[identity profile] lilfaeriegirl.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
Bernadette

Love it or hate it?

Date: 2006-11-19 08:05 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-19 08:09 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-19 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] suthnoli.livejournal.com
Love it, but 'Bernie' is an awful nickname, and the name itself is a bit long.

Date: 2006-11-19 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sayga.livejournal.com
i was thinking the opposite. bernadette is a mouthful and not very elegant sounding, but i love bernie as a nickname. :P

Date: 2006-11-19 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mysticamor.livejournal.com
I totally agree with you.

Date: 2006-11-19 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooie-ziel.livejournal.com
A girl in my hall Freshman year had that name. She was an airhead and on the Santa Cruz Fraternity Life [MTV] trying to hook up with the frat boys.

Other than that I think I like it. It's strong but not in a Reagan/Ryan/WhatEverOtherGuysNameUsedOnAGirl way.

Just thinking about that, I like it more now.

Date: 2006-11-19 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zorianna.livejournal.com
Random, but I miss those Fraternity/Sorority Life shows!

Date: 2006-11-19 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilovehounds.livejournal.com
i really really want to love it, but i can't seem to make myself. maybe it's the bernie nickname i don't like. but then again, bernadette peters is badass!

i'm torn.

Date: 2006-11-19 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ewaeva.livejournal.com
Same here... I WANT to like it. I like it in principle, because I hate wishy-washy names that are just pretty sounds thrown together, and Bernadette is so strong.

But... It's just too ugly :(

Date: 2006-11-20 02:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] so-there.livejournal.com
ditto this (minus the part about bernadette peters, since I don't know who that is). it was on my names list for a long time, but got knocked off during the "names that fit my style but I just don't like the sound of" cut.

Date: 2006-11-20 09:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ilovehounds.livejournal.com
google her. she's a broadway legend, though most people know her from either the old "Annie" movie (she was Tim Curry's girlfriend Lil) or Disney's Cinderella (the live action musical version -- she was the stepmother)

Date: 2006-11-19 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cluckydude.livejournal.com
I love it, I love Bernie as a nickname, but I have to say it makes me think of Bernadette from The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.

Not that this is a bad association for me, at all.

Date: 2006-11-19 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zorianna.livejournal.com
Hate it.

Date: 2006-11-19 09:22 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-19 10:16 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-19 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] xcuore.livejournal.com
hate it, it sounds like an old-lady's name to me

Date: 2006-11-19 10:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] darabelle.livejournal.com
love &hearts

Date: 2006-11-19 11:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] satunian.livejournal.com
Like it, but don't love it

Date: 2006-11-19 11:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marcsgen.livejournal.com
Love it, but would probably never name my own child that. NMS for my hypothetical future kids.

But I like it, think it's charming for a little girl, classy for a young woman, mature for an adult, and... well, back to charming for an old woman. :) And Bernadette Peters is a /goddess/.

Date: 2006-11-19 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] debrrra.livejournal.com
LOVE it.

Date: 2006-11-20 12:53 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-20 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ferretiger.livejournal.com
personally ruined for me by a Bernadette I knew in grammar school with some seriously bad hair.

Date: 2006-11-20 03:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maude.livejournal.com
Hate it. So ugly and sounds like a car name.

Date: 2006-11-20 04:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zante.livejournal.com
I do like it, but I have bad associations with it so I wouldn't use it on my daughter :)

Date: 2006-11-20 04:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bloomingtulip.livejournal.com
Hate it. And I don't like Bernie either.

Date: 2006-11-20 06:31 am (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-20 10:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jaydoz.livejournal.com
Hate it

Date: 2006-11-20 01:43 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-20 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kthartline.livejournal.com
It makes me think of a white trashy type redneck fatso for some reason. Maybe Adette... or Berna would be a LITTLE bit better...

Date: 2006-11-20 04:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] septembergrrl.livejournal.com
It feels very dated to me, and it reminds me of the old Motown song. I don't hate it, but I think it's a tough name to give a kid, and Bernie sucks as a nickname for a little girl.

Date: 2006-11-20 04:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sotypical42483.livejournal.com
It's my grandma's name, people call her Bern. I'm not a fan of it.

Date: 2006-11-20 06:06 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-11-21 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-gracie.livejournal.com
It's my mum's middle name. It's pretty boring sounding.

Date: 2006-11-28 06:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silentyrs.livejournal.com
I like it. It reminds me of Bernadette "Benny" from Circle of Friends.
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