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I think it could be a lovely name ( named after the star and the Latin meaning female warrior) and could be called Belle for short )

Minerva is the sweetest idea.

Minerva Trixiebelle.
Minerva Beatrix
Minerva Belle

Minnie, Trixie, Bellie

Minerva is horrid, it sounds like the name of a medicine.

I actually love Bellatrix but no, not usuable due to Harry Potter.

I do think you could get away with Minerva.

Other Shakespeare characters (some admittedly more usable than others!):
Beatrice, Hero, Cordelia, Regan, Goneril, Juliet, Rosaline, Ophelia, Viola, Isabella, Hermione, Paulina, Emilia, Miranda, Ariel, Katherina, Bianca, Portia, Nerissa, Desdemona, Rosalind, Imogen, Adriana, Calpurnia, Cassandra, Cleopatra, Octavia, Helena, Hermia, Tatiana, Diana, Mariana

Nooooooooooo

Minerva sounds like a coil

Viola is nice. Lots of other nice Shakespeare names to consider too. If you like old, I would deffo stick with Shakespeare for inspiration, rather than Harry Potter or James Bond (don’t nickname a child M for heavens sake).

Goneril has my vote.

I absolutely love this! 😂 Thank you! You've made my day!

Beatrix Viola

Bellatrix - sorry no - sounds like cat or pet food, eg webbox e-lix

Minerva - reminds me of conception unfortunately.

Viola is nice. I like Octavia even though it’s also a car (it’s a nice one) and Nerissa is unusual.

Yes, I’ve always vaguely wondered what HBC and the various directors were doing with the character of Bellatrix Lestrange. In the novels she’s an aristocratic Death Eater with a personal obsession with Voldemort, pretty much a brunette Unity Mitford with an added capacity for magical cruelty. In the films, she’s turned into a weirdly Cockney psychopath with an uncontrollable spiral perm and a preference for leather corsets, who sounds completely unlike any of the rest of her RP-speaking family.

Fucking awful.

Minerva is just as HP as Bellatrix. Especially if you've read the books.

Minerva and Viola are both nice. The thing is, when naming a baby, one is actually naming an adult. Bellatrix is gimmicky for a baby and a burden for an adult.

It’s a great name but Bellatrix Lestrange is a pos, also I know too many Bella’s.

Just use Beatrice.

Minerva sounds like contraception

This was the name of a pole dance school I used to attend...

Beatrix is better

A bit storybook sounding for me. Still miles better than the ridiculous Bellatrix

I agree that Bellatrix is too Harry Potter but also you have the meaning wrong. The "trix" suffix means "she who brings" (it's actually the feminine of tractor!) and Beatrix means "She who brings blessing" so Bellatrix would be "She who brings beauty"

Similar kinds of old fashioned names might be
Matilda
Ephiginia (known as Effie)
Wilhelmina
Winifred
Carlotta
Lavinia

Ephiginia is quite a difficult name for an adult to have. I can understand not wanting a name in the top 20 (say) but that is so different, it is unkind to the child.

And anyway, it's Iphegenia, Iffy for short

How about:
Miranda
Cressida
Cordelia
Rowena

Minerva would be Minnie within 5 minutes of starting school, from there it's only a question of time before someone calls her Mouse

I didn't know about Harry Potter link but name sounds too much like dominatrix