Christabel

[Leannabanana]

What do we think of this? it has been cropping up on a few threads lately....i think i like it....

reminds me of that fabulous book by AS Byatt. With the dead poets. Was it Possession?

It's a good'un.

Absolutely love it! (probably helped by having a wonderful friend called Christabel)

Gorgeous and I like the shortened Christie too.

Mmm, I think it's slightly too pretty-pretty but I love Christy or Chrissy as a nn. I'd go for Christina personally but Christabel definitely not offensive

I love it, I have a relative called it and she hates it, but only because at her posh school no-one was allowed to shorten it prior to that she was chris, christa, bell, bella etc and loved it. Now she is known by her middle name. Think I need to have just one more daughter...

'The night is chill, the cloud is gray:
'T is a month before the month of May,
And the Spring comes slowly up this way.
The lovely lady, Christabel,
Whom her father loves so well,
What makes her in the wood so late,
A furlong from the castle gate?
She had dreams all yesternight
Of her own betrothed knight;
And she in the midnight wood will pray
For the weal of her lover that's far away.

She stole along, she nothing spoke,
The sighs she heaved were soft and low,
And naught was green upon the oak,
But moss and rarest mistletoe:
She kneels beneath the huge oak tree,
And in silence prayeth she.'

Not Coleridge's best poem but a good name!

I have a two year old called Christabel - we call her Christa. I love it I think it really suits her. There was also Christabel Pankhurst and a famous spy called Christabel.

Hi

Im not sure about Christabel but all through my teenage years I swore if I had a dd I would call her Christy after a book I had read. V.Pretty i think

Love love it

It's a bit princessy, like Tinkerbell. I should imagine it might be quite embarrassing for an adult, particularly if she had a high powered job.

I like Christy, Chrissie, Christina etc though.

love it, plus it flies the flag for suffragettes, woo hoo!!

Christabel is such a beautiful name.

Very feminine but not at all weak or frilly. Very unusual but still sort of conservative. I really like it. Reminds me of the Pankhurts, so I just get a good feeling from the name. I'd expect her to be from a privileged family though! Have to be honest.

I prefer Christa to Christy. JMO

I like it. As an adult she could choose Chris, if she wanted.
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It reminds me of the Adrian Mole books, it's one of the names his mum suggests for his sister!

HOW do you remember that?! Are you in fact Sue Townsend?!?

A bit too girly for me, Christa much nicer and stronger imo.

I like it because of Christabel Pankhurst - it sounds really girlie, and then you think, ooh actually it's really rather cool to be named after a suffragette! I actually preferred Sylvia Pankhurst but probably wouldn't name a DD that whereas I might consider Christabel!

Ooh, not heard this since I was about 9! My mum used to fake letters from the tooth fairy and put them under my pillow, and sign them Christabel! So it has fairy connotations for me, but that's not a bad thing really I suppose.

I quite like it, it's unusual but not odd or old lady.

christabel bielenberg - is a good famous christabel