Apparently my future grandchildren will be named Bridget and Deirdre

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Has anyone else made the mistake of asking?

DD is 14 and she was being serious.

Apparently I’m getting an Alexander and a Luna, has been agreed with her boyfriend and everything!

My dolls house family were Sally (Mum), Dobber (dad), Lally and Boyee. Think the kids should be thankful I grew out of that.

My daughter is a 20-something Grace Like hundreds of other women in her age group. My mum hated it because to her it is an old lady name but in the 90s it became fashionable again. It might be the same with these, they are due a return. Although in my Irish family, Bridget never really went away!

And they both have nice diminutives. In our family the various Bridgets are known as Breid (pronounced Breege), Bee, Bid, Biddy and Bridie. I also know a lovely young adult Deirdre who is referred to as Dee .

DS (3) says he’d call his baby Marshall (Paw Patrol). I could live with that, tbh.

Great thread. I remember a thread along time ago where a small girl called her imaginary grand children names, one was 'egg in a cup' and I can't remember the other one.

Bridget is a lovely name- and lots of "shorts" too.
Deirdre just reminds me of that awful character in Corrie!

Dd (16) is going to have a Mikey...

I was always going to have a Susan, Steve and Danny. I didn’t.

I once told my mother that my much-longed-for PFB was going to be named either Maurice or Tabitha - Mossy or Tabby for short - just to wind her up

"You must choose the names you like best." she said, bravely, before spending days trying to convince herself that she really did like them!

When we told her the real, quite unusual, name, she was so relieved that she made not a squeak about it.

In 1973, my best friend gave birth to a little girl. She and her husband spent ages thinking of the perfect name. The name they came up with was Emma.
I was flabbergasted. Emma, at the time, was a little old spinster aunt crocheting doilies for the church fair. There was not a single woman under 50 called that.
And look what happened!!!!
Name fads come and go.

Susan seems strangely popular among the young’uns then!

It wouldn't surprise me. When I was 14, my future kids would have been Isobel, Poppy and Olivia - which at the time were considered ridiculous names. Turns out I was right on the money and they were super popular when I had my 2 kids!

My husband suggested Caroline or Bridget for our DD who is due in November.

Dont worry. Just because she wants a name doesnt mean her partner wont veto it because its horrific 🤣🤣

Mine are going to be Ree (after the Pioneer Woman cook) and Joe (PE Joe). I think there's been far too much telly on this lockdown.

Penhaligan.

My goddaughter has known the name and breed of her first dog since she was 12. Her husband doesn't want a second dog but he was able to tell me its name.

DD was adamant that she was going to have twin boys, Caspar and Jasper.

mine will be called James

I like James!

my future GD will be Aurora, nn Rorie
I quite like that.

I really really like both of those names - so very characterful. In fact I think they are so characterful, I’d want to see the baby first and if the name actually fits before bestowing it upon them for life! I’d always wanted to call my DD19 Bridget, but DH didn’t agree so we went for a ‘floral’ sounding alternative....which frankly doesn’t really suit as she’s every inch a tomboy.
But I’m of Irish grandparents so perhaps biased in my leanings.

That Eugene now works for the BBC and covers the queen walking to church on Christmas morning - he does a little blog of him cooking breakfast in the broadcast van!

I have a Bridget! Not met any others, especially not around her age. Met a few elderly ones. I had my heart set on the name and had to convince DH.
As a teenager I was going to have an Emma and a Thomas. Never had a boy, but Thomas was not on the list for DD1 or DD2 if they’d been boys. Emma never made it onto the list either.

Ok well weirdly I just asked my son and he said he would have two boys called Aaron and Jaiman and two girls called Sophia (currently a girl in his class) and........Susan!
Another vote for Susan?!? I even said “who do you know with that name?” and he was like “no one, it’s just a good name”.

@LaurieSchafferIsAllBitterNow

I knew a Deirdre once....good deal younger than me...(am 55) only she pronounced it as Dee-AIR-dra, which sounds much more lovely than Dear-dree, which really smacks of someones elderly irish spinster type relation.

The Irish pronuncation of Deirdre is Dee-Air-Dra, so the spinister Dear -dree would be British,

DD (10) has already named hers Barry and Jeff. I can only hope they’re boys... but given the trends in naming, maybe they will be fashionable in a few decades!

I still have some school work from when I was 10 which was “write about what you think you’ll be doing in the year 2000” which was 20 years away at the time.

I said I’d have two children, a boy called Alexander (ok) and a girl called Charmaine.

I don’t.