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

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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?

My mum is Audrey. She gets called Augie or Aud. Or Nana!

I rather like Audrey, it doesn't particularly have that 'old lady' connotation as would Agatha or Maud for instance. Having said that my 5 yr old DD is at school with a Norah, Harriet and Millicent (and its not allowed to be shortened to Milly)

Old fashioned names are obviously back in vogue but there are some that should be well left where they were - not the ones I mentioned above btw, all 3 girls suit their names and are all just adorable

Nellie - it's a major character in Coronation Street, who has been in it for about 30 years and is still going strong. As so many people have or do watch it, it will inevitably be a strong and widespread connexion in UK.

All of this stuff comes around. It'll be fine as she grows up, though there will be comments from Corrie watchers.

I know of an Agatha and of Mabels from on here, and I'd never have thought they would overcome the older-lady stereotype as there aren't obvious glam users of the name (Hepburn, Horne, Tatou) to counter it. But obviously it's happening.

I read something somewhere (not on here, in a book) about how in 20 years or so there will be a generation of Sharons, Traceys etc in old folks' homes being visited by their granddaughters who will be Mauds, Gracie, Doras etc

My DCs thought it hillarious when they met an elderly gentleman called Henry, as all the Henrys they knew were aged 8 and under.

I Like Audrey, though I would as theres one in my family and she's lovely.

I don't like the fashion of calling babies what I would call nicknames ie: Alfie etc.

Now I think Alfie on a little boy is lovely very very cute but Sir Alfie Brown QC, same with Milly The Right Honourable Milly Smith just doesn't scan for me. But that maybe because theres never been one??

We were chatting names recently at work (some colleagues who work abroad are either about to give birth or just have.) One of the younger women said if she had a boy it would be called Benny I did say with out thinking say oh Benjamin, with Benny for short thats lovely (athought I did think Benny; wooly hat; Crossroads but she'd be too young to get that reference).

And was told firmly No just Benny.

When I asked why, why not Benjamin, and then he has a choice. (I do know a Jamie that what he was christened but tells people his name is James, as he feels it gives him more gravitas) I was told I was a snob. . . Why couldn't a Benny be a Judge/ COE/ Prof.

I did point out that there there is research that says that names affect self concept because they affect the behavior the child receives from others.
But what do i know my name suggests I'm smelly

Audrey is a beauty of name but then I like traditional names names (Harriet, Agatha, Millicent, Agnes etc are very nice names). Would people rather the baby was called Taniqua Rochelle Angel-blossom?

I like Audrey. Am going to go upstairs now and suggest it to DH for DC2, even though it doesn't really go with our surname :)

It's a totally normal name, the people who think it's a 'granny' name obviously just don't have young children in their circle so don't know current naming trends.

yeah she will suit it when she hits 60 your right.

Audrey is a fairly normal name isn't it? I can't imagine it being particularly bully material. dd has a friend called Audrey and as far as I am aware she's never had any probes with it. It certainly didn't make me think anything at all.

As to whether people eventually suit their name, I'm not so sure. I know quite a few people who have decided to be called by their middle name or have always been known by nick names, and some that haven't changed their name but have never particularly liked it.

Audrey is a lovely name - I am sure your friend is just a bit ahead of the curve and this name will take off in a little while.

By the time this Audrey is 20, her name will be the height of chic, and she will be able to lord it over all the glass-over-eyes, dullards with dated names like Ruby, Daisy, Olivia, Evie/Eva/Ava, Grace, etc, etc, ad nauseum...

If she likes it that's what matters and people are being rude as it is not their business.

I do, however disagree with your statement that everyone eventually suits their name. Not everyone does, some people and their names seem sooooo out of place with each other.

Agree slinking

There are SO many eva's/ava's/olivia's/oliver's/ and worst of all - 'Alfie's'

So someone posts asking if a name is ok, you respond with yeah lovely everyone suits their name and then proceed to lay into those with ie or modern names?

Pretentious much?
Ie and common names are dominant which means by the time they get to the workplace there will be lots of them.

I have also given my ie children strong middle names ( John and Elizabeth) they can use them if people still haven't removed the sticks from the arses by the time they get to work age.

I think Audrey is a lovely name. I think of Audrey Tautou (sp?), and my friend Audrey who is about 30 and definitely not a 'granny'!

Don't think I've ever met an elderly Audrey though, so it doesn't have those connotations for me.

I think its a lovely name granted i know older audreys not old ladies BTW in their 40s , why shouldnt it make a come back yes im sure baby audrey will grow into her name , DD2 has a traditional /granny name and i know an old lady with it she is old she is in her 80s , but i also know a baby with her name ,

funky whatever you name your child some people will criticize, it's sad but true and if you give your child a popular name which is "of its time" you usually be in for more criticism on here.

Names do date and popular names will mean that they will probably spend time at school/college/uni/work with lots of others who share the same name. Its just the facts. I've got a name that was the most popular for the year I was born, 5 in my class and there was 5 of us out of a workforce of 50 until recently. Can't use my middle name either as there are 3 of those!

MY name was very popular in the early 70s couldnt move for 1 J or another its kinda boring when you know so many of the same name ,

I agree with the OP's friends - I think Audrey is a dreadful name, best forgotten! Calling your DD Audrey does not bestow on her the beauty, grace, talent and fame of Audrey Hepburn, who was charmed despite rather than because of her name!

I think it's a lovely name. DD2 also has a 'big' name for a baby, as others have said, they will be adults much longer than babies and I'm not a fan of cutesy names myself.

I have never watched Corrie, so no idea who Audrey Roberts is.

oooo...I love Audrey. I think of Twin Peaks and she is definitely no old lady in that :o

I think I might like it for our little one if it's a girl.

I just think of Corrie and Audreys magnificant coiffed hair

Baby Audrey sounds like a contradiction, horrible name, sorry

My mum is Audrey and she has always hated it. She and my father made a decision to never call each other by their names because they hated them so much!

STL have a look at <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=audrey+roberts&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1024&bih=541&tbm=isch&tbnid=Mkm6AmUQZ2GLOM:&imgrefurl=www.tvthrong.co.uk/hollyoaks/soap-news-round-including-new-hollyoaks-spinoff-show&docid=kzUH_zBC-DddvM&imgurl=www.tvthrong.co.uk/files/u1465/Sue%252520Nicholls.jpg&w=330&h=220&ei=2MRET9KMBOih0QWXgPWEBA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=713&vpy=186&dur=343&hovh=176&hovw=264&tx=198&ty=103&sig=112655569399453868063&page=3&tbnh=148&tbnw=196&start=25&ndsp=12&ved=0CNcBEK0DMCA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Audrey Roberts here. If you are really old (like me) you may even remember her from Rentaghost and The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin .