Antigone?

[Toastwithtea]

For a half Greek, half English baby girl? Living in the UK, outer London, if relevant!

But everyone who meets someone for the first time has to say their name?

I had to look up how to pronounce it so on that basis it's a definite no.

I have an unusual spelling for my first name and I bloody hate it, I've given up correcting people on how to spell my name, even though the name itself is not that usual

Beautiful! Tig or Tiggy as a pet name.

As has been said, many people will pronounce it Anti-gonn. (With the emphasis on GONN.) I wouldn't use this name. It's like Persephone. Most people will read it out as Percy-fone..

@Heidi2018 that doesn't really apply when it's just random people that either do not know how to spell the name or cannot say it. I'm not talking about people she knows or is getting to know. It becomes annoying pretty quick when you have to tell/correct the vast majority of people,

Insufferably middle class.

And it would be shortened to Anti.

Or Gonnie.

Just no.

Sorry.

I like it, but she’ll probably be known as tiggy or tigger. I actually like tigger as a nickname though.

This.

If we English can cope with Hermione and Penelope we can certainly cope with Antigone. People will only need to hear the pronunciation once to get it right.
It's lovely.

I think it's beautiful, go for it.

Though I am now reminded of Woolly and Tig, which my eldest watched on repeat as a toddler.

I love this name so much! I used to have a patient called Anouk and thought that was beautiful as well

Love it. The adult Antigone I know uses Ann at work.

Although as a whole it's a nice enough name, and I know how to pronounce it, when I read it my eyes are drawn to see the "anti", which is negative. This puts me off.
I also couldn't imagine calling it out across a playground.

Antigohknee

Insufferably middle class.

Sometimes I really hate this site 😅

I used to work with a Greek lady called Antigone - she went by Andi as a nickname.

There are a multitude of occasions when the first time someone meets you, they are reading your name.
It's not rude to not know how to pronounce a name you've never come across before. If you are the person calling the next patient into the consulting room, you won't have had the chance to learn it. You call the name, and the person gets up and goes into the room.

Like many others on this thread, I read it as 'Anti - gone'.

I love it but I have deep fondness for Greece and a lot of Greek names. My favourite is Efthalia but DH vetoed it (and we had a boy anyway!)

Clearly I'm rather thick and uneducated but I didn't even regonise it as a name and read it as anti-gone.
Which isn't a pretty name at all😂
An-ti-guh-nee sounds much prettier but wouldnt count in everyone knowing how to pronounce it or spell it so
I think it may be hard work.
Also not sure naming a baby after a character in a play who is sentenced to death by being sealed in a cave and then hangs herself is the best origin/meaning of a name!
But I have learnt something today 😊

I really don’t think it is “insufferably middle class” if the child’s parent is Greek though..?

And it would feel much more unusual to be shouting “Charlotte” or something across a playground!

ETA. I do take on board the pronunciation feedback though! I hadn’t realised it might be as widely misread, so that’s useful to know.

I don't think it's rude to not be able initially pronounce a name but a lot of people on this site seem to not want to learn how to pronounce names properly unless they are perfectly English! 🙄

I absolutely LOVE Antigone as a name and generally love lots of classical ancient Greek names, (although I watched the Play by Sophocles while at Sixth form, which was a bit heavy)! I still love it

Probably best to avoid Ria as a middle name then.

Ooh, cool! Didn't know about that. Merci.

In my wretched girls' school, me and my mates only managed to perform an English translation of Sophocles' Antigone in our sixth form drama festival. Am I now, retrospectively, officially insufferably middle class? My parents would have been so proud.

Antigone is very sweet.
I like the nick names of Annie, Ann and Tiggy.