to want to name my DD this.

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I love the name Elsie but have had some odd reactions when I've mentioned it to people. My sister said it was pretentious and a random lady in a shop laughed out loud yesterday. I've had the wind taken out of my sails. Is it really not on to name your baby Elsie?

I really need some objective views from ordinary folk to sort this out and don't want to ask anyone else in real life. I haven't posted in baby names as I assume most have a particular interest in names over there.

Am I being unreasonable to want to name my baby Elsie?

My advice? Don't discuss names with people. Only share the name after baby is here. It'll be a very tactless person that comments on a baby name when it comes with a gorgeous new born

I agree - there is no way that I would tell people in RL that Elsie was dire - but if they told me beforehand I would mention that my aunt Elsie hated it - it wouldn't be fair after they had chosen it.

I love it. I suspect it's going to be as popular as Ruby in the not too distant future.

It probably will make a come back- it was very popular 100 years ago. Probably people will love Brenda in another 30 years.

I'd go with Elsa if you also like that as it's a bit less stereotypical. Then you can call her Elsie as a nickname you use all the time.

I immediately thought of elsie tanner - I have just googled it and as I thought it's Coronation St - I've never watched it.

YANBU. I really like the name Elsie and would have very seriously considered it had my last dc not been a boy.

I had a lovely, lovely Great Auntie Elsie as a child - grew up next door to her until she passed away when I was 6. It's a lovely warm safe name for me.

I liked Elsie to but only ever mentioned it in passing when discussing names with anyone when dd2 was due. But as we were positive she was going to be boy we never spent much time discussing girls name anyway. When she was born the midwife asked if we had and a name picked and I said just yes her name is Elsie, didn't even give her dad a say.
3years on and Elsie no longer makes me think of old ladies just small blonde curly haired hurricanes. and I think everyone that knows her feels the same.

I have an Elsie (she's 2), and I love it! I don't like Elise, it's a totally different name. I considered Elspeth, but the only one I know gets called Speth, which I don't like. I say go for it, it's a lovely name.

Go for it. My Auntie Elsie was my Dad's much older sister. She manned the ak-ak gun on the east coast during the war. A strong woman and much loved.

For me, Elsie is the name of a spiteful old lady when I consider it as just a name.

But if I met someone called Elsie, I would remember the person (and probably not the name, because I'm bit crap like that). In terms of potential names, I think we always react on just the name, when really how often do we meet someone with an unusual name and think 'oh bloody hell, how could you call your child that?'. You instead think 'Oh, Elsie, that really funny/kind/friendly girl'. I had some very negative responses to DD's name when I floated it as a suggestion before she was born. Afterwards, when the same people had a body to attach it to they said 'Actually, it suits her'

I love it, was on my short list if I had a girl.

i considered it 15 years ago for dd - it was quite unusual then a but too much so for me

how about esme?

I know 2 Elsie's, one a teenager and one a 1 yr old. Both lovely! Name is old-fashioned, but that is the in-thing nowadays, hence the resurgence of Ruby, Grace, Molly, Rose etc etc.

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lovely name-in odd way think we obsess too much re names- our children will be same person irrespective of names we give them!

My sister was very keen to be known as Elsie Primrose when she was four. She thought it was the prettiest name in the world.
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I like it. All the "old men" names are back so why not. I know a 4 year old called Betty, it really suits her!

I like elsie. People had a similar reaction when i said i was calling my dd rosemary. I love it, she suits it so who cares.

It's a very pretty name.

I agree with not discussing your name choices with people. I told people because I'm rubbish at keeping a secret, and EVERYONE had an opinion on them!

My brother and his wife aren't announcing the name of their baby until she's born and they can introduce her to people properly. I think that's a lovely idea.

Should add we live in an area where there are many destinys, kaylas and kaceys ( from my older dds class) nothing wrong with that but i rosemary does stand out in a way it maybe wouldnt in other places.

Strangely enough I love the name Elsa but not so keen on Elsie. Elsa to me conjures up European grandeur (I have no idea why) but Elsie head-scarves and clogs. I tend to put Elsie in the same bracket as Gladys, Doreen and Doris - but I'm sure you are ahead of me on this one.

As everyone says; it's your call. You might hear my daughter's name and think "Oh" but obviously I love it. As my Grannie used to say "it would be a boring old world if we all liked the same things ..." No need to talk about despising each other because we don't have the same taste.

I think we are influeneced a lot by our memories of people with the same name. I have a friend in her 30s who is lovely and called Elsie, so I like the name.

My dd is Elsa, a lot of people don't like it and quite a few made faces when we told them before she was born. Now it's just her name and that's what everyone calls her. We do also call her Elsie May sometimes as a sort of ironic shortening and joke that so many people hyphenate names with May around here, Alissa-may, katie-may etc.

I think it is a pretty name and it is very much your baby; your choice. It is quite old-fashioned, but that's very in vogue at the moment and it's not the sort of vintage name that makes you think, "oh - not for me ty very much". Like an acquaintance of mine who has recently named her DD "Queenie".