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To think everyone "suits" their name eventually and so will baby Audrey?

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WhyAmINotConvinced · 21/02/2012 19:24

My friend has decided to call her baby girl Audrey and is having a hard time from people saying it's a granny name and she'll get bullied etc. IMO EVERYONE ends up suiting their own name no matter what they're called right?

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AitchTwoOhOneTwo · 21/02/2012 19:59

hepburn. no worries.

BBisBBack · 21/02/2012 20:00

Alfie is a lovely name ( defends DS name!!)

Audrey is also lovely much nicer than these try hard names... I know a baby called starr! That wont work as an adult really will it? I knew two gorgeous kids called talloulah and teddy... Names suited them as babies, but as an adult they would be hard to work! Audrey is lovely! I love maggie but it doesnt work with our surname, and get lots of Hmm about names i like

mumnotmachine · 21/02/2012 20:00

And a lot of the so called "Granny" names are back in fashion anyway.

There are some which have never gone out of popularity, but others are making a huge comeback.
A girl I knew, her neice was called Sylvia, and I heard a Mum calling Doris over the holidays

JiltedJohnsJulie · 21/02/2012 20:01

Agree totally and you can't get more cool then Audrey Tatou in the Chanel advert.

mumnotmachine · 21/02/2012 20:03

And I heard a little boy called Morris/Maurice last summer- I love that name!!

NatashaBee · 21/02/2012 20:06

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tinypumpkin · 21/02/2012 20:09

My nephew is a Morris mumnotmachine. I am biased! My DDs have old fashioned names too but everyone has always been nice about them (to my face!)

BloodyDogEscapedAgain · 21/02/2012 20:10

I think its lovely too it reminds me of Audrey Hepburn.

I have an old lady name and I hated it as a child but I really love it now.

When I introduce myslef to people they always say oh lovely you don't hear that one often etc. They may be lying but who cares Grin

I'm always glad that I'm not one of the 5 nicolas, Umpteen Sarahs, odd Michelles that I went to school with.

Everyone hears my name and they know exactly who I am Grin

squeakytoy · 21/02/2012 20:10

Nothing wrong with the name.. plenty of traditional names are now back in vogue...

mummymccar · 21/02/2012 20:13

Beautiful name - If I ever have a second DD that's what I've decided she'll be named (DP has no say in the matter, obviously!)

MegIet · 21/02/2012 20:19

yanbu. I don't get why people worry about choosing 'grown up' names for kids.

DS has an old mans name, when he was born the midwife said "that's a big name for a little boy! Smile".

manicinsomniac · 21/02/2012 20:24

Well, I'll be the first to say I really dislike the name. I think it has a harsh, ugly sound to it.

But, YANBU, it's a perfectly acceptable name and as Esme, Lily, Grace, Martha, Alice, Maisie etc are all back in the top 100 or so then 'old fashioned' is clearly not a problem!

historyrepeats · 21/02/2012 20:27

Love love love it? Do people actually comment on it now dd is Audrey? Shock
I have a Violet and people either love it or don't comment but pull a cat's arse face. Who cares, we can't all have great taste? Wink

historyrepeats · 21/02/2012 20:30

love it love it love it! not ?

GrahamTribe · 21/02/2012 20:32

"I do wonder how the current crop of -ie named girls (also the Alfies etc for the lads) will get on as they grow older and need to be taken seriously in their fields."

That's a very good comment. Several of the Tonys of my youth are now Anthony, the cute little girl I met when she was 2 and known as Katie is now known as Catherine to all those in her solicitors practice and the guy I met when he was 14 and who insisted on Steve now refers to himself as Steven (and boy is his mother glad after a 30 year wait!). As Steven says, if you can't feel and be viewed as an adult at 46, when can you?

squeakytoy · 21/02/2012 20:33

I hate my own name.. it is not traditional, modern, or quirky... or can even be shortened to anything remotely likeable... yet when I was at school there were 4 of us with the same bloody name...

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NoOnesGoingToEatYourEyes · 21/02/2012 20:40

That Audrey Tautou link just attacked me with weird pop-ups that would not die.

I think Audrey is a lovely name and as everyone else has said, it will serve her well as an adult as well as being a beautiful name for a little girl.

CremeEggThief · 21/02/2012 20:46

I agree with most on the thread that Audrey is a graceful and elegant name. There were 2 in my year group in school in Ireland and I was born in the late 70s, so hardly an old granny!

EdithWeston · 21/02/2012 20:50

The snag is, these reassuring comments will be heavily outnumbered (in UK) by the immediate and obvious connexion which will be made by viewers of the most-watched, longest-running soap - "Roberts".

Whoneedssleepanyway · 21/02/2012 20:56

my cousin is called Audrey she is a model and absolutely stunning

good name choice

GlitterySkulls · 21/02/2012 20:58

i personally don't like it, but i dislike it whether it's a baby or a woman in her 90's. i would never be so rude as to tell someone their name/ the name they chose for their child is (imo, only) horrible.

and, as EdithWeston says, i did immediately think of "roberts".

NellieForbush · 21/02/2012 20:59

I love this name. I only know two Audreys and they are both young and gorgeous. People giving her a hard time are rude.

NellieForbush · 21/02/2012 20:59

And I don't know who Audrey Roberts is.

BornToShopForcedToWork · 21/02/2012 21:06

Audrey is a lovely name.