Message: "Ambrosia" - Behind the Name

Ambrosia

by queenv

4/7/2018, 8:27 PM

What think you of Ambrosia for a girl?

#Ambrosia

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- erb816

4/9/2018, 9:49 PM

I'm sorry, I can only think of the salad.

- Caprice

4/9/2018, 4:15 AM

I like the sound of it, but Ambrosia is a kind of cake in Sweden, so it might sound strange. And now I've read that there are other kinds of food called Ambrosia as well.
OTOH, I've started to like Ambrose recently.

- noel (glaucous)

4/8/2018, 9:12 PM

I think it's gorgeous but about as usable as Godiva.

- Wordsmith

4/8/2018, 9:32 AM

I adore Ambrose and love Ambrosine, but Ambrosia is too closely tied to the nectar of the gods for me; that is, it sounds more like nectar than a name.

- number1212

4/8/2018, 9:06 AM

I like it but I seriously wouldn’t use it.

- Tisiphone +3

4/8/2018, 7:54 AM

Creamed rice! Custard! I honestly don't think it's usable this side of the pond

- queenv +2

4/8/2018, 8:16 AM

I have never seen that canned rice pudding and I almost said that it isn't available in the USA, but then realized that I don't know that for sure. It's surely not popular here. Anyway, the orange and marshmallow salad makes it just as unusable here as the rice pudding does in the UK, in my opinion. The lead singer of the now disbanded group Shivaree is named Ambrosia Parsley, and I was just listening to their one hit "Goodnight Moon", which is what put me in mind of the name. I halfway like it, but I do think that food associations ruin it.

- RDNZL +1

4/8/2018, 9:07 AM

When I worked at the Safeway deli, years ago, we sold ambrosia salad. It was popular, too, especially with older ladies. They loved it.

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- queenv

4/8/2018, 9:18 AM

LOL, that makes me think of the fact that I wanted to serve pimiento cheese sandwiches at Ashley's baby shower, and had to be tipped off by my daughter that only old ladies like pimiento cheese.

- Jagoda (-doe)

4/8/2018, 7:17 AM

It makes me think of custard and other tinned dairy goods, which I don’t think is a bad thing but it’s enough to put me off ever using the name, even if I really loved it. It would be great to see it on someone else, though, and I think it’s an infinitely superior, uncommon alternative to Amber.

- Barbra (barbierose)

4/8/2018, 7:12 AM

I like this - and see many easily discernable nicknames - Amy, Rose, Rosia - just to name a few....

- Pie

4/8/2018, 3:51 AM

If I saw it in a list of names here, I'd probably expect the owner of the name to have a Caribbean origin or background, because it's similar to names I've come across on older women originally from Jamaica, Antigua etc.

But the first thing I'd think of would be this:

- Anneza

4/8/2018, 2:54 AM

Over-ambitious. Food of paradise ... really? And considering the stark unpopularity of Ambrose, it seems unlikely to take off.

Plus, I'm not fond of coconut.

- Martha (CarolineCarolina) +1

4/8/2018, 1:23 AM

When I saw the name in this post I grimaced. It's truly awful. Really, it's almost worse than Brianna.

Also makes me think of Ambrosia salad, insert dry heave here.

- queenv

4/8/2018, 5:34 AM

Ambrosia salad was the first dish I ever made, in Home Ec class in the seventh grade. The teacher decided we were going to make it. I don't think I've had it since then, lol.

- Yorkshire Rose (Charley M)

4/8/2018, 12:57 AM

I can only think of custard and rice pudding.

- Ninor (Frozten)

4/8/2018, 12:36 AM

It makes my morning sickness even worse.

- Cayden (theparkite)

4/7/2018, 10:00 PM

It seems a bit "over the top" to me. A bit too frilly.

- Rachel Shaina (Evil)

4/7/2018, 9:37 PM

I wasn't familiar with the food until I heard about it on the internet so I kind of like it, though I like Ambrose for a boy better.

There was someone I used to follow on tumblr with a daughter named Ambrosia Faye.

- Olwen (Likeyeahwhatev)

4/7/2018, 8:37 PM

It’s pretty, but it just makes me think of that marshmallow fruit salad.

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