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Ha. I just watched this for the first time through the miracle of iPlayer, and it was definitely the woman's name beforehand and not the TARDIS'... for the same reasons as some others have said, and besides, there's a bit where he asks if the TARDIS has a name and Idris is most definitely not mentioned.

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I am suuuuuuch a geek

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Anyway, I liked the character and by association can picture it on a woman. I think it has a bit of a too much of a fantasy/sci-fi vibe to be without it's problems if anyone were to actually use it (and besides the fact that if someone were to have a daughter right off the back of the episode and name her Idris, regardless of it being because they liked the name, people are going to find it funny that it looks like someone named their child after a Who character. In a couple of months time, eh, nobody'd notice, but...) but it is pretty and does have a bit of a unisex feel to it.

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Must say, though, that when I first heard the name I seriously thought they said Iblis and was like O___O. That might be because I'm a wee bit deaf, haha.

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And really, there's loads of boy names now popular on girls, and this one is actually nice compared to 80% of currently used ones, so I'm not gonna complain and I'm not sure how big a deal it would be...