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I love it so much that, only yesterday, my husband and I discussed it as a possible baby name if we ever have another daughter.

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I used to find it super heavy and unattractive but nowadays, I love it.

I love Beatrice, it has great associations, fun nicknames, and sounds refined and intelligent.

I used to really dislike the name Beatrice, but it has grown on me over the years. I still prefer Beatrix, because I like the sound and look of it a bit more and love the Beatrix Potter connection.

My grandmother's mn was Beatrice, and my mother's one and only name was Beatrice. She liked the full form, but nobody ever seemed to use it: she preferred Bea, but was often called Beattie, which she disliked.

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We named our daughter after her - after both of them really - but if she'd been alive I don't think she'd have encouraged us to do it. Our daughter likes her name, but also always goes by Bea; I'm the only one who calls her Beatrice, partly because that's what mothers do but also because I associate Bea with my mother.

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The only problem my daughter has ever had with her name is that people often mishear it or assume that it's 'really' Beatrix! And that's easily sorted out.

I think it's ok

I do like Beatrice. I don't know about a book, specifically. But I usually go off a name when I just hear it too much in general. Even seeing a name over and over on the polls can do that. Or if I meet an unpleasant person with the name.

I love Beatrice.

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I used to like the name Cleo until I read a book in which one of the main characters had that name. I stopped liking it by the end of the book because the "sound" of the name in my head became unpleasant to me.

Beatrice is quite lovely! I may even prefer it to Beatrix.

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I think I feel similarly about Muriel. I adore the name's appearance and aura, but it doesn't sound particularly pleasant when I utter it (aloud or in my head). I still love it, though!

No, it doesn't happen to me with names, because if I like or dislike a name's sound, reading it over and over doesn't change my mind, unless the name I'm reading has a different pronunciation than I thought it did.

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I don't like Beatrice. Bea is kind of cute in a grandma way, but Beatrice is so prim and prissy.