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Hilda and middle names

66 replies

tummytickler · 04/12/2008 13:39

Hello,

Dh are starting ttc after Christmas and we have got a short list of girls names already.
The only one we BOTH really love is Hilda so although there is at least 10 months to go, we think it might stick.
We are a bit stuck for middle names though, as we have used close family for our other 4 children, so this time we can use pretty much whatever we like, but we are a bit stuck!

Any suggestions? Other dc's have two mn's but one or two is fine.

Also have a double barrelled surname sounding like Barmy - Monsters!

Other names we like are
Mary
Joan
Prudence
Dorothy
Althea
Enid

and one other front runner that i cannot for the life of me remember!!!!

So opinions and mn's please. Have to go offline for the afternoon in a bit, but i will be back!

Thanks all

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edam · 04/12/2008 22:14

Oh, I'm so pleased to see several people backing Hilda. My lovely great-aunt Hilda died earlier this year and I had a moment of thinking oh, it's such a shame all those other great-aunt names like Ivy and Dorothy are back in fashion, why not Hilda?

My Hilda was fab, very funny and rebellious, a purveyor of sweet to small children, owner of a performing budgie and an all round good egg. Didn't hang up her dancing shoes until she was 92, was a renowned community midwife who delivered several generations of babies (including my dad). There should be more Hildas in this world!

Mind you, she changed her name to Penny when she moved into a nursing home because Hilda was 'too old-fashioned'.

seeker · 04/12/2008 22:05

I'm really sorry - but I think ( and remember that the baby we're talking about is not even concieved yet, never mind born and named, so uninsultable!) that Hilda Jasmine is the worst of all possible worlds!

If you want a name roughly in this ball park, how about Edith?

catweazle · 04/12/2008 19:27

Hilda Jasmine

Sesi · 04/12/2008 19:17

Hilda is nice, I would go for quite a femme middle name:

Hilda Cecelia
Hilda Emmeline
Hilda Berenice

mrsgboring · 04/12/2008 18:00

I like Hilda. I think it needs a one syllable name with it. May or Rose would go well.

cece · 04/12/2008 17:49

hey i am not elderly, lower middle class nor do I live in a suburban bungalow!

I personally prefer those names to the more 'exotic' ones some people favour! But each to their own, life would be boring if we were all the same.

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:38

Or maybe she was a Frida?

Well, anyway, i or ie is ok, e alone is not.

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:37

Agree i is essential (as in That Artist).

piscesmoon · 04/12/2008 17:35

Not the English version without the i though, Anna.

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:35

Ouch ouch

VintageGardenia · 04/12/2008 17:35

Oh sorry you didn't have Jane on your list.

SoupDragon · 04/12/2008 17:34
Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:34

Frieda is OK.

VintageGardenia · 04/12/2008 17:33

I'm not sure you can have Hilda Althea because of the vowels but other than that I think Althea is quite pretty on its own, and I like simple Jane.

piscesmoon · 04/12/2008 17:33

The problem with all those early 20th century names, Elsie, Winifred, Freda, Ethel, Ivy etc is that they had a brief burst of popularity and then disappeared, I think the same will happen this time around and it will be very dating.

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:32

No I'm sure you are very funky Soupy

SoupDragon · 04/12/2008 17:30

I'm not an elderly lower middle class woman in a neat suburban bungalow.

piscesmoon · 04/12/2008 17:30

Enid is almost as bad as Hilda. If she wants to use it she needs something pretty for the middle name IMO.

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:28

Cece - all those names, and all the OP's names, make me think of elderly lower middle class women in neat suburban bungalows...

cece · 04/12/2008 17:27

Althea is lovely. That is what DS was going to be called until he upset the applecart and turned out to be a boy!

With Hilda I like

Jane
Rose
Margaret
June
Penelope

Oh and just spotted you have Enid on your list, another favourite of mine

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:27

Baby name threads are ones on which I think it is very important to be terribly honest.

SoupDragon · 04/12/2008 17:26

I don't see how you can be unkind about a potential name for a baby who isn't even conceived yet

piscesmoon · 04/12/2008 17:24

That is what I was saying but was accused of being unkind-the one that I know in her 40's hates it with a passion! I don't think it is unkind-just fair to warn OP that people with the name don't like it!

Anna8888 · 04/12/2008 17:17

Agree with SoupDragon

SoupDragon · 04/12/2008 17:16

Hilda is a shocking name. There are far prettier traditional/old fashioned girls' names out there.

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