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Pearl???

35 replies

squanderer · 18/08/2008 13:49

I'm compiling a list atm and may add this.
Any thoughts? I wonder if this will become trendy as I've heard of a few babies recently called this.

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Buda · 04/09/2008 10:10

Can't say I like it - sorry. I do know one who is in her 30s and I cringe every time I hear it.

seeker · 04/09/2008 10:03

Beryl?

Peachy · 04/09/2008 10:00

I like it

frazzledoldbag34 · 04/09/2008 09:59

As soon as I hear 'Pearl' the 'Pearl & Dean' cinema music comes into my head and goes around and around and is REALLY ANNOYING!!
(Da-da da-da da-da da-dadaaaaaaaaa Da!)
So annoying, horrid name, don't do it!

Also Pearl Lowe, pearl necklace (!) and just generally the grannie-ness of it - uck
And as someone else said it may well go the way of the currently over-used Ruby. I can see it 'catching on'.......

[wrinkles nose]

ScottishMummy · 03/09/2008 23:21

necklace harbour

think about the piss talking opportunities

munchkinmoomanoo · 03/09/2008 23:05

sorry - it's my MIL's name. NEVER A GOOD THING!!!!!

zookeeper · 20/08/2008 19:52

love it

EffiePerine · 20/08/2008 19:52

nice

marguerite is another name meaning pearl

3013 · 20/08/2008 19:51

What about Megan, the meaning is pearl!!

expatinscotland · 19/08/2008 23:06

Thanks for asking, dizzy! Muireann is a Struan .

He's due right around Halloween.

Aitch · 19/08/2008 23:04

i know a pearl, she's a sweetheart.

WinkyWinkola · 19/08/2008 23:01

Great name.

LynetteScavo · 19/08/2008 22:30

I don't know any. (Obviously not trendy enough) Not keen. [polite emoticon]

MadBadandDangeroustoKnow · 19/08/2008 22:26

I like it (rude jokes notwithstanding) and certainly think it's a nicer name than the fine but chronically over-used Ruby.

dizzydixies · 19/08/2008 22:12

hi expat how are you keeping?
I saw a wee girl in the paper today called Muiranne and she so DIDN'T look like a Muiranne - wonder if I should write and demand she change her name

expatinscotland · 19/08/2008 22:11

I like it.

Not for most of the reasons given here.

In the past I had a flair for the dramatic and a flair for the romantic and was an avid reader of the classics.

Hester Prynne in 'The Scarlett Letter' named her daughter this because the baby was 'one bought at great cost' and I had a fancy for the sentiment.

But DD1 didn't look like a Pearl and DH wasn't keen so she wound up a Gaelic version of Helen, which suits her far more.

dizzydixies · 19/08/2008 22:10

I like it

Drusilla · 19/08/2008 22:09

I would think of an old lady with a blue rinse

EllieG · 19/08/2008 22:08

I think sweet name, but can't help having image of Primrose Hill type people having lots of swinging fun as Pearl whatserface Supergrass wife was supposed to have been part of all that stuff with Jude Law and Sadie Frost and things.

I clearly pay too much attention to Heat magazine.

tiggerlovestobounce · 19/08/2008 22:07

Pearl Necklace, Pearl Jam - no way.

eyeballsintheSky · 19/08/2008 22:07

What iklboo said too

Bugger it. Have to download it now. you've cost me 79p

Mammina · 19/08/2008 22:05

Love it. I do know one who was born this year though, but that's the only one I've known who's under 80

windyweather · 19/08/2008 16:01

Not for me, sounds to old lady.

TenaciousG · 19/08/2008 15:59

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marymungoandmidge · 19/08/2008 15:58

nope, sorry ...