Sheila, Lorraine or Glinda?

Not as unkind as you’re potentially being to your DD.

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Love this word . LOVE 🤣

None. All are terrible.

Oh I quite like this. Could have
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Boli or Cal as NN.

Diabolical

Some of those names are long timers though. Still get bay James, Ben and maybe less so but still around Christopher. They are a bit like Emily or Isabelle. Popular Rory waxes and wanes but they never disappear unlike Herbert and Sheila

My child went to school with a Rapunzel! Other siblings also had Disney names.

But at least Cinderella and tinkerbel are pretty and have decent nick names 😅. Glinda is awful. Lorraine I guess is the best if a bad bunch as Lorraine’s are usually in their 40’s where as Sheila’s 50’s and you can get some younger sounding nick names - lorrie, Rainey etc but seems daft to name a child a bad name only to shorten to something you do like. You could get those from other far nicer names like Loretta

It’s happening… the ugly names are returning! It sounds like a roll call in my Mum’s hairdressers circa 1978. I’ve always said one day we will see the rise of the Brendas, Paulines, Maureens and Pats, then later the Debbies, Alisons, Lesleys and Donnas of their offspring! When I was at school any child named like my children now would have been bullied for being ‘posh’- their nursery list was like an old people’s home and I loved that, so maybe it’s just a generational thing.

Having said that Sheila always appeals a bit from favourite songs and writers but still no! I still prefer it to the godawful Shelby that was suggested, but then I hate those American surname names (Carter, Marshall, Bailey etc) as well as the constant variations of Kayden, Kaydee, Jayden, Jax…

You know what… go with what you love. Someone somewhere will love it too! Glinda is an exception though- that’s an abomination (and Wicked is utter shite).

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I am currently pregnant and we call my bump Herbert, much to my MIL’s horror 😂😂🤣. It was never ever a contender on our name list in reality but I still feel a bit nettled about MIL constantly saying how horrible and gruesome it is - what if it was actually in the running?! I couldn’t imagine being so rude about someone’s name to their face…

There’s a bit of a trend in London to call restaurants & cafes these kind of names; Jolene, Rita’s, Cecilia and Gloria to name a few, any of those take your fancy OP?

Sheila is older than Lorraine. Sheila is my mum's era and she's 89; Lorraine is mine and I'm 65.

Mum's friends are/were: Barbara, Silvia, Patricia, Marian, Anita, Joan

Mine, and classmates: Susan, Jane, Helen, Alison, Deborah, Karen, Amanda, Fiona, Carol, Caroline

DD (27): Alice, Imogen, Rosie, Tilly, Molly, Cicely/Cecilia, Isabel

Obvs, there's always a bit of crossover and I have known a couple of Sheila's of my age, but both have been Shelagh.

Names have always gone in cycles: the ones that mostly transcend time imo are: Helen/a, Catherine, Elizabeth, Hannah, Caroline, Anna/bel, etc.

You are 100% wrong about the name Arya. It's existed for hundreds and hundreds of years! My great Aunt was called Arya and she passed away in the late 80s (Indian heritage).

Obviously it was made more popular and Westernised by Game of Thrones, but he definitely didn't make it up though 👍

All ops names are awful. Sorry.

I went to school with both boys and girls who were called by their second names. The first name was a family name usually grandfather or grandmother, so they used their second name to differentiate between them. It was a bit of a shock to a friend to find that her fiancé wasn't actually John, his first name was Herbert and when they married she had to say his full legal name. I do hope Herbert is not making a comeback!

None. All awful.

I love you from the bottom of my pencil case?

One of my best friends is an Ali(son). She’s only 41. I knew at least one other at school. Agree that a baby Alison maybe jars a little, but Ali would be quite cute when they’re younger, then could use the full name when a bit older.

My cohort was full of Beckys and Sarahs. Quite a few Katies around too. Boys were Chris, Ben, Steve, and, when I got to uni was surrounded by Jameses!

I sometimes tease my DDs by saying those are their granny names 😁 (like Bluey has Mavis and Rita).

My gran actually was called Maud, or, even weirder, Maud was her second name, but she went by it rather than Sarah, her actual first name 🤯. Born around 1914 I think.

For a similar sound but prettier without the dated vibe how about Belinda?
Vivienne is great too and both have lots of good diminutive options

The only two Sheilas I know are actually Cecilia. I don't if it's a common diminutive or they both just fancied Sheila and went with it! But Cecilia is lovely, and you could still.use Sheila as a nn.

I like Alison and Greta too.

Shelia is a bogan term for female/woman in Australia. It hurts my ears just reading it.

I think Lorelle is a bit nicer than Lorraine and could still have Lorrie as a nickname. I know a Lorelle and a Lorelai.

I knew a Greta in the late 90s - she was early 20s back then.

I like Greta.

Vivienne is okay.

The Sheila I know is not a nice person but I guess that is irrelevant. That name is also crass Aussie speak for a woman...not great

Lorraine is very much a 1970s name.

Glinda - nope. It doesn't actually sound like a real name. I don't like Glenda either.

All names are such a personal choice - I like Erin and Morgan but loads of people wouldn't like them. Ultimately it is your family @plinkyplonk123 and the decision of you and your partner, and stuff everyone else