you will all be relieved to know that i am going to stick with bracken

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i love the name bracken wanted something as unusual as dd1s

probably go for bracken hope willow

My parents had a dog named Bracken, he was a lovely sheepdog, all was well until my brothers and his wife named their new twin daughters Fern-Rose and Meadow, it made for unusual times walking down the road, come here Fern-Rose, Meadow, Bracken.

Oh and Bracken was a boy. And the best dog anyone could wish for.

bracken is a rabbit on cbbc

bracken is horrible all spikey

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I like it tinki (not that it matters what anyone but you and your DH thinks).

Love Hope and Willow too...

ooh i like it

I think it's a lovely name, i say go for it and sod what anyone else thinks

glad to hear it.

Good for you

Agree with southeast that the image of bracken is spikey and prickly

Not keen personally I like "proper" names iyswim. Also wouldn't team it with Willow - too much nature going on in one name.

What about Aspen?

how is it not unusual?

I would go for Willow and have Bracken as a middle name. Willow is pretty (although not my cup of tea) whereas Bracken sounds harsh and a bit daft.

Have I got you mixed up?

Were you not going with Scarlett Sienna Hope?

Or have I got the wrong Tink?

I quite like it, but I am a nature-lovin' hippy. Agree though, bit spiky?
If I had had dds, they would have been Willow and Rowan.

I always think you should go for whatever name you like. I'm very traditional and would never put my choice of name on this section, to be ripped to shreds by the nest of vipers!! I'd get "how boring" etc

If you like it, go for it. If you're unsure, then do ask opinions

Bracken was the name of a little baby on a day time TV programme. I only saw it once whilst off work with a poorly child and the name stuck with me!
Can't actually remember anything else about the programme.

Love Willow though

Bracken is so predictably middle-class. Every family in their 3 bedroomed victorian semi on a tree-lined avenue has a Bracken and a Willow these days, being pushed along to babysignlanguage or Monday Music in a phil&teds. I'm so sick of children being called Bracken, why does nobody choose something a bit different, like Hazel, Polly or Dulcie for heaven's sake?

It was Doctor George's baby's name on Doctors (if that helps)

do you really think it's middle class Liffey?? I think if anything it's more chavvy (sorry!) There is really horrible, drunk woman on my street who insists on screaming BRACKEN at the top of her lungs.

Don't particularly like Willow but it's much softer and prettier sounding or even Hope is better!

Together they sound like you've tried too hard - and got it wrong. Sorry.

Hee hee, I was trying a bit of reverse psychology!

I agree, it's screamingly chav.

It really smacks of trying too hard.
Hope is the nicest of your three names the other two are a bit 'pole dancer'