Is Nova a good girls name?

[CosyCat123]

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

It reminds me of a model of car - think it was a Vauxhall that had this model name.

I have both boy and girl Novas in my school year at work. Both lovely kids so I have nice associations. My first 2 cars were Vauxhall novas. I fancied myself as a bit of a girl racer lol, but even so I don’t think of that and had never made the terrorist connection.

I think it will work well in America but not really in the UK

Don't love it - sounds like a brand name.

It is a particularly horrific, sustained and sexually sadistic attack. Please don't name your daughter that.

Vauxhall Nova to me, so it's a hard no even without the upsetting festival connotations these days.

I know 2 baby Nova’s and a 3 year old Nova. I wouldn’t consider it unconventional but I do think of it as quite a modern, trendy name in that it’s grown in popularity in recent years. Similar vibe to Luna, Aria, Aurora.

Sounds like a car

Therefore your name is not unique.

Unique means one of a kind.

I had a wonderful Nova in the eighties. Sadly it was stolen one day when I parked it in a car park by Havant train station..I lost lots of great cassettes including Crowded House and Prefab Sprout. If you want your daughter to be a great little runaround with perfectly smooth gears , probably no central locking, otherwise very economical, then a Nova is what you want.

I know a couple of Novas, aged under three.

One has a brother Ezra and sister Aria, and one has a sister Isla. I think the name Nova fits well with that sort of name - pleasant sounding, modern sounding (notwithstanding Ezra is an OT prophet) but easy to remember and pronounce/ spell, and not surnames.

I think k the number of people who would recall the name of the tragic music festival without googling is less than .01% and in fact I suspect some of the people who have mentioned it on this thread googled it.

It’s not that unique. We have 3 novas in 2 consecutive year groups in the school I work. 2 girls, one boy.

If you like astrological names I guess it is good, siblings can have a theme for that quite easily.

I know two Novas.

One's a stripper I worked with some years ago.

The other is a husky.

It suits them both fine.

That isn't what is generally meant on these threads by unique names though.

It's used as a synonym for highly unusual.

Me neither