Thoughts on Paloma?

[Calixtine]

Paloma for an English girl? Is it too Spanish? Do you like it?

I like it.

Love it!

Nice name but I couldn’t go through with it as a spanish speaking person since I do use the word paloma for the birds regardless of colour. Also Palomas/palomitas is the word for popcorn and the only nickname you can come up with is Palo which means stick in Spanish

Went off it when I found out it means pigeon/dove in Spanish. Paloma Faith puts me off it too (not that there's anything wrong with her, just that I can't shake the association).

It's a nice enough name but be prepared to be asked if you've named her after the singer. My friend has a little Ariana and gets that a lot.

Palo is quite sweet actually! I was thinking something like Polly or Pip for short (or whatever developed naturally).

I think Dove is nice

Palo is oar in Spanish though, maybe that doesn't matter. Let me check that actually..........

no, ignore me, un remo is an oar, but Palo is Stick!

Beautiful.was on my list (I speak Spanish and lived there for a bit.)
I liked Loma for short.

I knew an adult Paloma and it wasn't shortened at all.
I like it but the sound always reminds me of "plumber" and I get visions of pipes and sinks and stuff.

It reminds me of Papilloma

@AuditAngel I too have a bird phobia!

Don't like Paloma. Always read it as Pamola, like Pamela.

English people love to think of it as Dove, but honestly, I live in Spain, it's pigeon. That's what we call them, anyone Spanish or Spanish speaker will wonder why you have named your DC after a flying rat.

I actually had the conversation a few months ago after someone mentioned it on her and I said about it to a friend here. She was shocked and couldn't believe people would call their child pigeon.

So yeah, English people love to equate it to dove, google translate probably does too, but the reality is pigeon and some raised eyebrows.

Doves and pigeons are the same family called

A pigeon is Columba palumbus.

Called columbidae ^^

Like Paloma.

Yeah I know they are the same family, but we don't have hoards of doves so paloma (meaning pigeon) is used daily.

Loads of them and it's always 'Joder! Sucio de palomas'

I thought it was a Spanish name? Did the English just borrow a Spanish word then?

Wasn’t to you specifcally, just those artificially detaching doves and pigeons...

Gorgeous. I know one. Admittedly she’s South American but I don’t think it sounds too “Spanish” to use if you have no Spanish/Hispanic blood.

Beautiful and interesting name!

Makes such a refreshing change from all the Evies, Ellies and Tillies etc.

Did the English just borrow a Spanish word then?

I think so. To English ears it sound pretty I guess. People have said to me Pollo sounds nice (you say it as Puy-Yo), it actually is chicken in Spanish. I guess foreign words can sound pretty.

I like it.