Baby Name Poll Results

It is OK but not great. I would go with Vera Minerva or something like that.

Vermina sounds like a termite....

I hope this is a joke. Vermina? Like VERMIN??

Here is the definition of vermin:
noxious, objectionable, or disgusting animals collectively, especially those of small size that appear commonly and are difficult to control, as flies, lice, bedbugs, cockroaches, mice, and rats.

That’s awful. Like really awful.

Go with Minerva. Or if you want to involve your daughter in the decision, give her a list of names that YOU have already chosen as acceptable and let her pick one. Don’t name your daughter Vermin.

If you pronounce it ver-MEE-na it is not bad. Vermin-ah is AWFUL. TERRIBLE. Your child is not a termite. Although I do like the Reader Rab[removed]aracter.

I would suggest:
Velma
Vivian
Vera
Valentina
Vanna

It is so awful. You really want the potential for your child to be called a rat. So horrible, I hope this is fake.

Name her Minerva and tell your other daughter you just rearranged the letters of her suggestion.

No, Ver-MEE-na is still bad. It still sounds like Vermin and the word is still in there. I’m sorry but that’s completely ridiculous and your daughter will HATE you. But no really... it’s every girl’s dream to be named after a RAT.

Minerva always sounded like "unnerving" to me but it’s way better than Vermina. What about Verona?

NOT Vermina. No. But would you consider Verena (pn vuh-REE-nah) as an alternative? And yes, it\’s an actual name. It has German roots and means \"protector\".

Thanks for the feedback! I like Vera and Verena. You’re right, I guess I should have told Violet that some names are off-limits... :)

Vermina sounds like a pest control company or something...

Verbena maybe instead?

When I my oldest brother was 4 he got to choose my middle name. Like most 4-year-old boys he liked cars and trucks and such, and he chose ’Stop Sign’. That is my middle name to this day. Since I was little I’ve loved telling people the story of my middle name, and it’s made me feel a strange but deep connection with my older brother, even so if my first name was Stop Sign I think I would feel embarrassed and resentful.

Following with family tradition, when I was 8 I got to choose my youngest brother’s middle name, I choose Amedeo because I like the way it flowed off your tongue. My own first name "Anisa", although I’ve always loved has aways felt a bit clumsy or awkward. I think Vermina it a fantastic middle name, and it would make your daughter, Violet feel like she’s contributed to the creating of her sister without Violet also feeling like grown ups took her choice and twisted it around and made it more ’grown upy’. Vermina’s got a great story (just like Stop Sign) which is perfect for a middle name. But if you really like it as a first name I don’t think it’s awful, perhaps you might want to change it just a bit, though... Someone suggested the German name ’Verena’ and I like that, my favorite, though, is Vermeena (Ver-MEE-na) It’s only a bit different, yet rolls off the tongue so much better... :-)

My husband’s grandmother was named Vermina. She was Hispanic and was a very influential and positive person in my father-in-law’s life, just as he is in my children’s lives. If my youngest child had been a girl, we may have chosen Vermina as the middle name. And it is pronounced Vermeena, btw.