What do you think of Venetia?

[LuciaRose]

I know a very lovely, elegant girl called Venetia, which makes me love this name, but objetively, what do you really think? What connotations does it have for you?

Honestly... blinds!

I knew a girl with this name when I was a kid. It was very unusual, and quite "posh" where we came from. The same could be said for my name, so I think that's why I liked it - a kindred spirit! (I did not like my name much when i was little - I wanted to be Emma or Claire)

Her mum used to call her Nee Nee.

I would say that now I find it a bit too "aristocratic" for my taste, so depends if you are an aristocrat or not as to whether you can pull it off !

Oh Yes, Fanjo - blinds !

Venetia is the heroine of one of my favourite Georgette Heyer books. I love it. Don't know what it would be shortened to, though.

icecream

I know one! Without the i though.

It reminds me of a girl I went to school with who was really pretty and popular [jealous emoticon]

It's one of my DD's favourite puds.

Lovely - if you can afford the school fees!

It sounds like a type of varicose vein to me - sorry

I prefer them to those weird hanging blinds with the strings on or even Austrian if I'm totally honest

In wood or what?
Have you considered shutters?

sounds very 'Next' - they love a bit of venetian glass don't they....mirrors, jewel boxes etc

i really do not like it - sorry

It makes me think of the ice cream dessert (desert?), Vienetta.
Sorry.

Blinds.

Venetia williams she was the trainer of the grand national horse that won this year. Pretty name

All the Venetia's I know of are chavs. Not good

It also struck me as a good answer to the 'what do you call a girl's bits' thread.

I know one and she is horrid.

I've always wondered what I would call a girls bits if I had a girl/when my son asks.... Is there really a thread?

There was one at my public school - with a double barrelled surname, and she looked like a horse; and then there is my mother's completely overbearing friend who is called that, (nn Vinny) and who is the world's biggest snob. So for me it's a no because of the people I know, but I actually think it's rather a pretty name.

I knew one at the junior school I work at, but she spelt it Venexia. It was actually her middle name, but she was always known by it. She was (and probably still is) a lovely girl, from a lovely family.

I know a Venetia and she is a very strange and unlikeable women, so that has probably coloured my view of the name.

Definitely blinds.

I know a Venetia who's 21, stunningly gorgeous, funny, rather posh, and goes by the nickname Vee.

I think it's a pretty name.