What do you think of Beryl as a first name for a girl ?

[MamanFlo]

Heya mums

pregnant again with baby2 I am looking for first names. My MIL suggested Beryl, which sounds nice and original for the french people that we are... but what do anglo saxons think about this first name ?

thanks

flo

My mum is called Beryl Definitely wouldn't use it today though - in my honest opinion, its old-fashioned but without old-fashioned charm (although my mum is lovely!)

growing on me, actually

the thing with all these names is-when you see them on a little kid, you don't think "ooh maiden aunt" you think "oh, how sweet"

oh pmsl re edna

was wondering about it the other day, but couldn't see it

mind you, there are similar names that are also popular

Beryl conjours up an old style seaside landlady for me . DD aged 7 says "too weird"

It will be original though, and wierdly I agree that Meryl is without any of these connotations!

I was wondering when someone would suggest 'Beryl'.

I prefer 'Merel', which is a type of bird in flemish, and a girl's name.

My MIL Beryl has a SIL called Meryl! Not keen on either.

Some old-fashioned names are just not destined to come back - agree Edna is one and Ena another.

Is Beryl a sort of gemstone?

beryl to me = feral beryl - which is what we call the dds when they are tired, cranky and unruly.

Reminds me of names like doris! dont like it at all.

Sorry it still has "Auntie Beryl" connotations for me (remember that Bacardi ad?)

Beryl is a green semi-precious stone

both meryl and Beryl sounds awful

beryl nasty girl in plaits in was it Dandy otr Beano lol at someone calling a baby that sorry

ditto Edith or any other turn of the century name..people don't think edith piaf how charming

there is being different and being off you rocker eccentric

having said that I would have said the same about stanley and albert and the first at least is one of the fastest moving names

imagine a double whammy of a horrid name that is also popular

beryl

I'll answer my own question. It is a type of gem, and emeralds are a type of beryl.

That's why I knew twins called Ruby and Beryl.

thanks Iota - X posts!

not keen, sorry

lots of lovely french names to choose tho, non?

(i still like beryl. i like it more the more people dislike it, actually... contrary? moi?)

beryl

Don't like it at all, sorry!

when i was younger there was a berly and george upstaiers we lived in a flat. They were gypsies i think abit of a rough family. so reminds me of her.

I don't like ti sorry.

I think it's really horrible, reminds me of musty smelling, rotund ladies of a certain age. Sorry.

I usually try not to be opinionated about names people choose as it's their choice entirely, but felt couldn't remain on the sidelines here! If you live in the UK and intend staying here. don't choose Beryl - it's a very old-lady-with-no-teeth sort of name! I had a similar issue as we used to live in a French-speaking country and when ds was born and I mentioned to French friends I liked the manes Joseph and Robert they said they were real old-fashioned names in France and weren't a good idea, but I hadn't picked up on that!

I had a guinea pig called Beryl- she was lovely.

i don't like it either- i like old fashioned names, but it's not very pretty is it?

and i think of Beryl the Peril.

No, Beryl makes me think of cantankerous late fifty-somethings