Sylvia?

[snowshoes]

WDYT? Any connotations or associations that spring to mind? Do you know many?

Lovely! A pretty and flowing name.

Much prefer it to Sylvie, which is quite faddy and not as elegant IMHO.

I think Pankhurst, which is a good thing.

LOVE it.

I really like it. One of those elusive, non-dateable names..

Sylvia is a beautiful name :)

I think of Sylvia Plath, so, good in that she was one of the best writers of the 20thC; bad in that she suffered with bi-polar disorder which contributed to her suicide.

Also Nancy Travis' character in Three Men and a Baby/ Little Lady

Don't let that put you off!!

Thumbs up!

Plath

Doomed / horrible husband / motherless children. Too morbid for me.

I think of my mil as its her name

I like it, and like Sylvie as a nn

If you rule out a name because one person who shared it didn't have a good outcome, then there'd be hardly any names to choose from.

Ignore the naysayers who use this as a reason. :)

I love this name! It's so pretty!

And Sylvia Plath is an important poet (and many poets, painters etc had sad lives) so a good association in my book.

I wish I'd given this to one of my DDs!

My SIL's name. It still sounds lovely to me every time i say it.

I'm not keen. Although it does have the Pankhurst positive connection.

But I just think of a dyed-blonde, late middle-aged woman, working in a chip shop with a fag hanging out of her mouth. The brassy yellow coat in Hi-de-Hi was called Sylvia. Showing my age.....

It does however seem to be enjoying a revival as 'old lady name chic' sweeps the nation though, so I expect it'll soon loose negative connotations and become more modern sounding as nurseries and schools start to fill up with young Sylvias.

Sylvia, she's 70+ and still dressed in leopard print and sky high heels perfect hair, nails and make up and she's just as lovely as when I met her last 20 years ago.

She's my Dad's cousin and I couldn't believe how little she'd changed. Her lovely DH sadly has had a stroke and is in a wheel chair.

They are the only bit of my family with money and yet she's still marvellous down to earth Yorkshire woman at heart.

I love it, it was on my shortlist for DD, but DH vetoed.

Love this name, its on my shortlist if I ever have a girl.

sounds like a herbal high name to me (think its actually salvia or something)

nice enough name, not lovely not awful

Really lovely and agree preferable to sylvie which just doesn't have the same style

Love Sylvia and Silvia. The only people I've met with this name are gorgeous, lovely Spanish and Portuguese girls

yes Sylvie is totally different, Sylvia is a bit boring sounding to me, like Lydia etc, the 3 syllables get really drawn out in an unpleasant way in some accents

Absolutely love Sylvia, I prefer it to Sylvie as I find Sylvie a bit more twee. Both are lovely names though.

It does not sound like a dinner lady or a dentists receptionist name, but even if it did would anyone care?.