Comments for the name Fern

This is a literary name now: Fern Elston is a major character in Edward P. Jones' award-winning novel, The Known World.

This has always been a literary name. Fern from Charlotte's Web?

I have a penpal in New Zealand named "Fern" and to me it sounds like a unique name. Only in German, "fern" means as much as "far away".

I think the name Fern is very beautiful.

I really don't find this name appealing. It was also a name of a character in the movie "Jawbreaker".

Despite the similarity to the surname of the horrendous Sally Kern, I like this name, but she has still managed to ruin it in the sense that I woulld no longer want to use it. For some reason, this name always makes me picture a sarcastic, eccentric, somewhat reclusive, long- and dark-haired, a tad sulky teenage girl in some movie.

The name 'Fern' is alright. I suppose one advantage of having it is that no-one ever forgets my name. Also, it can't be shortened. I would have preferred to have been called something with a little more of a meaning, myself. That description of a reclusive, sulky teenage girl is scarily accurate.

Fern is a character on the PBS kids' show "Arthur." She's very intellectual and is a poet, so I think of this name as very down-to-earth.

It's beautiful but then ferns are beautiful things. I always picture a very free-spirited intellectual type.

Fern Britton (b. 1957), English TV presenter. She's the daughter of actor Tony Britton and has siblings Cherry and Jasper.

Fern is the name of the lead character in "The Otherworldlies" by Jennifer Anne Kogler.

The word Fern ultimately stems from a Sanskrit root, parnam, meaning "feather" - applied to the plant for its feather-like fronds.

Also, the plant's ability to appear as if from nothing accounts for the ancient belief that Fern seeds conferred invisibility.

- Source: The Online Etymology Dictionary (www.etymonline.com)

I think this is a great name that would suit any age. I also prefer it to the more strange spelling Fearne.

I'm the only person I know under 80 years old named Fern. I used to hate it when I was younger because, as simple as it looks, my name was always mispronounced. Everyone turned it into "Fran" or "Fren" somehow, even when I enunciated. In middle school people used to give me flak about having a weird inelegant name, and I still cringe whenever anyone says my name. Thankfully, High School students seem to be open to diversity. I've come to almost like the name in my old age (late teens).

Actress Fern Andra (1893-1974).

I think I like this name because of Charlotte's Web.

why oh why did E.B. White use this name? I HATE that book Charlotte's Web. Now the name seems so childish and "kids bookish" if you get what I mean. It would have been quite elegant, beautiful and artistic otherwise. I wish I could forget the association.