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about really plain names for girls?

452 replies

MrsBadger · 07/02/2007 09:20

Now I swore I would never start a baby-name thread but I can't hold off any longer.

DH wants to give the impending BadgerCub a name that's been used in our families before. I'm fine with this - we have about 20 generations and 500 names to choose from.

The boy's names are generally fine by me (classics like Edward, John, James, Benjamin etc), but he always leans towards girls' names that I just find a bit... dull.

We have a short surname - think Stone or Rowe - and I can't help feeling that (eg) Mary, Susan and Jane don't sound especially nice with it.

Am I being overly picky or should I hold out for something longer and (oh the shame, never thought I'd say this) 'prettier', eg Eleanor or Susanna?

Come on, beat me with sticks now, I know I deserve it!

OP posts:
pinkchampagne · 07/02/2007 13:13

Sorry, hadn't read your previous post before posting my last list!

furcoatandnoknickers · 07/02/2007 13:14

Not nec. favs of mine, but just as a thought:

Dorothy (Dodie,Dot!)
Rebecca
Rita
Libby
Megan
Celia
Ruby
Judith
Francis

nailpolish · 07/02/2007 13:15

Sandra
Marion
Jess
Elsie
Lisa
Laura
Pauline
Valerie
Paula
Jenny
Justine
Carol
Nola
Nina
Lynne
Linda
Lydia
Rachel
Stacey

nailpolish · 07/02/2007 13:16

i like Jackie too

VeniVidiVickiQV · 07/02/2007 13:19

Oooh Harriet!
Or Helena

Whoooosh · 07/02/2007 13:19

Bella/Belle

puddle · 07/02/2007 13:20

Esther
Ada
jenny

nailpolish · 07/02/2007 13:21

oooh i love Esther

furcoatandnoknickers · 07/02/2007 13:21

Elsa ohh I love tha name Elsa havnt heard that since I was little. She was like a little bird and very good at ballet....

nailpolish · 07/02/2007 13:21

Edith is nice too

puddle · 07/02/2007 13:24

Hannah
Florence
Charlotte

VeniVidiVickiQV · 07/02/2007 13:24

oooh, has anyone said Tara?

nailpolish · 07/02/2007 13:25

Tess
Holly

furcoatandnoknickers · 07/02/2007 13:25

I have such a poncy name, just wanted a normal name. I really wanted to be called Melanie or Linda !
My parents nearly died as they are quietly very old-school.

furcoatandnoknickers · 07/02/2007 13:26
  • or Sookie. I thought that was very racy
pinkchampagne · 07/02/2007 13:27

Katie, Bethany, Rosie, Camille, Emily, Lauren, Andrea, Elizabeth

pinkchampagne · 07/02/2007 13:28

Elsa is a pretty name!

nailpolish · 07/02/2007 13:28

Saskia

tirnanog · 07/02/2007 13:29

louise

LawdyMissTutter · 07/02/2007 13:32

have only read OP but agree that in general a short surname demands a longer first name

3 syllables then a single syllable surname is good imo

e.g. Matilda Stowe, Madeleine Rowe etc

both of these are fave names of mine but i have a surname beginning with M and they just don't sound right

LawdyMissTutter · 07/02/2007 13:32

ps congratulations - i have pregnancy brain so can't remember wheter i knew this or not

tirnanog · 07/02/2007 13:33

Fionnuala

Aderyneryn · 07/02/2007 13:33

I know two little girls called Frances. It is a lovely name.

Nicole
Adele
Bethan
Cora
Hannah
Rachel
Rhea
Tessa
Zoe

scottishbird · 07/02/2007 13:34

molly
georgia

margo1974 · 07/02/2007 13:35

Hey Mrs Badger, what's wrong with Margo?