Panda...

[lottilie]

A friend of mine is due in a few weeks with a girl - she's set on the name Panda. I questioned it at first, & she is insistent that it is no different to the increasingly used names Bear, Fox, Wolf etc, etc... I have got used to it and it is slightly growing on me but still can't shake the thought that she's going to get hurt at bad reactions!! Does anyone on here having anything positive to say about it? 😂

(I have suggested Pandora nn Panda but she's not sold at all)

I assume this is a joke?

It's ridiculous, but it's no different to some of the names my DC were at kindy with (surprisingly, the kids at school seem to generally be much more mainstream) - Elvis, Zephyr, Eartha, Rocco, to name a few. DS has a Wolf on his football team.

I think she'd get a few inward eye rolls when she announces it, but people are pretty accepting in real life and then, as a PP says, the name just becomes that person and it's not weird anymore.

None of this detracts from the fact that I'd never call my child it in a million years, and would probably go NC with my parents had they given it to me.

Ha!!! Thank you.

She’s really just having a giraffe surely?

It's often used as a short form of Pandora. I like it.

As a nickname it's cute. I adore pandas but I'd never us Panda as a name