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Suggest shabby chic/country style names!!

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YummyMummybee · 23/03/2012 22:54

Hi
Can you suggest some shabby chic/vintagy/english country style names for both boy/girl!! I think the most common names I get when I google this are
Rose, Poppy, Milly, Daisy, Lily, Maisy etc.
I do love all these cute shabby chic names but can you suggest some more & also for boys.
Its hard to describe what I want & I saw the term shabby chic to describe the above in another name thread & thats along the lines we are thinking!!

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welovesausagedogs · 24/03/2012 17:29

Elfie
Mae
Iris
Esme
Brackurn
Ferne
Posy
Betsy
Betty

Ned
Sidney (sid)
Bertie
Arlo
Phinn
Basil
Charlie
Archie
Freddie
Percy
Jimmy
Stanley

SilkieChicken · 24/03/2012 17:18
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YummyMummybee · 24/03/2012 17:18

Percy-I love Mary thats why Molly is our frontrunner as its after my mom. Love Mary in its own right but hubby feels his mom would be a bit put-out if we would so obviously named our child after my mom-he feels she will accept Molly a bit better,another poster suggested Mariella to me a couple of weeks ago too & its on the list as its very cute!!!!
Thanks Math-I do love Oscar & it is a classic, universal easy to spell & pronounce!! I do like Harry but this Oscar may go better with our surname. Harrison may be a little too surnamey for us...
Lol re Albert-I cannot picture many baby Albert's in our shores over the coming years lol!!! Pity as Bertie is such a cute nn:)

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HandMadeTail · 24/03/2012 17:15

St. John (pronounced Sinjun)

PercyFilth · 24/03/2012 17:08

"Shabby chic" is a marketing term invented to sell any tatty old rubbish to the gullible. Harry Enfield captured this in

Bonsoir · 24/03/2012 14:47

aesthetic

Bonsoir · 24/03/2012 14:47

"shabby chic is that code for wanky middle class"

It's one lifestyle and decorating aesthetics. The middle-classes have zillions of them Wink

mathanxiety · 24/03/2012 14:43

I must say I really love Oscar and I remember reading older Irish children's books (maybe by Patricia Lynch) with characters named Standish, Oscar, etc. Oscar is a name that is easily pronounceable anywhere you go, and used on the Continent afaik (maybe spelled Oskar, as in Schindler).

Harrison I see as more of an American type name, maybe American of Ulster or Scottish descent. Also I think of Harrison Ford. Harry is nice though.

Maybe steer clear of Albert right now in Ireland...

ProcrastinateWildly · 24/03/2012 13:44

Harriet

PercyFilth · 24/03/2012 13:33

Mary. Wink

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YummyMummybee · 24/03/2012 11:38

Madame Messy I am not going for an Irish name as both me and hubby have them & its so frustrating having them mis-pronounced/spelt incorrectly. Its not through peoples ingnorance or rudeness its just the way they look on paper & the way the are pronounced are completely different.
We find it amusing at the same time but always said we would give our dc a simple, universal, easy to spell name hence why I love cutey style names.
If my understanding is correct I am actually a little behind the trends as now the names like Florence, Maud etc are in vogue.
I'm not trying to be trendy I just know what style me and my hubby like:) We don't care about a names ranking in the CSO lists etc...

Math Anxiety-I love Molly(its actually our no 1 name at the moment still, I was wondering would it get suggested) its totally common & in Ireland too but we love it.
Kitty & Pearl are fab too.
I'm finding the boys names very hard-we love both Harrison(Harry) or Oscar & another poster suggested George which is v cute!
Loving Violet too basking seals, Heather & Martha are gorgeous, hubby does not like Clementine:(

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LittleAlbert · 24/03/2012 08:51

Clementine

LittleAlbert · 24/03/2012 08:45

Clementine

chickensaregreen · 24/03/2012 08:44

Martha

pinktrees · 24/03/2012 08:43

Heather

baskingseals · 24/03/2012 08:41

whoops - sorry, i see that math has already suggusted Edmund. good name though.

baskingseals · 24/03/2012 08:11

Violet

Nancy

Edmumd

Jnice · 24/03/2012 03:06

Crap. I see from a google search that I inadvertent named 2/3 of our dc shabbily. Can I claim ignorance since they were born in 03 and 07 or am I just way ahead of the pack? Our DS born 11 does not have a shabby name.

Here:
www.themommyplaybook.com/forum/showthread.php?t=165426

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 24/03/2012 02:21

A 'shabby chic ' baby name ?????

I've officially heard it all now. Hmm

mathanxiety · 24/03/2012 02:14

Cicely
Cecily
Mollie
Edie (Edith)
Ada, Adelaide
Hilda
Dulcie
Kitty
Meg
Beulah
Dinah
Viola
Sylvia
Eudora
Olive
Hazel
Flora
Dora
Coralie
Honora
Maude
Esther
Pearl
Marjorie
Mabel
Opal
Vera
Betty (Elizabeth)

Cecil
Cyril
Albert
Cedric
Reginald
Ronald
Donald
Leopold
Sidney
Harvey
Victor
Kit
Clive
Atticus
Everett
Herbert
Beau
Charlie
Ivor
Piers
Lowell
Vincent
Phineas
Arnold
Thaddeus
Alcott
Barnaby
Edmund

MadameMessy · 24/03/2012 01:26

I don't think these names Will get quite the same reception in Ireland as in the UK op.
is there any reason why you are against an Irish name? why do you need to label the type of name you give your dc?

can I ask where abouts you live that you feel you need to give your dc a "trendy" name? is one you and your dp like not enough?

spendthrift · 24/03/2012 00:58

Try the Hanoverian princes for boys. Frederick, for example. There were masses of them bleeding the country poor and they all had about 5 names.

Alfred, Albert, Cecil, Edwin, lots of Victorian boys names too.

perplexedpirate · 24/03/2012 00:38

Midden?

spendthrift · 24/03/2012 00:37

Millicent is another Millie, and I've had friends who are Matilda who are Millie, Tillie or Mattie.

On the east coast side, Emily, Anne, Rebecca, Polly, Pollyanna.

perplexedpirate · 24/03/2012 00:37

Lolz @ doubleglazing and blackcoffee. Grin