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Would you like it if you were called..

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NotNowPlzz · 06/07/2021 20:58

TTC and thinking of names. I'm trying to narrow them down by thinking about whether I'd like to be called it or not and would like to know what others think. Also if youd have any preconceptions about people with this name.

Blair
Blythe
Primrose
Rosamund
Pandora
Perdita
Petronella

Boy's name settled on already. Robert.

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lottiegarbanzo · 08/07/2021 19:58

Robert and Blythe
Robert and Rosamund

both sound lovely.

How about Isadora, Theodora
Petra, Eleanor (another source for Nell)
Cordelia, Jennifer, Annabel

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NotNowPlzz · 08/07/2021 17:48

Primrose off the list now, it sounds too prissy as some pp have mentioned.

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Amandasummers · 08/07/2021 14:38

Blair gets my vote and id love that to be name. Wouldn’t mind terribly being called Blythe either. Would hate all the others

Vetyveriohohoh · 08/07/2021 14:30

Like Blair & Blythe- hate the rest

Been a long time since I heard of a baby Robert

periwinkle86 · 08/07/2021 14:27

I love Blythe - it’s on our list, though I’m worried it doesn’t go with our surname so we may not end up using it.

Robert is our middle name option if we have a boy.

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NotNowPlzz · 08/07/2021 14:15

Seems Petronella is very marmite.

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mathanxiety · 08/07/2021 07:07

Blair - I knew a girl named Blair. Nice girl, but I think it's an ugly name, so no.

Blythe - Nice, old fashioned. I could probably live with it.

Primrose - The Prim bit would put me off, and I don't like Rose.

Rosamund - A bit WI, matronly.

Pandora - Meh, prefer Theodora and plain Dora.

Perdita - 101 Dalmatians ruined it, so no. Though I like Dita (if that's how you chose to pronounce it).

Petronella - I like this one. I don't like Petra or Nell though, so it would need to be the full whack.

SleepingStandingUp · 08/07/2021 00:21

@Divineswirls

And why does the lucky DS get a perfectly charming name

Or boring and old. Depending on opinion

SleepingStandingUp · 08/07/2021 00:18

Blair - I'm not a boy
Blythe - I'm not 96
Primrose - really like it
Rosamund - I'd shorten it to Rose
Pandora - love love love
Perdita - only of I'm terribly posh
Petronella - no no noo

irresistibleoverwhelm · 08/07/2021 00:16

Like Blythe, Rosamund, Perdita. Though Blythe is a bit girls’ school stories for me (as is Primrose). I knew a very beautiful Rosamond and that’s my favourite out of your choices (I don’t mind either o or u spelling). Have you thought of Rosalind?

I’m not so keen on the rest, sorry. Blair too Gossip Girl for me; Pandora makes me think of the posh girl from Adrian Mole. Petronella makes me think of Wyatt (Boris Johnson’s sometime mistress).

Have you thought about Christabel, another name with a similar vibe to your list?

Blue4YOU · 08/07/2021 00:15

I’d hate to be called any of them! Sorry
I’d prefer (variations on your names/themes)
Rosalind
Rosemary
Rosanna (especially)
Aster (rather than Primrose)
Dora
Clarissa
Petra
Nell

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 08/07/2021 00:13

In fairness, in the books Perdita's main character trait was washing puppies, and she didn't actually go and rescue the puppies so there are large chunks of the book where she isn't mentioned.

Disney rolled the two female Dalmatians into one, but must have thought the name Perdita was better than Missis.

TatianaBis · 08/07/2021 00:04

No shit and yet people keep wittering on about Disney.

BikeRunSki · 08/07/2021 00:00

@TatianaBis

The 101 Dalmatian reference is lost on me. I’m baffled at the amount of attention people give to Disney. Who actually gives a fuck?

Perdita is the lost and then found princess in one of Shakespeare’s miracle play.

101 Dalmatians was a well established children’s book before Disney made films of it !

TatianaBis · 07/07/2021 23:48

The 101 Dalmatian reference is lost on me. I’m baffled at the amount of attention people give to Disney. Who actually gives a fuck?

Perdita is the lost and then found princess in one of Shakespeare’s miracle play.

lottiegarbanzo · 07/07/2021 22:49

Robert is a good choice.

Yes to:
Blythe (interesting)
Rosamund (lovely, I think of Rosamund Pike)
Petronella (Petra or Nell)

No to:
Blair (Awful. Tony, Witch Project, surnamey, blah)
Primrose (Twee, there are many nicer flower names)
Pandora (Harsh and flat. There are nicer 'dora' names)
Perdita (Too formal. Dog name from 101 Dalmations. Petra is nice)

GreenMeeple · 07/07/2021 22:35

No sorry non of them. Especially not Pandora - the woman that released all evil and suffering into the world.

IsItShining · 07/07/2021 22:01

What a very sensible way round of thinking about baby names!

I am short, plain and easily embarrassed. I could possibly cope with Rosamund, but would have hated to be called any of the others.

CuriousOrangee · 07/07/2021 21:36

Blaise sounds like a boy from Angry People in Local Newspapers who has been sent home from school for his haircut.

CuriousOrangee · 07/07/2021 21:35

Lovely:
Blair
Blythe
Primrose
Rosamund

Not lovely:
Pandora - Adrian Mole
Perdita - Disney dog
Petronella - Ugly name

toolazytothinkofausername · 07/07/2021 21:31

Darcy
Cameron
Dylan
Blake
Arden

Onlinedilema · 07/07/2021 21:23

The only one is like to be called is Blythe.
I wouldn't have liked to be called any of the others.

Perdiesmum · 07/07/2021 20:56

@Yellowmoons and @NotNowPlzz - we obviously all have great taste! ;)
One of Perdie's middle names is Daphne, so that keeps the classical theme going too. (She is named after my grandmother, Daphne.)

Yellowmoons · 07/07/2021 20:14

@Perdiesmum

Have name changed for obvious reasons. We have very similar taste in names.

I have two DD.
One has the first name Perdita (known as Perdie) and the other is Theodora with Blythe as one of her middle names.
Pandora was also on my list (but my husband didn't like it).

We weren't put off by the Dalmatian / Jill Cooper references. If people don't know that Shakespeare invented the name and 101 Dalmatians is their only reference, then so be it. I know some people struggle with the meaning but Perdita was a charming, beautiful lost princess in The Winter's Tale who got her happy ending. I'm content with that.
It's traditionally pronounced Per-di-ta, rather than Per-dee-ta, in the UK. Lots of people get it wrong though.

I'm very happy to 'meet' another Perdita on this thread though @Yellowmoons! My daughter will be thrilled!

@Perdiesmum Yes, there aren't many of us around! I pronounce my name Per-dee-ta, which I prefer, but I believe your way is more correct. It is a shame about the meaning, but it doesn't bother me too much. I quite fancied naming my first daughter Ariadne as a way of balancing it out - beautiful name and love the association with Labyrinths - sadly DH vetoed it.

MitheringSunday · 07/07/2021 20:05

Rosamund is lovely, all the others, not so. Pandora is the only other one that's OK, but firmly associated for me with Pandora Braithwaite from Adrian Mole.

Perdita - why would you want to call your child 'lost'?

Robert's fab!

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