What do you think to Christabel?

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What do you think of the name Christabel

sounds like the name of a train or a truck

i bet eddie stobard has a christabel truck

wern't the carriages on thomas called christabel - and they were mean

Thomas's carriages were Annie and Clarabel. I actually prefer Clarabel

Christabel is ok.

I think it's sweet. Isn't there a book: The Battle For Christabel? Hmm.. title sounds slightly ominous but I love the name.

clarabel - thats right - god that takes me back

i quite like clarabel actually

Christabel is lovely.

Those Pankhurst gals had stylish names (Adela, Sylvia and Christabel). Not to mention Emmaline, their mother.

I like Christabel as a name, despite reading a Very Old story (Girls Annual c. 1900) about a mean girl called that - she got her comeuppance and became nice, iirc.

It's a bit of a mouthful
Also ENglish writer who lived in Germany during WW2 Christabel Bielenberg (her life story got turned into a Dennis Potter tv drama starring La Hurley)

I adore this name, it's my fantasy girls name. I'll never be able to use it though. Well, no more babies for a start, and it sounds terrible with our surname. I would shorten it to Christa or Christie.

I've loved it ever since the Dennis Potter drama.

I love Christabel and Christiana and the nn Christy or Chrissy are gorgeous

I like it....very pretty and Christi is a lovely NN....i know a GORGEOUS Christi....

Pankhurst. I remember in the Adrian Mole books, it was on Adrian's mum's list for baby Rosie, alongside Germaine (for Greer)

It's quite a nice name, I like Christie for a nickname (or of course you could go with Belle/Bella).

Hate it, but seems I am in the minority!

it sounds like a cows name as in moo

It is also quite a scary poem by Coleridge with all sorts of repressed lesbian fantasy/shape-changing demon weirdness! I love it for that reason BTW, but DH would never have it.

No, not for me.

Great connection to Pankhurst but otherwise I dont like it that much and would personally spell it christabelle as it seems a little masc the other way.

Absolutely love it! Lots of NN possibiities too.

Too much like Tinkerbel for me. A bit twee and princessy.

I like Christa, Christina, Christine etc though.

i think sounds very chavvy, same as cuppatea prefere christina

It sounds just like a Spanish boys' name - spelt Cristobal I think. If I heard it I would assume you were Spanish and DC was a boy, sorry!

Too sweetly simpering for my taste even though I know about the Pankhurst connection.

I hate it! Sorry.

I quite like it.