I like the name Honey but not sure whether it's a bit brave?

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Any thoughts?
My mum actually suggested it and I do think it's a really pretty name and like my mum said, how could your little girl not be a little cutie with a name like Honey?
But I'm quite boring and not sure if it's a bit unusual, I've never heard of anyone else called Honey, apart from the girl in the film!

Gail Porter's daughter is called Honey I think.

Honestly, I don't like it at all, it's unusual for a reason IMO.

bit tricky with the character who has just recently left Eastenders being called Honey.

I have a friend whose daughter's second name is Honey, that's not so bad...

I have a friend who's dd has it for a second name and it really suits her and goes well with her first name.

Hasn't Jonathan Ross got a Honey? I'd use it as a middle name if you loveit. It fails the Grown-Up Job test, I think

Because it's so unusual, I immediatley think of where I've heard it before. So I jump to a character in Eastenders, a character in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (was that the film you're talking about?) - both characters I don't like and which would INITIALLY put me off choosing the name.

Oh, and a Blue Peter Dog?

But they're only immediate connections. I know an older girl called Scarlet before it became popular and thought was unusual at first, and I only knew of Scarlet O'Hara at the time! But names just fit people after you've got to know them well and they wouldn't suit anything else. Honey will be a lovely name!

chav
famous
chav and famous
expect daugghter to be chav or famous
or you are a gay man

jonathan ross has a honey kinney I think
gail porter and jamie oliver both have one too

I don't mind it but wouldn't personally use it as all my girls were bruisers and couldn't carry off something like Lily, Grace, Honey iyswim?

Yeah I had thought it isn't a very good grown-up name.
There's a film called Honey, it's a teeny dance film that my teenage sister subjected me to! She's a nice character and very pretty so makes u like the name more.
I forgot about Honey in Eastenders.
My sister is 15 and called Grace, it was just before every second baby girl was named Grace so it was quite unusual at the time. I immediately thought 'that's a horrible name, it's an old woman's name' but it's now such a popular name and I think it's beautiful.
Strange how we make judgements about names because of what we associate them to rather than what they actually mean or sound like.

custardo u make me laugh! Yeah now that u mention it maybe it is a bit chavy!
I thought that boy's names are more difficult but it's been quite straight forward, the one and only boys name I like is Charlie and luckily my bf loves it too.
Yeah there will be associations with drugs but I expect that and I'll just tell ppl to shut up.

well, I know a very cute and lovely little girl called Honey....and whilst not a name I would chose, I kinda like it and think it's cute....no weirder than Poppy, Holly, Jade,Saphire, Daisy,Ruby,etc....just less commonly used....

I also read a book a few years ago, where the main-character had a little girl called Honey, her reasoning was that no-one could raise thei voice or say honey in an ungry way (not sure how logic that is, lol)...the character was meant to be rather middleclass, so, not chav at all...if that helps!

Porn star. And a pretty low-rent one at that.

Yeah good point about the fact that you can't say it angrily.
My mum is a total anti-chav and if she likes it then it can't be too chavy.
I mean it's not like I'm thinking about naming her Charonnay/Diamond/Chanelle etc!

agree porn star.

Honey is a nice pet name, which you can call your daughter if you feel like it when she is small. I don't think it is a proper name however. And what if she is a feisty sort of person? Honey then wouldn't suit at all. I don't think it is fair to give a child such a loaded name. Think it's luvvy rather than chavvy though (although the two are quite compatible).

My friend works with a Honey in a big BIG firm(stock broker)in London. She's a very grown up Honey and lovely, posh, beautiful and friendly.

I am a normal, 'boring'(if you want to use a term like that)type of mummy, but my Dd has the same type of name which could be thought of as a bit hippy, but is very pretty and everyone loves it. I say go for it and it's no way chavvy!

I had a cat called Honey when I was in my teens. Not a name I would inflict on a child

I had my baby in 2004, and if it was a girl i wanted to call her Honey. The film 'Honey' came out while I was pg and I couldn't believe it!!

I had a boy anyway, but think I would still have called her honey if she was a girl, and would still think about it for any future name. Not because of any chav or celeb connotation, but because I thought of it (not knowing any celbs had named prev) , and I loved it.

you call your child exactly what you want to, we spend too much time worrying what other people think.

And if she has a sister, you can call her Sugar.
Poor thing, give her a proper name!

It's not you that has to be brave - it's your dd!

dh sometimes calls the children Honey, or even worse hun He did try and call me that too, but I put my foot down! I think honey is the equivalent of sweetiepie really.

I know someone in their 70's called Honey. Actually he given name is Hanna but known to all as Honey. You could always do it that was round.

Jamie Oliver's daughter's second name is Honey not her first.

I like Honey but agrre it wouldn't suit a grown woman tbh.

Oh Honey is not a name i would chose........ i had a lurcher cross labrador called it