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Help[Opinions] Belle
I'm starting to like Belle, more as a middle name than a first name. but I can't say I've actually seen too many posts about it, if any at all.
so, thoughts? at the moment I don't have it paired with a first name, but I may soon enough.
so, thoughts? at the moment I don't have it paired with a first name, but I may soon enough.
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The only association I have is Beauty and the Beast. A great movie, but it's very definitive.
The name itself is pretty, but I just see it being butchered as Bell. It's only a 1-letter difference, yet I know Bell as a surname. If it's used as a middle name, it could work, but it would take time finding a good first name that doesn't sound overly "cutesy".
The name itself is pretty, but I just see it being butchered as Bell. It's only a 1-letter difference, yet I know Bell as a surname. If it's used as a middle name, it could work, but it would take time finding a good first name that doesn't sound overly "cutesy".
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It's rather nice, but since it's one syllable and French, runs the risk of sounding fillery as a middle name (one of two qualifications seem to apply to almost all fillers- Rose, Grace, Lynn, Renée, Marie...). I'm not sure, though.
Random, but Belle always makes me think of this: in the commedia group at school, we pulled the meeting scene from Shrew (the one with the ''plain Kate, bonny Kate, sometimes Kate the curst' monologue from Petruchio) for Isabella and the Capitano. Since she clearly can't be called Kate, we used Belle instead: '...for you are called plain Belle, and bonny Belle...' So I automatically want to suggest Bonnie Belle for a combination, but it's far too superfluous.
Some real suggestions:
Scholastique Belle
Cécile Belle
Christiane Belle
Virginia Belle / Virginie Belle
Eugénie Belle
Victoria Belle
Victorine Belle
Melisande Belle
No, that doesn't sound too fillerish at all to me, in fact. Any that you like?
Random, but Belle always makes me think of this: in the commedia group at school, we pulled the meeting scene from Shrew (the one with the ''plain Kate, bonny Kate, sometimes Kate the curst' monologue from Petruchio) for Isabella and the Capitano. Since she clearly can't be called Kate, we used Belle instead: '...for you are called plain Belle, and bonny Belle...' So I automatically want to suggest Bonnie Belle for a combination, but it's far too superfluous.
Some real suggestions:
Scholastique Belle
Cécile Belle
Christiane Belle
Virginia Belle / Virginie Belle
Eugénie Belle
Victoria Belle
Victorine Belle
Melisande Belle
No, that doesn't sound too fillerish at all to me, in fact. Any that you like?
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It is far to cutsey nicknamey for me.
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Not my taste
not so much! :-D
not so much! :-D
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I'm actually the opposite: I adore it as a fn, but it always seems so cutesy to me as a mn.
I'd suggest using a fn that doesn't end in a vowel (particularly As) since the vowels with make the combo extra sugary singsongy.
I'd suggest using a fn that doesn't end in a vowel (particularly As) since the vowels with make the combo extra sugary singsongy.
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It looks really pretty, I had it on my list once, but whenever you say it out loud all I can think of is either the girl from beauty and the beast (not such a bad association) or the big clanging thing they ring at the end of playtime at school.
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