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What's your mum called?

245 replies

BananaPhone · 17/10/2012 22:04

Thinking about the cyclical nature of names - those that I used to think of as awful 'granny names' when I was younger - Florence, Edith, Mabel etc - are wildly popular now.

I wonder what the equivalent names will be for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

My mum is called Christine (I am in my mid 30s).

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womma · 19/10/2012 12:42

Ivy, and so is my MIL, beezarre!

DD has Ivy as a middle name because my mum's been dead for so long I wanted them to have a link.

Funnily enough, a friend has just called her newborn Margaret after her own mum, so we could be looking at having lots of Jeans and Phyllis's about in the future!

elvisola · 19/10/2012 12:01

My mum is called Iris, she is 64

redpanda13 · 19/10/2012 11:51

My mum is Catherine known as Katie. She is in her early 60's

beingginger · 19/10/2012 11:19

My mum is wilma and mil is Susan both born in 1956

bruffin · 19/10/2012 11:17

Although I am a mum of teens, I am a Christine, but from looking at this i am not that much younger than some of the mums mentioned on this board. I have just turned 50.
Feeling very oldSad

JessieEssex · 19/10/2012 11:08

Another Christine too! I'm 35. MIL is Linda

ShiverMeWhiskers · 19/10/2012 11:04

My DM is Valerie, she not keen on it. She was named by the midwife after my GM was so disappointed not to have had a boy! So I can see why that would grate a bit......My GMs name is Emily, she hates that and goes by her middle name. My MIL is Lydia, named after her GM, she doesn't like it either!!!
Luckily, we have a DS so no worries about passing on names!
I'm 36, not too bothered by my name, but there were quite a few of us at school that had the same name.

Quadrangle · 19/10/2012 10:50

I'm reading the Secret Seven to my dd atm and the girl member names are:

Janet,
Barbara,
Pam

which seem like names from my mum's generation to me.

Joyce and Maureen are in the same vein as Barbara and Pam I think.

I quite like Janet

damesauvignonblanc · 19/10/2012 10:49

My mum is called Pascaline; she's not French but was named after a Chanel model apparently. DD was almost (3 hours out!) born on my mum's birthday and therefore narrowly escaped being Pascaline too, which I think would be a bit of a handful for a child today

Yama · 19/10/2012 10:41

I've got a Christine. So many Mums called Christine. It must've been the Emily of its day. Smile

Skoggy · 19/10/2012 10:40

My Mum's name is Delia (I'm 30). I think its still quite an uncommon name as it was when my Mum was younger. Everyone automatically says... "What, like Delia Smith?"... yes but not as good at cooking Grin.

Just to put it on here, MIL is Gunnel (its Swedish).

MolotovBomb · 19/10/2012 10:38

Jean (born late 1940s). Her sisters, cousins, etc, are

Patricia
Mauven
Barbara
Caroline
Janette
Mary
Yvonne
Elaine
Sarah
Marianne
Theresa

All born late 1940s-mid 1950s

Shesparkles · 19/10/2012 10:34

My mum was Margaret, MIL Anne, and my godmother is a Marion. I'm 42, they were all born in the 1940s

Quadrangle · 19/10/2012 10:32

Marion. Quite like it.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 19/10/2012 10:32

My mum is Mary and MIL is Adrienne both in their 60's.

MrsBucketxx · 19/10/2012 10:30

my mum is jennifer and she is in her 60's i like the name but i dont think she does.

funnypeculiar · 19/10/2012 10:26

My mum is Celia, MIL is christened Margaret, but called Joan.

Both in their 60s now.

EmpressOfTheSevenScreams · 19/10/2012 10:18

Geraldine and MIL is Annie, I'm late 30s.

snickers251 · 19/10/2012 10:08

Dm Tracey, mil Debbie both early 50s

Well we are in Essex!

RugBugs · 19/10/2012 09:45

Sandra, I'm in my early thirties and DD has Mum's name (she was born a few days before Mum would have been 50).

Rather expectedly my name has been mentioned many times, [shakes fist] at young parents who gave me such a random old lady name just because they couldn't call me James.

pictish · 19/10/2012 09:44

I quite agree! Grin

nenehooo · 19/10/2012 09:43

Ah pictish that's a brilliant story! From Muriel to Flora... Lucky Mum! (no offence to any Muriel's out there!)

pictish · 19/10/2012 09:37

nenehooo my mum was due to be called Muriel....but when my grandad went to the local vicar to register the birth, the vicar said 'If I had a little girl, I'd call her Flora' - and my grandad replied 'Aye that's nice right enough - just put that down' Shock

Alls well that ends well - my mum really liked her name and it suited her, she deffo wasn't a Muriel. But hell, my granny must have been mad. Angry Grin

nenehooo · 19/10/2012 09:35

My mum is Maureen but goes by her middle name Chris (Christina).
The story goes that she was named by my Nan during the WW2 whilst my grandad was away at war. When he came back and met her, he said he wasn't having a daughter of his called Maureen and so started calling her Chris! Mum also hates Maureen so that's fine.
Women in our family have a habit of not using their real names - said Nan was always known as Pat - when she died we found out her name was actually Edith Maud!

LittleAbruzzenBear · 19/10/2012 09:33

Maxine, but everyone calls her Max

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