I’ve recently encountered the name Pyrene (Pie-reen) and I’m definitely intrigued by it, it’s growing on me
I believe it means ‘[name]Flame[/name] Haired’ so it could work on a little red-headed girl?
Let me know what you think?
I’ve never seen this name before, but I did think right upon reading it you’d pn it ‘Pie-reen’, so at least that could be helpful if you decided to go with something so unusual.
To me it sounds a little…unapproachable or tough? I can’t quite think of the word I mean, but it seems like a rather difficult name to manage. Plus, I’d had to ever have people call me Py.
It’s very visually pretty, but I’m not really that sure if I like it or not. It sounds summery and exotic, but slightly vulgar at the same time. I didn’t have any problem with pronunciation, though, as has been pointed out.
I like it’s meaning a lot though. I’ve always been one to fall for red-haired meanings.
I get the fiery connection (pyro/pyre) so it could work from a meaning standpoint, if you were naming a redhead. But I feel it might be a tough name to carry all one’s life. To be honest, it sounds like a chemical product to me (but DH works in the plastics industry so I’m always hearing about styrenes and urethanes and the like, so I’m probably biased there). And it sounds a little like a corruption of [name]Irene[/name] to me, although I’m sure Pyrene probably predates that and is completely unrelated.
I don’t hate it – I just have a few sticking points, I guess.
Maybe I’m too much of a geek but my first impression was that it’s the name of an amino acid. Lysine, cystine, tyrosine, proline, Pyrene… It just flows too well with them. Sorry!
I also thought it sounded very chemical or elemental. I also might be the only one here that would associate it with [name]Sailor[/name] [name]Moon[/name], but there were tons and tons of mineral, gem, space, and elemental names in it.
Maybe I’m too much of a geek but my first impression was that it’s the name of an amino acid. Lysine, cystine, tyrosine, proline, Pyrene… It just flows too well with them. Sorry!
LOL! That was pretty close to my thought, which was also biological in nature. Pyo- is the medical prefix for anything containing pus, and that was what I thought of immediately when I saw the name. Yuck! Sorry.