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"Granny" girl's name list!

147 replies

DefinitelyMaybeBaby · 10/01/2021 14:39

Baby girl due in a few weeks and we are getting closer to a name but not there yet! I did post a shortlist a couple of months ago and feedback was helpful so thank you.

(I will caveat this by saying our taste is very much old fashioned names which we know won't be for everyone!)

Middle name will be Juniper with all the first name options.

Norah
Nancy
Mavis
Dorothy (Dot/Dottie)
Winnifred

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JollyJosiah · 10/01/2021 16:29

Dorothy Juniper is lovely.

Bitbusyattheminute · 10/01/2021 16:25

Mary.

Most of the women in my family tree were called Mary or Kathleen, depending on whether they were Welsh or Irish side.

Apart from my grandmother 's sister, born on Xmas day and called Mary Nadolig (Mary Christmas).

Pinotpleasure · 10/01/2021 16:19

There is a very old church just a few hundred feet from our house. On one of the gravestones is a name which I really like: Albertina (possibly because of the popularity of Prince Albert?)

My grannies (now long dead) were born in the early 1900s-1910s and their names were Florence and Alice. Their daughters were named: Iris, Edna, Alice and Rosemary (my mum, now aged 81).

Other granny names are:

Clarissa or Clara
Marigold
Vivienne
Rita
Lillian /Lilian
Pamela
Doreen
Eileen
Jane
Henrietta
Hannah
Sybil
Barbara
Jean
Patricia
Joan
Clementine
Enid
Perpetua (aka Peppy)
Hermione

Whiskysoda · 10/01/2021 16:19

I’ve always thought Nancy to be a very pretty name.

KeeefBurtain · 10/01/2021 16:12

Nancy! It’s beautiful and one of my favourite names.

Dd2 was very nearly a Nancy - was between that and Elspeth. Sad I won’t be able to use it as she is my 4th and last.

ChronicallyCurious · 10/01/2021 16:09

I like Nancy and Dorothy/Dotty.

Ethel
Irene
Betty
Beryl
Sheila
Geraldine
Bernadette
Elsie
Vera

Frankley · 10/01/2021 16:06

Jennifer Juniper, wasn't that in a Donovan or somebody's song?
Judith, Christine, Lilias, Suzanne, Anne

Sarahandduck18 · 10/01/2021 16:06

I prefer Norah from your list.

Annette
Marilyn
Cynthia
Trudie
Sylvia
Sadie
Phyliss

SpilltheTea · 10/01/2021 16:04

I really like Mavis, but DP wasn't keen.

TempsPerdu · 10/01/2021 16:03

I love granny names (although personally I prefer to call them ‘vintage’! Wink) But I have to say that I’m not a particular fan of any of the ones your list apart from maybe Nancy. Hearing lots of people mention Mavis lately but I have a very elderly and quite formidable aunt with that name and can’t quite get past that association. Norah seems to get a lot of love on here, but I just can’t se it as an attractive name.

My favourite vintage names are Greta (DD’s name), Frida/Frieda, Sylvia, Daphne and Iris. Juniper makes a lovely middle name by the way.

LurkingStill · 10/01/2021 15:58

I like Alma.

From your list Nancy or Norah

TerrifiedOfTrying4No2 · 10/01/2021 15:57

I has a Mabel last year. I still love it but I chose it because it was one of the old lady names that hadn’t been mentioned a million times but now it’s come back hard and I know 3 people locally who have had a Mabel in the last few months😩

If I have another girl potential names will be:
Penelope/Penny
Dorothy/Dotty
Iris
Edith
Vivian
Audrey or Aubrey
Elspeth.

BillyIsMyBunny · 10/01/2021 15:56

I like Norah and Nancy.

Not keen on Dorothy but Dot/ Dottie is cute. Don’t like Mavis or Winnifred at all.

Incidentally I love the name Juniper - personally I would use it as the first name and have one of the ‘granny’ names as the middle name.

StellaRockafella · 10/01/2021 15:55

I had a great-auntie called Dora, which I think is a lovely name.

Elsie
Millicent
Emmeline

Edgeoftheledge · 10/01/2021 15:54

Ethel is fabulous
Betty

GypsyLee · 10/01/2021 15:53

Berry.

Nowmum43 · 10/01/2021 15:53

Olive
Winnie
Iris
Ivy
Mabel

Edgeoftheledge · 10/01/2021 15:53

Maggie
Peggie
Margo
Rose

Edgeoftheledge · 10/01/2021 15:52

Irene

Edgeoftheledge · 10/01/2021 15:51

I like all off your list, apart from Winnifred

Edgeoftheledge · 10/01/2021 15:51

Pearl
Vera
Elsie
Iris
Ivy

Nannewnannew · 10/01/2021 15:47

Kate
Florence
Nellie
Betty
Nancy

catatecheese · 10/01/2021 15:45

I think Norah is short for Eleanor and Nancy is short for Anne so you may want to be authentic if going old lady.

Trickyboy · 10/01/2021 15:42

Kathleen and wait for it.... Euphemia ... think it will be a long time before that makes a resurgence..even granny was called 'mia' ...

daisypond · 10/01/2021 15:39

Lilian is fabulous.
Sheila
Maureen
Joyce
Shirley
Jean
Alma
Beryl
Lena

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