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Do you know any little Ursulas?

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Flickstar · 29/12/2011 16:31

Hello, I'm considering Ursula should my baby be a girl. I know it's a marmite name but I am in the love camp so please don't tell me you hate it! I was just winferring if anyone knows any little girls called Ursula? Thanks in advance.

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Flickstar · 06/01/2012 21:26

Thanks for all the lovely feedback- we have decided to go for it!

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MamaLazarou · 06/01/2012 14:30

No, but it is an excellent name, IMO.

DesperatelySeekingSedatives · 06/01/2012 14:27

There's one in DD's new nursery class she's just started. She's 3 or 4.

Honestly, when I hear Ursula I automatically think of the little mermaid. Not a bad thing. I personally think Ursula is one the best Disney villans of all time.

HardCheese · 06/01/2012 14:00

I met a baby Ursula (born late 2010 for the first time last year, child of a very funky mother. I rather like it. Go for it, I say.

balia · 05/01/2012 19:28

Love it - one of my friends called her little one Ursula and I just fell in love with it. And if she hates it as she grows up she can always be Sue!

Staceisace · 05/01/2012 19:21

I knew a girl called Ursula from a school we had to go on school trips from. Would you call her that as a baby, though? I also instantly thought 'Little Mermaid' - you'd have to make sure she never sees that!

persephoneplum · 05/01/2012 11:57

It's almost number one for this last baby if a girl. Both my husband and I love it and have for years but sometimes I get doubtful because people on other naming boards bang on and on about how ugly it is because of the sea witch.

I think it's beautiful and am surprised (and heartened) by the many favourable comments here! I don't know any at all except the cat (long gone) I named Ursula 15 years ago because I loved the name then.

itfcbabe · 05/01/2012 00:24

I like it, don't know anyone with the name only Phoebe's twin sister in Friends.

lottiegb · 04/01/2012 23:03

I know one who's about 40, it's great.

Toomanyworriedsonhere · 04/01/2012 22:15

My mother too!
Also know a 10 yr old.

missmiss · 04/01/2012 22:14

My mother is called Ursula. I used to hate it but actually I really like it now There's a great Ursula in the D.H. Lawrence novel The Rainbow.

Hulababy · 04/01/2012 22:06

Only known of one, was at DD's school. She'd be 12 or 13 I think.

mathanxiety · 04/01/2012 22:04

I know a 12 year old Ursula and a 3 year old Ursulina. I knew one a bit older than me in school -- she would be in her late 40s so.

Ursula Andress was famous in the 60s and maybe she inspired some of the 40something Ursulas' names?

fizzwhirl · 04/01/2012 21:16

I think Ursula is a beautiful name. I had a friend at school with a sister called Ursula - which would put her in her late 30s, maybe 40 now. Most adult Ursulas on this thread seem to be that age: was there a famous Ursula at that time? Or do we all know the same one?!?

greenmoo · 31/12/2011 19:30

Love it, think it's due a comeback, have never met anybody called it, but unfortunately it's not on our shortlist coz DP knew an Ursula years ago who tried to persuade him to have a, um, threesome. My poor shy DP panicked and ran a mile. So not the greatest connotations for us!

PuggyMum · 31/12/2011 11:54

One of my friends is seeing a girl called ursula (ursh is what he calls her). She's about 26 :)

Lovely name x

ILOUminatedXmasTree · 31/12/2011 11:40

I think of friends and Phoebe's twin sister

MaggieAtwood · 30/12/2011 21:55

I don't know any little Ursulas but I do really love the name. It was on my list but clashes horribly with DH's sn. I think it is quite a 'grown up' name iykwim but very elegant and sophisticated. I would like to be called Ursula .

Be prepared for people pronouncing it Ur-shoo-la rather than Ur-soo-la though.

winkle2 · 30/12/2011 11:53

I love this name - go for it!

I'm 33 and never heard of the Little Mermaid connection until a friend mentioned it to me.

RhinestoneCowgirl · 29/12/2011 21:46

One of my best friends is called Ursula, it's a great name. I did think about it for DD but it doesn't work with DH's surname...

tallulah · 29/12/2011 21:43

I was always going to call DD2 Ursula. When we finally had DD2 (21 years after DD1) I realised that my mum's pronounciation Ursh-ala would really grate and there was no way she'd accept she was saying it wrong, so we went for something else :(

wigglesrock · 29/12/2011 20:47

I went to school with a few, I'm in my late mid thirties . Its really lovely, don't know any baby/little girl ones.

Sleepyspaniel · 29/12/2011 19:49

Love it. Classic, timeless, sophisticated. I think it is in the same vein as Olivia (setting aside Olivia's popularity) in terms of "feel" and style.

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Flickstar · 29/12/2011 19:41

Lovely to hear such positive comments-Thank you!

Can I ask where you live hollyshitty?

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MrsMcEnroe · 29/12/2011 18:50

I know a grown-up Ursula who is in her late 30s (I know this wasn't exactly your question OP but bear with me!) and she receives loads of compliments on her name. Most of her friends shorten it to Urs though, which you might not be so keen on ...

I love it! Never heard of the sea witch before

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