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I've got a soft spot for it because of the main character in Iain Banks' The Crow Road. It's got a long history of use as a first name here (mostly in Scotland), but it's not at all common. I don't think it's unusable, it's no worse than all the other occupational names being used atm.

It is rather feminine to me. Of course, I'm all for female to male gender bending when it comes to names. Thinking, it does seem like a soft but strong name, maybe even a bit woody (like a fragrance). Yep, I definitely like it.

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Prentice has always reminded me of the Preakness though. I might live horse country ... :)

Even though it's a surname...

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... I still can't get the word "apprentice" out of my head. Also, Prentice - and Prentiss - both have kind of feminine-looking endings. But I agree that the sound is nice.

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... Maybe Prentis?

It sounds like "ap" is missing from the beginning and like it should be a title and not a name. Of course, I've always disliked Preston as a given name too. Has too much of a stuffy preppy feel to it.

This message was edited 7/10/2012, 6:43 PM

It just makes me think of the word apprentice. It doesn't really seem like a name to me.

If Ryder is usable, why not Prentice?

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Reminds me of Prentice-Hall the textbook publisher, so it makes me think of printing. My biggest problem with it is that if I were addressing someone as Prentice, the T would either sound really stilted - or more likely, it would fall out, leaving me saying Pren'ice. And that makes it just a teeny weeny bit too much like another word that starts with P and ends with a niss sound.

This message was edited 7/10/2012, 4:14 PM

Sounds incomplete to me like it's missing the 'Ap' part

But it sounds like apprentice. I like Preston, but Prentice sounds silly and incomplete to me. Ren is cute though. I kind of like Ren as a nickname for names like Darren, Kieren, Warren, Aaren, etc.