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Pollyanna

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Roopoo · 30/03/2010 11:11

How about Pollyanna??
Already have 1 DD called Matilda (Tilly)

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Shaz10 · 31/03/2010 21:01

I love Matilda - it reminds me of the film Leon. Matilda was ace in that!

VermontMama · 31/03/2010 15:32

What do you think about Matilda and Amelia?

Lonnie · 31/03/2010 15:20

Pollyanna and Matilda are lovely together and I like Pollyanna as a name too

Magaly · 31/03/2010 14:15

No WAY!!!!!!! I love the name, same as Rubella and Varicella. But the whole Cassandra and Pollyanna thing makes it unusable in my opinion. Pollyanna would be lovely for a very cheerful bet. (shame, cos it's nice, but ykwim)

tartyhighheels · 31/03/2010 13:17

errrr....no

ozmetric · 31/03/2010 13:16

Tilly and Jenny
Tilly and Freya
Tilly and Isobel

MrsvWoolf · 31/03/2010 11:27

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ShowOfHands · 31/03/2010 11:15

My very good friend has just become a Dad for the first time. His little girl is called Pollyanna. It really suits her actually.

It has plenty of pretty nns too. I like it.

Bit like the male Jonah. Used as an insult and has an unfortunate namesake but still a great name and transcends the reputation, imo.

Matilda's lovely too. You have impeccable taste.

justallovertheplace · 31/03/2010 11:09

You cannot be serious

bellissima · 31/03/2010 11:08

Pamela?

GladioliBuckets · 31/03/2010 09:39

No, it's actually an insult if you look it up in the dictionary.

How about Carrieanne? Julianna? Mariella? Magdalena?

What is Polly short for anyway? Is it Margaret?

pixiestix · 31/03/2010 08:29

Oh God, no.
Polly on the other hand is lovely.

Peaceflower · 31/03/2010 08:26

No. There was a girl with that name at University. Everytime one of the lecturers had to call her/talk to her, you could see he was trying not to laugh/smirk etc.

Polly or Anna would be lovely.

brimfull · 31/03/2010 08:17

I knew a Pollyanna - she lived up to the name , she was a tosser. Don't do it.

SqueezyB · 31/03/2010 08:15

Polly is lovely, I have one! You can always call her Pollyanna as a NN as my FIL does (though it kinda grates on me a bit when he does it...)

ozmetric · 31/03/2010 00:58

No, sorry

LittleSilver · 31/03/2010 00:16

No. the one I knew was a bl*y nightmare. Plus the book is nauseating. "Oooh, look I've got crutches! Oooh, I can practise "being glad" because I don'tneedthem!!"

Boak.

weblette · 30/03/2010 12:05

The one Pollyanna I know is always called Polly.

MrsvWoolf · 30/03/2010 12:04

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skidoodly · 30/03/2010 11:46

No

poutine · 30/03/2010 11:44

uh, no.

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Roopoo · 30/03/2010 11:39

Im blaming my hormones.........

runs away to hide....

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Shaz10 · 30/03/2010 11:38

"I'm so glad that someone has chosen this name for a daughter. It will give other people something to laugh at"

(I'm really sorry I couldn't resist )

5DollarShake · 30/03/2010 11:35

Don't do it!

AllieW · 30/03/2010 11:30

I was going to make a similar link to BunnyLebowski. Pollyanna was a character in a children's book by Eleanor H Porter who was relentlessly optimistic in a really sickening fashion (IMO). It also sounds like a name you'd give a rag doll. Not keen in the slightest.