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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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Lavender21 · 06/07/2021 21:36

Sorry I'm not keen on any of them. I quite like Petra, if you wanted to shorten Petronella.
I have a cousin called Primrose,she absolutely hates it and goes by Rosie.

Floralnomad · 06/07/2021 21:36

None of them ,sorry

EugeniaGrace · 06/07/2021 21:33

Rosamund is my fav mostly because I like Rose and Rosa as nicknames. Also like Rosalie.

Perdita - torn because I like a Winter’s Tale but don’t like the meaning “little lost one” - Hermione is better.

Though Dorothea is a more admirable character than Rosamund in Middlemarch so . . .

whatausername · 06/07/2021 21:32

I would not like to be called Petronella or Blair. Blair isn't a very nice sound at all. Even worse when I imagine blaring Blair across a park.

Jayteedee · 06/07/2021 21:32

Love Blythe. Means happy but in a gay old fashioned way. And Perdita is a very beautiful name too.

Mumoftwoinprimary · 06/07/2021 21:31

I’d like to be a Rosamund or a Rosalind. Roz for short.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 06/07/2021 21:30

Christ no! They’re all awful! I don’t love my name but it’s infinitely better than all of your suggestions. They’re also miles off from Robert which is a bit dull but fine in my opinion.

35andThriving · 06/07/2021 21:29

Petronella...I would love that.

CheddarGorge · 06/07/2021 21:28

No none of them... sorry

Blue5238 · 06/07/2021 21:26

Would like Rosamund. Would live with Primrose but go by Rose. Hate the others

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 06/07/2021 21:26

No not all. Don’t get me wrong I moan and I’ve never forgave my parents for calling me Clare but thinking about it. I probably got off very lightly.

If I had to pick one I’d say Blythe.

Buttons294749 · 06/07/2021 21:25

I also prefer Rosalind so Rosamund

Buttons294749 · 06/07/2021 21:24

For Pandora would people make rude Pandora' s box jokes?

Buttons294749 · 06/07/2021 21:23

Blair - would like
Blythe - would love
Primrose - would love
Rosamund - would be meh about and refer to myself as rose
Pandora - would like
Perdita - would LOVE LOVE
Petronella - not sure, it's quite posh and I am not!

user1493494961 · 06/07/2021 21:21

I like Rosamund but none of the others.

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DuckonaBike · 06/07/2021 21:13

Perdita is beautiful and Shakespearean (also some more recent literary refs as others have mentioned 😀)

Rosamund is lovely too.

Petra is OK but Petronella sounds like a disease.

sleepyhead · 06/07/2021 21:12

Blair is one of those Scottish surname boy's names that became girl's names in the US.

That apart, it's not a particularly attractive name to my ears. Car horns and trumpets "blare".

Primrose will always be prissy Primrose Patterson or Harold Shipman's wife to me, shame because it's such a lovely flower.

Pandora = Adrian Mole

Petronella = Wyatt

Rosamund = Lehmann, one of my favourite writers so a winner for me (plus Rosa, Rosie, Rose all lovely)

Cotswoldmama · 06/07/2021 21:10

I like Blair and Blythe but not the others

annacondom · 06/07/2021 21:09

Primrose and Pandora both lovely too.

TatianaBis · 06/07/2021 21:09

I know a Petronella - she’s mainly called Nellie/Ella. And a Pandora - mainly called Pandy or Dora.

Rosamund always sounds a bit pompous to me like Edmund - I prefer Rosalind or Rosalie.

I think I’d most like to be called Blythe of your list. Vintage, chic and not too long.

annacondom · 06/07/2021 21:08

Blair Witch Project
Not Blythe either
Love Petronella nn Petra
Love Perdita (101 Dalmations)
Don't like Rosamund as I have an old cousin with that name. Rosa? Rose?

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NotNowPlzz · 06/07/2021 21:08

I wouldn't be put off by the jewellery brand.

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AbsolutelySure · 06/07/2021 21:08

Sorry but I don't think I'd like to be called any of those names

Doublestar · 06/07/2021 21:06

Ah, I was thinking of pandora braithwaite when I said I like Pandora - I forgot about the tacky jewellery brand - such a shame!

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