Ambrose ? What do you think?

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I really like it, but the rice pudding connection is making me unsure.... was it your first association? Does it matter?

Also like that it has an Irish connection without being OTT for an English child. WDYT?

ermm - my first thought when I saw the thread title was rice pudding (and that's before I read your OP where you'd mentioned it).

Same as FAQ, I thought of Ambrosia before opening the thread.

It is a nice name though.

makes me think of rice pudding too

Please don't saddle your DC with such a name

Hmm ok, the rice pudding association is strong!

I'm not sure if i care lol, it's not the worst association and imo it's quite a fab name. Will have to think a bit more about....

I thought rice pudding before I opened the thread

creamed rice - yum

I think it is the name of a farm or a cow.

Sorry- rice pudding here too.

yuk awful name. I am Irish, not sure what Irish connection there might be but this to me is a name for a fat red-faced great uncle wearing a brown and beige cardigan.

it comes from Greek mythology doesn't - food of the Gods or some such thing.

Yes FAQ that is more what i'm thinking off.

Do you think the rice pudding thing ruins the name though, i'm starting to think it might not matter if it's a nice name?? Not sure?

Would bother me if it's a cow's name though (or a fat uncle's name lol).

I think the rice pudding thing ruins the name, as most peoples first thoughts will be "rice pudding" - they may think of the Greeky mythology connection afterwards, but by then they're alread thinking "rice pudding"

rice pudding to me too sorry

is it a boy name or for a girl?

It is a very feminine name but too rice puddingy for me.

I love it.

A Mumsnet founder has it as a middle.

Showing my retentive side!

i think it is a lovely name

Rice pudding connotations

sorry

no
sounds sissy and poncy

or thicko country yokel

What about Curtly instead, and use Ambrose for a middle name?

I do think of an old farmer in scruffy clothes smoking a piece of straw if that helps at all.................

not a lovely snuggly clean newborn baby.....

......or a teenager smoking behind the bike sheds!!............

.........or a cool graphic designer........

........but deffo a grandpa............

I think it is a great name.

It reminds me of "My Cousin Rachel", not rice pudding.

Devon knows how the make it so creamy...

Sorry, first connection having read title only.

But they don't even advertise that stuff anymore do they? So by the time said child is in school it might not be such good bullying material.

I love the name too - so did my mother, to such an extent that when she had 3 DDs and no DS, she got a black labrador and called him Ambrose instead.

It doesn't remind me of rice pudding but then I have never had rice pudding from a tin.

The first connection in my mind is the policeman in Ballykissangel.

I love it!Considered it for ds2.I also knew a girl called Ambrosine
Reminds me of the man from the book My Cousin Rachel.
If you like it go for it.Remember everyone has different views!