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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!

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TinyGang · 07/02/2007 11:41

Aimee.

EnidLloydFoxe · 07/02/2007 11:41

Eve?

littlelapin · 07/02/2007 11:41

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CountessDracula · 07/02/2007 11:42

Alicia

marthamoo · 07/02/2007 11:42

My first choice for a girl when I was pregnant with ds2 was Eliza.

Ellen.

Helena, Eleanor.

Elspeth.

uwila · 07/02/2007 11:43

CD, were those ambulance or donkey sounds?

themildmanneredjanitor · 07/02/2007 11:43

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TinyGang · 07/02/2007 11:43

I always liked Esme, but changed my mind at the last minute.

bundle · 07/02/2007 11:43

agree with marina re: Ellen

Dora not for you???

what about Naomi?

Clara?

Elisabeth

EnidLloydFoxe · 07/02/2007 11:44

Harriet?

uwila · 07/02/2007 11:44

What about:

Chloe
Sophie (or Sophia)
Isabel

marthamoo · 07/02/2007 11:44

Edith. Edie.

pooka · 07/02/2007 11:45

Marthamoo - my mother used to tell us that Ted Heath ate babies
Think we were just old enough to realise they were joking. But it certainly made me slightly more wary of him when I saw him on the news.

bundle · 07/02/2007 11:45

yes Harriet

Miriam

Anna

Maria

littlelapin · 07/02/2007 11:45

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TinyGang · 07/02/2007 11:46

I wonder if anyone ever starts a name thread without ending up even more confused! Poor MrsB your head must be reeling

bundle · 07/02/2007 11:46

Lucia

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MrsBadger · 07/02/2007 11:47

janitor - in case she doesn't look like a Helen. Or DH hates it. Or in three months I decide I hate it.

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marthamoo · 07/02/2007 11:47

I love the name Anna.

Ted Heath's Spitting Image puppet looked like a definite baby-eater to me.

bundle · 07/02/2007 11:48

I've a friend who changed her son's name after about a year. he just didn't look like xxx (can't remember the name, it was something normal like James) and changed it to Isaac

EnidLloydFoxe · 07/02/2007 11:48

anna spanner

marthamoo · 07/02/2007 11:49

But it would be Anna Badger not Anna Spanner

TinyGang · 07/02/2007 11:50

Blimey - how to confuse grandparents...change the name after a year. My mil would never have coped with that.

bundle · 07/02/2007 11:51

it wasa bit controversial, i think

Ellbell · 07/02/2007 11:52

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

Ahem... I give you...

Ellen

(Am I starting to sound obsessed?)