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It's an interesting unisex name, but my first thought was 'funeral pall', and it sounds very close to palace.

It makes me think of Pallas Athena. There was also a minor character with the name in the Aeneid. He was a protege of Aeneas and dies in order to give Aeneas more motivation. I like that the name has multiple mythical associations, and that the characters with the name are largely blank slates - little is known about them so you can flesh them out with your imagination and not feel like you're going against cannon.

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Pallas seems unisex. The only thing that I dislike about it is the similarity to the word palace.

Makes me think of Athena. It's a beautiful name, very chilly and remote. Sort of puts me in mind of the evolution of Paris.

Cat.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pallas%27s_cat

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They're adorable cats, of course, but since I've known about them I can't associate Pallas with anything other than Pallas's Cat.