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Help[Opinions] WDYT of Bellamy?
I was watching a show on Bravo and one of the kids had this name. I really like it, which surprised me as it's a little different than my normal name style. What do you think? Is it usable? I also love the nickname Bella, but Isabella is so popular now - could this be a replacement?
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I've seen it as a girl name, but in the Bellamie version and I think it's perfectly usable. I actually like Bellamy better, though I've also known it used very successfully for a dog. A pair of pooches named Bellamie and Bonamie would be good!
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Reminds me of Francis Bellamy
He wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance and developed the Bellamy salute (which was used when saying the pledge / saluting the flag before it was turned into the current right hand over the heart gesture).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
It's a masculine name to me... I could theoretically see it as a middle name for either gender, though. I can't see it as a replacement for Isabella nn Bella.
He wrote the original Pledge of Allegiance and developed the Bellamy salute (which was used when saying the pledge / saluting the flag before it was turned into the current right hand over the heart gesture).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bellamy
It's a masculine name to me... I could theoretically see it as a middle name for either gender, though. I can't see it as a replacement for Isabella nn Bella.
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A theoritical replacement name, is what I think of Bellamy. Or at least until that actually occurs.
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It's strictly a surname to me. It just reminds me of Ralph Bellamy.
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love it....
....for a boy. I am of the firm opinion that Bellamy is a French boy's name. On a girl it seems flaky, trendy, an shrill.
....for a boy. I am of the firm opinion that Bellamy is a French boy's name. On a girl it seems flaky, trendy, an shrill.
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Like Matthew Bellamy? That's the first thing that comes to mind (he's the lead singer of British rock band Muse). I see it mostly as a surname, but as a given name it sounds masculine. I you like the nickname Bella for a girl, there's also Annabella, Mirabella, Arabella, Rosabella, etc.
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I really like Annabella
Since Bellamy seemed to be an overall thumbs down...haha
Since Bellamy seemed to be an overall thumbs down...haha
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I've always seen Bellamy as a surname or a male given name. This is the name of my male budgie (parakeet) so I could never fully accept it on a girl. Bellamy has a cheeky, chatty personality and is a very good friend so he lives up to his name.
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It reminds me of comedian and television personality Bill Bellamy, for whom we can thank for making popular the phrase "booty call." Ugh.
I think it's ugly. It's one of those names that's too smooth for its own good like Ainsley or Carlisle. My mother described a kind of man that creeps her out: one in a conservative sort of profession that she imagines smells 'expensive' and has soft hands in an off-putting too-pampered kind of way. That's how those names sound to me, like they're used to getting their own way with an undercurrent of sleaziness.
I think it's ugly. It's one of those names that's too smooth for its own good like Ainsley or Carlisle. My mother described a kind of man that creeps her out: one in a conservative sort of profession that she imagines smells 'expensive' and has soft hands in an off-putting too-pampered kind of way. That's how those names sound to me, like they're used to getting their own way with an undercurrent of sleaziness.
This message was edited 6/20/2010, 10:34 AM
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For some reason Bellamy strikes me as masculine. I guess the Bella-part is feminine but I see it as bell-amy from the French bel ami, which is masculine.
I think it's usable but I would much rather see it for a boy. The spelling bothers me a bit. I don't know why but I would spell it differently.
I think it's usable but I would much rather see it for a boy. The spelling bothers me a bit. I don't know why but I would spell it differently.
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