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Valentine, pronounced the English way, for a girl. WDYT?
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I like it as a middle name for a boy. It's not really my thing on a girl.
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I think it makes a sweet middle name but I don't like it as a first name.
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No, too Valentines Day-ish. I like Valentina.
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Love :)
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I don't much like it as a first name. It's just not my style.
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Aw.
I have to say this is among my guiltiest of pleasures. I love it for a boy but I'm also drawn to it for sentimental reasons for a girl. My favorite aunt was born on Valentine's Day so she was christened Joan Valentine. And now my niece, Clare Siobhan (Siobhan = Joan) has taken Valentine as her confirmation name.
I try to assuage my gender-bending with the idea that Valentine is also a French girl's name, but with the "-een" sound at the end. And now you've taken that fig leaf away. See, if I say I like it then I've got literally years of comments about not taking traditional males names away from parents of little girls. Shshshshshs! Is there any way I can keep my hypocracy on this quiet? No?
Well. Yes. I like Valentine (with the English pronunciation) for a girl. There. Are you happy?
:-P
I have to say this is among my guiltiest of pleasures. I love it for a boy but I'm also drawn to it for sentimental reasons for a girl. My favorite aunt was born on Valentine's Day so she was christened Joan Valentine. And now my niece, Clare Siobhan (Siobhan = Joan) has taken Valentine as her confirmation name.
I try to assuage my gender-bending with the idea that Valentine is also a French girl's name, but with the "-een" sound at the end. And now you've taken that fig leaf away. See, if I say I like it then I've got literally years of comments about not taking traditional males names away from parents of little girls. Shshshshshs! Is there any way I can keep my hypocracy on this quiet? No?
Well. Yes. I like Valentine (with the English pronunciation) for a girl. There. Are you happy?
:-P
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Well, I think it's butch sounding and is traditionally masculine, and I like it as a guy name. On a girl it seems sort of saucy or precious or cheesy, because of St Valentine's Day. I think because it's traditionally male, a girl called Valentine sounds like she oughta be someone's sweetheart - but a guy called Valentine just has an unusual name, that unfortunately happens to be associated with a corny occasion. I'd rather be valenTEEN or Valentina as a girl.
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Hmm to be honest I think a guy would be pretty unhappy with a name like Valentine. I know a male Valentin and he hates it. Valentine is also a really popular French girls name so it doesn't only have a history as a boys name, even though it's pronounced differently in France. For some reason I really like the -ine pronunciation for a girl. But I also prefer EM-eh-line for Emmeline etc I don't mind Valentina but the idea of Tina bothers me.
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I mostly agree that most guys would not enthuse about being named Valentine, so it's a GP for me. But I think it actually would be fine IRL as long as he was called Val. Like Val Kilmer.
Valentine-rhyme-fine for a girl should be okay, and I think a lot of people would really like it. Personally to me, it's just a little too guilt-inducing to be a pleasure, because of my Valentine's Day association being "girly." I sort of feel like the name wouldn't work on a girl except for stuff like "be my valentine" ... it'd be more like Carmine on a girl, if there were no Valentine's Day.
Valentine-rhyme-fine for a girl should be okay, and I think a lot of people would really like it. Personally to me, it's just a little too guilt-inducing to be a pleasure, because of my Valentine's Day association being "girly." I sort of feel like the name wouldn't work on a girl except for stuff like "be my valentine" ... it'd be more like Carmine on a girl, if there were no Valentine's Day.
This message was edited 5/7/2012, 10:58 PM
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