Have I just been thinking about names for too long...

[plantsitter]

Only I have started to really, really like Minerva? we went for a pre-baby luxury-fest in Bath and I think naming her after a goddess of wisdom would be really nice.

However is she going to hate me? Or will she turn out to be a spinster wearing pince-nez (which would be ok if she wanted). Minnie's pretty nice,isn't it?

[MrsBadger]

it is quite, um, [struggles] poncey

Minnie is sweet, Minerva is very dignified but on the whole I consider it of the ilk of Araminta and Antigone

actually they'd be fab names for sisters ('Minnie! Minty! Tiggy! Come on, it;'s tea time!'...)

[nailpolish]

it sounds like a contraceptive coil

[belgo]

I think it's a great name, as Mrsbadger says, very dignified. And Minnie is sweet.

[FAQtothefuture]

I wouldn't - but that's because we have a street in our town (well it's more like a mini-estate as it's HUGE) by that name and it's a shit hole with loads of crime and trouble and generaly has a bad "name" for itsel.

[MadameCastafiore]

Isn't that the make of a coil?

DHs gran was called Minnie and she was a fine upstanding woman far more modern and up to date than her years and she hated the name Minnie - she always said she wasn;t a mousy little lady and didn't want her name to portray that.

We just called her gran though.

Araminta is nice as Minty sounds good - although does mean a bit crap if you come from SE London or N Kent = 'That's a bit minty!'

[BlackEyedDogstar]

no, sounds like something you get from Holland and Barret.

Love Minnie though. (and Minty and Tiggy MrsB!)

[MadreInglese]

Isn't it a brand of mineral water?

[MrsMattie]

Definitely in the 'contraceptive pill' camp! Not nice, sorry.

[claireybrations]

My only problem with minnie is that round here everyone uses it to mean vagina-had never heard it til I moved here though!

[SobranieCocktail]

I think it's a gorgeous name.

[MissusLindt]

I think it is a contraceptive pill in Germany, or a coil.

Not keen for that reason, sorry.

[thumbwitch]

Oh I like it! Very classical.
Lol at MrsBadger..

[MissusLindt]

Oh, sorry, no it was Mirena that I was thinking of.

As you were...

[plantsitter]

Hmm mixed responses then. I can live with the coil reference but not too sure about the vagina thing.. where do you live clairey?!

Otherwise I shall plan to have 2 more kids (Minty and Tiggy), buy some horses and eat supper instead of dinner!

[thumbwitch]

Oh you must have a couple of boys too, dahling - Jonty and Septimus spring to mind as fittin rather nicely

[seeker]

For some bizarre reason all the children in my ds's year 3 class use Minnie for vagina. Don't know it it's a universal term - if so, probably not a good idea as a name!

[LuLuBai]

I quite like it. And I usually don't like names with the letter 'v' in (don't ask why, I don't know).

You could always try Miranda (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) or Marisa ('of the sea') or Maya (after early Mexican civilisation) for similar sounding names with an interesting background to them.

[plantsitter]

Yeah, usually I am of the 'I'm not letting a hypothetical set of 10 year old bullies make decisions for me' school but there are limits, right?

[Watoose]

It's alright - but she would get called Nervy I expect.

[plantsitter]

Ooh Miranda! I had forgotten about that one.

[seeker]

My niece is Miranda. Lovely name - if a pretty drippy Shakesperean character!

[Frasersmum123]

Minerva is Professor McGonagall's name in Harry Potter.

But its a no from me too im afraid