What do you think of the name India?

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My dh and I have wildly differing opinions on how this name will be perceived by others. Could you tell me what you think of it?

Elizabeth DD was Chynna Skye,

Yummy Mummy
Sixties Hippy
Boho
Old Money
Toast wearer (posher than Boden!)
Did you go there on honeymoon? /live/work/holiday there? Ithis is why I woudl consider calling a dd Hope).

But I think you can carry it off if you are any of these things.

... and as long as your surname isn't a colour, otherwise she'll sound liek a paint chart!

Pretty, but pretentious and I associate it with the 80s, not the 60s

i love it.very pretty

What about Nova - that's a bit 60s but pretty...

I dislike it. Plus if you went there on honeymoon/around the time of conception you would have to avoid it like the plague or give the poor child awful problems when she realised why she had that name.

I feel I had a lucky escape from this name as my father wanted it for me

Not too keen tbh

Poncey, my cousin called her daughter India and she is very poncey.

I love it!

Never known anyone with it as a name but did teach a lovely little arab girl named Hind (short i), which means India in arabic.

I love it as a name but would never use it because of the stereotypes people have about it.

MargaretMountford -I'm afraid that if I met a child with the name Nova I would presume that they were conceived in the back seat of one

ah,see I'm quite old and I asociate it with the magazine of that name that my mum used to read when I was small !!

I love it but it is spoiled a bit for me by the association with India Knight - who is an overweight (sadly relevant if you go around writing diet books) and gobby journalist on the Times.

hmmmmm - it's a risky one. a very un-exotic looking child called India would never quite look right IMO

MM -I'm fairly old and it was my first ever car (I never conceived any children in the back of it though )

betty !!
India Knight - that isn't her real name, she just chose to call herself India

btw, I was going to be given a Persian name by my parents but thankfully they chose a simple classic English one instead,their thinking that I might turn out to be plain and also I am fair haired and blue eyed.

I went to school with an India. She was impossibly pretty with auburn ringlets, very posh and very nasty.

Round our way, the name India translates as 'my parents work in the media' (ditto for Verity). Whether that's good or bad is an open question.

It's a fabulous name and also my dd 7, yes she is beautiful with dark hair and eyes.

I choose the name because i loved it and so does all our family. not boring name imo.

lovely comments as usual.

i love it- for obv dresons as my dd is called india- well india-rose to be precise but she is always just called india.

Absolutely agree indamb -- it is a fabulous name! Our DD is called India Clarabelle and she is a little stunner! We have a very common surname, so wanted something a little different without being too out there.

9 out of 10 people say how much they love her name, what a pretty name, etc. It's just the odd prat person who says "oh was that where she was conceived", "is that your favourite take away", "are you naming the next one, China?".

oh and to add to the others my dd is utterly gorgeous too! and i only ever get good responses when people hear her name.