Ursula

[chezmk1988]

Thoughts?

I’m not a fan - little mermaid definitely springs to mind

Everyone I've met called Ursula has been lovely- but it's an ugly name. It sounds like ulcer.

Sea witch. Sorry, it’s just the immediate and pretty much only association. Shame as it might otherwise be ok, but it’s so strong a link it’d be tantamount to calling your kid Cruella or Scar

I like it, I have only known one Ursula, a German lady who was lovely.

I like it. I think of Ursula Andress before anything else.

It’s my sister’s name. I think it’s lovely. I’ve only come across it a couple of other times: my Irish dentist (we are Irish also) and a German work colleague.

I find it a very ugly, clunky sounding name - "urr" is the sound kids make when they don't like something. Also the sea witch connection.

Don’t like at all.

I think it is a really good strong name and will be refreshingly different as PP said to all the twee flowery girl's names that are popular right now! I think though it depends on your own preferences as people obviously love or hate it!

Don't like it atall. Plus I just think of the horrible witch in A Little Mermaid and Pheobes horrible twin on friends!

I love it. Little Mermaid would never occur to me. My immediate thought is the main character from DH Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women In Love. A name that will last a lifetime, and neither boring or cutesy.

Immediately thought of the sea witch. I like fact that it isn't cutesy, but I just couldn't use it based on that.

I quite like it and have known two in the past, but they both pronounced it differently. One was UR-sull-a, and the other URS-yoo-la. I prefer the first, but not sure how common the second one is.

Very harsh sounding.

I think if you are German and live in Germany is a lovely name.

Not so much a very nice UK name.

I suppose it's ok if you're Irish too

A German/English relative is called this and she hates it.
I imagine someone quite large and clumsy when I think of that name (like a bear)

I don't mind it, although our city had a convent school called Saint Ursulas so that's what I associate the name with.

I'm in the minority but I think it's lovely

I quite like it - I know one who also has the nn Sula.

I like it.

I used to think if the sea witch (who has the best song in any Disney film!) but now I think of Ursula le Guin, the socialist/ feminist Sci Fi writer who recently died - a great association!

Fat Sea Witch

It's kind of haughty sounding but in a good way. I can imagine her growing up to be a Morticia Addams style goth.

Makes me think of the little mermaid, cute meaning though...