Too "weird?!"

[HotCrossBunnyInTheOven]

Honest opinions on the following girls names please?!

Or any suggestions because I have had enough of looking and trying to find something I like. Really want something pretty/cute but not massively popular :/

Ettilie (Ettie)
Pixie
Rune
Wren
Nell (Nellie?)

I like unusual.

I knew a Pixie, who was officially a Patrixia (Italian heritage, just checked, maybe it was Patrizia). Either way, if you don't want to go full-on Pixie, a name that can be modified to fit it, but works easily as a more mainstream name if she can't carry it off/doesn't want to, could be an option.

Ettilie is new to me, but (in a USA context) I have come across Ettaline, Ettalena and similar as kind of compound names. I probably would avoid this one if your partner can't say t though!

Rune is a legit name in various Scandinavian languages, but it's traditionally male - Runa or Rúna would be the female form.

Pixie will always be to me the horrible woman Linda's ex-husband Tony married in Love In a Cold Climate.

Wren works fine as stand-alone; can be kind of unisex as it's sometimes used for boys/men as a shortening of Lawrence.

Nell seems the most "normal" to me - traditionally short for some form of Eleanor(e)/Elinor, but why not as a stand-alone? If you don't want the longer forms I'd probably use Nell and make it into Nellie as a pet name/diminutive.

I love the name Wren! I've worked in childcare and education for years and haven't met anyone with that name. It's a name that's perfect for a baby or an adult, I think.

Wren is awful.

Your names need to work for an adult, not be adorable and unique for a child. They will be an adult much longer than they are babies for. And adult pixie sounds ridiculous. Rune, not much better. Names need to be something an adult isn't going to be embarrassed to say in a professional environment

I only like Nell from your list, but I would use Eleanor and then shorten it to Nell.

WTF is Ettilie? Why not Etta if you like that sound? Don't just be inventing names.

I love a pretty but spunky girl name :)

Ettilie (Ettie) - my least favorite of the bunch, just isn't my style
Pixie - I think it would make a cool middle name
Rune - meh
Wren - I do like it this name but I actually really like Ren/Wren for a boy
Nell (Nellie?) - This one has really grown on me over the last few years! I've seen it as a stand alone name as well as a nickname for Noelle

Other ideas based on these:

Demi
Vallie
Belle
Cassia nn Cas, Sia
Bay
Roxie
Kyla
Dove
Thea nn Teddy

That's exactly who I thought of when I read rune🤣

Ettilie (Ettie) - I like Ettie, but not Ettilie
Pixie - no, conjures up an image of a fairy dressed in petals, with an empty acorn top for a hat. Very cute, but also very silly.
Rune - a stone, not a name
Wren - acceptable
Nell (Nellie) - I like it

@HotCrossBunnyInTheOven

what did you go for in the end? I like
Ettalie but people don’t seem keen on here!

Whichever name you choose (and I love Rune and Wren, like Nell and am not keen on the others) remember that you are naming a baby, but what you end up with is a fifty year old having to put up with people repeating their name, raising their eyebrows and saying 'really?'

What's cute on a tiny baby or toddler, doesn't always transfer, so I'd say choose a name that you can lengthen or shorten or has lots of possibilities for alternatives rather than the full name.

Oops, just seen that this is a very old thread! Ignore me, she's probably at school by now and perfectly happy with her name!

Zombie thread

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Oh no! How stupid of me, I normally always check now!

My children are both KS1 and between them they have all your names listed in their classes apart from Rune. I'd never met a Pixie before this one though. She's 6 and pretty badass. Not very fairy-like in stature but it still suits her.

Gah zombie threads!!

I'm 53 and two stone overweight, I can't imagine trying to navigate life as literally the least Pixie-ish person in the world.

😂Ah this phrasing brightened a grey Friday when I am struggling to settle to my work!

I agree Nell is lovely. I like it short for Helena.

ETA it was the masterful use of the verb "navigate" as if an extra two stone requires deploying reverse parking style assistance!

I like Nell as a diminutive of Elinor.

Wren is overused.
Pixie is not an adult's name.
Ottilie I've heard of but not your similar one. Very 1990s.

You are not picking a name for a sweet baby but for someone to use for the next 90 years.

I’ve never heard of Etillie.
Does it bother you that people will mishear it and presume Otillie?
I don’t like Nell. The image I get is a fat older woman with huge breasts. Very disgruntled at life.
Nowhere to go with it nickname wise either apart from Nellie. Then lord help her if she isn’t very thin and attractive as Nellie the Elephant could be her nickname.

Why don't you go for Effie if you like Ettie and your OH can't pronounce T very well?

Haha pregnancy does strange things to me. What on earth was I thinking with those names?! 😂

I chose Emmeline in the end, we only ever call her Emmie though.

She is now a 19 month old bundle of pure energy that never stops!

Emmeline is really lovely!

Excellent choice, Emmeline and Emmie are lovely 🥰

Thanks for the update. You chose well.