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Tell me what your name is without telling me what your name is

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BatsatHalloween · 14/10/2025 17:20

My name has a male and female variant
It was number 36 the year I was given it
It was acceptable in the 80s
It's a bit French
It's also a little bit Essex
Most people shorten it

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Crikeyalmighty · 14/10/2025 21:42

@maras2. Sarah/Sara?

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:41

ImplodingLoading · 14/10/2025 21:37

0ooh I like this game!mine was very popular in the 80s/90s, three others in my year at school. Can be shortened to a name in it's own right. Has a male equivalent.
No-one called this now aside from a very famously couple's son's, famous in her own right, wife.

Nicola?

AnAudacityofinlaws · 14/10/2025 21:41

Notorious scandal involving a high profile politician back in the day.

SquitMcJit · 14/10/2025 21:40

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/10/2025 21:39

Mine is the same as a Duchess of Aquitaine who was both Queen of France and Queen of England.

Eleanor

Notashamed13 · 14/10/2025 21:40

Holluschickie · 14/10/2025 21:38

Ruby?

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More "generalised"......along the right lines though

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:39

Notashamed13 · 14/10/2025 21:37

My shortened version could be set into a ring. However growing up in the 80s it was a very popular dog name.......

Ruby?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/10/2025 21:39

Mine is the same as a Duchess of Aquitaine who was both Queen of France and Queen of England.

honeylulu · 14/10/2025 21:39

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:34

Elizabeth?

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Yes!

KalimeraMatera · 14/10/2025 21:39

YourPeppyAmberTraybake · 14/10/2025 21:36

Christine.

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Of course.
Did @Squirrelsnut turn out to be Pauline, or Paulette, or Paula?

Holluschickie · 14/10/2025 21:38

Notashamed13 · 14/10/2025 21:37

My shortened version could be set into a ring. However growing up in the 80s it was a very popular dog name.......

Ruby?

Notashamed13 · 14/10/2025 21:38

Mainly black and white Collies......

ImplodingLoading · 14/10/2025 21:37

0ooh I like this game!mine was very popular in the 80s/90s, three others in my year at school. Can be shortened to a name in it's own right. Has a male equivalent.
No-one called this now aside from a very famously couple's son's, famous in her own right, wife.

Handrearedmagpie · 14/10/2025 21:37

Biscoffbiscuits · 14/10/2025 21:35

Easy. Born in 1951 I was named after a princess born 9 months earlier. I would have liked a little more original thinking.

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Ann?

Notashamed13 · 14/10/2025 21:37

My shortened version could be set into a ring. However growing up in the 80s it was a very popular dog name.......

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:37

KalimeraMatera · 14/10/2025 21:35

Haven't seen my name yet.... it went right out of fashion shortly after I was given it due to an affair between the Secretary of State for War and a good time girl.

Christine?

KalimeraMatera · 14/10/2025 21:37

Biscoffbiscuits · 14/10/2025 21:35

Easy. Born in 1951 I was named after a princess born 9 months earlier. I would have liked a little more original thinking.

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Anne.
Half the members of the youth club I was in as a teenager had mothers called either Elizabeth or Margaret.......

Handrearedmagpie · 14/10/2025 21:36

Squirrelsnut · 14/10/2025 19:37

It's French.
It's quite unusual.
It's never been popular but I think it's a nice name.
Part of it means little which is ironic because I'm big and tall.

minette?

YourPeppyAmberTraybake · 14/10/2025 21:36

KalimeraMatera · 14/10/2025 21:35

Haven't seen my name yet.... it went right out of fashion shortly after I was given it due to an affair between the Secretary of State for War and a good time girl.

Christine.

Spookyspaghetti · 14/10/2025 21:36

QuickPeachPoet · 14/10/2025 21:31

This is fun.
Mine has a lot of different spellings and people usually get them wrong.
It's not spelled like the Freaky Friday girl (but I do look a bit like her haha)
A certain actor called Robert had it as his surname (again spelled differently to mine)

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Lindsey

Holluschickie · 14/10/2025 21:35

KalimeraMatera · 14/10/2025 21:35

Haven't seen my name yet.... it went right out of fashion shortly after I was given it due to an affair between the Secretary of State for War and a good time girl.

Christine?

Such a fun thread. Thanks for starting it, OP.

KalimeraMatera · 14/10/2025 21:35

Haven't seen my name yet.... it went right out of fashion shortly after I was given it due to an affair between the Secretary of State for War and a good time girl.

Biscoffbiscuits · 14/10/2025 21:35

unicornsarereal72 · 14/10/2025 17:24

First women

Easy. Born in 1951 I was named after a princess born 9 months earlier. I would have liked a little more original thinking.

QuickPeachPoet · 14/10/2025 21:34

honeylulu · 14/10/2025 21:32

Lindsey?

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Correct! And right spelling too hahahaha

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:34

honeylulu · 14/10/2025 21:31

Two Queens Regent and three Queens Consort ...

Elizabeth?

TheExcitersblowingupmymind · 14/10/2025 21:33

Whowahway123 · 14/10/2025 19:33

I went to Manderley

Nellie?

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