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What names make you think of a sweet, pretty little Girl ?

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Mintymoomoo · 06/02/2014 17:39

Basically that, what girls name would you associate with a sweet, pretty little girly girl???

I think Lucy and Alice but want more please

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Arohaitis · 08/02/2014 14:53

Lola is the exact opposite though to me

(it's been discussed on here before, apparently I am showing my age)

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Mintymoomoo · 08/02/2014 14:47

Also thank you empress for actually reading my post

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Mintymoomoo · 08/02/2014 14:44

Lottystar thank you, you totally understand where I'm coming from, I'm not expecting my daughter to be a "sweet pretty girly girl" I was just asking what names in ithers personal experiance make them think of a pretty feminine girly girl, as stated in my post I always think of Lucy (a name I love) because all the Lucy's I know are beautiful kind lovely people (and also dam successful in there own right and I certainly don't think they will have any trouble with "voting")

Thank you to all that just replied giving your views, just a shame there is always "someone" who wants to come on all acting all high and mighty and taking the post totally the wrong way

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Showy · 08/02/2014 14:18

But of course. Grin All the best people have Empress as a title don't they?

EmpressOfTheWellOfLostPlots · 08/02/2014 13:28

AND an empress Grin.

Showy · 08/02/2014 13:14

Empress, I swore growing up that I would name my child after the eponymous protagonist of my favourite book. That name also happens to belong to the aforementioned tank and several queens (one current) have all borne the name.

EmpressOfTheWellOfLostPlots · 08/02/2014 12:23

If your Tank's name is what I think it is, Showy, she also has some pretty cool role models!

LizLemonOnskerAtGaTilKobenhavn · 08/02/2014 11:30

Zingsweetapple! I agree! My kids should be called stroppy monster and awkward monster.

LizLemonOnskerAtGaTilKobenhavn · 08/02/2014 11:28

Im no advocat for deliberately giving somebody a sweet girly name! [Confused]
Just making the point that a name that some on this thread saw as sweet and pretty, i saw it as traditional, simple, elegant.
Worked "in business" myself for years. People rarely match their names if u think about it.

Showy · 08/02/2014 09:58

It's funny how we perceive names isn't it? My dd's name is mentioned on here a couple of times. It means 'mighty in battle' and is the name of a British infantry tank. We chose it for lots of reasons but I like strong names for girls. It's strange to hear it described as delicate, sweet or pretty. One of my favourite pictures of dd is her in wellies, muddy knees and flyaway hair, standing proudly (thumbs up, grinning) in front of the tank she is named after. It couldn't capture her name better as pictures go. Her nickname, incidentally, is 'The Tank'. She is a rugby playing, mud loving, superhero adoring, strong, determined Tank. She's great and striking in her own way. Pretty and sweet she is NOT.

honeybeeridiculous · 08/02/2014 09:54

I always think freya is a pretty name, conjours up a delicate, blonde whispy haired, sweet natured little girl Grin

EmpressOfTheWellOfLostPlots · 08/02/2014 09:48

The OP does explain later that her DD is "a stunning girl is also not a girly girl at all spent the first 5 years of her life naked in only weeklies digging up the garden and clubbing trees!!!!"

She also mentioned that she nearly named her DD Lucy and then changed her mind, and that all the Lucy and Alices she knows are "girly" so I think this more about whether the traits go with the names.

tshirtsuntan · 08/02/2014 08:46

Sophie
Katie
Anna
Julia

atthestrokeoftwelve · 08/02/2014 08:44

Lizlemon-
"professional happy confident women though"

I have worked in business for many years- the idea of being "sweet" and "girly" these "prefessional" traits don't get you very far in the business world I can assure you.

ZingSweetApple · 08/02/2014 05:54

none, all kids are monsters!Grin

I dunno, I guess Suzie.

JapaneseMargaret · 08/02/2014 05:25

Likewise, my DD's name has been mentioned, and I definitely don't think of it as girly or sweet. To me, it's classic and elegant and strong.

JapaneseMargaret · 08/02/2014 05:24

LOL, 1994, - I was going to say similar!

I have one of the other spellings of that name, and it has been listed on this thread. I was given the name in 1970s when it was deeply unfashionable, and I can just never, ever think of my own name as anyway 'girly girl' or 'pretty' or 'sweet'.

Which is a good thing. Grin

HaroldLloyd · 08/02/2014 00:19

Boris

LizLemonOnskerAtGaTilKobenhavn · 08/02/2014 00:19

Ps my dd has a name mentioned on this thread but i saw it as simple traditional but modern and elegant i think.

LizLemonOnskerAtGaTilKobenhavn · 08/02/2014 00:17

I can read that list and picture professional happy confident women though, not only blonde princesses

manicinsomniac · 08/02/2014 00:09

These are some of the 'sweet pretty little girls' that I know. (But of course several of these names also belong to children who do not fit that description):

Poppy, Catherine, Phoebe, Sadie, Isabella, Flora, Matilda, Aliya, Madeleine, Alexandra, Millie, Katie, Annabella, Darcey, Evie, Harriet, Rachel, Annabelle, Amy, Emily, Isabel, Maia, Amelia-Rose, Sophia.

curlew · 07/02/2014 23:57

The fact that the OP didn't mean it in a derogatory way makes me even sadder. When she thinks of her coming daughter she thinks "sweet, pretty little girly girl". She doesn't think strong, determined, assertive, funny, clever, loyal....she thinks sweet, pretty, little.

atthestrokeoftwelve · 07/02/2014 20:42

Lotty- taking it too seriously?

"sweet, pretty little girly girl"

That description makes me cringe.
It depicts a lot of what women have been trying to shrug off for decades. The idea that females should be "sweet" , kind, compliant, having "girly" traits in being eager to please, docile, biddable, compliant, accepting, serving.

Sorry I wouldnt want to cast my daughter into a role like that.

1944girl · 07/02/2014 20:18

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Lottystar · 07/02/2014 19:30

I think some of you ladies are taking this a little seriously. It was clearly not meant in a derogatory way by the op. She wants a pretty, feminine name what's up with that? We all have our own choice. It doesn't mean she expects her daughter to be of a certain character.