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Is Porcelina (Poor-suh-leen-uh) too weird for a girl's middle name?

I'm afraid I just love it too much and I'm not able to see how weird it could be...

Edit: I'm not really asking for if you like it or not, just if it's too out there for a girl's middle name.

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i'm sorry but i really don't like it.

Looks like porcelain which makes me think of a toilet and/or bathroom. Not in a horrible way exactly, but I don't know that I'd want that association with my name or my kid's name.

Me too. Porcelina --> porcelain --> toilet. Sorry.

ditto.

Thirded

...quadrupled? Haha, basically - I agree.

I associate it with the song "Porcelina of the Vast Ocean" so no toilets for me. :)

I've never heard of that.

It's by the Smashing Pumpkins, you should listen it, it's a great song :)

I was just going to reference that song ;]

That's exactly what I thought.

Yes, it's too much. It's very frilly sounding, like a name a five-year old would give to a doll. Also, I'm not a fan of anything resembling pork as part of a name, besides the obvious porcelain/toilet stuff.

Pork...? What?

Porcine.

Yeah, toilets, pigs, I don't think it's a good name regardless of what position it's in.

Porcine? Well, I learned a new word today!

But I still love it. :)

porcine = pig
equine = horse
bovine = cow
ovine = sheep

etc. etc.

OVINE!! so THAT's what it is for sheep! is it the same for goats??
I always always always asked that, and no one could answer me.

Oh man, I have no idea what it is for goats, I'll have to look it up sometime. I only know 'ovine' because it came up in a crossword puzzle once and stuck with me. It's very helpful for Scrabble.

yes. yes, it is.

I've always thought of middle names as the free for all of names, as in you choose names that maybe you like but wouldn't give as your child's first name. So in answer to your question: No, I don't think it's too out there for a middle name.

i agree with this comment

I'm generally of the mind set that it's okay to be a bit out there with middle names, but yeah, I think it is a bit too much. The toilet association would make it a giant embarassment thing if people were to find her middle name out.

I don't get it, more things are made from porcelain than just toilets. D:

It's stuff like "praying at tha altar of the Porcelain God" being something people say as a euphemism for puking in the toilet that make it a problem in my mind. :(

LIKE TEA SETS. :D

Between the aforementioned toilet and porcine references, I agree it's a bit much. Even if it weren't for those, though, it would still be quite a lot.

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lol Concrete-ah!

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my nephew was born in a toilet bowl, they nicknamed him "John". They were actually on Montel for that story.

hahahahahaha

hideous. just hideous.

Like I said, I wasn't really interested in opinions on the name itself. I love it and will continue to love it.

If i ever knew a girl who had that anywhere in her name, I probably would have called her porky.

makes me think of a toilet.

Makes me think "Poor Celina"

Just what I was thinking!

"Poor Selena! They killed her in Mexico!"

wtf the only connotation I got was tea sets. Does no-one use porcelain cups anymore? I didn't even think of toilets. At all.

I have, quite possibly, the most idiotic middle name in the world. And it never negatively impacted my life in any way, shape or form. No-one's ever even bothered to make fun of it.

So yeah... that's my two cents haha.

I guess it depends on what the first name is, whether it would be an ok middle name. I too thought of toilets and pork, though, before I even read everyone else. Although porcelain does first make me think of all these nice porcelain ornaments that my grandmother used to give me, it's not long before my mind wanders to "toilet"

I think if you're going to name your kid Porcelina, it's a first name. It just doesn't sit well with me as a middle name.

Yeah I think it's too much. It sounds REALLY pretentious and people would call her Porcy, which would be awful if she was chubby and got switched to Porky.

oh I'm sorry I didn't see that you specified for a middle name. I think it's fine for a middle name if you love it. I'm very big on middle names that mean something to the parents, so if you really love it, I say go for it in the middle slot!! I don't know why people are making a big deal out of it being a MIDDLE name.

holy crap NO. That's way too out there. She'd catch hell when her classmates discovered it (other people have beat me to the toilet reference and the pork jokes), and she'd spend her life refusing to tell anyone what her middle name is. Or she'd change it as soon as she could.

Tangent: I don't know how anybody could give their kid a name they know the kid will want to change later.

All kids get teased for something. My name is Erin and I got teased. And if it's not the name it's the color of your hair or skin or the way you walk. It's really unavoidable.

But I would never give a child a name that they would want to change, because any child I raised would be raised to be strong and have pride in herself and her name. She wouldn't change it because she would understand the meaning behind it, and love it.

It's not my style. How about Porcia?

Which, of course, I meant to be Portia!

Sorry!

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