I really like this name! It’s short and chic, equally elegant and cute, it works well on a child and ages very well, unique but not unfamiliar— it’s a lovely choice :) I think it’s awfully rude and antiquated to dismiss it as a ‘stripper name’, no offense to any other commenter or anyone who dislikes this name.
This was on my (future) baby name list when I was like 15. It’s not really my style anymore but I think it would be cool to meet someone named Velvet. I also just think it looks cool, the double V’s is unusual in a name. Veve/VV is an obvious nickname. And I also think it would make a really standout middle name.
― Anonymous User 7/20/2023
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Jenny Pettersson, professionally known as Velvet, is a Swedish dance-pop singer. She has released two albums since her 2005 debut in the music industry and her first eight singles have all achieved a top-twenty peak on the Swedish Singles Chart.
Velvet McIntyre is an Irish-Canadian retired professional wrestler. After beginning her career in 1980, she wrestled in American independent promotions before joining the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE). She had rivalries with both The Fabulous Moolah and Sherri Martel and held the WWF Women's Championship and WWF Women's Tag Team Championship. After the WWF's women's division went on hiatus in the 1990s, McIntyre wrestled in several Canadian promotions, holding several championships.
Velvet d'Amour is an American plus-size model and fashion photographer, best known via the worldwide media coverage she received after her appearance in Jean-Paul Gaultier's 2007 Spring/Summer prêt-à-porter collection shown in Paris in October 2006. Standing at five-foot-eight and weighing three hundred pounds, she also made a catwalk appearance in John Galliano's prêt-à-porter showing entitled "Everybody is Beautiful" in 2006, and in the associated French Vogue article featuring photography by Nick Knight.
I find Velvet super cute! Both as a first and middle name.
― Anonymous User 2/23/2021
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I really like it as a name for fictional characters in a fantasy setting. It could even be nice for a pet. But for a regular person, I'm not as keen.
― Anonymous User 7/15/2020
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Not suitable for a non-sleazy woman. It is an okay name for a dog, though- a family member had a little mixed breed named Velvet, and it was a fine name for her.
― Anonymous User 9/10/2018
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Velvet was a fashion doll manufactured by the Ideal Toy Corporation in the 70s.
I love it for a human; sounds to me unique and attractive rather than tacky and stripperish. The only downside is that it can make me think of a certain... body-part word... but not usually! ^u^