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Should I name my baby girl....

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paprickapaull · 12/02/2019 19:31

Should I name my name baby ( which is on her way) Jaqueline or Suzanne?

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BrizzleMint · 18/02/2019 06:28

The only Suzanne I know is horrible so not that one.

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 18/02/2019 06:21

There nothing wrong with a 'dated' name. Why is it ok for all the old fashioned names like Albert, Elsie, Edith, Ralph etc to make a come back, but not for Suzanne?

Absolutely. Somebody has to be the first to revive them. In 20 years' time, maybe Tracy, Linda, Gary and Keith will be the height of sophistication again!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 18/02/2019 06:19

Suzette?

Nah, that's just crepe Grin

EmilyR1984 · 16/02/2019 23:45

There nothing wrong with a 'dated' name. Why is it ok for all the old fashioned names like Albert, Elsie, Edith, Ralph etc to make a come back, but not for Suzanne?

Suzanne is a perfectly acceptable (normal) name.

NerdyBird · 16/02/2019 23:44

From experience, she'll spend a great deal of time correcting people when they don't listen properly and call her Susan, and that it's one z and two ns if you call her Suzanne. But of course it is the best name of the two 😉
If you do call her that, spell her Suzie with a z please if you use a nickname. And I've never been called Sue. All the Sue's I know are short for Susan.

Bumblebeesmum · 16/02/2019 23:21

What about Susannah / Suki / Johanna / Josephine/ Celine / Jocelyn / Jacoba
Or anything except Jacqueline tbh

Hunkyd0ry · 16/02/2019 15:44

@VinnythePanda

Also my Mum and MIL!

So popular in the 50s in my case....

Icklepup · 16/02/2019 15:41

Jacqueline

aliceandkids77 · 15/02/2019 09:59

I would pick Jacqueline if you are planning on no nicknames. If you are then I'd go with Suzanne and call her Suzie which I think is darling. x

MikeUniformMike · 14/02/2019 14:10

I don't think Susannah is dated. Susan is a 'grandmother''s name now so is probably due a comeback. Suzanne is 1960s/1970s, so probably not ready for a comeback - it's the french form of Susan.
I know lots of Sues born in 1940s/50/60s.

Pemba · 14/02/2019 14:06

So Suzanne and Susannah are both old fashioned AND dated, yet somehow Susan isn't. OK then.....
I dislike labelling names 'dated' but clearly Susan is the most dated of the three names. You couldn't move for baby Susans in the fifties and sixties.

Avamore · 14/02/2019 11:00

I really like Susan. I think Suzanne and Susannanh are too old fashioned and dated.

I prefer Jocelyn to Jacqueline.

Sophronia · 14/02/2019 00:16

Suzanne, but Susanna would be better.

Ihavealwaysknown · 13/02/2019 23:20

I really like the idea of Jac for a girl (bit of a holby fan girl of jac Naylor)

So Jacqueline for me!

VinnythePanda · 13/02/2019 21:32

They’ll end up either Jacky or Sue. My mum’s name and my mother in law’s name. Very dated.

emilybrontescorsett · 13/02/2019 21:17

Jacqueline.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 13/02/2019 15:52

Why those names? Are they after someone? Both names are very dated.

Pemba · 13/02/2019 15:36

Well Suzanne out of the two, but as pps say, Susanna/h is nicer.

I am sure that both Suzanne and Jacqueline will come back into fashion some day though, they are both nice names. It is just the 'dated' perception that puts people off.

RiverTam · 13/02/2019 14:42

neither, bith very dated (and Jacqueline spelt wrong, not sure if that's intentional).

Susanna(h) better.

MikeUniformMike · 13/02/2019 14:41

Both dated. Susan or Susannah are nicer.

Mscandylamb · 13/02/2019 14:41

Neither.

SquiddyMcSquidford · 13/02/2019 14:39

Suzanne nickname Suzy

KarineAimee · 13/02/2019 13:57

I really like Jacqueline- I’ve known several and they’ve all been lovely. My housemate at uni went by Jacqui which I think is a nice shortening.

Antonin · 13/02/2019 13:24

Suzette?

Marcipex · 13/02/2019 11:41

Jacqueline.

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