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What is your opinion or first impression of this name?

89 replies

annaboo2 · 25/04/2021 16:24

Tricia. (As the official name, not a nickname for Patricia or Beatrice. Pronunciation is same as Trisha.)

and what would be good middle names for it?

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Maggiesfarm · 28/04/2021 15:54

Awful. Like Tracy. It's not a real name, it's a diminutive for 'Patricia'.

RickOShay · 28/04/2021 16:42

My truly awful ex stepmother’s name Grin

Theobear88 · 28/04/2021 16:45

Goddard

Maggiesfarm · 28/04/2021 17:12

@Theobear88

Goddard
Yes but at least she is 'Patricia'.
Cindie943811A · 28/04/2021 23:31

Always reminds me of a sneeze, I’m afraid.

SageRosemary · 29/04/2021 00:23

I love it, but I'm Irish and we have lots of people called Tricia (from Patricia not Beatrice)

Patricia Arquette, Trisha Yearwood, Patricia Neal come to mind

Patricia Rose would be lovely

Maria53 · 29/04/2021 02:01

Horrid

GameofPhones · 29/04/2021 02:05

Angry middle aged woman again, in fact my former neighbour.

MrsPsmalls · 29/04/2021 02:10

My experience of Tricia is a lovely strong glamourous friend in her 60s. Short for Patricia but it is a name I would consider using and it has positive connotations for me.

alexdgr8 · 29/04/2021 02:10

i think Patricia i much better, and is making a comeback.
let the child choose their own nick-name, if they wish for one.

ladycarlotta · 29/04/2021 12:32

Tricia/Trish puts me really viscerally in mind of long nails painted that pearlescent heather pink that was really popular among middle-aged women in the 90s. Sorry, that's just the way it is. Perhaps Patricia will have its moment soon but at the moment all the Patricias, Barbaras, Sheilas and Wendys are still here and very much themselves - it's too familiar and too associated with a particular 'type'.

Much easier to romanticise the 'vintage' name of a generation when it's all but gone, and you don't actually have first-hand experience of how racist Great Aunt Ivy was, or Grandma Edie's chain smoking.

TuvoknotSpock · 29/04/2021 13:18

I would be surprised to see it on an under 50 but sure it will be back again in a decade or 2

YoniAndGuy · 29/04/2021 13:22

Not a name, a nickname for Patricia. Especially spelled like that. Never heard of it beign a given name in its own right.

And no connection to Beatrice at all - never heard of a Beatrice being Tricia for short!!! That just doesn't compute.

Fine to call her Patricia - it's probably one of the ones that is on the cusp of coming back, like Barbara - though I'm not a fan.

luckylavender · 29/04/2021 13:30

It's not a real name

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