about really plain names for girls?

[MrsBadger]

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!

Peggy: lovely diminutive of Margaret.
I super-love Nancy.

oh I hate Nancy

it's so jolly

if we ever had another(in your dreams bundle) she would have to be nancy

Nancy so boyish and dashing

i know a geraldine fitzgerald

Blackett sisters

our veg box is delivered by nancy, we luv her

I quite liked Nina but dh always made ambulance noises whenever I mentioned it

And Nell but he said she would be known as Nellie the Elephant (and he had had a dog called Nell so vetoed it based on that)

i know 2 adorable ninas

Yes but once someone shouts NEE NAW NEE NAW at you it kind of loses its appeal

We have an Aggie at work, but it's short for Agrippina (she's Italian).

yes, but Lydia the tattooed lady didn't put us off

I know a Caliope who's known as Bobbie

Oh I LOVE Nancy too!

I know two Calypsos

lol, bakedpotato and bundle - must re-read Swallows and Amazons. Ooh - how about Titty, MrsB.

Actually it was hilarious when we met the second, the parents were SO livid that we already knew one heheheh

Not really relevant but prompted by Molesworth's "But Margaret? Have you people forgotten the Thatcher years ?"...ds2 (5) came to ask me the other day if I knew about "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher" (dh obviously giving an impromptu politics lesson). I said I did - and that she snatched my milk too.

"Were you and Daddy at the same school then?"

"No, she snatched all the children's milk."

Ds2: "She must have been a very nasty lady."

Not that we are brainwashing our children, at all

calypso remindsme of camomile lawn..or am i getting mixed up?

Having just watched the re-run of the Camomile Lawn, Calypso can only belong to naughty blondes with clipped BBC English accents!

X'd with bundle...snap!

okay, calm down, ladies!

Agrippa is not on the list - DH's family may be disparate but is not Italian.
ditto Calliope
and Nancy (I was at school with an awful one)

Anything else as simple-but-pretty as Helen?
(not Ella, Emma, Sarah, Lucy or Hannah, they've been bagged by friends / relatives already)

oh not seen that

The first one is blonde and will defo have posh voice

The second was american I think or canadian

I had a list of criteria about ten points long for the kids' names. "Don't like short and plain" is sooooo simple even a man ought to be able to work with it.

One of my points was that the name could not have a common nickname which ended in an "ee" sound. James=Jimmy, Katherine=Cathy, Andrew=Andy, and so on. This rule alone cancelled almost ever name in the modern western world. (and onother point was that it needed to be common western name).

it is very hard

Alice?