Is Nova a good girls name?

[CosyCat123]

Friend is looking for new and unconventional girls names so I suggested Nova - what do people think?

I prefer Seren

I also love that show, it's my guilty pleasure. One mom has a Stella and a Nova, both names space/star themed

Stella is a name that I can only ever mentally envisage being screeeched!

I like it! Mumsnet notoriously have a hard time with any names that aren’t deadly dull.

i chose a slightly unusual name for my little girl. Non traditional name and I guarantee MN. Would hate it whereas in real life we have got so many compliments.

I’d go for it

I'm not keen personally but my friend has a Nova and it's a perfectly nice name and fits in with a lot of names of this generation. If I liked it I'd use it.

I know two. One is about 26 the other 7. There are others out there.
side note, I got slated when my eldest was born. people said “you can’t call a baby Elsie”. She’s 20. Now there are so many- little ones especially. Same happened to my mum who had a “daisy” 38 years ago. Again, it became a popular little girls name in time. It’s hard to predict if your name wont become mainstream.

I didn't make the connection until the next poster explained. I don't like it as a name though.

I think that is slightly different though because both Daisy and Elsie were out of fashion/old lady names for some time, but not unheard of, whereas Nova is not a name I have heard before.

To me it sounds like a brand name, and oddly enough in the news last night an article on UPFs mentioned a Nova food rating scale.

That said, it isn't a horrible sound and, given I am not a fan of "name neologism", I think it is not a bad name on the whole. I can see how it might sound fresh and appeal to people who are bored of traditional names which I am not.

It was actually the name of the baby’s great grandmother. I just looked it up and it was used in the Victorian times right up to the 1930s when it went out of fashion. Food for thought.

I’ve met quite a few over the last few years. I don’t like it personally but clearly lots do.

Oh that's really interesting. I've never heard it and it has a really modern sound to me!

Quite popular in america

I had to google this (I knew about the attack but didn’t know it was called nova music festival) everyone I know refers to it as October the 7th.
I worked in a school and there was a couple of Novas just sounds like a regular name to me.

Its sad to say most tragic incidents are forgotten after years (except big ones like 9/11) and I highly doubt her classmates would think of this

And mine.

A car. An attack at a music festival. One of the babies on Teen Mom. Probably niche but a dingy guesthouse in Jersey (formerly called Isis).

It’s a no from me.

I used to love my Vauxhall Nova! Most reliable car ever.

I went to school with a Nova back in the 80/90s. It was very unusual then and I've not met another since. I quite like it. Though, after my former schoolmate, my initial thought would be of a Vauxhall Nova (coincidentally also my first car).

Champagne Super Nova

Nova Peris. Amazing woman. Say yes.

That hardly makes it Emily or Charlotte.

Sounds like a small car.

I know a baby Nova, which has made the name grow on me, but I don't love it.A PP mentioned the fictional Archers twins and I'd say, Seren is a much nicer star related name. FWIW, didn't associate it with the Israeli music festival.

I know a nova she does suit it, but did originally think it was an odd choice of name.

i know a baby Nova big sis is Luna love both!

I'd say it is not a good name for a baby as the Nova is the name of the local leisure centre where I live.
Swimming lessons at the Nova.
The Nova has a new fitness class.