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I kind of like it but I also think it is an over the top hippie name. I'd expect a Rainbow to have a sibling named Peace.
I much prefer Iris as a rainbow name. Rain I also like and it is less over the top but it doesn't conjure up images of rainbows.
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I much prefer Iris as a rainbow name. Rain I also like and it is less over the top but it doesn't conjure up images of rainbows.
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This message was edited 10/17/2017, 3:20 PM
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Sounds tacky.
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I work with a lady named Rainbow. Although it has beautiful imagery, it seems a bit ridiculous. Maybe as a middle name.
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It's ok. I went to school with a girl named Rainbow. She had a sister named Dallah
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I like it. I think it's cute, and, um, colorful.
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I think it's too much. I also associate it with the TV show 'Blackish' where one of the characters are named Rainbow, nickname Bow.
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It sounds like some stoned-out-of-their-minds hippies chose it at Woodstock, or a hyped-up-on-Juicy-Juice four-year-old girl chose it for her new sibling because her dimwitted parents told her she could choose any name she wanted (they also told her she could drink as much Juicy Juice as she wanted) and she picked Rainbow.
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As my grandson would say, "What a bunch of hippie-dippie baloney!"
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I used to have a guilty pleasure crush on it. But it’s just too cutesy for me. I can’t imagine having a Rainbow. I think I just like the two elements separately, but not together.
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I think it's very pretty. Hippyish, but pretty.
However, nowadays increasingly a child born after the death of another child is konwn as a 'rainbow baby' and I think many people would assume that of a young child named Rainbow, so maybe better as a middle?
Or what about Iris instead - the rainbow goddess
However, nowadays increasingly a child born after the death of another child is konwn as a 'rainbow baby' and I think many people would assume that of a young child named Rainbow, so maybe better as a middle?
Or what about Iris instead - the rainbow goddess
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Agree with all this
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i love it, though it would lead to a lot of teasing unfortunately. :/ it'd be better as a middle name.
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I'm not sure if it would have a positive vibe for everybody, though. The term "rainbow baby" is often used when a healthy pregnancy and baby follows the death of a previous child. I don't think it's necessarily a reason not to use the name. Just that the term exists, so it might not make everybody smile.
My Mom wouldn't let me buy anything for Theda with purple butterflies on it, and they were really trendy for baby things this year. On the maternity ward where she works, if a baby has been stillborn they hang a purple butterfly on the door. That lets any uninformed staff not to walk in all smiling and chipper, asking how mom and baby are doing. So even cute purple butterflies aren't immune from making some people sad. My husband wanted calla lilies in our wedding, and we heard "that's a death flower" from so many.
I guess my long and rambling point is you can't please everybody. So use Rainbow, but know it's not 100% happy.
My Mom wouldn't let me buy anything for Theda with purple butterflies on it, and they were really trendy for baby things this year. On the maternity ward where she works, if a baby has been stillborn they hang a purple butterfly on the door. That lets any uninformed staff not to walk in all smiling and chipper, asking how mom and baby are doing. So even cute purple butterflies aren't immune from making some people sad. My husband wanted calla lilies in our wedding, and we heard "that's a death flower" from so many.
I guess my long and rambling point is you can't please everybody. So use Rainbow, but know it's not 100% happy.
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Hi !!!
Oh..I didn't know this.
Here in Italy there is not anything as a word to describe a stillborn child (well I'm not an expert but I think it is a tabù still nowadays here)...
I read in this website 'angel baby' for them but I had no idea that 'a baby born after a stillborn child' would have a specific word...
So strange...and sad of course.
Oh..I didn't know this.
Here in Italy there is not anything as a word to describe a stillborn child (well I'm not an expert but I think it is a tabù still nowadays here)...
I read in this website 'angel baby' for them but I had no idea that 'a baby born after a stillborn child' would have a specific word...
So strange...and sad of course.
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I think it's kind of silly. I love Rain, though.
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