Briar-Rebecca as name

[Smallceramicfrog]

Thoughts on the name Briar-Rebecca, I have an incredibly boring name and am surrounded by siblings with unique names they love!
I think briar is beautiful and Rebecca is nice and classic if preferred could be used.
interested in others thoughts.
thanks

Sounds very contrived.

Too much of a mouthful as a hyphenated name. And the Rs don't sound right as pps have said.

Both nice names on their own though!

I would pick a different middle name though eg

Briar Elizabeth
Briar Caroline
Briar Kate
Briar Penelope

Why do you want to name your child after a thorn?

Gently ... No, please don't call your child this.

Yes, I would.

Er.... FYI to all you snobby posters I have a hyphenated name, it is not looked down on, I was born in the early 90s.
Anyway this is a ridiculous name OP, seriously? What is this craze with people trying to out do each other with the "out there" "cool mum" names 🥱

I don't get why you'd call your child thorny?

But if you're set on that:

First and middle name, fine. Not as a convoluted double barrelled name though

. It just sounds like you've tried to think of something more original than Briar Rose and it's clunky.

Bryony or Bronwyn are nice

Briar on its own is fine. I know one who is around 10.

Briar-Rebecca is like having Ocean-Jennifer, River-Elizabeth. Doesn’t go.

I really dislike hyphenated names as a general rule but most at least sound right together, Sarah-Jane, Lily-May and so on.

Bloody awful.

Although I suppose if she decides later on in life that she wants to be a boy it will be an easy transition to being called Brian.

I just spat out my tea. For the live of god don't saddle your child with that.

Just have an extra middle name and drop the hyphen.

Double barrelled is a pain in the arse.

Ridiculous.

Briar Rebecca is much better!

Sorry not been. Together awful. Individually Briar is a bit too much like Brian. Rebecca is harmless but kind of dull and a bit Amish like.

I like it. Reminds me of Briar Rose which was Sleeping Beauty's name when she was being raised by the fairies 🧚‍♀️ Sweet and as you say she can pick to be known as just Briar or Rebecca if she so wishes as she grows up. I would skip the hyphen only because a hyphenated name can be a pain when filling out online forms. I'm not sure why someone above has said it's cringey to name a child after sleeping beauty- there's plenty Aurora's out there now. Plenty other princess names too- Belle, Jasmine etc so my advice would be choose a name you and your husband love OP and don't pay too much mind to the opinions of mumsnet

Briar- Rose if you want double barrelled

Straight out of a fairy tale

Your choice? Sorry. No

agree with this^

Nope. Will get called Brian or Becky.

Doesn't flow well. And too much of a mouthful.

Reminds me of Br'er Rabbit.

The individual names are good but the adjoining R's don't flow well. Bryony Rebecca flows better. Or Rebecca Briar (although Briar could be taken for a surname that way round).

I think Briar Rose was Sleeping Beauty's pseudonym when she was hiding in the forest. The two R/s still blur together but it's easier to manage with Rose being so short. I always think it's a thorny sounding name though. Isn't Briar another word for bramble?

How about hedge? Bush? Shrub?

Dreadful.

Makes me think of Brer Rabbit. I would have assumed Briar was a boys name so find it odd to have it hyphenated with Rebecca.