List your favourite old lady names

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I know it's been done before but I'd like an update of which are the most popular (that you would actually use, or have used) just girls at the mo...

TIA

Mabel
Agnes
Agatha
Edith
Florence
Constance
Harriet
Dorothy

Ethel

Agnes
Constance

Emmeline (DD)
Hannah )Grandmother)
Tess
Agnes
Agatha
Cecily
Cecillia
Dulcie
Ada (wouldn't use this but was other Grandmother's name and I have met one little Ada)
Jemima
Rose
Christabel
Harriet
Henrietta

Nobody ever suggest Thelma. Thats a real old lady name and I've never met a little Thelma!

my mum's name Stella aunties Annie , Cissy , Ella , Mamie , Betty , Kate

Merle, Beryl. My mum is a Beryl and I wish I had used this for DD.

Iris
Edith
Gertie

I really like Florence, Martha and Matilda - all old lady names.

DD is Mollie - again a name from at least two generations ago, and earlier than that too.

Not sure I'd go for my own grandparents names though - Ethel and Dorothy Joan. My grat granmas were Ada and Dinah. Reckon there are definitely prettier names.

I love Agnes
Milly (mildred)
Edith
Freda

As you know I love old lady names - I have Pearl and Iris.
If dc5 is a girl we love

Hilda
Enid
Beryl
Mildred
Ethel
Jean
Hazel

Others I like are

Myrtle
Augusta
Gwendolen
Hawys
Louisa
Dorothea
Sibyl
Joan
Peggy / margaret
Thelma (I really love this pp!)
Josephine
Penelope
Maude
Daphne

None of those are especially trendy I dont think - and I would hope that they would not date like Ruby, Lily et al!

there is another one on the tip of my tongue and i cannot remember it!

My favourites:

Maude
Constance
Minerva
Leonora
Elvira

DD2 has fairly 'old' fasioned names, and to this day I so wish I had used Maude as an extra middle name. Had the pen poised, but dh was not so keen. Still love that name!

I'm liking Elsie, would you put that along the same lines as Martha and Matilda like its old lady but quite trendy, or would you put it with Maude and Hilda that are old lady but quite brave IYSWIM? will it become faddy anytime soon?

Ruby
Violet
Betsy
Clara
Blanche

Olwyn
Winnifred
Alice
Maud

All old lady names and lovely

LOVE Blanche!

Edie

Audrey
Dorothy
Mary
Barbara
Margaret
Esme
Alathea
Verity
Joan

I love all of those, not sure about popularity though.

I know an Elsie and an Althea (both in their twenties) and also a Cecily whose a teen.

They seem to suit them all quite well.

Not sure about Blanche, reminds me of blanching vegetables or blanching over something icky.

My Grans were Alice and Selena.
A lovely name of an elderly lady I recently met is Maisie, I think it is lovely. She told me it wasn't short for anything.

Beatrice, Mabel, Ivy, Irene( means peace), Mary, Gladys( going to be the name of my guinea pig!)

My grans and great grans were Lillian, may, Edith, Kathleen and joan

Some of these are more popular than others aren't they!

I know about half a dozen small girls called Maisie or Maisy.

I also know one Sybil and one Elsie FWIW so neither of those especially popular.

My DD's name on this thread quite a lot

I like a lot of 'old lady names':

Agnes
Agatha
Clementine
Constance
Daphne
Dora
Elsie
Florence/ Flora
Ivy
Iris
Gwendolen
Maude
Mabel
Nora

I would put Elsie more in the category of Matilda/ Martha, although it isn't widely used as yet. However, I wouldn't class those names as 'trendy'. I met a baby Elsie, Iris and Ivy here recently and I live in a v conservative area as far as naming goes!

I would say Elsie is fairly popular, my cousin has one, and i know a couple of others born recently, through work. I think because of the 'ie' ending that it wil get popular on the back of other 'ie' names like Millie, Molly, Maisie, Daisy etc, and i prefer it as a nn for Elspeth.
Loobylu3, I would class Matilda and Martha as trendy, but Iris, Hilda, Daphne, Gwendolen etc as not trendy, but then, I over think these things according to dh.
I have an overwhelming obsession that Ethel, Enid and Hilda will become mega popular because i liek them! Iris has becoma much more popular since i had dd 9 years ago, but then it is a fabby name

I know a child born recently called...

Queenie.

I love Queenie and Plum! Think I cuold only do them for a nn for Victoria though - they are brave names!