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Original poster

If I call my baby this she will really dislike me wont she?

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UpJacobscreek · 25/10/2008 10:29

Agnes ,I love it everyone else hates it .

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MyDaggerling · 25/10/2008 15:38

I like it but agree is sounds a lot like Alice

1066andallthat · 25/10/2008 15:37

I'm a Agnes and Agatha fan, too - so, are you going to use it?

Nancy66 · 25/10/2008 15:26

I think it's a lovely name but i probably wouldn't be brave enough to use it.

I love old fashioned, 'old lady' names but Agnes is probably a wee bit too old granny

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UpJacobscreek · 25/10/2008 13:30

Oh amess ,I like that idea and dp would probbaly agree to it as a middle name but what first name to go with it ?
Some names I like are Molly, Grace ,Eve/Evie,Emma.

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amess · 25/10/2008 13:26

I would give it her as a middle name or use her middle name until she is old enough to decide whether she hates you or not but then don't they all hate us at some stage

Clary · 25/10/2008 13:24

I love Agnes.

It was DS2's name if he was a girl (which he wasn't,obv).

But then my DC have old-fashioned names that have been roundly abused on these boards in the past

I like Edith too

hellish · 25/10/2008 12:54

Astrid?

Romy7 · 25/10/2008 12:45

agnes is very pretty, but sounds too much like alice. you'd be yelling one and getting both or neither every time.

Inghouls2 · 25/10/2008 12:42

well it's a marmite name, but if you love it, go for it

slummymummytobe · 25/10/2008 12:40

I think Agnes is beautiful - it was my lovely grandma's name and I will definitely be using it if I have a girl

PuppyMonkey · 25/10/2008 12:21

I like Agnes because I am reading The Madness of a Seduced Woman...

p.s I've already got an Esme too...

ChloeandAlfie · 25/10/2008 12:18

Umm... sorry, but no. I think it's the 'ag' sound. It sounds like someone gagging....

MrsMattie · 25/10/2008 12:15

Please, no.

cuppachar · 25/10/2008 11:45

In French it's pronounced Ann-Yess which is lovely.

girlandboy · 25/10/2008 11:44

I like Agnes, but I don't like any abbreviation of it.

Aggie
Ag

FiveGoMadInDorset · 25/10/2008 11:42

It is what DS would have been if he was a girl, DD is Edith

MarkStretch · 25/10/2008 11:39

Oh I love it. But I love Agatha too and everyone hates that

jimjamshaslefttheyurt · 25/10/2008 11:39

I like Agnes

Liffey · 25/10/2008 11:39

I don't think it goes with Alice and Lucy.

Edith/Edie is much prettier and more of a middle ground and less scary than Agnes.

Liffey · 25/10/2008 11:38

How is it pronounced in French? AnnYAY?

I like that. But AGGnuss is disgusting

findtheriver · 25/10/2008 10:59

If you are French and would pronounce it accordingly then yes.

I am getting the feeling you are't though... in which case... NO

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UpJacobscreek · 25/10/2008 10:50

I just need to convince dp do you think it goes well with Alice and Lucy?

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TheApprentice · 25/10/2008 10:50

I love it too, reckon it could be making a comeback.
Go for it!

LynetteScavo · 25/10/2008 10:49

I think of agnes b clothes.

agnes b

swiftyknickers · 25/10/2008 10:48

i love it
aggie