What are your thoughts on [name]Mauve[/name]? Maybe as a softer form of [name]Maude[/name], or an alternative to [name]Maeve[/name]?
I have the hardest time putting my finger on why [name]Mauve[/name] doesn’t work for me- because it is similar to [name]Maeve[/name] and [name]Maude[/name]. What I keep circling back to is that the color mauve feels very dated to me and makes me think only of the 80s/ early 90s, whereas other color names- [name]Rose[/name], [name]Ginger[/name], [name]Scarlett[/name], [name]Amber[/name], [name]Violet[/name]- either are tied to an object that shares a name with the color, or are a more timeless color.
It’s a color. A horrible, bland, boring color that most men cannot identify. I think you’ll get a lot of confusion and misspellings, with people thinking the name is supposed to be [name]Maeve[/name] or [name]Maude[/name]. Personally, I’m not a fan of it.
[name]Mauve[/name] is a dated color, but I maintain a pretty one! I just did a search of “mauve” on Etsy, and here are the results:
Gorgeous!
I like both [name]Maeve[/name] and [name]Maude[/name], but I don’t quite find [name]Mauve[/name] to be appealing. It could be interesting as a middle name, depending on what it’s paired with, but I don’t like it in the first name spot.
I see where you’re coming from, but I agree that I don’t like it as a name. I think it suffers from the fact that [name]Maude[/name] is kind of an old-lady name, and [name]Mauve[/name] to me is an old-lady color (I picture a mauve pantsuit on the [name]Golden[/name] Girls), so it’s a double whammy, and kind of hard to imagine it on a kid or a modern woman.
I love the color mauve, but not as a name. jellyfish is right, it’s a double old-lady whammy. I like both [name]Maude[/name] and [name]Maeve[/name], but [name]Mauve[/name] is sort of hard to swallow. Maybe in the middle spot!
- [name]Athena[/name]