New Post
Search
Help[Opinions] Burleigh?
I saw this name on a book called Great Goddesses, by an author named Burleigh Muten. I also heard it is a place in England. Web searched it and also came up with a Scottish castle called Burleigh. What do you think? Would you use it. I don't know if I would but it is growing on me.
Archived Thread - replies disabled
1
Replies
Burleigh would be a horrible name for a child because of the "burly" association... what if they wound up being heavy?
Shannon
Shannon
1
Like "burly"?
From M-W.Com:
1 : strongly and heavily built : HUSKY
2 : heartily direct and frank : BLUFF, FORTHRIGHT
How emabarrassing would that be? Burleigh also makes me think of the burlesque, which isn't a better association! I'd suggest something else instead, but I can't think of anything.
Array
"What are these parents thinking?...Let's name her Madison--she'll live in her own world: 16 square miles surrounded by reality." -- Susan Lampert Smith
From M-W.Com:
1 : strongly and heavily built : HUSKY
2 : heartily direct and frank : BLUFF, FORTHRIGHT
How emabarrassing would that be? Burleigh also makes me think of the burlesque, which isn't a better association! I'd suggest something else instead, but I can't think of anything.
Array
1
I also thought of "burly". I wouldn't use names like Burleigh and Manley. They seem too much like adjectives rather than names. They would be easy to tease (especially if a man named Burleigh was very thin and not strong by any means).
1
Worse yet...
They would be easy to tease (especially if a man named Burleigh was very thin and not strong by any means).
I have the feeling that the discussion is Burleigh for a girl, rather than a boy. :/
Array
"What are these parents thinking?...Let's name her Madison--she'll live in her own world: 16 square miles surrounded by reality." -- Susan Lampert Smith
They would be easy to tease (especially if a man named Burleigh was very thin and not strong by any means).
I have the feeling that the discussion is Burleigh for a girl, rather than a boy. :/
Array
1
Sounds too much like the word Burly to me and it is also yet another sound with Leigh tagged on just lately I have noticed just how popular this name ending is
This message was edited 6/18/2005, 3:56 PM
1
Burleigh = burly
*****
Proud adopter of 7 !s and 7 ?s
(See profile for names)
*Future stepmom to Nolan Dain*
*****
Proud adopter of 7 !s and 7 ?s
(See profile for names)
*Future stepmom to Nolan Dain*
1
I know someone with the surname of Burleigh, but as a first name? It just reminds me of the adjective burly, so no...just no. :)
1
Um...sure, if you are hoping for a big, burly, son or daughter I guess!
1
Oh no! Burly as in the "big, burly bearded man" but just kre8tivlee spelled?? Awful!! :(
1
Funny thing, I can see it as a name, but I can't see it said...in English perhaps....or without an accent of some sort.....Yeah, weird.
~~The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all~~
~~The brave may not live forever, but the cautious don't live at all~~
1
I don't like it. It sounds like the word burly, which I think would make an awful name. Sorry.
“"I can resist everything except temptation."
-Oscar Wilde
Hannah
“"I can resist everything except temptation."
-Oscar Wilde
Hannah
1
I find the "bur" thing very ugly, and the whole name boyish & surnamey... sorry...
~~ Claire ~~
My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July
~~ Claire ~~
My ! are Alia, Eidel, Enola, Israel, Dudel, Yuri, Lina, Lorelei, Leilani, Owen, Julian, Glorinda, Mirinda
My ? are Hillel, Meshullam, Johnny, Ginny, Cordelia, Fiammetta, Yocheved
My ~ are Tehila, Tilda, Hailey, Gillian, Huldah
My / are Aglaia and July
1
Ditto
1