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Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

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Original poster

Only old and codgerly suggestions wanted thank you.

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MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:02

The suggestions are to go with (already we have) The dds first and subsequent names.

Dora
Eliza
Henrietta
Mary
Iris
Anne

Boys on the list are Henry and Arthur but no ideas for girls.

I have a theory that one day dd's names will be in vogue and people will like them

Feel free to say they are hideous, I care not. (skin like a rhino) but I will hunt you down etc...

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LadyThompson · 05/06/2008 15:46

Clarissa
Patricia
Phoenicia
Olive
Lucia
June

spamm · 05/06/2008 14:09

Sarah
Flora
Liliana
Gina or Georgina
Frances
Margaret
Lorna
Catherine or Kate

all based on family names.

Meeely2 · 05/06/2008 14:09

this is a great thread - I have an Edward and Arthur and was seriously struggling with girls names to match (we are TTC no.3)....may have to pinch a few off here - love Martha but think Arthur and Martha is a tad OTT!

Iklboo · 05/06/2008 14:08

A family we met on holiday had Bertie, Gertie & Jemima - gorgeous kids!

HonoriaGlossop · 05/06/2008 14:07

Elsie
Estella
Dorabella
Carice
Alice

hotpasty · 05/06/2008 14:04

Agnes? Gertrude? (ha ha)

ivykaty44 · 05/06/2008 14:02

Ernest
Ivy
Rosina
Maud
Albert
Dihannah
Suzanna
Nelly
Kitty
Eunice

gooseberryfoolmoonfiend · 05/06/2008 14:02

I know a Hester and Esther and I think they are pretty names too.

choosyfloosy · 05/06/2008 13:55

Loving all these.

Marguerite
Phyllis

I do have a slight 'reaction' to Pollyanna based on the character, but if you love it, then do it. What about Polly though?

Love Primrose too.

savoycabbage · 05/06/2008 13:55

Isadora.

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MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:53

Lots of Violets. It reminds me of Charlie & the choc factory.

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Tortington · 05/06/2008 13:47

cecilia
violet

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MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:46

I like

Elsa
Polly (anna)
Augusta
Evelyn
Maude (is that short for another name?)

I think they quite go with the others too.

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PestoMonster · 05/06/2008 13:41

Cecily
Augusta
Evie

brimfull · 05/06/2008 13:39

I work with elderly people and atm there are loads of 80-100 yr old

Marjorie
Elsie
Pamela
Charlotte
Marilyn
Anne
Florence
Margaret

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MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:36

Wow you lot certainly are a granny name-loving bunch aren't you?

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muppetgirl · 05/06/2008 13:35

I like annie...
I have a Henry too...

silverfrog · 05/06/2008 13:35

Cecily
Beatrice
Penelope
Verity

MadBadandDangeroustoKnow · 05/06/2008 13:34

A dear friend has just called her dd Primrose and, being fanatical gardeners, we both think it's an utterly fab name. If it has naff connotations (but why?) they've passed me by!

yelpol · 05/06/2008 13:33

Elsie? Nessie? Heather? Ingrid?

LadyThompson · 05/06/2008 13:32

Or slightly softer OTT-UH-LEE. I know of one, she gets called Ottie for short. Pretty, old and unusual.

LadyThompson · 05/06/2008 13:31

OTT-EE-LEE, all syllables same length

pofaced · 05/06/2008 13:30

I love Mary!
May
Adelaide
Constance
Nora
Hilda
Cecily
Anastasia
Cecelia
Ettie
Eleanor
Frances
Lydia

Maurice for a boy: bet there hasn;tbeen one since 1960 & even then old fashioned!

lokka · 05/06/2008 13:29

Got no idea!

I visited a wonderful old lady in a old peoples home called Maude..she was great and I always think of that name now.

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MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:29

Pollyanna

Thanks DrNortherner, I love it. In fact so may on this list but that one has just leapt out to me.

How does one pronounce Ottilie? I have never heard of this name

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