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Help[Opinions] Pemberley
I love Jane Austen's novels and I was thinking today about her novel 'Pride & Prejudice' and of the hero's estate called Pemberley and wondered weather or not it would make a good first name and which gender I'd put it on - boy or girl.
So what do you all think? Would it be more suitable for a little girl because of the -ly sound on the end or is it more masculine because of where it comes from, a country estate?
And what kind of a middle name would you pair it with?
http://kevan.org/johari?name=LadyBug19
So what do you all think? Would it be more suitable for a little girl because of the -ly sound on the end or is it more masculine because of where it comes from, a country estate?
And what kind of a middle name would you pair it with?
http://kevan.org/johari?name=LadyBug19
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I think it would be better on a boy. It does sound kind of "girly" for a boy, so I'd definitely combine it with a very masculine fn or mn. :-)
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Actually it just sounds like the name of an estate to me, like Manderley in Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca or Sir J. Paul Getty II's Wormsley.
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Pemberley sounds pretentious to me b/c it says "stately home of a rich person", thus implying riches.
As a place name, it sound just as good (or bad) for both sexes. But it seem all such names are considered feminine after a while.
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As a place name, it sound just as good (or bad) for both sexes. But it seem all such names are considered feminine after a while.
- She said he made a racial slur!
- Racial? She is Swedish!
- Maybe he called her Meatball.
Equality never goes out of style.
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I would say it's better suited for a boy because I feel that most "sir name first names" sound better for boys. Also, because it's so close to the name Kimberley I would think it would sound weird for a girl.
I don't like this as a first name because I don't like any nns it might have and it just sounds kind of silly when you say it.
I don't like this as a first name because I don't like any nns it might have and it just sounds kind of silly when you say it.
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I find it unattractive for either sex, but I'd expect to find it on a girl, for two reasons:
-Its similarity to Kimberly, which is quite feminine in the U.S.
-Its similarity to Wemberly, as in Kevin Henkes' children's book Wemberly Worried, which stars a female mouse worried about going to kindergarten
I really hope I don't ever meet a Pemberley, though.
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-Its similarity to Kimberly, which is quite feminine in the U.S.
-Its similarity to Wemberly, as in Kevin Henkes' children's book Wemberly Worried, which stars a female mouse worried about going to kindergarten
I really hope I don't ever meet a Pemberley, though.
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