Have I just been thinking about names for too long...

[plantsitter]

Only I have started to really, really like Minerva? we went for a pre-baby luxury-fest in Bath and I think naming her after a goddess of wisdom would be really nice.

However is she going to hate me? Or will she turn out to be a spinster wearing pince-nez (which would be ok if she wanted). Minnie's pretty nice,isn't it?

it is quite, um, [struggles] poncey

Minnie is sweet, Minerva is very dignified but on the whole I consider it of the ilk of Araminta and Antigone

actually they'd be fab names for sisters ('Minnie! Minty! Tiggy! Come on, it;'s tea time!'...)

it sounds like a contraceptive coil

I think it's a great name, as Mrsbadger says, very dignified. And Minnie is sweet.

I wouldn't - but that's because we have a street in our town (well it's more like a mini-estate as it's HUGE) by that name and it's a shit hole with loads of crime and trouble and generaly has a bad "name" for itsel.

Isn't that the make of a coil?

DHs gran was called Minnie and she was a fine upstanding woman far more modern and up to date than her years and she hated the name Minnie - she always said she wasn;t a mousy little lady and didn't want her name to portray that.

We just called her gran though.

Araminta is nice as Minty sounds good - although does mean a bit crap if you come from SE London or N Kent = 'That's a bit minty!'

no, sounds like something you get from Holland and Barret.

Love Minnie though. (and Minty and Tiggy MrsB!)

Isn't it a brand of mineral water?

Definitely in the 'contraceptive pill' camp! Not nice, sorry.

My only problem with minnie is that round here everyone uses it to mean vagina-had never heard it til I moved here though!

I think it's a gorgeous name.

I think it is a contraceptive pill in Germany, or a coil.

Not keen for that reason, sorry.

Oh I like it! Very classical.
Lol at MrsBadger..

Oh, sorry, no it was Mirena that I was thinking of.

As you were...

Hmm mixed responses then. I can live with the coil reference but not too sure about the vagina thing.. where do you live clairey?!

Otherwise I shall plan to have 2 more kids (Minty and Tiggy), buy some horses and eat supper instead of dinner!

Oh you must have a couple of boys too, dahling - Jonty and Septimus spring to mind as fittin rather nicely

For some bizarre reason all the children in my ds's year 3 class use Minnie for vagina. Don't know it it's a universal term - if so, probably not a good idea as a name!

I quite like it. And I usually don't like names with the letter 'v' in (don't ask why, I don't know).

You could always try Miranda (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) or Marisa ('of the sea') or Maya (after early Mexican civilisation) for similar sounding names with an interesting background to them.

Yeah, usually I am of the 'I'm not letting a hypothetical set of 10 year old bullies make decisions for me' school but there are limits, right?

It's alright - but she would get called Nervy I expect.

Ooh Miranda! I had forgotten about that one.

My niece is Miranda. Lovely name - if a pretty drippy Shakesperean character!

Minerva is Professor McGonagall's name in Harry Potter.

But its a no from me too im afraid