Phoebe..?

[DramaInPyjamas]

Not pregnant with baby number 3 yet, but planning to soon!
Talking baby names with Husband last night.. The name Phoebe came up.. I LOVE this name but he vetoed it straight away (he vetos all the names I like to be honest!)

His reason? That all the Phoebes he knows are 'weird'. I asked what Phoebes he actually knows, because I wasn't aware of any that we had met in real life.

He says -
Phoebe Buffay from TV show Friends
Phoebe Gottileb from TV show Neighbours (character from yeeearrs ago!)
Phoebe Cates (?)

Fair enough the Phoebes from the shows 'Friends' and 'Neighbours' were a bit kooky, but personally I think that's a good thing!

To me it's a beautiful name.. Is he right to stereotype against all Phoebes?

I had almost the exact same conversation with my DP. I love Phoebe and he thinks it's for weird girls.

I LOVE it, and if it wasn't that it doesn't go well with our surname, it would be a definite contender for DD4.

Keep mentioning it...! the ones I know in real life are very normal !

I love the name Phoebe, I know a little girl called Phoebe, she's the same age as my dd2, and she's lovely.

I love this name. My mum talked me out of using it because she hated it and I'm still a bit cross about that. I ended up using a name I liked less, but my Mum liked it more. ARGH

But he doesn´t know them does he
The first two aren´t real people and the third, I´m guessing he doesn´t know.

I think it´s a lovely name.
Also like Hebe.

My dd is called Phoebe Elizabeth - lovely name!

Means "bright" in the Greek - has a certain classical stature to it for when they are grown up, while also being suitable for a little baby as quite "cute".

Everyone says "oh, I really like that!" when I tell them her name.

It's also not so rare as to be ridiculous/pretentious, but not so common that every baby in your DD's class is called it.

Also quite feminine without being ridiculously girly. A Phoebe could be a little princess but she could also be a tomboy in jeans and t shirt.

Also, if you are in any way at all christian, St Phoebe the Deaconess was entrusted by St Paul with the very important task of taking the his Epistle to the Romans to Rome; one of the few women in the Bible who did something important other than bearing children.

Go for it!

LOVE it!

I love it, would have been very high on the list if DS1 or DS2 had been a girl.

Really lovely! x

Thanks for posting everyone!

That was my exactly my point! How can he say it is a weird name on the basis of two fictional characters!

As I mentioned in my OP, am not pregnant with baby3 (yet!) so I have a bit of time to try and get him to warm to it.

Oh, and don't get me started on the other names he vetoed because of his mad stereotyping theories! x

Use it! I have a Phoebe so I'm biased but she has really grown into her name and it suits her perfectly.. My mum hated it and still does but I don't care :-) I chose it because my favourite Shakespearean character is the stroppy shepherdess in As You Like It and she's called Phoebe (but without the 'o')

Yes. don't know any Phoebes.

Utterly biased as dd1 is Phoebe She was named after JD Salingers "The Catcher in the Rye" that dd1 read as a 14 year old and stated that if he ever had a little girl he wanted to call her Phoebe as Phoebe was just the coolest sister in the world (You cant argue with that he got his Phoebe)

I love the name and she is now 12 and I still love it. I have since I had her been in contact with 5 other Phoebes all lovely girls not a single one that I think ohh horrid child about. My only irk is how popular it became because of Friends but I still think it is a lovely lovely name

yes means bright in Greek or according to a relative of mine whom researches stuff like that its full meaning is "the moon whom outshines the sun"

It's a nice name! I don't think the characters make it unusuable or weird. I think it seems quite classic actually and just about the right level of unusual - you won't have one in every class but everyone has heard of it.

Yes.. And it would age well too, wouldn't it?

cute for a baby - beautiful for a little girl - perfect for young woman - respectable for an old woman.

Some baby names I have heard recently are just going to be ridiculous as the child gets older and older.

The more I think about the name Phoebe, the more I love it.!

not weird at all!

It's a classic, a lovely name. It also predates all the tv shows your DH mentioned by several thousand years.