Topsy, Lutina, Lowena, Dulcie and Bridie

[Flum]

any thoughts - are they all a bit too unusual and daft???

sorry i think they are all awful - Bridie reminds me of old irish women (about 5 turned up at my nan's funeral...)

(nothing wrong with old Irish women I should add )

They are all fine for baby rabbits.

Topsy- Ok as a nick name, but unless you are a rock star, don't put it on the birth certificate.
Lutina- No
Lowena - No
Dulcie It's grown on me recently - bar far the best on your list.
Bridie - Mad old lady, I think.

Fine for any animal-just not for a human! Dulcie is a possible exception but I'm still not keen.

They all sound like names for ponies to me

topsy - what like topsy and tim?

Darcy is nicer than Dulcie imo, also like Mary

i know a little dulcie - think it's a nice unusual name for a little girl. not 100% sure about it for a grown woman though?

don't like the other names - think topsy is awful (despite loving topsy and tim books as a child!)

clara also v nice and perhaps less little girl-y?

Topsy makes me think topsy-turvey. Imagine a girl a bit like Bubbles from Ab-Fab.
Love Clara and Claudia.

lol at anna888, pure daft.

I love Dulcie. That's a great name. Stop right there, cos it's the best on your list by a hundred sea miles.

Lutina sounds like a hormone. Not that I'm an endocrinologist far from it! But either a hormone or an illness. I won't be in today, I've got Lutina, I'm signed off for a fortnight.

I'm Irish, so Bridie is a bit too holy rosary. It's a real Bernadette sort of name. The sort of woman who'd tell your mum she saw you smoking at the bustop in 1985, and then light a candle for you and pray for your soul. Hate it hate it hate it hate it hate it.

Lowena, made up. Lorena ok but too linked to John Wayne Bobbit penis-removing incident, Rowena, ok not great. Have known a couple so it's very rare but not unheard of, which is a good thing, but I wouldn't think of it as a pretty name.

Topsy is a rabbit. Don't be silly. REALLY.

Dulcie is a lovely name, best one on your list for a human.

Great comments, am chuckling out loud - might even get the labour going. Praps then when hormones have settled we can make a sensible decision - or if a boy NO decision.

Chicken keepers love it....

The slave connotation of Topsy had certainly not escaped me but noone else has ever commented on it so I assumed it was only a connotation in my mind.... so interesting you linked that in. I think that is where the name came from in the first place.

I dont know any people called Topsy, only cats, so thats a no for me

Luntina - no, dont like it

Lowena, again dont like it

But, Bridie is growing on me apart from people could write it down as Birdie.

From your other list though do quite like Clara.

I really like Bridie and Dulcie, but would probably go with Lucy, as that's the DH name that seems nearest to the sort you prefer. Lucy Fallon or Lucy Jane are nice.

My daughter's called Topsy as a nickname for Tabitha. So I seem to have picked two cats names in one!

I love Bridie and Dulcie but have a slight antipathy to giving nicknames as given names. I'd probably go for Bridget with the nickname Bridie. Lowena sounds a bit made up and Lutina makes me think of luteinising hormone which puts me off a bit.

Somehow Lowenna seems much better to me, assuming Lowena rhymes with Rowena, and Lowenna with Morwenna (now there's another nice name).

I would go with your DH's choices. Yours do seem to be more for pets than children!

I prefer Birdie. Golfing term I believe. Birdie and Bogey. Fabulous, add those to your list

[Please pick Dulcie}

Your sur name is Fallon!? Well holy God lordy blessus, do not pick Bridie. With Fallon that is total overload. There are cool Irish names (clodagh, Maeve) and there Bridey/Josephine/Bernadette type names. You can't afford to get it wrong with a sur name like Fallon.

I think Fallon is a possible first name from what Flum has posted. Makes me think of Dynasty (and not in a good way!)

Gloria?? Now, come on - you're having a joke right?

Of the original list I only like Bridie.

I had a black doll in the 50s called Topsy who was gorgeous but it's a pet's name as everyone else said.

how about Portia, with Topsy as a nickname?

Sorry, don't want to put you off totally but I don't like any of them. At all.
Topsy - cute but surely a nickname
Lutina - sounds like something biological to do with periods/pregnancy or something (lutenising hormone?)
Lowena - people would probably mis-hear you and think you couldn't pronounce or spell Rowena properly
Dulcie - the best of the bunch I reckon
Bridie - where I live (in Scotland) this is a sort of pie, a bit like a pasty (comes with onions or plain) - not recommended.

Sorry, but you did ask.
Although Dulcie could be a 'grower'.

And I used to know a midwife (60ish, Irish, bonkers) called Bridie come to think of it.
She was a crazy lady.