Perdita - honest opinions

[BexJ78]

For ages and ages, DH and i have said that if we ever had a girl we would call her Perdita or Purdie for short. However, i am now half way through my pregnancy and DH now says that he is worried that a) she will get called 'pervy' at school;
b) that it is too wannabee-ish.

We both have very traditional names and are from families of traditional names, but i really like it as i think it is unusual without looking contrived.... what do you think? I have canvased other MNers on my antenatal thread, who suggested we could shorten to Dita, which is nice, but the only dita i've ever heard of is dita van teese.
in a quandry so need some help! thanks all.xxx

How about every time someone says 'isn't that a dog in a kid's film?' you say, 'she's the heroine of one of Shakespeare's later problem plays, actually'

I love it, I wouldn't have any particular issues with the Winter's Tale / 101 Dalmations / Polo connotations (I enjoyed all three!!). I love either Dita or Perdie as nicknames. My only reservation is the whole lost thing (in the same way I have reservations about Delores even though I love Lola as a nickname), but really - should we care what a name means... I just realised I can't remember what my own name means!!

Thanks for all the comments! Still unsure but think lots of your positive views have given me that extra bit of confidence I needed. and will just have to gloss over the dalmations thing and stick with references to shakespeare, the avengers and possibly jilly cooper! ha ha ha!

its fantastic. In theology Perdita is the name of the lost island of paradise so it doesn't mean lost in a negative way. A winters tale is a fabulous play....one of my shakespeare fav's....Perdy is a gorgeous nickname and yes of course you can totally carry it off....be brave and go against the grain of 'safe' names...no way does it sound like Pervy....ignore DH

No.

I think its sweet - used to have a friend in California called Perdita (it means the lost one).

My name refers to an 'attendant at a sacrifice', and I seem to have managed all right.