What do you think of Irene?

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What do you think of Irene as a girl's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.

How would you pronounce it?

Makes me think of a blue-haired granny! Yech.

it immediately makes me think of Home and away!

I prefer Rainie.

However my fav name of the moment is DuelingFanjo makes me smile every time i see it

Irene was that scatty one in Malory Towers, wasn't she?

My DD2 has Eirene (I-ree-nee) as her middle name - its the old Greek word for 'Peace'. Personally I think it looks a bit prettier with the E at the start, and we love the meaning.
Go for it !

Yep, Irene was in Malory Towers (also a musical genius from memory). She and Belinda were always forgetting their health certificates .

Eirene is gorgeous, am making note of that one!

bizarrely, it was on the tv 'Sherlock Holmes' that I heard Irene pronounced Ih-Ray-Na which I think is lovely. Irene Adler was the only woman Sherlock kept a photo of and he called her "THE woman"

That sells it to me, sounds so glam