Nimue and Vivienne and Ninniane, Niniane, Lenore

[JessieIsabelle]

I love Nimue and Vivienne. Ninniane and Niniane are other alternates for the "lady of the lake" and Lenore is her mother.

I wanted to know what you think:

Nimue - nim-oo-ay, we would consider this, but not sure we're brave enough

Vivienne - we're considering this, emphasis on the last syllable

(Ninniane, Niniane - wouldn't consider this, but interesting)

(Lenore - I like it, but not enough to use)

Nimue...people will say Nee-myoo

Vivienne... people will say Vivian

Ninianne is nice

Lenore sounds like a fabric conditioner

I'm wondering if you're trying a bit too hard to be 'out there.'

Vivienne is nice.

I’d never heard of Nimue but I actually really like it - as long as you don’t mind needing to spell it / explain pronunciation a lot. Nimi is a gorgeous nn too.

Vivienne is lovely. The rest will mean condemning your child to a lifetime of people mispronouncing and misspelling her name…

We're you watching The Winter King by any chance, I saw it and I loved the name and character of Nimue but unfortunately I do think people will struggle with pronunciation.
Vivienne is definitely beautiful I'd go for that

Nimue - nim-ew
Vivienne - Viv-yen or Vivvy-enn
Ninniane, Niniane, - Ninny-Anne. Ninian Park
Lenore - Lenor fabric conditioner

Nimue - AWFUL

Vivienne - lovely

Ninniane, Niniane - AWFUL. Would also make me wonder if you're Cardiff City fans (ninian park)

Lenore - I like it for a name and is actually on my list but sadly will always be linked to fabric softener so I'm unlikely to use.

How about a name people including your dc can spell and pronounce?

Vivienne is lovely but I don’t understand about the emphasis on the last syllable? Is this not how is pronounced? Vi-ve-en

Lenore IS a fabric conditioner

Nimue is really nice, who cares if people initially pronounce it nee-mew, for most folk that would be a one-time event and then they would know that wasn’t right.

a lot of people on MN cannot cope with anything non-Anglo, but as a person with a non-Anglo name my experience is it doesn’t actually cause many (or any) problems.

Ninianne, Vivienne, Ninienne, I like much less. Vivienne because it’s everywhere any the other two are too frilly for my liking but it’s so personal.

It's nim-way

My friend's daughter is called Nimue

It's a lovely name.

Just google pronunciation of Nimue because I'm interested and

It's not pronounced "way", it's "oo-ay". Nimue is three syllables, but pronounced very quickly, so it might sound to you like two syllables.

@Nttttt , it can be Viv-y-en or Vivvy-Enn.
In French all the syllables have the same emphasis.
English names tend to emphasise the first syllable (e.g. Angela, Verity) but English speakers tend to emphasise the last syllable in French words (e.g Serviette, Baguette, Jeannette)

But regardless. It's, in my opinion, a not very nice name. 10/10 would not recommend

@NoisyDachshunddd , I think the Nemu pronunciation is too close to Emu.
You don't end up telling people once, you tell everyone not familar with it once. In a lifetime, that's going to be a lot of people.

My friends call their vaginas Vivian (American) so I would rule that out on that basis alone

Vivienne is such a lovely name.
Nimwen (I totally made that up) would be lovely too.

@SunnyFog , Nolwenn is a breton name and I think it's nice

Nimue makes me thing of the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight.

Lenore reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe and the fabric conditioner.

Vivienne by far the best option (and to PP I think the emphasis on the last syllable means so it isn’t pronounced like Vivian).

@KirstenBlest yes, I have a similar name that no one knows how to pronounce or even whether it’s a woman’s or man’s name. Total non issue. 98% of everyone Ive ever met, friend - or colleague- wise, apart from one person with a profound SpLD has grasped it immediately. The other 2%, it’s served as a very useful filter. In the absence of additional needs or English as a foreign language, people who can only
pronounce names like Sarah/ Keith/ Norman, or find anything slightly less common to be remarkable, are to be hard swerved, in my experience

Leonor(e) is a nice alternative to Lenore and Princess Leonor of Spain seems a lovely woman.

@NoisyDachshunddd , we won't agree on that one. There have been several pronunciations given on this thread.

I know a Nimue (goes by Nimi), and a Lenore. The soap connection is only there the first time in my experience!

I like Vivienne, but would expect it to be shortened to Viv, which I very much dislike.

I love Nimue but pronounce it nimway

This!