India or Savannah - Pretentious or pretty?

[babyincubator]

I can't believe how tricky this name choosing malarkey is! What does everyone think about India or Savannah for a girl's name.
I was thinking about using Rose as a middle name so -
Savannah Rose

Or India Rose

?

Am having trouble keeping a straight face when reading some of the comments.... my 1stDD is called Scarlett India... she is neither red or concieved in India! we just loved both names, I was also a makeup artist & colour is important to me, I also love India - a beautiful place.
She is blonde with light olive skin and hazel eyes, beautiful to me ... it didn't cross my mind to think what she would look like and would her name go with her looks !

As an "exotic" person myself, I don't see racism nor any other offensive content in pointy and rindercella's posts. Spangles, you are way off the mark here.

I agree with them re exotic names looking strange on little blond blue-eyed girls. Laila/Leila, for example. A Muslim name meaning "dark night" that has bizarrely become popular among Christian, pale blond girls I don't think India sounds that strange on pale English girls. If parents have a particular love for the country, why not? Still, I doubt if there are so many people in the UK with a personal connection to India, so have to say the popularity of this name is just a fad.

India and Savannah will date, and Rose as a middle name is extremely overdone, having reached a glorious nadir with "Sunday Rose". And why anyone would wish "India-Rose" on their child is a complete mystery to me. (Sorry).

I think India is very 90's, I hate to say I don't like it because names are so hard to come up with, but since you're asking, sorry, I don't, like an earlier post said, there needs to be a connection with the country.

Savannah, it seems to be trying too hard, Suzanne is so much nicer although tried and tested, but maybe that's a good thing. Sorry.

Another thing about the name India is that I always think of that clip from some comedy where twins in pushchairs are introduced - 'India and Ireland'. I didn't watch the show but I thought that bit was funny.

Sorry.

Another downside (to go with the others on this thread) to one of those names is that if you drop one of the letters you end up with the name of an alcoholic drink which I was named after.

Way to go mum, you killed 2 birds with one stone there, Naming me after alcohol and a place. (and yet my younger brother has such a normal name)

And I don't think the child's appereance should have anything to do with the name you choose. India and Savannah will be the children you meet that are called that, not who you 'think' should be named that. Iygwim?

We have a Savannah Mae love it could imagine her being anything else plus she is the only Savannah in her class

I like them

I like Savannah but not India - it is too ‘Old colonel in the dying days of the Raj’ for me. Katie Hopkins called her daughter India, which says it all.

Not pretentious at all however everyone has their own opinion.
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India #2
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