AIBU in thinking there should be more Beverleys?

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Beverleys are all kind and warm people who make excellent nurses and dinner ladies. I think just being called Beverley (or Beverly) makes people cuddly and loving. Nerys Hughes would make a wonderful Beverley. As far as I know, there has never been a major war started by somebody called Beverley.
Maybe criminals/members of parliament should be made to change their names to Beverley to make them change their naughty ways?

As long as we restrict Debbies.

No offence if
You are a Debbie but I've only ever met mean ones

I had a conversation with myself today about naming a daughter Beverley, and I decided I would call her Bev. Seems funny that you started this thread today. I had forgotten about it until I read the title.

:)

One of my favourite colleagues (funnily enough a nurse) is a Bev, she is warm, witty and one of the most pleasant people I know.

Start a Bev-alution!

Bev-olution, of course.

Agree, know several lovely Beverleys of a certain age. And one of my best friends from Junior school was a Beverley- so YES!

Nooo...just makes me think that they are like Beverly from Abigail's Party....

I get it warm, nurturing, bosomy, but I can't shake the association with Alan Carr's setter now.

The one in my class at school was known as Beaver.

Not that we meant anything rude by it (I don't think). Just saying.

The only Beverley I've met was an alcoholic who had been to prison, so I may have disproved your theory

Definitely bosomy Vivipru. That's one of the defining features of a Beverley.

Beverly or Beverley was a surname deriving from a place name meaning "beaver stream" in Old English.

Er - Beverley Allitt was a nurse....and a serial killer

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Allitt

i know some absolutely laverley people called Beverley

Beverley is a horrific name. It sounds like lard being spread on bread.

Well, speaking as a Beverley, (does 44 count as 'a certain age'?), I have always disliked my name.
My dad wanted to call me Joanne or Susan, but my mum got her way and called me Beverley (was it a bit trendy in the 60's?).
I am bosomy though..

The Beverley in my class at school was awful As a little girl she was all blonde hair, blue eyes and apparently quite shy so the teachers thought butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. In fact she was spiteful and manipulative and used to make up tales about mean things that other people were supposed to have done to her (lies) to get them in to trouble.

At secondary school she developed in to a down right nasty, vindictive little cow.

However, she was also rather thick and ended up in all the bottom streams so she sort of dropped off my radar aftar about 13/14.

I'm with ElizabethPonsonby. Beverley says only one thing to me: Abigail's Party. "I like Demis Roussos, Ange likes Demis Roussos..."

My father-in-law's middle name is Beverly, he is not bosomy.

eleanorwish it must be a 60's thing, my mum is called Beverley and she hates it, everyone uses her middle name instead. She was born in 1960.

I don't think that fictional Beverleys count as real Beverleys. The one in Abigail's Party sounds like a mis-named Lorraine to me.

One serial killer. That's not a bad average. I'm sure that every other Emma has killed before.

I only met one Beverly. She was an office manager somewhere I worked once. She was vacuous, and giggled a lot. She wore too much make up/perfume and was more interested in flirting with the men at the other end of the large open plan office than she was in managing her own end.

That was one Beverly too many for me!!

Beverley is an absolutely ghastly name. It conjures up fat frumpy images of boring overweight housewives.

I have never met a Beverley