Thoughts on the name Echo? :)

Me and my husband have been bouncing around names for a while now. Well a new one just came up for a girl.

[name]Echo[/name].

We just love the sound of it and a plus is that we love the Greek myth!!

We want some opinions :slight_smile: So what do you think??

I prefer the spelling Eko, though it’s masculine, to seem like more a NAME name than a word name.

I dred to think of the teasing at school, Cooooo Eeeeeeee! If your in Australia. Seems rather tacky to me and I can’t picture it on a grown woman either.

I don’t mind [name]Echo[/name]. However, I have been reading The Hunger Games (and The [name]Ellie[/name] Chronicles) over the past couple of weeks so i may be swayed by the names in those books…[name]Echo[/name] would be right at home with [name]Homer[/name], Prim, [name]Rue[/name] and [name]Cinna[/name]! I think it is kind of cute!

I think it’s very pretty. I also like the mythology story and I like word names.

I would prefer [name]Echo[/name] on a boy. And I think I would use it as a nn rather than a full but for what I’m not sure.

I’ve recently convinced a friend to name her dog [name]Echo[/name] so I’m obviously on board.

I love [name]Echo[/name] and the mythology behind it, but I don’t think it works too well on a grown woman. I would love to see someone prove me wrong though, and I think it makes a wonderful middle name.

I think it’s OK. I definitely agree with a previous poster about it being better suited as a middle name for sure!

I love [name]Echo[/name]! I don’t know whether I could use it myself, but I think it’s gorgeous. It makes me think of a sort of silver mist, for some reason - I like it a lot! I especially love the name [name]Echo[/name] [name]Primrose[/name] or [name]Echo[/name] [name]Skye[/name] (though [name]Echo[/name] [name]Skye[/name] maybe just a bit too floaty…)

I love [name]Echo[/name]! I used to have a good friend who named her first daughter [name]Echo[/name] [name]Monet[/name]. I lost contact with her a little after [name]Echo[/name] was born (who they nn’d [name]Emmy[/name]), so I don’t know how she wears it, but I really love her name. Her siblings are [name]Elijah[/name] (EJ), and twin little sisters [name]Edyn[/name] and [name]Eloise[/name], I believe. It seems completely wearable to me, but I think a nn does help make it more usable. I think other Greek mythology names (such as [name]Athena[/name], [name]Persephone[/name], or [name]Ariadne[/name]) are more usable, but I still love seeing [name]Echo[/name] used and considered!

[name]Echo[/name] [name]Monet[/name] is gorgeous. I think it’s one of those names that you really need to be brave with. I love it, but not sure I could use it as a first name.

I met a little [name]Echo[/name] the other day actually… and to be honest it did not suit that cute little girl at all! It seems harsh when her mom was calling for her…

Maybe as a middle name… but as a FN i dont think it would age well either!

I love it. It makes me think of [name]Bob[/name] [name]Dylan[/name]'s high school girlfriend, [name]Echo[/name] Helstrom, who inspired the song Girl from the [name]North[/name] Country.

I’m not a fan honestly.

I have a friend who has decided if she were to ever have children one would be [name]Echo[/name]. I also really like that it’s not popular and the Greek Myth connection is great and grounding for the name. I feel that if [name]Bronx[/name] and [name]Maxi[/name] are names being used why not [name]Echo[/name]? It’s MUCH better than those. I think [name]Echo[/name] is unisex, though mostly girl without the ballerina skirt.What middle name choices have you thought of?

I can imagine the playground teasing would be brutal for a child named [name]Echo[/name]. I love the myth too, but I’d never use for a human. (A parrot, maybe?)

I like it for a boy

I knew a girl in her mid/late 20s named [name]Echo[/name], so I can definitely see it past the ā€˜little girl’ age. :slight_smile: I think there is some potential for the ā€˜echo’ jokes getting old, but that’s probably the case with every name.

I think [name]Echo[/name] would be an incredibly obnoxious name to wear in real life. It would be particularly bad in grade school, but even in adult life you’d probably get a lot of cheesy ā€œ[name]Say[/name] that again?ā€ remarks. Yes, every name is teasable… but some are way more teasable than others.

I have wanted to like [name]Echo[/name] for awhile, and I do love [name]Ever[/name]. Your reasons are good enough to use it!