Persephone?

I’m having a hard time on this name: [name]Persephone[/name]. I feel like I like it, yet I don’t. What do you all think?

Some combinations I like are:

[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Kate[/name]
[name]Persephone[/name] [name]June[/name]
[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Athena[/name] (too much?)
[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Rose[/name]
[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name]

Feedback is welcome!!! Thank you :slight_smile:

Hate it sorry

As you can tell from my signature, i love it! The problem that most people seem to have with this name is that they a) can’t pronounce it properly or b) think it’s too over the top.

Personally, I think the pronunciation should be sort of common knowledge, but that’s maybe just because I know a ton about the Greek language and culture and what not.

[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Athena[/name] is too much, sorry. Maybe something that means wisdom or the like, as that’s [name]Athena[/name]'s thing? [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Sophia[/name] is lovely!

I like [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Rose[/name] the best from your list, then [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Kate[/name], and then [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name].

A name from Greek mythology, and according to wikipedia she is queen of the underworld

I love [name]Persephone[/name]! I don’t know if I would name my daughter that, or what I could pair with it; but what it’s worth, I do love it.

[name]Persephone[/name] is the [name]Queen[/name] of the Underworld and the [name]Goddess[/name] of [name]Spring[/name] Growth. She’s the reason we have seasons.

It is a guilty pleasure name that I have once or twice considered. I think a lot of people would struggle to pronounce it.

I just recently heard this name when visiting an art museum and the sculpture was called the “Rape of [name]Persephone[/name]” where she is wresteling to get away from [name]Zeus[/name] I believe - that right there was a real put off for that name…although sounds very unusual I just can’t knowing the story

A lot of Greek mythology names seem a bit too unusual/GPish/out there for me, and, while I wouldn’t use [name]Persephone[/name], I have really grown to like it, and I think I would be happy to meet a [name]Persephone[/name]! I think I like the way it looks more than it sounds, though. I really like Sephie or even [name]Poppy[/name] or [name]Posey[/name] as a nn for it.

From your combos, I like [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Kate[/name]. I also like @dantea’s suggestion of [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Sofia[/name]/[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Sophia[/name], although the “seph/soph” parts are a bit redundant.

I like her [name]Roman[/name] counterpart’s name better: Proserpina/Proserpine. But [name]Persephone[/name] is cute, as is the nickname [name]Percy[/name].

Actually it was [name]Pluto[/name]/Hades who she is wrestling against. [name]Zeus[/name] just gave him the idea to kidnap [name]Persephone[/name]. But when [name]Demeter[/name] got upset about it, [name]Zeus[/name] told [name]Pluto[/name]/Hades to give [name]Persephone[/name] back.

[name]Persephone[/name] was the daughter of [name]Demeter[/name], the goddess of the Harvest. Hades, the god of the underworld, fell in love with her and took her to the underworld to be his wife. Distraught, [name]Demeter[/name] wouldn’t allow anything to grow until she was reunited with her daughter. [name]Zeus[/name] forced Hades to return [name]Persephone[/name]. but not before he tricked her into eating a few pomegranate seeds. If you eat the food of the underworld, you were trapped there. They made a deal that [name]Persephone[/name] for each seed she ate would spend that time with her husband and the rest with her mother. So, every year, [name]Demeter[/name] wouldn’t allow anything to grow until her daughter returned to her. That pretty much sums it up. Of course, there are different versions.

This myth has always been my favorite. [name]Hence[/name] why I’ve been attracted to the name [name]Persephone[/name]. :slight_smile:

I love this name so much but I doubt hubby would like it.

The proper pn is soft, flowing and beautiful I really hate when people say it wrong.

[name]Persephone[/name] [name]Rose[/name] is the only choice i really like from your list, although [name]Kate[/name], [name]Mae[/name] & [name]June[/name] do work. I think [name]Elizabeth[/name] is too long and [name]Athena[/name] just makes it gimmiky to me, like you choose it because you wanted to pick names from Greek mythology not becuase you trully love the names.

I like it with the nickname Persie (this spelling). The pronunciation issues put me off using it though.

I love it, I’m not quite gutsy enough to use it, but I think it’s lovely, dont have a problem with pronunciation, and, as dantea said, I do love the story behind her in mythology and associate her more with the coming of spring and the cycle of the seasons than just “queen of the underworld”

Lots of cute nn possibilities too, I’d use [name]Percy[/name]. :slight_smile:

[name]Even[/name] though it’s a mythological name, I just don’t like it. It’s acquired a “teenybopper literature” stigma with me somehow. Sure the actual story behind the name is great, but this new stigma kills it for me. That and I think it sounds a bit forced or “trying too hard”.

I love it and like [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Kate[/name] and [name]June[/name] from your list. DP won’t let me use it.

I knew sisters in [name]Jr[/name]. high named [name]Persephone[/name] and [name]Delilah[/name], neither of them went by their names. We all thought they were [name]Paige[/name] and [name]Day[/name], until there was a substitute teacher!

I don’t find [name]Persephone[/name] appealing at all, but if I had to pick a combo, [name]Persephone[/name] [name]June[/name] gets my vote. I love [name]June[/name]!

We are considering [name]Persephone[/name] [name]Victoria[/name] as [name]Elizabeth[/name] is our eldest middle name. I don’t understand how it could be mispronounced. Maybe I have too much faith in humanity. It happens lol. I think [name]Athena[/name] is too much.