"Old Lady" names which should never see the light of day ever again

My auntie is called Petula.

My nana was called Nora.

Also piscesmoon
Ruby is a popula name these days, my mum has a little 4yr old across road from her called Ruby.

Vera, anasthasia, constance, prudence, verity, chastity, ("all the virtue name" in general), all the feminised male names (bernadette, henriette, arthurine, adolphina....)
hermione, euphrasy, bertha, hilda, gertrude, arlette...

Can't see anything wrong with maud, rose, bess, dora/doris (not really nice though) and especially not Joan???

woo my actual name got a mention on here, not telling what it is though (is not Dymphna)

I'm waiting for a resurgence of elderly Irish nuns' names:

Dymphna
Fidelma
Philomena
Imelda
Perpetua

Slightly younger, but not really any better:

Bernadette
Jacinta
Dearbhla
Patricia

I know an 8yo Philomena, so I reckon it won't be long...

Good god these names are awful... i think its older moms who call their poor children these old fashioned, traditional, do it to keep my mothers/fathers name alive out of date names!! they are not fashionable now an never will be, however am not saying i agree with the modern/chav names which are on the up these days! lets face it trying to find a suitable name at the min is a torture!!

Oog forgot Glenda and Maureen. Gran-in-law made me promise not to use either name as a middle name for DC even though these are bother family names on ex DP side.

Didn't need to ask me twice

I know a lovely girl in my building called Rita who is about 18. She's totally beautiful and that name just doesn't suit her. Maybe her mum was thinking of Rita Haworth when she named her but sadly I just think of that lady off Corrie with a brightly coloured helmet of hair. So does everyone else. Shame.

Gertrude- my gran's name and she HATED it til the day she died so much so she changed it to Marie- much nicer imo.

Ethel
Edna
Norma
Mildred
Maude
Dorothy
Olive
Mavis
Pauline- makes me think my own aunty Pauline- brilliant woman but not to be crossed. Would be weird for a baby to have it.
Gladys
Blanche
Agnes
Agatha
Cora
Mabel- sounds like a cow imo

My great aunt was Dorcas, known as Auntie Dor, might get fashionable again from Lark Rise to Candleford, but I can't see it myself.

I'm an Emma and my sister's a Polly and in the late 60s we were unmercilessly mocked for our names, which these days sound quite normal...all down to fashion really.

Both my first and second name have been mentioned favourably on this...and I hate em both!

I know a few primary school age Delia's which suprises me.

My great-aunt was Clytemnestra - can't see it making a come back.
It all depends on our age. My mum remembers everyone being sorry for a girl at school 1930s with an awful awful dreary old-lady name, which was Emily!

Coronation Street knocks a lot of these 'old lady' names out for me - I don't dislike Phyllis, Rita, Ivy, Blanche etc. per se but they do conjure up images of some of the characters!

My mum's name is Doreen, though my granda really wanted to call her Charmaine but my granny wouldn't let him (very 70s, a man clearly ahead of his time!).

She had a teacher who insisted on pronouncing it as "Di' reen as that is how the Europeans say it" and would regularly chastise the class for ruining her name with their "terrible" regional pronounciation of 'Dough- reen'.

Needless to say, this didn't make my mother like her name any better!

My grandma was supposed to be christened Rose but her Dad, being off work to go and register her, went for a small lunchtime libation on the way and came home with the certificate clearly stating Elizabeth, with no mention of Rose...

it is a fashion atm , wonder why

Welliemum - I thought of that poster too when I read some of the posts lower down but name threads are always a bit like this. That's why people ask for views because names aren't all preferred alike. There's probably as many positive posts on here as there are negative.

I think Ada will make a comeback

adorable

I know a baby Edith. I think it's aorable.
I love quite a few of the names that have been mentioned actually.
Elsie I think is a beautiful name.
I like Olive too.
And Mabel.
And Dorothy.
And Audrey.

Horrid thread.

With everyone queuing up to list names they hate, the thread is bound to upset loads of people whose loved ones have those names.

A few years ago, the little dd of a well-known MN-er died very suddenly. The little girl's name was one of the frequently-scorned ones on this thread (and mentioned in the OP too). Let's hope her mum doesn't see this.

Kathleen and any other -leens

I know a teenage Edith, and a Deliha!

I love loads of these so called 'old lady' names, and to this day wish I had given dd2 Maude as her middle name. Pen was poised, dh unsure, so she had the name we originally chose (old lady too)!

DD2 goes to nursery with an Elsie, I think it's a lovely name.