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Wanted: girls name. Must be fabulous.

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MaureenMacnally · 25/05/2015 11:28

Why am I pregnant again ffs? Stupid Catholic upbringing. My body will an unsalvageable wreck and we will be living in penury for the next two decades.

Anyway. Need a girls name. I am utterly devoid of inspiration, being interested only in grab bags of Skips and having naps.

Already have an Agnes and an Enid. Surname Stephens.

Dislike: frilliness; 'ah' endings; 'classic' names.

Like: fabulous names. I was keen on Ramona the last go-round, but think I might have lost my love for it.

Any suggestions?

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DrElizabethPlimpton · 25/05/2015 23:27

Zelda

MitzyLeFrouf · 25/05/2015 23:25

Flute!!

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Rivercam · 25/05/2015 23:04

Don't worry. Sometimes it helps to know which names you don't like.

Nabuma · 25/05/2015 23:03

I love Dinah WhinGin dh ruled it out though Sad

nilbyname · 25/05/2015 23:02

Please call her Magda, it's my favourite, but vetoed by DH.

Aleternative-

Astrid

Flute

Harlow

Wren

Cora

Nabuma · 25/05/2015 23:02

Temperance?
Suki?
Coraline?
Delphine?
Ariadne?
Adeline?
Sorry if these have been suggested, is a long thread to sift through!
And, sorry to be pedantic, but the girl in Despicable Me is Edith. I only know that because I have an Edith.

VixxFace · 25/05/2015 22:59

Fanny I agree. Not one of these names is fabulous in the slightest. They are hideously ugly.

WhinGin · 25/05/2015 22:59

Dinah?

SlightlyJaded · 25/05/2015 22:59

I SWEAR I came on to say Vita.

I love it. Strong, elegant and timeless. Doitdoitdoit

MitzyLeFrouf · 25/05/2015 22:58

Fabulous would be the perfect name for a mini RuPaul.

Gilrack · 25/05/2015 22:56

Why don't you call her Fabulous?

Vita's great, I grant you. But Fabulous is fabulous.

calzone · 25/05/2015 22:55

Enid, Agnes and Gaye.

Enid, Agnes and Vera

Enid, Agnes and Doris.

I love Doris. Or Beryl. Or Clara.

OutsSelf · 25/05/2015 22:54

Vita is like Rita being said by someone fabulously foreign

SylvaniansAtEase · 25/05/2015 22:54

Honestly, I think you have it with Vera!

  • you like it
  • it fits with your other DD names: bit spiky, not to everyone's taste (!) short, snappy, not frilly, unusual (but you're just a bit ahead of the curve)
  • good short form like the others (Ag, Mo and Vee!)

It's perfect. Valerie also almost as good for similar reasons. Vita excellent, but more user friendly (bit North London, surely??!) and not so cool as Vera...

Corinne will be pronounced Cor-een by EVERYONE. I know a Coryn though, and know of someone else with Coryn on the shortlist alongside Taryn, Thea, Talia... don't know if that indicates that Coryn is suddenly going to shoot up in popularity!

OutsSelf · 25/05/2015 22:50

I sort of hope our Vidas are one and the same. She had me for lunch last week, it wasn't pretty. I dread to think of another one sonewhere duplicating that on some other well meaning but under prepared sap Sad

MitzyLeFrouf · 25/05/2015 22:46

Lesbia has reminded me that Gaye used to be quite a popular girl's name in the Enid/Agnes era.

MitziKinsky · 25/05/2015 22:45

Hazel

MitzyLeFrouf · 25/05/2015 22:45

Selma

Marcipex · 25/05/2015 22:42

Gundreda

Not soft, not flowery!

serin · 25/05/2015 22:40

Buryan

(Pronounced Bree-Ann) after the good Cornish saint.

Personally I love Magda!

FannyFernackapan · 25/05/2015 22:40

The only thing that offends me about this thread is the fact it's full of some of the ugliest names I've ever heard. I honestly thought it was a wind up at first but ah well, we can't all like the same thing.

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MaureenMacnally · 25/05/2015 22:38

Gasp - No. Just no. To all of them. Grin Grin

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 25/05/2015 22:36

Nerys? Nyree?

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MaureenMacnally · 25/05/2015 22:35

I love Anne! But already have an Agnes so too close, boo.

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