Antigone?

[bonnibaby]

Just come across this for a girl-just out of interest what do you think?
Pronounced An-tig-oh-nee.

Have you read it?

Read Sophocles and then come back to us. Ditto Regan and Cassandra. Also Hector.

Sorry, for Regan you of course have to read King Lear, and for Hector you need Homer. But you get the idea.

It's not a good story! She was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta and the name means "unbending" because she was very very rigid (ended up, as many Greek tragic charactors did, by killing herself. You have the pronounciation right btw.

Wasn't she the daughter of an incestuous relationship? Or something like that.

Do you love it?

It's one of those names that no one will know how to pronounce. Most people will say 'anti-gone', which sounds ugly.

She'd spend the rest of her life explaining to people that it wasn't pronounced Aunty Gone.

A trifle poncetastic doncha think?

Antonia is much nicer

Personally i like it. But then I love Phaedra (although not allowed it!)

Lysistrata ?

reminds me of antique mahogany.

Why do people want to call their children names that others would look and think how the hell do you say that, then proceed to pronounce it incorrectly but once they've got the hang of the pronunciation probably don't know how to spell it either. Bloody nightmare. I like Antonia though as someone else suggested.

It sounds like a poison.

Not a good name - the back story is just too grim and anyone who knows how to pronounce it will also know the story and be thinking 'oh dear'. Everybody else won't know how to say it and simply make your prospective daughter's life a misery by constantly stumbling over it!

MAS, I think Lysistrata is long overdue a comeback.

antigone?
clytemnestra?
electra?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Neuralgia?

Jocasta?

It's a great name. I would guard against the Tiggy shortening. That's awful. Ickle-Bickle-Tiggy-Wiggy-Woo etc.

People don't eschew the name Juliet though and she met a sad end.

listeria?

I know of a boy called Ochana - very odd imo

hi frogs!