Ermengarde nn [name]Minnie[/name] - am I the only person who likes this name? I’m not having a girl, but this is one of the names which has been at the top of my girls’ list for a while now. I like both the anglicised pronounciation of Er-men-gard, and the Germanic Er-men-gard-uh.
I know it is a little clunky and such, but it sounds lovely with my (admittedly quite posh) British accent, and is very unusual. I find it similar to the [name]German[/name] language, actually, which is often mocked (at least over here) - yes, it is clunky and harsh, but it goes about it in an undeniably … well, cool way.
And such a satisfying sound, don’t you think?
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i love it, but i also like griselda… so my opinion may not count for much. 
Okay, twinkle. I’m really trying to hear this with your posh British accent and not my south Georgian accent. Normally, I don’t like names that start with the ur sound. There, it is probably pretty. Here, not really.
There are names I might like that I wouldn’t use on a baby. Ermengarde seems quite ridiculous in a way. Here is a name, a short name like [name]Ann[/name]. [name]How[/name] can we make this name spectacular? [name]How[/name] can we embellish and adorn some wee person with a name so gigantic in size and sound… I hear laughing, howling, in my head right now. This wins the contest for biggest name until someone counters with a much larger name. Some of the Hawaiian names I saw today were about 65 letters long but not as large as Ermengarde. I can’t knock a naming tradition or a language I know nothing about, so I censor my impressions about the [name]Hawaii[/name] way, I might say it the wrong way.
I’m not that well into history, I do know that I have a general aversion to names that seem more comfortable at a [name]Ren[/name] Faire than a law office. I don’t know why it’s always a law office. It’s the most serious and least whimsical of professions? I definitely am not a fan of [name]Hermione[/name], and believe that name never would have been well-liked without the promotion of one certain girl in a series of books I never read along with movies I never saw. [name]Herm[/name]-Erm. Not a [name]Herm[/name]-Erm fan. I had a friend on the internet who always said Hrm in chat/IM. Instead of hmm. It’s maybe good he couldn’t see how I cringed.
I don’t know if that’s a bad-ass princess name or a block of cement. Germany is cool. I’ve never been there, but I like some of the language structure that I’ve heard. Schadenfreude might be my favorite. That’d make a nice name if everyone didn’t know what it meant. I think I might get some [name]German[/name] language discs at the library and try to pick it up. Still not sure if I would do this to a child. What’s the biggest name, [name]Max[/name], [name]Magnus[/name]? [name]Hi[/name], I’m the biggest. Why not Ermengarde. To tell you the truth, I don’t like the name [name]Elizabeth[/name] either. It’s not as unusual or weighty as Ermengarde, but I see a parallel - [name]Long[/name] Name, must be someone important. Ermengarde has the same number of syllables as [name]Emily[/name]. It spits on poor [name]Emily[/name]. I think, ultimately, too much name for most people, lest they get an enormous ego, and what if she gets crushed by it herself? Should I worry about these things? It is someone else’s kid. I do like a lot of names that might be similarly impractical for a real person. [name]Evangeline[/name] seems a bit more name than anyone needs, I had thought [name]Seraphina[/name] might just be way outrageous. I would never have imagined those names would be regular enough to the ear, like we expected them all along. Ermengarde may have her day yet.
Ermengarde, and my stream of consciousness thereof ^
Same with my south Oklahoma accent, haha! It is a beautiful name written down, and said with the right tongue, I am sure it is just as stunning 
This name does’t appeal to me at all. However, the only thing that matters is how you feel about it. If you love it, go for it!
It reminds me of the meme Er-MEH-[name_u]GERD[/name_u], so unfortunately I have a strange connotation with it. But it is lovely!
@emagesbyemily I thought the same thing! I actually laughed out loud when I saw it, because I first read it as Er-meh-gerd. So, I gotta say no to the name, sorry.