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Plum ...

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havinganightin · 13/03/2010 12:52

Thank God I am not pregnant because last night I was thinking what I would call my next DC and decided that I liked the name Plum.

I have never met anyone with this name or ever really thought about it before. Can anyone tell me - is it a real name or is it a nn?

I am sure that you all think it is awful ...

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plumymummy · 14/03/2010 21:03

I really like the name plum-hence my nickname and also I can't stop eating them!
I think I would have it as my babies middle name though-It is a name as much as any name is...Apple anyone?

Also it was the 5552 popular baby name in the UK in 2008 (national statisitcs online). lol.

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havinganightin · 14/03/2010 08:47

Thanks all.

If I ever have a DD I might call her something else entirely (don't like Pamela/Prunella or any of the other 'proper' names) and use it as a nn.

Sorry Shaz10 - it's a grower, isn't it

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HelenDoula · 13/03/2010 23:36

I went to school with a boy called Andrew Plum ..... A. Plum, can you imagine!???

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MinnieMalone · 13/03/2010 18:50

Rodney you plum!

rosieposey · 13/03/2010 18:45

It reminds me of the daughter of Jackie who was called Plum in Tony Parsons book 'One for my baby'

cece · 13/03/2010 18:32

Makes me think of testicles

kimbows9 · 13/03/2010 18:29

My cousin has a DS who has Plum as a middle name. His big brothers used it as a nickname for him before he was born and it kind of stuck so they decided to use it as a middle name. I think it's quite sweet.

Shaz10 · 13/03/2010 16:39

I'm starting to really like Plum!

Clary · 13/03/2010 16:16

Plum is a nickname for ... Penelope I think.

Plum Sykes is very posh. It's kind of a PG Wodehouse name.

DD says all her friends would call her plump llol

PandaEis · 13/03/2010 16:04

kat is she now a professor? she would have the last laugh...and kill them...in the study...with a candlestick

ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight · 13/03/2010 15:46

I knew a girl with the surname plum. Everyone called her plumbum which she hated.

Rindercella · 13/03/2010 15:40

I know a Plum, but it is her nickname (real name Victoria). Not one person calls her Victoria though and I have only ever known her as Plum. She's very lovely, and frightfully posh

bibbitybobbityhat · 13/03/2010 15:40

Oh I love the name Plum but, like Araminta, it can only be used by the frightfully frightfullies.

MrsPixie · 13/03/2010 15:39

I really like it

Lifeinagoldfishbowl · 13/03/2010 15:36

I know a plum - she's 8 - and thats her real name

PandaEis · 13/03/2010 15:35

people round our way call testicles plums so not really real name material i sometimes call DH a plum too so again the ridicule potential is massive

hobbgoblin · 13/03/2010 15:31

i nearly chose it as other mumsnetters may recall. i also like velvet, but not together

90% of other mumsnetters say bollocks. literally.

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havinganightin · 13/03/2010 15:30

or 'frightfully posh' even

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havinganightin · 13/03/2010 15:28

No, not frighteningly posh at all ...

Quite like it. Hmmm .... (Just need a DD now )

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bellissima · 13/03/2010 14:33

Maybe the Op is!
I rather like it as a nn for Pamela (but then I like 1950s boarding school names). Better as a nn than formal name.

MamaLazarou · 13/03/2010 13:46

Short for Pamela, I believe.

Only to be used by the frightfully posh.

Nevergoogledragonbutter · 13/03/2010 13:30

no. plums = testicles.