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.

Where I'm from (NI) Millie means chav

My doggie was called Millie and went to doggie heaven in August 2019! I miss her so much and still think of her every day!!

My cousin is a Millie, I love it

Short for Mildred

It's become over used where i live, along with Evie, Ava etc.

I like the name Millicent, which means strength and determination. But there are a few names Millie can be short for. I think Millie should be a NN/shortened proper name.

I also think the dog/cat/animal thing is irrelevant.

Millie’s Cookies is still going!

All the Millie's I've met have been bitchy.
My DP's 12 year old cousin is called Millie and she is so so sly.

It's a thoroughly modern name

I'm not sure anyone else got the reference @Dylaninthemovies1

Makes me think of stereotypical Waitrose shopper's kids.

I like it as well. I also like Tilly... I don't think I've ever seen it spelt Tillie though.

@Dylaninthemovies1

I got it - but then I'm really old!

Everything today is thoroughly modern ...............

Millie was my grandmother's name. She was wonderful. When she died we found on her birth certificate that she was actually Milly. A nicer spelling IMO. Wonder why she changed it.

I think it's a bland name and a bit drippy.

Catface is called millie.

In one class I teach I have:
2 Millies (one y one ie)
2 Tillies (Both y)
3 Lillies (One y, one ie, one hypenated with another name).
It’s confusing!

It's not my favourite name. A bit nicknamey for me. Dd has a friend who is a Milly/Millie and offer calls her Mildred as a joke.

DD is a Milly.

I'm not sure why that spelling is middle aged.

She tells people it's short for Millicent (it isn't). It's short fir something else DS2 couldn't pronounce when she was born. It's not a name I would have chosen as I didn't consider it formal enough. But I wouldn't mess with any of the Millie/Millys I've met.

And I bloody love Millies cookies

I love the name Milly. Reminds me of my childhood somehow.

I’m obsessed with the name Rose

I know 5 Millies, it's a cute and very popular name.

OP you are not being unreasonable, Millie is my middle name and I love it , ( much prefer it to my first name tbf)

Negative connotations in Northern Ireland where I grew up - millie was used as a term for common - horrible - I know - derived from the girls who worked in the mills

It’s very twee. It was more popular about 10-15 years ago so already feels a bit passé to me.

Get a goldfish or hamster and call it Millie. It just makes me think of the cookies tbf. And it's a boring plain name so strange that you live it that much.