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Original poster

Enid Blyton / Jolly hockeysticks names pls. . .

43 replies

SAEJ · 13/04/2009 17:04

Want something traditional but cute for a boy and a girl - to go with Charles (known as Charlie).

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antalya · 13/04/2009 19:32

Alicia- Mallory Towers

Hugh- Enid's first husband

nailpolish · 13/04/2009 18:19

i have a friend called Bessie Broom
i always told her she should be in an enid blyton book

also have a friend called Patsy Patterson
very hockeysticks imo

Merrylegs · 13/04/2009 18:16

DS would have been Betsy if a girl. (But he wasn't).
Tis a nice shortening for Elizabeth.

Enid Blyton's daughters were called Gillian and Imogen.

(Uncle) Quentin.

Enid Blyton really liked the name Julian. She seemed to use it a lot.

Jolyon is very jolly (!)

nailpolish · 13/04/2009 18:16

Jackie!

ellingwoman · 13/04/2009 18:14

Love Bunty!

Other comics:
Judy
Mandy
Diana
June

nailpolish · 13/04/2009 18:12

Hester
Susan
Bunty

georgimama · 13/04/2009 18:10

Jeremy and Jemima (the kids in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
Jane and Michael (Mary Poppins)
Hetty
Lotte

Timothy
Fredrick

nailpolish · 13/04/2009 18:08

Trinny
bernadette
Poppy
Dinah
Joan
Florrie
Millicent
Peregrine
Jeffrey
virginia
(Ginny)

EachPeachPearMum · 13/04/2009 18:08

Amelia Jane

beanieb · 13/04/2009 18:07

peggy and Nora

beanieb · 13/04/2009 18:05

mollie

Nancy66 · 13/04/2009 17:59

Names I always think of as posh/public school:

Hugh/Hugo
Jeremy
Giles
Rupert
Sebastian

Camilla
Lucinda
Henrietta
Annabelle

beanieb · 13/04/2009 17:57

Lottie short for Carlotta.

newgirl · 13/04/2009 17:55

Penelope

Claudia

Molly

Prudence

Verity

fartmeistergeneral · 13/04/2009 17:52

Darrell (Mallory Towers)

MintyyAeroEgg · 13/04/2009 17:50

Araminta (Minty for short)

Hugo

KingRolo · 13/04/2009 17:26

I remember Binky. There was an evil French boy called Bony / Bonapart too if I remember correctly!!

Raahh · 13/04/2009 17:24

Patricia and Isabel were the St Clares twins, iirc

electra · 13/04/2009 17:23

Angela
June
Anne
Georgina
Hilary
Winifred

er.....

KingRolo · 13/04/2009 17:22

I like Elizabeth. Betty is lovely but you could also have Bets, Beth, Lizzie, Eliza or Liza. There's scope for her to decide what she prefers when she gets older.

pooka · 13/04/2009 17:21

Nancy

ActivityApple · 13/04/2009 17:21

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Raahh · 13/04/2009 17:20

Binky

was one of the minor characters in the Secret Seven, made me rofl even when I was 7.

KingRolo · 13/04/2009 17:20

X post re: Mallory!

The Secret Seven were:

Peter, Janet, Jack, Colin, Pam, Barbara, George (and Scamper!) but not sure any of these really fit the bill - quite 1960s - ex. Jack and George.

LauriefairycakeeatsCupid · 13/04/2009 17:19

Alicia

Genevieve/Genevre

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