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To ask for your ideas on goofy girls names?

114 replies

CharlotteK9 · 06/05/2023 22:30

For example: I love the boys name Percy. It a lovely name but feel like it has a certain goofiness to it.

I can’t think of any names like this for girls. Anyone, any ideas? TIA

OP posts:
SecretsIWouldNeverTell · 06/05/2023 22:31

Doris

TinyKittenPaw · 06/05/2023 22:33

Nancy?

coodawoodashooda · 06/05/2023 22:33

Kookie

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CharlotteK9 · 06/05/2023 22:34

Ab Doris! I love Doris, thank you!

OP posts:
Hankunamatata · 06/05/2023 22:34

Petunia

CurlewKate · 06/05/2023 22:34

You want to give your adult child a "goofy" name. Bloody hell....

Eviecat · 06/05/2023 22:35

Daphne!

Bernadinetta · 06/05/2023 22:35

Wanda?

Thequeenofwishfulthinking · 06/05/2023 22:35

Kitty
Dorothy (Dottie)
Daphne

Hueandcry · 06/05/2023 22:35

Lottie, short for Charlotte or Zara

Bernadinetta · 06/05/2023 22:36

CurlewKate · 06/05/2023 22:34

You want to give your adult child a "goofy" name. Bloody hell....

Where does it say she wants to give her adult child a goofy name?

Changeforachange · 06/05/2023 22:36

I know a female Percy.
I think its quite cool.

itsokiwasawake · 06/05/2023 22:36

Ethel

AmyDudley · 06/05/2023 22:36

Not sure what you mean by goofy ? I mean Percy sounds very dated to me and it is a 'old fashioned' name that appears to have missed out on the old name come back, unlike Alfie, Archie, Sidney etc.

I guess in that way I would say maybe Edna, Vera or Winifred for a girl (although I think Win short for winifred would be a very cool name for a girl,)

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CharlotteK9 · 06/05/2023 22:37

@CurlewKate who said it was for a baby? 😂

OP posts:
AmyDudley · 06/05/2023 22:39

Is it chickens ? - Lavender and Phyllis

TroysMammy · 06/05/2023 22:40

Muriel
Elvira
Gertrude - Gertie/Trudie

LadyMargaretDevereux · 06/05/2023 22:41

Lettuce

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CharlotteK9 · 06/05/2023 22:42

Ooooh Trudie. Another good one. I like Lavender but it feels like a long one…

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CurlewKate · 06/05/2023 22:42

@Bernadinetta "

Where does it say she wants to give her adult child a goofy name?"

Oh- so this is a "til 18" name?

AmyDudley · 06/05/2023 22:42

Gwendoline

NeedToChangeName · 06/05/2023 22:42

Ariadne

Hueandcry · 06/05/2023 22:43

Also Tilly

CaribbeanCupcake · 06/05/2023 22:43

Percie is the female Percy

I also love Peggy x

Flowertight · 06/05/2023 22:44

Goofy means ‘ridiculous or ludicrous’. You’re not fit to be a parent if that’s what your criteria for your child’s name is