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Pippin, Percival

62 replies

17caterpillars1mouse · 12/07/2017 16:54

What are your thoughts on Pippin nn Pip for a boy?

What are your thoughts on Percival? Do you think it would get shortened? Any other shortening than Percy or Perry?

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MollyHuaCha · 13/07/2017 23:41

Poor OP, sorry to add to the diatribe, but I think the names aren't that great. Do you have any others on your list?

Ginlinessisnexttogodliness · 13/07/2017 21:28

I feel awful writing this as I know it's hurtful when people,slam names you love.
But what in the name of Christ on a Bike are you thinking??.

If you want to give a child a name which will ensure he is mocked and teased until the end of days then Pippin is the way to go. Percival is just the wrong side of old fashioned for me and not quirky just fusty and lumpy

Sorry 🙈

Onedaysoooon · 13/07/2017 15:26

Really really bad.

Lemondrop99 · 13/07/2017 15:00

Even Pippin in Lord of the Rings didn't have it as his full name. Pippin was short for Peregrin

MrsBakedBean · 13/07/2017 11:06

Awful, awful. Do you not like children?

LucieLucie · 13/07/2017 03:33

Seriously awful names. Pippin is surely only a dogs name? I've never even heard of a character in a novel with such a name.

As for Percival, would you like to be called that? It's grotesque.

Scrumpington · 13/07/2017 00:54

Pippin is a great name for a Shetland pony and Percival would suit a Georgette Heyer hero.

Neither would work on a real life boy/man. These will be your 'strange names my hormones tricked me into liking' names. Hopefully! 😅

SerfTerf · 13/07/2017 00:19

Perseus NN Percy?

Philip NN Pip?

PlymouthMaid1 · 13/07/2017 00:06

Terrible names even tho my granddad was a Percival.

BackforGood · 12/07/2017 23:58

Another all round 'no' for both from me.
Both awful names.

DramaAlpaca · 12/07/2017 23:38

You are having a laugh with us OP, right?

Dixiestamp · 12/07/2017 23:34

Pippin is definitely an animal name, for me (my first cat)!

Sophronia · 12/07/2017 23:18

Both very wet. Philip nn Pip is ok though.

Ipushedmygrannyaffabus · 12/07/2017 23:17

Vile, limp, wet names - both of them.

Any child with names like these would get the piss ripped out them once they got to school.

BertrandRussell · 12/07/2017 19:34

Blimey...........

ems137 · 12/07/2017 19:30

Gosh, I'm glad it's an all round NO!!

I cannot imagine an adult of any age with names like those.

NoCapes · 12/07/2017 19:17

No and no

bridgetreilly · 12/07/2017 19:16

Pippin is an apple or a horse. Call him Phillip and if you want, use Pippin as a nickname when he's little.

Percival is at least a name. Perce or Percy most likely shortened forms.

chowmeinchick · 12/07/2017 18:31

Pipin was a dog on telly when I was little.

The other one is fucking dreadful.

Neither.

Shopkinsdoll · 12/07/2017 17:50

I wish people who pick these silly names would think how it affects the child in later life. Cannot imagine a 40 year old introducing himself as Percival or pippin? May sound twee cutest and posh as a 2 year old, but not older!!

Mothervulva · 12/07/2017 17:47

Call him anything and then pip as a pet name.

Mablethorpe · 12/07/2017 17:47

I work with a Philip who's nickname is Pip. Maybe that could work for you?
The only Pippin I know was a gorgeous girl who did her work experience at my DS' nursery.

Mothervulva · 12/07/2017 17:44

I thought I wanted Percival/Percy for DD2 before I knew she was a girl.

One of my good friends said it made her think of an overweight, pink faced lisping man with a receeding hairline. I couldn't shake off that image.

littlejeopardy · 12/07/2017 17:40

Makes me think of the hobbit in Lord of the Rings.

Allthebestnamesareused · 12/07/2017 17:40

You appear to have mistakenly come onto Mumsnet when your were clearly looking for Toffsnet!

Each to their own I suppose!