To be obsessed with the name Millie?

[hellcarryingahandbag]

Hi all,
I absolutely adore the name Millie, but my friend says it sounds like a cow. I even crocheted a rag doll and called it Millie. Also, it must be spelled Millie NOT Milly, the former is really sweet, the latter is just very very middle aged.

It's a weak name. Overused and infantile.

There's only one Millie as far as I'm concerned and that's James Milner.

I think it's really twee and wet.

Cannot blame you. Millie is a legend. Ok some (he) may call him "boring James Milner. I call him legend called Millie

Do you watch Emmerdale?

Just been reminded of the phenomenon that was Millie’s cookies and their giant personalised monstrosities! I miss the 90s [sigh]

As a name though... meh.

DD1 is one of 113 Millicents born in her year. She's not one bit weak.

And despite having SN and going to special school, she had learned that her short name was spelled with an 'ie' because 'there is no 'y' in Millicent' by the time she started school and told anyone who dared to spell it with a y.

I think it's a lovely name

Have met many Millies. Half lovely small girls, half small dogs not all lovely.

I like it. I had a ford fiesta when i passed my test many years ago that i called Millie.
My friend has a nice dog called Millie

Oh and when i was younger I was obsessed with the name Emma. I really wanted to be called it.
Named my dd that but she s known as Em.

I'm in NI and a Millie is basically a female chav (sorry for using the horrible c word) so that's all I can think about when I see it!

Me too it just makes me think of the terrifying girls who lived in my estate with their permed hair and massive gold hoop earrings. Though I remember my teacher shouting at us for using the term “millie” - in her day it simply meant a working class girl who worked in a mill.

What is wrong with the Y spelling? I prefer it, personally.

One of my year 7 classes has 4 children called Millie. 4!

I have a Millie - she's a terrier cross. We didn't give her the name though as she already had it when we got her. Can't say I'm keen on it but it felt cruel to change it. We tend to call her Moo.

Meh, very bland and overused name. Not one of the nicer old fashioned ones at all!

My elder daughter is called Millie (Amelia on her birth certificate). Yes it's the most common girls name for her birth year, which was not what I wanted for my children's names, but I just loved it. I think it's a great name, but I'm also glad she has Amelia to use when she's older if she wants something more formal.

Milly is a name for female chav where I live. Also known as millbags 😄 apart from that, it’s a nickname, it’s in the ‘eeeee’ generic dross of girls born in the past decade who have twee, insipid, cutesy names that suit infants only. Poppy Rae ruby Evie Effie lily rilee Lacey daisy ee ee whatever.

I have a feisty Millie only one in a school of 200, not in the least bit meh or wet. Maybe more common in common areas then

Chicken shop

I’m sorry, but whenever I hear the name ‘Millie’, I think of ‘Millicent’ - that was my grandmother’s name and nickname, and unfortunately she was a terrifying woman.

I don’t like it at all sorry. But then I don’t tend to like common names.

My DD went to school with a Millie, who was an absolute nightmare of a bully. The teachers clearly picked up on that, as they cast her as the cow in the school play.

So I do associate Millie with a cow, but wouldn't have done before meeting one particular girl years ago!

It reminded me of the “ Milly Molly Mandy” books;Millicent Margaret Amanda.Lovely name as it brings back happy memories of storytelling with my own children 😊