Names - Islie, Emmeline, Safia, Neveah and Hendrick.

[LouCritt]

Hey all!

I would like your opinions on the following names please ☺️
Girls - Islie, Emmeline, Safia and Neveah
Boys - Hendrick

Really struggling with boy names so feel free to bring any other ideas, any that go together for the girls also x

Emmeline is beautiful and Emmeline Pankhurst is an good role model. If you like the theme her daughters were:
Christabel
Estelle Sylvia
Adela

Her sons:
Henry Francis Robert (Frank)
Henry Francis (after his deceased older brother)

Boys

Cooper
Hudson
Parker
Miles
Tate
Grayson
Avery
Nico
Jude
Dorian
Ellis
Fredrick
Matteo
Nate
Conrad
Leighton

Girls

Saffy
Romilly
Reese
Morgan
Yasmine
Jasmine
Hattie
Kayla
Gia
Darcy
Dolly
Patsy

No to all.

I like Nya (I know one who is the loveliest person)
Hate Carmel.
I like Odette and NN Odie or Etty
I like Edmund and Edgar

That's a colour and everyone will call him cyanide

Carmel is unisex (place name, like Eden and Shiloh)

Brother to Magenta?

I have decided to remove that name lol, forget it. X

Removed that name now x

I like Safia but have never seen it spelled like that, only Safiya, Safiyah, and Safiah. But I don’t think that matters much, all those spellings are anglicisations of non-Anglo names.

Islie I don’t dislike but it’s definitely a new name .. Emmeline sounds good and has great connotations.

Neveah I actually like as a name-sound. But people will make a lot of assumptions about your intelligence and outlooks - probably unfair, but they will.

Hendrick is a good solid name, you could also consider Henrik: really good solid Swedish name

Carmel is very much a RC name honouring Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a name of Mary. It used to be very popular in Ireland, maybe up to about the 70s, so it would be considered borderline granny. I have never in my life met a male Carmel.

Are you thinking of Carmen?

There's also the Italian versions, Carmello and Carmella.

That is quite an obscure word to most English speakers. It may well be a very common insult in Yiddish, but it hasn't crossed over into English, so a child named Hendrix or Hendrick or Henrik, etc is hardly going to feel any adverse effect.

I'm sure there are quite a few common names in English that mean something like menstrual cup or poopoohead or dog food or fur ball in another language. It's not necessary to delve into that, though, or prioritise finding a name that has no other meaning in any of the worlds hundreds of languages.

If you called out Hendrick or even Hendrix I’d think you were calling for a gin rather than the music connotation ! Sorry 😔

I saw something once where an Asian (Japanese maybe?) Person explained that the sound EE means shit in their language. (It might be a different sound, I can't remember clearly) and went ont o give examples of names that sound like something else. Like Emily = dogshit or something 😆 literally nobody in england would bat an eye at that name though. I also know Thai girls called Porn and War!

Edmund is the best of your boys names by a country mile. It it does go well with Johan.

I like Emmeline too. I am sorry that I don’t like your other girls choices. What about:
Nia instead of Nyah

Sasha
Sarah (a classic like the other two)
Susannah which could be shortened to Sukey or Susie
Saskia

alternatives with Soraya which is very pretty but as others said, very much an Asian name.

Johan is just the German version of John. I’m not sure why you’d use a German name unless you have particular links to the country or it’s a family name.

Edmund John is a very solid sensible name and what I would go for.

My name is French (Eloise), and I am English born in the UK with no family from France. I like the name, regardless of where it’s from.

I like Nia, I have added Celeste to my list. Emmeline Celeste, what do you think to that?

I never knew Aramis was one of the Three Musketeers.

A childhood friend of mine is called Edmund but he always goes by Eddie or Ed now, maybe his mum calls him Edmund if she’s cross with him. I knew an Edgar too and he was equally Ed and Eddie but as his name seemed shorter than eg Edmund, he was often called Edgar.

Emmeline is really pretty!

Dislike the others though

Sophia is fine. I wouldn't spell it differently.

I know someone who has Zoe Magenta. It really suits her!