't in the UK but I am not sure how exact your induction date will be (or how long it will take - it took me over 24h that was with my 3rd baby!!) so does Valentine as a middle name still work for you if baby was born on 15th of Feb or later?

Massively chavvy if you hyphenate it.

Ivy is a horribly spooky name. Gnarled plants climbing walls of a haunted house.