Baby name disagreement - is Portia good or horrible?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it on paper, don't love it when pronounced. But it's not horrible--it's Shakespearean!

This!! If you don't like it, don't mane your girl that though.

+2
I realize Portia came first, but if I heard it out loud, I would think of the car first. It's an aggressively ugly name, classic or not. Does he like the Shakesperean reference? Does he like cars a lot and found an acceptable one to use? Mercedes is better, in that case.

Ramona Quimby had a doll named Chevrolet.

[Anonymous]

My first thought was Shakespeare too.

[Anonymous]

I just picture Portia de Rossi.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like an Eastern bloc hardcore pornstar

[Anonymous]

Is the car company named after Portia? I never made that association before.

I do like Portia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DH likes the name Portia for our baby due in mid-September. I think it's a horrible name that sounds like a car. This is after he suddenly didn't like the girl's name I thought we has decided on, and we don't have much longer to actually pick a name.

For reasons of avoiding drama, we want to avoid asking our families for name feedback. So, what does DCUM think - good or not?

I don't like it- I think it sounds pretentious. Everyone has difference tastes though-- I like traditional English names or Irish/Scottish names.

[Anonymous]

Yuck

[Anonymous]

It's a nice name if you don't mind that its Latin meaning is pig.

But I agree with PPs that you each should have veto power over names you truly hate.

[Anonymous]

dont like.

[Anonymous]

What's the name you had agreed upon?

[Anonymous]

How about Mercedes?
It was also a common name (the love interest in the Count of Monte Cristo) that because a car brand.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a nice name if you don't mind that its Latin meaning is pig.

But I agree with PPs that you each should have veto power over names you truly hate.

That would be porcus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Mercedes?
It was also a common name (the love interest in the Count of Monte Cristo) that because a car brand.

^ became a car brand

[Anonymous]

Nope, sorry. Don't give up!

Pretty much any other Shakespearean name is better. I like Imogen, but that's another hate it or love it name. Beatrice?

[Anonymous]

I really like Portia! I don't see it as trashy at all, it's a classic name that's under used I think.

But if you don't like it, you don't like it. What was the other name?