Pandora is super cool and has
awesome nickname potential; I doubt its rare usage has much to do with bad associations with the myth, though, since
Eve is representative of more or less the same thing and it sees plenty of use. It's altogether rather overpowering, though, definitely too over-the-top to be mainstream "usable". Someone daring could probably pull it off, and someone not-so-daring could easily go exclusively by the much more unassuming "
Dora," but...I don't know.
I wouldn't use it for real, but I would definitely choose to use it given the choice between it and
Delilah. And I honestly don't think
Delilah is an ugly awful terrible name or anything, it's just kind of vaguely pretty but sort of lacking in personality to me. I do, however, think that
Delilah would probably be considered maybe a little offbeat but definitely mainstream usable, unlike
Pandora, so I guess there's that.
This message was edited 3/21/2012, 9:22 PM