Violeta

[groundhoglet]

I hope this is the final thread after my other posts because it would be great to resolve this given that I'm a few days from due date. What do you think of Violeta as a sister for Nina? We live in Spain (which is why Violeta rather than Violet) and considered and discarded these ones, which were the only ones we even halfway agreed on:

Valentina (rhymes with Nina)
Josephine (dated here to the point of making a child stick out and not in a good way)
Rosa (DH sister's name)
Sylvie (I like it but he doesn't)

I do love Violeta my only concern is floweriness (ha) or pretentiousness. But at this point I'm not sure what else we do because Sofía, Lucía etc. are extremely popular here and I'm not really that into them, although they are objectively beautiful.

Oh dear!!! Sorry, I had no idea- hence I asked how it worked in Spanish! 😬

I don't like Violeta, sorry, can't get over the first half meaning "rape" in my language.

If you like Josephine but find it dated, how about Séraphine or Celestine ?

I love Violeta!

Others ..
Diantha
Scarlett

Violeta is beautiful!
I have also always loved the name Josephine, such a lovely sound, I don't think it'd stick out too much at all, I'd says it's in the same camp as Violeta, Sylvie and Rosa to be honest.

For me calling someone Viola would be like calling them clarinet, piano or well violin. It's just a musical instrument to me! Very odd name to my ears :)

It's a name that appears in Shakespeare. And is pronounced differently to the instrument.

Instrument, sort of vee OH la,
Name, more VI ola.

Ah I see, thanks. I'm not clued up on all Shakespearean characters! People pronounced the musical instrument both ways when I was in orchestras, though to be fair normally veeola.

I think it's really nice.

Too similar to the bin company in my town.

I love Violeta. There’s a really good book by Isabel Allende with it as the titular main character (Allende is Chilean)

Although Rosa would go lovely with Nina; it’s a pity that one is off the table. Is Sara (with a long a) a possibility?

That is an excellent point,@groundhoglet. We had a Spanish colleague raise that 'violation' didn't translate well into Spanish.

I quite like it, prefer Viola though

… or Vivia?

Lovely!

Very pretty