Plum?

[missyfafa]

Is Plum a proper name or just a nickname for something? Anyone know. Is it cute or too much?

[Psammead]

A plum is a proper name for a small purplish fruit. That's about it!

Sorry, it's really not my idea of a nice name.

[alfiemama]

Its a bit peaches geldoff, could be quite cute, like pixie.

[Evenstar]

I know a Plum it is a nickname for Victoria in her case.

[BooBooChicken]

as a nickname maybe, not sure what it would be a derivative of though..

[posieparker]

plums. sorry

[amidaiwish]

don't do it.
haven't you heard the expression "what a plum?"

[seeker]

It's a proper name for a fruit and a slang term for a testicle.

NEVER call any child a name that can be described as 'cute'. Cute is fine until you are about 5 - then you want to be taken seriously some of the time.

[dizzydixies]

I love it but would never use it - setting a child up for utter ricicule unfortunately great NN for something though

[PlumBumMum]

I love it

[missyfafa]

Well, that's told me! I do know a Plum, or at least know of a Plum and she is in her 60's. Must ask her where it comes from. My husband really likes it.

[DinahRod]

Avoid mn Duff

Works as a nn.

[LetThereBeRock]

It's awful.

[SillyTillyBilly]

Cute nickname - much like poppet, sweet pea, pumpkin, petal, honey etc but I thik it would be better to choose a stronger name for the birth certificate and use it as an endearing nn.

[padraig]

Awful name.

[Northernlurker]

Fine as a nickname, awful as a real name. There are some things which just don't work - like Tulip, Daffodil, Sunset and Ocean

[CuppaTeaJanice]

It reminds me of Terry Christian on The Word in the early 1990s talking about 'feeling his plums'.

I really don't want to be thinking about Terry Christian's testicles 20 years on...

[skidoodly]

How about Bollock? That's cute.

[Undercovamutha]

Oh please say you are joking?

Don't do it - your poor child will have the worst school years ever!

BTW I regularly use it as a slightly less offensive way of calling someone an idiot - as in 'what a plum!' or 'you plum'.

Just. Don't. Do. It.

[notquitenormal]

Actually, I think it's a lovely name.

For a rabbit

[schroeder]

It's a shortened form of Pelham; as in Pelham Grenville Wodehouse he was (apparently) referred by his friends and family as Plum.
I'm not sure it's due for a comeback though.

[APassionateWoman]

PMSL

Please don't.

[MrsJohnDeere]

I know one who actually has that as her real name, not a nn.
Not my cup of tea

[pitterpatterfeet]

Very funny!