Delilah or Penelope?

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which one's your favourite( please don't be too harsh!)

Penelope by a long way!

Both are lovely!

Deliliah is lovely but I'm not sure I could saddle my child with a lifetime of having That Song sung at her. And people will. They will also think they're the first person to have done this.

See also Gloria and Cecilia.

Penelope doesn't thrill me in any way.

Penelope is lovely. I'm not really a fan of Delilah.

Both lovely but I prefer Delilah (and nickname Della is nice too).

I love Delilah, but the biblical one wasn't very nice, so I tend to think of it in the same unusable category as Jezebel or Herod!

Penelope

Penelope

I prefer Delilah. The song thing is a red herring. There are loads of names used in songs - I always used to get 'Tell Laura I love her'. Penelope would be just as likely to get Penny Lane sung at her!

Delilah is just more 'alive' than Penelope somehow.

I have a Portugese friend named Dalila which I prefer [Da-leela] she is called Dal.I do prefer Penelope with a choice of nn-Nell or Penny

Penelope

My niece is Delilah and it does get mixed reactions. My Grandma and other relatives of that age are horrified that she's named after a biblical whore (and I quote).

Penelope is very pretty indeed.

Penelope is lovely but I am biased as it is DD's middle name!

Go to a pub full of Welsh rugby fans before a game and that will put you off calling your daughter Delilah as shed loads of drunk men and women belt out the Tom Jones song about a the woman who was murdered her husband.....

*murdered by her husband

Penelope, definitely.

I would not want to be called either of those names.

Penny if my life depended on it!

Penelope is a lovely name, was my favourite name for DD but DH point blank refused. Still love it though and if we have another daughter I'm going to try and persuade him! Love Penny as a nn too.

Calling a girl Delilah is, imo, like calling a boy Herod. Delilah was a baddie who met a horrid end in the Bible, which is a central text of Western culture.

Penelope is lovelier and was a much more appealing character in the Odyssey, which is also a central text of Western culture!

Not everyone cares about such things but it's certainly the first thing I think of. i always feel very sorry for the small Delilahs that i meet irl.

Penelope (and Penny). I think that Delilah is either a bit comedy (my my my Delilah) or biblical in the wrong way. I wouldn't call a child Jonah either.

DS would have been Penelope. I love it, so pretty and classy with great nn potential. I especially like Nellie for a tot.

Delilah.

Delilah has two main reference points, the Bible and that song, and both of them are decidedly ill-starred so I'd rule that out.

Penelope not keen on Delilah at all.

thanks i am now swinging from delilah to penelope as i do like nell for a nn.