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Downton Abbey Names?

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Grandhighpoohba · 04/01/2012 12:12

So do we reckon that Mary, Edith and Sybil are going to have a resurgence then?

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bytheMoonlight · 05/01/2012 19:24

Lavinia Lee. How does that sound? Yes or No?

ceebie · 05/01/2012 19:20

3boysgirlontheway keep watching, Edith is MUCH nicer in season 2!

mamasin · 05/01/2012 19:16

Oh Bonsoir. I've admired your style for aaages and now you insult my name

Bonsoir · 05/01/2012 19:10

Sybil is fab and Violet even fabber. Mary and Edith are über dull, however.

Brunhilde · 05/01/2012 18:13

I hesitated over Violet for DD2... love, love it and the idea of her turning in Maggie Smith one day.

3boysgirlontheway · 05/01/2012 17:14

We were considering Edith before I started watching Downton, I have only watched 2 episodes of season 1 so far, but, the Edith character would have put me off.

LadyHarrietDeSpook · 05/01/2012 16:59

Kamal (aka Pamuk)

Can't you see it rocketing to number one?!

or

Evelyn for a boy

Violet is awesome, anticipate strong resurgance.

Mi4 · 05/01/2012 16:48

I have an elderly relative called Lavinia nn Vin. Lavinia is beautiful, Vin sounds nasty and sour.

argghh · 05/01/2012 16:21

My MIL is called Lavinia Edith!

She hates the name Lavinia and calles herself Edie, I think Laviania is much nicer!

supermama212 · 05/01/2012 15:43

i want to know what will sybil and bransons baby be called?

MotherOfCora · 05/01/2012 15:10

I have a Cora -- her name was decided on before DA started airing but she was born a couple of months later. I practically drove DH demented in the interim with second-guessing whether it was now about to become massively popular, before deciding that what the hell, we couldn't think of any other names we could agree on anyway.

I do know a 3yo Sybil, too.

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Grandhighpoohba · 05/01/2012 14:22

We are on discussion of the day! Been here years and that's never happened before.

Would be nice to be fashionable for a change. John Cleese has much to answer for.

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strandednomore · 05/01/2012 14:17

I've got an old-fashioned name which is suddenly current again, I see it on MN at least three times a week. I feel very modish.

bumbez · 05/01/2012 14:12

My youngest has an old lady name, I've heard it on Downton once. We played a game in a Victorian graveyard to see how many times we could spot her name and found 5! My family were divided at first some loathing it some loving it. 6 years on I couldn't imagine her being called anything else.

Cherrypi · 05/01/2012 13:53

Bet there won't be many Violets Smile

picnicbasketcase · 05/01/2012 13:46

You can just imagine someone full of drowsy happiness, looking down at their beautiful newborn daughter and deciding on the name 'Mrs Patmore.'

patsdeadfrank · 05/01/2012 13:43

i nearly called dd1 cora, she is now 11. but i am a last of the mohicans fan. havent seen this yet would be fab if this name made a come back.

ceebie · 05/01/2012 13:38

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
Lady Edith Crawley
Mr Carson
John Bates
Lady Mary Crawley
Sarah O'Brien
Anna
Thomas
Mrs Hughes
Cora, Countess of Grantham
Daisy
Mrs Patmore
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Matthew Crawley
Isobel Crawley
Lady Sybil Crawley
William
Tom Branson
Dr Clarkson
Molesley
Ethel
Gwen
Lavinia Swire

pranma · 04/01/2012 21:29

Laurence Olivier had a dgd called Isis-I love that name [the name of the Thames in Oxford and also an Egyptian goddess].

SlinkingOutsideInSocks · 04/01/2012 21:23

It's Sybil, right?

Sybil from DA gives great PR for the name, if it's any help. Grin It's funny how associations can really turn you for or against a name, which if looked at isolation is actually a pretty and interesting name. Sybil Fawlty really ruined it for a while.

DD's (1YO) middle name is Mary, a family name though.

I used to know a Mary when I was at school - chic brunette. The name was very dated then, but she carried it really well.

OP - funnily enough, I do sort of know how you feel. I share one of DA's older generation's names (Matthew's mother; that exact spelling), and it was sooo old lady in a bad way growing up, but now you can't move for babies with the name or one of the variations.

Swings and roundabouts - plus it's quite nice to have a name which is current in your 30s (as opposed to as a toddler), instead of being a generic Claire, Joanne or Sarah. Wink

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Grandhighpoohba · 04/01/2012 21:04

Grin neither.

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EnjoyResponsibly · 04/01/2012 20:00

Grandhigh I really want your name to be Mrs Hughes, but I bet Rosamund?

wigglesrock · 04/01/2012 19:58

I have an Anna (10 months old) and I was nosying at Bountys most popular name in my area for 2011 and Anna was really high, much higher than my other 2 daughters names and dd2 has the most popular name in the world ever according to MN Grin. A few people have said "oh like Downton Abbey" when I have told them her name including my Mum!

SecretSquirrel193 · 04/01/2012 19:57

Isn't Lily Allen's little baby called a Downton name? That'll help make it popular

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Grandhighpoohba · 04/01/2012 19:56

Bet it isn't mine five!

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