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help me convince dp that our next dd HAS to be called ida?

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 20:28

i love the name ida, and i have my heart set on it, but dp won't even entertain the idea! btw i'm not pregnant but just thinking ahead if you can rid your minds of blue-rinses and nora batty style tights, don't you think this is a great name???

(or is it just me?!)

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 22:16

yay! so i'm not mad. but how to convince the oh???

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 22:13

no imagination kindersurprise!

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hester · 03/03/2008 22:13

I love Ida (and Ada, Ava and Dora); I think it's ripe for reclaiming and you could start the trend!

CristinaTheAstonishing · 03/03/2008 22:13

I read a book (or was it short stories?) by a Danish author whose main character was Ida. I liked the bookd but I've totally forgotten the book or the author's name.

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 22:12

noddy and thomcat, you obviously have fantastic taste!

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Kindersurpise · 03/03/2008 22:10

No to Stan, Ida, Ada, Norah and all the other granny names.

There are some lovely older names, like Rose or Isabella but some of the names mentioned on this thread sound like a roll call of the church choir from 1955.

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 22:08

yeah but fawkeoff, i know several slightly unpleasant people and i refuse to blame a persons name! i'm sure there are lots of stoical old lovely grannies out there caled ida too. NO. that argument has not convinced me. still love it.

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Thomcat · 03/03/2008 22:07

I think it's lovely. And I have a friend called Ida and thought when I met her ohhh what a lovely name, and she is a lovley, lovely woman. it's unusual and makes me think of a kind person! Odd I know but it does.

nooka · 03/03/2008 22:04

I like old fashioned names (ds has an old English name and dd is named after two great-grandmothers) but I think Ida is just well, dull. Too short, no alternate versions etc. I like names that offer potential (I like to think will it work for a baby/teenager/adult; could they be a footballer/judge; what if they are butch/girly etc).

Maybe it works with your surname and the middle name(s) of your choice though.

noddyholder · 03/03/2008 22:04

its lovely i know one already and she is gorgeous and really tiny like a little doll very sweet

FAWKEOFF · 03/03/2008 22:02

ida!!!!! my mum is friends with a mean old lady called ida, so no i dont think you should call anyone ida

Tickle · 03/03/2008 21:57

Jekyll Ida is a very popular name here in Scandi land, where it is pronounced ee - dah.

I like it ...

tori32 · 03/03/2008 21:54

I like Anna and Lucy as well.

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 21:53

sidge come on now be fair! ida doesn't sound hard, and surely doesn't have the (direct) NORAH BATTY connotations....

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tori32 · 03/03/2008 21:52

Mind you I can't say anything - comments on Eliza May?

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 21:52

oh, wow that is weird artichokes!!! are you my alter ego or something??!

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Sidge · 03/03/2008 21:51

Tori32 - I wouldn't use Norah myself but I prefer it to Ida!

artichokes · 03/03/2008 21:47

J&H. This is too weird. Iwas not going to post DD's name but I have to now. She is Annie (Mum was Anne). .

tori32 · 03/03/2008 21:46

Ida sounds like a quilt as in ida down!

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 21:45

artichokes - i'm really sorry to hear that about your mum, and i think it is lovely that your dd is named after her. apologies for nosing.

another name i like is annie (for the familial connection), but dp poo-pooed that too. doh.

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tori32 · 03/03/2008 21:45

Sorry sidge but nooooo to Norah, all I can think of is nitty norah the bug explorer . William gets willy (rudish) or Billy which sounds a bit dim. Nooooo.... Mollie, thats ok. or Bea, Alice.

Sidge · 03/03/2008 21:28

Some nursing home names are lovely though, such as Harry, George, William, Flora, Norah, Cecily, Rose etc. Ida just seems so, well, hard.

artichokes · 03/03/2008 21:28

J&H - I don't mind you asking but DD's name is not really of this ilk. In the end she was named after my mother who died shortly before she was born.

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jekyllandhyde · 03/03/2008 21:25

oh expat it's not that shocking come on! it's lovely. in twenty years everone will be called ida! or stan...

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artichokes · 03/03/2008 21:24

Those kind of names are having a real resurgence Expat.

Im my DD's playgroup we have a Stanley, an Olive, a Maude, an Alfie and a Betty.

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