Scirocco...

[ChynaDoll2006]

Hi everyone I'm new here!

Just wanted to see what you thought of Scirocco for a girl? I am aware it is a VW, but the name came first! Apparently it is Italian for warm breeze.

Personally I love it, but that doesn't mean it doesn't sound ridiculous!

TIA!

God no!

erm,

No. Its a car that rusted very badly in the 80s and was discontinued. The new version they just brought out looks bland.

If it's car names you like, what about Marina?

Isn't it a wind?? Anyway, no.

I knew someone who called her DDs Sequoia (a redwood tree) and errr Tsunami. Yes really.

Scirocco is not quite as bad but I think it does bring the car to mind.

It makes me think of the car. But also brings to mind names like Rocco and Roxy, neither of which I like. So no.

I have fond memories of our old Scirocco. So why not.

Great name. Don't underestimate the public benefit of making someone laugh. Would lift my day no end

A Scirocco is not a warm breeze - it is a horrible howling hot gale. Often containing stinging red dust. Very nasty indeed. And hard to spell and pronounce.

Oh, and Italin words ending in -o are masculine.

The boy's name Scirocco \s(i)-roc-
co, scir(o)-
cco, also used as girl's name Scirocco, is of Italian and Arabic origin, and its meaning is "warm wind". The word was originally a description of the wind that blew over Italy from the Libyan deserts.

NO!!!!! and how are you pronouncing it?

a double cc in Italian is a 'ch' sound in English so Scirocco (I think) is actually SCIROTCHO

Noooooooooooo

It's a nice word but please, not a name for a child. She will hate it.

No - am wrong - it is a hard 'c' so Sci-rocko

Still NO NO NO!!!!!

schee rocco is quite a hard sound i think.

also, it sounds like a boy's name.... well, no it doesn't. but i'd guess that a human Scirocco were a boy.

What about Mistral!? or Scimitar!? Princess Anne used to drive a Scimitar (apparently.... comes up in pub quizzes occasionally )

hth

Astra is pretty!!

what about Clio? I love that.

Come on you nay-sayers, it will bring pleasure to so many people in a way that a bog standard name just won't do

(ps I nearly called dd Clio)

Honestly? It's awful. Sorry.

It's pronounced Schi-rocco. But it's not a name for a child under any circumstances.

heehee! This website is cool for pronounciations!

Scirocco

LOVE that site, collision! Something good's come out of this thread. Now all we have to do is to persuade the OP not to name her child after a particularly unpleasant meterological phenomenon and our work here will be done!

Take all the chav bad aspects of Rocco for a non-Italian male, and multiply them to the power of 10.

Okay then, what about Socorro, means 'help' and its a Roman Catholic name. I'm not Catholic or Spanish but oh well.