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Wanted: girls name. Must be fabulous.

687 replies

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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ZeroFunDame · 27/05/2015 10:59

Doris ... The OP already has an Agnes, so it obviously wouldn't work.

DoristheCamel · 27/05/2015 10:45

Agapanthus!!!!!!

ZeroFunDame · 27/05/2015 09:58

I hadn't Gasp0 but I also hadn't thought of EB's Bill for a hundred years. The description above made her sound very much like a younger Chalet School Bill.

Can't believe people are still throwing in names that were thrown out days ago. Grin

makesomenoise · 27/05/2015 09:00

I know a little girl named Dido - now that is surely fabulous!

makeminea6x · 27/05/2015 07:20

Thora?

Sorry if already said, no time to RTFT

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 27/05/2015 07:17

On a vowel theme - Inez.

Zero, let's not forget that Enid created one of the Bills along with Darrell and co!

Icedfinger · 27/05/2015 06:02

I'm just going to throw randoms at you now:
Fenella
Grisabelle
Gabrielle
Taryn
Penelope
Daphne
Genevieve
Annie
Roberta

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Marcipex · 27/05/2015 00:53

Surely Tess is as NorthLondon as anything.

Frances?

ancientbuchanan · 26/05/2015 23:23

Getting my second wind.

On a book theme

Karen
Rowan
Lawrence \Lawrie
Lois

Tess (ok too many Ss)
Marty/Martine

Charlotte

Rumer
Loveday
Marjorie
Adrienne
Jacqueline
Morgan
Muriel
Marni
Lilian/Lilias
Fran

On a vowel theme,
Imogen
Then you would need Ophelia and Ursula to complete

NinePeedles · 26/05/2015 23:15

Elfreda

Alethea

Yika · 26/05/2015 23:12

Wanted to suggest Vita and Damaris but already done, boo hoo. Vita is a superb name.

June
Leigh

CrystalMcPistol · 26/05/2015 23:09

And there was Ted and Len too. Any girl who arrived at the Chalet School with a vaguely frilly name was pretty much ordered to change it to something that made her sound like a member of the local male darts team.

ZeroFunDame · 26/05/2015 22:54

Good grief - did that Bill grow up to be Bill in the Chalet School?

Griselda, Robin and all possible versions of Margaret all strode the Austrian mountains too. (So obviously couldn't be the sisters of girls with "housemaid" names.)

almapudden · 26/05/2015 22:50

How about Vivika?

MovingOnUpMovingOnOut · 26/05/2015 22:43

Aneeka
Gisele

ancientbuchanan · 26/05/2015 22:39

Demelza
Damaris
Bathsheba

IReallyAmHephzibah · 26/05/2015 22:32

cough
Hephzibah?

cough

ancientbuchanan · 26/05/2015 22:28

I'd forgotten Bill. And who was the artist ? belinda? And the musician ?

Oh this thread is wondrous.

OP, two brill names coming up

Griselda, or the wonderful scots version useful for so many unpleasant children Grizel. Or even in the Elizabethan version, Grissel. As in patient. Admittedly gets changed into Gristle but who cares?

And has someone said Grete or Gretel, instead of Margaret/Marguerite ?

Robin?
Tamsin?
Jan?

bikeandrun · 26/05/2015 22:19

Wilhelmina or bill as she prefered was pretty cool, rode to school by horse with her six brothers, possible proto - lesbian if that is a term?

ancientbuchanan · 26/05/2015 22:15

Bike, yup. I couldn't remember any of the rest.

Claudine ? Who were her friends at St Clare's?

Dervla/Dervorgilla?

bikeandrun · 26/05/2015 22:08

Ancient love the malory towers names, me and dd met a American woman called gwendoline, we admitted she was a character in a classic English children's book but omitted to describe further, hope she never reads the book. Much giggling later on about a sharp slap with a hairbrush being required.( poor woman she is lovely)

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 26/05/2015 22:00

If not Rhoda, what about Rhona/Rona?

I'll just mention Velma again.

A propos of nothing at all, it's just occurred to me that if you had three daughters called Ruby, Amber and Jade they would make a set of human traffic lights. I won't be able to stop thinking about that now.

MitziKinsky · 26/05/2015 21:58

Pascale

ancientbuchanan · 26/05/2015 21:44

Oh and
Rosalind
Rosamund
Linnet/Llinos
Linda