[fancie]

Prudence is a lovely name. I hope you use it, OP.

[countrymel]

I know a few - they all go by Pru though.

It is a pleasant enough name but I think Pru is a bit 'nothing', kind of like a sound not a name, and if we are being realistic that IS what she will end up being called.

I have a virtue name and luckily it is one that is worth striving to live up to. As is prudence - but there is nothing that glamourous or heroic about living a prudent life is there? It is just so very sensible.

[Eirinn]

The real b**ches in English kids books I read as a kid always seemed to be Prudence.

This for me too I seem to recall an Enid Blyton book with a nasty little girl named Prue. It sounded like a harsh name then and I still feel that way, sorry.

[vanessa71]

It's not a name I would use, but would much rather hear a Prudence than many other names.

I was hoping that Siouxsie & The Banshees clip would be the actual video for Dear Prudence, which I haven't see for ages, although I do have it on VHS somehere, but it wasn't.

[Franny Glass]

I adore Prudence. So elegant and lady-like. It would be on my list, along with Ursula, except that it has been vetoed. Not "pretty" enough apparently

[*Chyloe*]

I am not fussed. Too old ladyish for me.

[It'sallgood]

Awful...would think parents were CUBs
Tamm

[whelmed]

I think it's a lovely old-fashioned name, OP. I hope you use it.

[Green Tea]

I am not a fan of virtue names, such as Prudence but I absolutely LOVE the name Prue, which I suppose it would get as a NN..

Completely up to what you like OP

[reng]

Names like Prudence, Constance and Temperance - I've not heard given to a baby (celeb or in real life) for about 30 years.

Temperance Brennan from Bones. I know, she's a character, not a real person, but there you go. Her last name is my hubbys first name. He was named after a (very) small battle in Canada that took place on Brennan's Hill, near where his father grew up. And yes, he is always spelling it to people, 'no it doesn't have a d in it'