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Pascal? Am I mad?

83 replies

Pettv · 26/05/2023 20:33

Really liking the name Pascal. Is that mental hormones?
I grew up in Ireland and I'm sure I heard it somewhere maybe..
is it a nice name or am I mad to even consider?
*it's a boys name

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PickledScrump · 26/05/2023 20:40

I just think of the chameleon from tangled 😂

I was just going to say the same!

AuxArmesCitoyens · 01/06/2023 20:22

A French Pascal would be in his fifties. Not on point at all.

UrsulaBelle · 30/05/2023 10:41

I had an Irish boyfriend in the 1980s who had brothers called Desmond, Simon and Paschal, pronounced PAScul. He’d be 55 by now. The parents were older, married in their 30s with 8 children and Paschal was the baby. So a bit old fashioned even then.

Longdarkcloud · 29/05/2023 12:10

I love it. Had heard of it but met my first Pascal a few years back. Very nice chap with Irish ancestry. I wouldn’t hesitate to use it if I had a son. Not too popular but not too out there.

RoseRobot · 29/05/2023 09:09

I think of it as French. There were male Pascals and female Pascales on our school French exchanges in 1980s. Always liked the name.

user1492757084 · 29/05/2023 08:57

Pascal, I like it's sound and meaning which ever the spelling.

Pascale is a sweet girls' name.
Easter related.

EmptyBedBlues · 28/05/2023 23:33

EarringsandLipstick · 28/05/2023 20:44

I feel we must live or occupy the same geographical or social sphere at some point or other @EmptyBedBlues

I thought exactly of McCarthy when Roy says Flor / Florrie!

Feeling nicely sentimental now!

A sphere where real men called Flor, Connie and Pascal are forever fattening bullocks or getting in the third cut of silage, and and sports commentary features statements like ‘There won’t be a cow milked in the county tonight!’? 😀

(God, I wonder if we know one another…)

EarringsandLipstick · 28/05/2023 20:44

I feel we must live or occupy the same geographical or social sphere at some point or other @EmptyBedBlues

I thought exactly of McCarthy when Roy says Flor / Florrie!

Feeling nicely sentimental now!

EmptyBedBlues · 27/05/2023 21:55

continentallentil · 27/05/2023 14:14

@EmptyBedBlues

Hang on - you’re saying you know men called Florence?!

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It’s traditionally a man’s name round here. Pronounced ‘Flurrence’, and usually abbreviated to Flor (pronounced ‘Flur’) or Florrie (‘Flurrie’.) Not so common these days, and I doubt there are many under the age of 60 — though I do work with a male Florence in his 40s. Traditional name for McCarthy men.

If you’ve read or seen the 1980s TV adaptation of Somerville and Ross’s The Irish RM, based on novels written around the turn of the 20thc, there’s a character called Flurry Knox.

SparkyBlue · 27/05/2023 15:22

droghedalady · 27/05/2023 07:22

I think of Paschal Sheehy the news guy.

My first thought as well. I'd almost expect the child to have a Cork accent.
Definitely not the worst name OP and better than having the same name as 5 other children in the class. Someone upthread mentioned Noel. That was actually on my list if DD was a DS as she was due at Christmas but I do personally like old fashioned solid names . I also know a young Ger which is unusual these days and I must say I do like it.

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 15:09

greenspaces4peace · 27/05/2023 15:02

@CharlottenBurger 👍

Really, you can say it any way you like, but in Italy they'd pronounce the 'e' at the end.

greenspaces4peace · 27/05/2023 15:02

@CharlottenBurger 👍

CharlottenBurger · 27/05/2023 15:01

greenspaces4peace · 27/05/2023 14:30

Love me the Italian Pasquale pronounced Pas Qwa LL

pas qua lay

greenspaces4peace · 27/05/2023 14:30

Love me the Italian Pasquale pronounced Pas Qwa LL

CurlewKate · 27/05/2023 14:18

It's also, I think, only known among older Catholic men in Ireland.

CurlewKate · 27/05/2023 14:17

Yes you are mad. Unless you are quite old fashioned and French.

continentallentil · 27/05/2023 14:14

EmptyBedBlues · 26/05/2023 22:43

I’d class it with Cornelius, Ignatius, Noel and Florence (pronounced ‘Flurrence’ and an old man’s name in these parts).

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@EmptyBedBlues

Hang on - you’re saying you know men called Florence?!

continentallentil · 27/05/2023 14:10

It’s one the many French names that doesn’t work in English

EmptyBedBlues · 27/05/2023 12:21

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2023 12:14

Haha @EmptyBedBlues several of the Connie's in my family were exactly this.

The younger crew, not so much!

Hail the old-style Connies!

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2023 12:14

Haha @EmptyBedBlues several of the Connie's in my family were exactly this.

The younger crew, not so much!

EmptyBedBlues · 27/05/2023 10:20

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2023 08:15

@EmptyBedBlues

We've a few 'Connie's' in our family too. It's a long-standing family name linked to the part of Cork that side of the family are from.

Connies in my mind are always walking up a boreen with a stick out of the hedge, wearing manky milking overalls and wellies with a rip in the calf…

Mamette · 27/05/2023 09:06

EmptyBedBlues · 26/05/2023 22:43

I’d class it with Cornelius, Ignatius, Noel and Florence (pronounced ‘Flurrence’ and an old man’s name in these parts).

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Yes! Flurrie with his flat cap, lovely man.

Although Noel is more modern imo.

EarringsandLipstick · 27/05/2023 08:15

@EmptyBedBlues

We've a few 'Connie's' in our family too. It's a long-standing family name linked to the part of Cork that side of the family are from.

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 27/05/2023 08:06

There is one in my extended family and it doesn’t seem to have caused him any problems.

Hedjwitch · 27/05/2023 07:58

French Pascals sometimes end up with the nn Palou, which I like.