Plum ...

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Thank God I am not pregnant because last night I was thinking what I would call my next DC and decided that I liked the name Plum.

I have never met anyone with this name or ever really thought about it before. Can anyone tell me - is it a real name or is it a nn?

I am sure that you all think it is awful ...

There is/was a girl who worked for American Vogue called Plum Sykes. Don't know if it was her real name or just a nickname.

There is an MNer whose dd has this as a middle name .

I wouldn't do it myself. Imagine if the poor child became overweight - she'd be a plum pudding! Not good.

Here you go. It's a nickname.

Ah, thanks franke. That makes sense (Victoria plum ...)

I think it is quite sweet as a nn but thank god I now know that it's not a real name.

Thanks all

Does anyone remember Little Plum? Was he in Whizzer and Chips?

rhymes with bum

Well, I just meant it was her nickname. I'm sure you could use it if you really wanted to.... There are kids called Apple after all. I think it's quite sweet, but could be a bit awkward or twee.

was he the little Red Indian? Can't remember which comic though.

yes yes little plum - either beano or dandy

no. plums = testicles.

Short for Pamela, I believe.

Only to be used by the frightfully posh.

Maybe the Op is!
I rather like it as a nn for Pamela (but then I like 1950s boarding school names). Better as a nn than formal name.

No, not frighteningly posh at all ...

Quite like it. Hmmm .... (Just need a DD now )

or 'frightfully posh' even

i nearly chose it as other mumsnetters may recall. i also like velvet, but not together

90% of other mumsnetters say bollocks. literally.

people round our way call testicles plums so not really real name material i sometimes call DH a plum too so again the ridicule potential is massive

I know a plum - she's 8 - and thats her real name

I really like it

I know a Plum, but it is her nickname (real name Victoria). Not one person calls her Victoria though and I have only ever known her as Plum. She's very lovely, and frightfully posh

Oh I love the name Plum but, like Araminta, it can only be used by the frightfully frightfullies.

I knew a girl with the surname plum. Everyone called her plumbum which she hated.

kat is she now a professor? she would have the last laugh...and kill them...in the study...with a candlestick

Plum is a nickname for ... Penelope I think.

Plum Sykes is very posh. It's kind of a PG Wodehouse name.

DD says all her friends would call her plump llol

I'm starting to really like Plum!