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Nancy?

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MadameCh0let · 22/03/2008 13:42

What do you think? Is it Ouch cool, or bridge-player with her specs 'round her neck.

I'm just wondering, cos I have little to think about, whether or not the new bbc programme make it chavy? Or, would the people who take their inspiration from tv not touch a name like Nancy. I think it's quite cool; in a Lois/Margot kind of way.

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serin · 10/06/2008 23:22

I really really wanted Nancy for DD1 who is now 11 but DH hated it as it reminded him of a dowdy bridge partner of his mothers.

DD much prefers the name that we did eventually give her, but often calls herself Sizzy which is what her bothers have always called her.

DKMA · 10/06/2008 23:08

There is a Nancy at nursery with my lo. They call her 'Nancy Noodle' - she's very funny and full of beans

moodlumthehoodlum · 10/06/2008 23:03

love it so much I might almost want to have another baby to name it Nancy.

LydiaLunch · 10/06/2008 23:02

I have a Nancy and seem to meet a new one every day! It's a form for Anne...I wanted to put Nanette on the birth certificate but DH vetoed that (we put Nancy down in the end).

MrsMattie · 25/03/2008 21:53

Usually hate all those old fashioned grandma names - Elsie etc (vomit emoticon). But Nancy is an exception - great name.

berolina · 24/03/2008 22:43

I really don't like it myself, but on hearing it I wouldn't think 'what a horrid name' or have negative associations.

CissyCharlton · 24/03/2008 22:41

I had this as my girl's name (I had two boys). Love it, love it, love it.

SoMuchToBits · 24/03/2008 22:36

I hate the name, although my ds has recently been reading the Arthur Ransome books, in which Nancy Blackett is a really great character. But to me it suggests Nancy-boys (e.g. poncy spineless people).

It also reminds me of a cleaning lady who used to clean the corridors etc in the nurses' home, when I was doing my nurse training. She was really bad-tempered. I'm afraid that has coloured my judgment.

frannied · 24/03/2008 22:15

I have a v cool, intelligent, beautiful cousin called Nancy, and another cousin who called her dd Nancy (now about 5yrs old).

Rachmumoftwo · 24/03/2008 21:37

I love Nancy, but there will be people who think you have named your child Nancy because of the Lloyd-Webber revival of Oliver! Oom pah pah!

pooka · 24/03/2008 20:38

No No No.

I'm going to have a Nancy.

FourPlusOne · 24/03/2008 20:37

I know a 2 toddlers called Nancy. Wasn't sure what I thought of the name when the first one was born, but now I really like it.

Beetroot · 24/03/2008 20:35

I love love Nancy

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BigBadMouse · 24/03/2008 20:26

I love it! A really good name IMO.

btw one of my most favourite girls names is Margot and I like Lois a lot too.

hatrick · 24/03/2008 20:23

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Thomcat · 24/03/2008 20:21

Love it.

Love it, love it.

Heated · 24/03/2008 20:20

isn't dave cameron's dd called nancy?

Janni · 24/03/2008 20:20

For 'Oliver'MadameCholet

I'm surprising myself by liking Nancy as a name, I think its time has come.

Heated · 24/03/2008 20:19

I have gt aunts called Nancy & Sylvie, fab names imo.

tribpot · 24/03/2008 20:17

For me: no, but the name originally is a nickname of Anne. Or Agnes in Scotland.

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MadameCh0let · 23/03/2008 22:09

Is it short for anything? Anne, Annabel??

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PaulaYatesBiggestFan · 23/03/2008 22:09

i know an 18 year old Nancy who is so NOT a Nancy but its fab

and a 5 year old who it suits just as well

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MadameCh0let · 23/03/2008 22:07

Tribpot, you know that programme a while back called "How do you solve a problem called Maria" where Andrew Lloyd Webber looked for a Maria for The sound of music.

Well, now they are looking for a Nancy for..... I will remember in a second.

Glad you liked being a Nancy! What good taste your Mum had. And I like where she took her inspiration.

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eidsvold · 23/03/2008 12:48

my friend's have a daughter called Nancy and she is fab. It is a lovely name that is not so common. She is in her teens now.

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