Pippin, Percival

[17caterpillars1mouse]

What are your thoughts on Pippin nn Pip for a boy?

What are your thoughts on Percival? Do you think it would get shortened? Any other shortening than Percy or Perry?

Not Pippin. It's too cutesy. Philip nn Pip?

I don't like either. Percival is awful.

I don't like either. Percival is awful.

Pippin is very twee - can't picture it on a 40 year old man. What about Phillip nicknamed Pip?

I like Pippin and Pip. I know a female one. Dislike Percival though, and I think you'd almost certainly end up with a Percy, which is horrible.

I think of Pippin the Hampster from Ben and holly

My little dog is called pippin and it really suits him. Just saying.

Pip is short for Philip, isn't it? Please don't call your child Pippin .
Or Pip... That's almost worse.

They somehow sound a bit 'wet'. What about Phillip with Pip as NN as bookworm suggests?

Pippin is a terrible name for an adult

Pippin makes me think of the dog on Come Outside, a kids tv show I remember Dneice watching when she was little.

Pippin nice for a fat little pony. Percival not nice at all imo.

You appear to have mistakenly come onto Mumsnet when your were clearly looking for Toffsnet!

Each to their own I suppose!

Makes me think of the hobbit in Lord of the Rings.

I thought I wanted Percival/Percy for DD2 before I knew she was a girl.

One of my good friends said it made her think of an overweight, pink faced lisping man with a receeding hairline. I couldn't shake off that image.

I work with a Philip who's nickname is Pip. Maybe that could work for you?
The only Pippin I know was a gorgeous girl who did her work experience at my DS' nursery.

Call him anything and then pip as a pet name.

I wish people who pick these silly names would think how it affects the child in later life. Cannot imagine a 40 year old introducing himself as Percival or pippin? May sound twee cutest and posh as a 2 year old, but not older!!

Pipin was a dog on telly when I was little.

The other one is fucking dreadful.

Neither.

Pippin is an apple or a horse. Call him Phillip and if you want, use Pippin as a nickname when he's little.

Percival is at least a name. Perce or Percy most likely shortened forms.

No and no

Gosh, I'm glad it's an all round NO!!

I cannot imagine an adult of any age with names like those.

Blimey...........

Vile, limp, wet names - both of them.

Any child with names like these would get the piss ripped out them once they got to school.

Both very wet. Philip nn Pip is ok though.