Nigella - would you?

[Naetha]

Would anyone actually call their baby girl Nigella? Surely no other name says "oops we wanted a boy" more than Nigella.

lol Smallishsheep

I toyed with the idea of calling DD Briana. I think it is a pretty name. And my Dad would have been really chuffed.

Nigella is a lovely flower - Love in a Mist is the common name for it.

But yes, it is awful as a name.

Nigella

Ooooh thank you for that information and link, Ozziegirly!

I think there are some lovely French girl names that started as boys' names -- Noelle for instance, but there are others. And do the French use Laurence as a girls' name?

So many names have male/female version, I think this is just too narrowing if you are meant to allow for the most common one only.

Nigella is a great name, it's not blokish at all.

Our dd is named after dh and I love her name. It wasn't a case of ego, we just wished to pass it on as her grandparent shared the name too.

Yes, the French do use Laurence as both.

When I was at Uni we were told that we were having a new flatmate for a term; "Laurence, from France" and were excited about our Gaellic, sexy, galuoise smoking french exchange fellow....

And were sorely disappointed when a rather plain girl showed up.

I knew twins called Thomas and Thomasine (although she eventually changed it to Tamsin). I also know a female Laurence, but she's Belgian. I hate the name Nigella, though.

it's horrible

It's a bit jelly-like but I do tend to think of the flower which is lovely, it's definitely not the worst name out there.

Richenda?