Is Portia too weird a name for my baby girl? Sanity check...

[Apteryx]

Hi,
I am thinking of naming our impending daughter Portia. I've always loved the name, but I have some reservations about it being too "out there", or her being hassled with tedious comments about it being like the car - Porsche.
What do Mumsnetters think?

alwayus liked Gonerill

doesn't sound healthy though, does it?

I do actually know a Regan.

portia sounds like you are trying too hard to be different

ooh i like regan, wasn't that the girl's name in the exorcist?

Rather like it.

I know a portia.
And there is Portia De Rossi (not her real name)....

Regan is a not very nice Shakespearian character.

Lovely name - go for it. Also love Welshmum's suggestion re 'the qaulity of mercy' speech at the christening/naming do. Having said that, I must go back and check the actual content of the speech but from what I remember it would be lovely. :)

Has anyone said Perdita? I knew someone who had a Perdita.

I thought it was sad.

i know nothing of shakespear, got thrown off o level english lit (i'll have to google), which book? im intrigued

She is in King Lear. She betrays her dad, so not a great role model really.

oh dear she isn't is she? educated by mumsnet again!

that was Regan. Portia was in The Merchant of Venice.

ragan and goneril bitches

regan

my mum told me i was either - who i am , Desdemona (yikes) or Ophelia - i think i was lucky

have you got a Shakespearian name?

as long as your surname isn't 'Balls'

yes!

which play??

Portia is ok, actually it's growing on me. Stick with it

the tempest!!

begins with M?

or are you Juno... or Ariel?

In future, i wouldn't even discuss name idea's with people because throughout my pregnancy i have been put off so many names by highly opinionated people. If you like a name, go with it but there will always be somebody who isn't keen. I'm sure they wouldn't voice their opinions so tactlessly if you had already named your baby! I think Portia is beautiful and classy.