Need boy and girl Cornish names - suggestions and opinions please!

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Expecting dc2 in September, already have DS with cornish name beginning with J. We want to continue with the Cornish thing if possible but haven't been struck by anything as yet. Any thoughts?

How about Piran for a boy?

As for a girl, I'd second the votes for Demelza or Morwenna (I was at school with girls who had those names and all of them were lovely). Have you thought of Veryan or Bethany? I know they're both places but they're both pretty names too. As for Loveday, it could open you up to bullying. I remember sniggering with my friends aged 7 when we were told that a girl called Loveday would be joining our Brownie pack and we certainly teased her a bit about her name even though we were, essentially, a nice bunch of girls.

Close friend has a Piran so not really an option, but thank you for your suggestions and opinions all

Murtette - agree with you about Loveday, I think it would be a bit of a brave choice, and I don't know that I would ever really get used to it.

Have asked DS what he thinks the new baby should be called...

1st choice - Bonjour

2nd choice - Mr Slooby

I think Jago is a cornish boys name.

It is and one of the best IMO!

I know a lovely Treeve

Thanks for all the replies...

We seem to have gone full circle and decided we like Senara again now, although that may change in the next few weeks. But currently we will be having a Senara Kate if it's a girl.

So boys names are where we are coming unstuck. Like Treeve, but it's DPs cousin and his friend and I don't think it's a goer for him, but might sidle it onto the shortlist

Trevelyan is fabulous but a bit grand I think.

I wanted to use Columb, but my dh said it sounded like an architectural feature. (And then we had a girl.)

It does a bit, but then I suppose it would have been shortened for everyday use.

Did you use a cornish girl name?

James Cracknell - the Olympic rower and general BBC Adventurer type - has a son called Croyde after the beach....

Someone I know daughters has just called her new baby boy Jago supposed to be cornish for Jacob/Jake. The DD is called Tamar after the bridge think that is lovely.

mowbraygirl - it's actually Corniah for James! i do like Tamar, but not Tamara which I fear it may be mistaken for.

Isn't Croyde in devon?

I just came on here to say I have always liked the name Jago, but someone has beaten me to it.

Corniah? What was I on there?! I'm glad everyone approves of Jago - I need a boys name that works with that

Yes Croyde is north Devon.

mowbray i hope your friend named her DD Tamar after the river not the bridge over it.

Digby? Goes with Jago I think. Rex?

Morwenna is pretty.
Tamer is a biblical name-out of fashion for at least 100 yrs-you could make it Cornish by spelling it Tamar.
Jennifer is Cornish. It is the Cornish form of Guinevere. If you look at the 1881 census, you won't find a single Jennifer born outside Cornwall.

Bronnen is nice

I love Morwenna, Caradon, Tamara (a nymph from whom the River Tamar got its name) and Lamorna - all after Cornish places or from the Cornish language.
Good luck with your soon-to-be new arrival!

Lamorna would be v amusing as it's part of our address (not the village).

You could have Lorna.

What gorgeous names. Am a bit annoyed I couldn't get away with those for mine - doesn't work if you don't have Cornish roots I fear. Do you think I can claim it as MIL lives there?

Why not, tenuous connection could work! You could use a place name in a Brooklyn Beckham style nod to place of conception (even if it's made up