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in reply to a message by Anneza
Overall, I like Pamela. It's a dated name, in that it was popular in the fifties and sixties and it's not popular now, but it's one of the better dated names. Coined by a sixteenth century poet, the title of the first ever novel written in English--great literary associations. Old, classic, all that.
It's my youngest sister's name, so that's my primary association. I've always that that it was the best of the five first names that my mom got to bestow. I think I would always prefer to have it as a first name....it seems too substantial to me to be a middle name.
Now the downside---my sister is always called Pam, never Pamela. As a child she was called Pammy. I'm not nuts about those nicknames.
I knew another Pamela, the daughter of a friend, who would be twenty-five now. She was only occasionally called Pam--usually she was called Pamela, so I don't think that the nickname is inevitable.
It's my youngest sister's name, so that's my primary association. I've always that that it was the best of the five first names that my mom got to bestow. I think I would always prefer to have it as a first name....it seems too substantial to me to be a middle name.
Now the downside---my sister is always called Pam, never Pamela. As a child she was called Pammy. I'm not nuts about those nicknames.
I knew another Pamela, the daughter of a friend, who would be twenty-five now. She was only occasionally called Pam--usually she was called Pamela, so I don't think that the nickname is inevitable.
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