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I actually have met a woman named Persis who would be about 90 now if she was still living. Personally I like it.

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Persis was regularly used in colonial New England. When I was researching the history of the use of the name Pearl in the USA, I found several claimed instances of women named Pearl in the index to the U.S. census on Ancestry.com, but when I checked the original records they were all misreadings of other names, with Persis being by far the most common name the indexers mistakenly read as "Pearl."

Not crazy about it. It an okay name, but I personally prefer Parisa.

LM Montgomery used it somewhere in the later Anne books, I think, for a fairly minor character. i didn't like it then and I don't like it now. I wouldn't expect to encounter it IRL, and I never have. Perhaps it could work as a mn: Agatha Persis flows better than Persis Agatha, for instance.

I don’t see the appeal. It looks like p*isses and doesn’t remotely look feminine to me. Before I looked it up I thought it was some version of Perseus. Persistent comes to mind too. I much prefer Persia.

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Of the combos I can appreciate the flow of Persis Allegra, Persis Angelica and Persis Leonora.

There's not many names where I comment 'I don't like it' and leave it at that as I...erm... think that's an amazingly unhelpful comment? But I don't like it. I can't elaborate on why I don't like it (and like the clunkier Briseis quite a lot), I have no idea, it just bothers me.

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Also it makes me think of dishwasher tablets.

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And maybe it's some eyerolling dread that a Pe name with an s ending is eventually going to be teasing material for some very dull and unimaginative children at some point? Even though it's not that close to penis, if you're twelve and you *squint*, maybe?

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But ultimately, I just don't like it.

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I will allow for the fact that there's something cool in an ugly-cute-clunky-did-they-really-do-that way about Persis Agatha, Persis Enid and maybe even Persis Verity. Persis Leontine and Persis Leonora make me think of lilies, maybe that's predictable. As for the rest, not a fan, although there are some beautiful mn choices here... I like or love Violet, Emmeline, Leonora, Eleonora, Ianthe, Iolanthe, Eva, Verity, Leontine, Leontina, Juliana, Allegra and Antonia, all so pretty... and maybe Iolanthe Persis, Leontina Persis, Allegra Persis or Antonia Persis might work better?

I like it. I think it’s a strong name and particularly like Persis Allegra.

This message was edited 3/3/2023, 1:59 PM

Don't like it at all