Reality check time

Girl Names
1

what do you think of Dandy for a girls name…

does it sound like a

  1. stripper

  2. a candy

  3. a pets name?

or does it sound like a legit persons name?

2

It just makes me think of the Dandy comic book with Desperate [name]Dan[/name] and Bananaman etc

3

Sorry, when I first saw Dandy, all I could think of was stripper. I can’t really imagine it on a little girl (or really anyone, for that matter).

4

It makes me think if dandy’s and dandyism which has to do with men who want to be refined and elegant. It was a movement in the past that is similar to metrosexualism (that’s the best I can describe it) I think if you Wikipedia it you can find out more. It was used to describe effeminate or gay men, and probably just men in touch with their emotions. I think oscar Wilde was probably considered a dandy. The phrase is sometimes still used in France.

I could be wrong but I thInk that’s where the term Yankee doodle dandy comes from.

I just realized my post doesnt sound that considerate of some people, I meant to say the term dandy was also used to describe people who were effeminate, presumed to be gay, in touch with their emotions. I’m not actually calling anyone a dandy!

5

I’m sorry, but it does sound like it would be a good name for someone in the adult entertainment industry. I can imagine [name]Reba[/name] McEntyre showing up and singing about [name]Fancy[/name]'s sister Dandy.

I also think of Belldandy from the Oh, My [name]Goddess[/name] manga, which is more positive, but I think it would be best as a pet’s name.

6

I think of a pet for Dandy, it’s to vintage for a stripper…well I guess it could be a stripper from the 40s. Anyway you can always use [name]Tandy[/name] it’s a native American name that means flower and in a short story by [name]Sherwood[/name] [name]Anderson[/name] is described as being “the quality of being strong and being loved. It is something men need from women and that they do not get.” It’s is unique and very lovely.

  • [name]Evie[/name]
7

I think of dapper dandies, too. And that everything’s “fine and dandy.” It’s too vintage to connote a stripper for me, but I could see it on a pet. Not so much a child.

8

Yankee Doodle Dandy comes to mind. I wouldn’t think stripper before you said it but now the association is kind of there. In general it just doesn’t sound like a name at all. It could work as a cute name for cute little kids and things but I’m having a little trouble seeing it on an adult.

9

oh right…I gotcha…like a [name]Jim[/name] Dandy…that makes sense…

thanks for everyones feed back super big help! thanks

10

I think of an effeminate man from long ago like [name]Oscar[/name] Wilde maybe

11

I also think of effeminate men.

12

If you love it it could be a nn for [name]Pandora[/name] as Pandi.

I thought of the male arrogant yet elegant image when I read Dandy too.

13

Dandy is not so “fine and dandy”… (corny, but still)