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It could be a cool middle name for a boy (e.g. if it was a family name), but I wouldn't use it as a first name.

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I like it as a guilty pleasure first name for a girl. Taking the "pen-" part to mean "chief, top" from ancient Welsh/British instead of from "pen-" from Latin for "almost", I like to think of the meaning as the top/leading rose, i.e. the supreme rose. It's a rather cheesy but beautiful feminine meaning.

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I view Penny and Rose as feminine. But Pen could be either.