Pilar

[ilovehounds.livejournal.com]

What do you think of this name? It's a girl's name and I believe it's French.

it's pronounced pull ar and i've heard it said pew lar for a boy.

Comments

[ilovehounds.livejournal.com]

oops.

but do you like it?

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

it's french as well.

[lookingatastar.livejournal.com]

I like it. I think one of the characters on the television show "Passions" is named Pilar.

[slowwinter.livejournal.com]

You would be correct. XD

Oh, and I like it, too. I've heard it as a boy's name also.

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I think Pilar is Spanish. And as I've heard it, it's pronounced Pee-Lahr. It's not exactly my style, but it's not a bad name. Has a nice sound to it.

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

whoops, didn't see the first comment. Sorry :)

[ilovehounds.livejournal.com]

i've heard it several ways. strange that there are so many choices for pronunciation.

[party-girl81.livejournal.com]

thats how i've always heard it pronounced too!

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

Not my style, I don't get that 'pretty' vibe from it I look for with girls names.

[colin-chaotic.livejournal.com]

Looking at it, I think pilaf. As in rice.

[lipsandhips.livejournal.com]

i read a short story recently and the main characters name was pilar. i just think of a pillar or like column. its the only thing i can think about. but the girl in the story was pretty sexy....who knows.

[amazonelf78.livejournal.com]

i thought it was pee-lar? that's how i learned it. and it's spanish. i think it's cute (i've liked it since spanish classes back in middle and high school)

[elemmennope.livejournal.com]

It's ok. I've never heard it said anyway but pee-LAR though.

It's sort of a name for a stocky, big, beefy girl in my eyes. It's not a pretty name to me. Kind of like Bertha, but not quite that bad. No idea why though, as the Pilars I knew (one actually named that, one girl used it in a Spanish class) were perfectly nice in both appearence and personality.

[arcadianzero.livejournal.com]

pil-ar

its the name of a character of Passions...her character is mexican

[semi-sweet.livejournal.com]

I like it, but then I like most Spanish names. People who haven't seen the name before would be likely to call her "Piller" though.

[krazyhippie.livejournal.com]

I babysat for a Mexican woman (actually from Mexico, I'm not using it as a generic for Latina, lol) whose name was Pilar. It was pronounced PEE-lar. Her husband's nickame for her sounded like Peelee, which sounded kind of strange to me. But all her neighbor friends called her that too.

[ouronlylight.livejournal.com]

I have mixed feelings about this name thanks to the character of Pilar on Passions. I think that if I'd never heard of it before, though, I probably wouldn't be all that fond of it, though.

Most people on the show pronounce it pih-LAR, though one woman who's not all that fond of her pronounces it pee-LAR.

[ladyjp.livejournal.com]

I don't like it. I'd pronounce it Pee-lar which is just too close to pillar for me.

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

Yuck.