First name Pallace for a girl?

[veluwe2025]

I just finished reading Tom Lake by Ann Patchett and love the name Pallace, and also the character she was associated with. Since we're in Europe as well as Asia, this name works well for both places.

But what do you think of the name Pallace?

I think it’s a fabulous name for a girl and for a woman. If you like the name you should use it, she’s your baby.

Palace a little pretentious, go more low key ‘large detached with pool’

I don’t love it but it’s okay.

I went to school with a Dallas which kind of rhymes (and I’m in my 40s so this was a long time ago). Always thought that was quite a cool name.

As with anything, it depends on your last name. Unusual first names work better with plain surnames. And definitely not Pallace if your last name starts with a P.

I feel like some Mumsnetters move in very white circles. Names like Princess, Majesty etc. are very normal in some black communities and I think they are lovely. I think the character Palace in the book is African American?

If you like it, you use it. Not cruel to the child at all.

Oh dear - you are not serious are you.

You wouldn't really name a tiny baby this, to live with for 80+ years.

At the age of 16 you can expect her to be changing her name by deed poll.

No. A thousand times no. For many reasons-not least of which being people will think it soooooo funny to say “Ooh, dad’s a fan, then?”

I don't think you should name a child because you like the attributes of some fictional character with that name. Your child is an individual who may turn out to be absolutely nothing like their fictional namesake. Only give them names that you love for the name itself, not someone else with that name.

Oh, and I think it's a dreadful name (and I'm quite prone to the 'wacky and exotic').

Mate. Just no.

To be fair, a lot of the "Black" names chosen by Black parents are mocked greatly by Black people from all walks of life on both sides of the Atlantic.
And yes, I am Black and had to reel in my ex when he suggested the alliterative foolishness of " Shanice Shanique" for our daughter in 1992.
In fact, I just took over the naming process myself.

I like names that grow with a person from babyhood to adulthood and do not identify them as "Ghetto"..which is what too much of Anglosphere Black naming of babies has become.

A baby is a person, not a handbag/car/designer brand.

My daughter has a Nigerian friend called Princess, and I know of other people called it. Never heard of Palace or Pallace, though.

Hideous! Please don’t do this to your child…

Some name choices shout out that the parents were soooooo intent on trying to be different and clever with their choice of name that they ended up losing sight of the ridiculous.

Pallace definitely falls into this category.

Also, treat this as a red flag sign of being that sort of parent that chooses a strange spelling and then spends the childs formative years complaining how everyone else in the world never spells their silly spelled choice correctly.

Terrible. Looks like a) you don't know how to spell and b) delusions of grandeur about your status

Poor child is all i can say.

Nice as a middle name.. and you could have her first name as Crystal...

For realz?

No

Fucking dreadful

I was thinking Crystal Palace 🤣

No, not keen.

Awful, sorry.

That's her stripper name 😂

Princess as a first name and Pallace as a second works really well. Go for it.

Awful

Seriously? No

It looks like you meant palace or Pallas and the only certain thing is that you can’t spell.