Old Lady Cool names?

[myweeangel]

Got a boy's name picked (we think). Got lots of time left but just thinking about a girl's name. Got DD, Olivia, and would like something charming and elegant to go with it. Love old lady cool names like Molly and Maisie but two friends' snatched these already. Any more ideas? Thought of Isobel, Anna, Emily, Hannah, but would love lots of like-minded suggestions!

I have a Martha which I love and is still quite unusual up here in Yorkshire although I believe it is more popular in south England.
Other old lady names that I love are
Alice (Martha's middle name)
Esther
Beatrice
Florence
Mary
Loads of gorgeous names to choose from on this thread

Edith - knew a young one once and she was lovely
Grace
Sybil
Emmeline
Constance

I also have an Esme and love the name!

Violet iris Molly (v.popular) agatha (love it) Agnes ivy Maggie Peggy dolly Beatrice may Rose roalie poppy primrose

Connie
Rose
Iris
Elsie/Elsa
Ivy
Greta
Edie
Ada
Agatha
Nancy
Kitty

Maybe: Cora, Edith, Marguerite, Simone, Prunella, Selma, Ida, Polly, Shirley, Ethel, Elspeth, Vera, Gilda, Adelaide, Blanche, Clara, Celia, Eudora, Winnifred, Zenobia, Lucinda, Marnie, Theodora.

How about Joan/Joanie?

I hope none of you creative, trend-setting ladies are going to pick these names yourselves. I would hate to pinch your ideas only to find the names had become common!!! Only joking. Thanks again everyone.

Hazel

Mary

Isabella

My grandmas' names.

Agatha
Rita
Jill
Heather

I love Mabel. It's my dd1 middle name after my great gran. Wished I had used it as a first name but people's reactions put me off

Gladys?
Edna?

My Great Aunts were called:-

Edna
Nancy
Alice
Peggy
Mary.

and I love those names! Old lady chic is so fabulous!

I love Pearl and Ivy. Not sure my boyfriend started off that keen but resistance is futile!

I have 3 girls and between them they have the names Violet, Ava, Rose, Effie, Iris, and Eileen, I love Maude, Ada, Aggie, Edith and Olive too

Molly, Maisie, Isobel, Anna, Emily, Hannah are not old lady cool names!!!! They are sweet-little-girl-everywhere names!!

Exactly! classic names like Alice, Mary,Grace are not 'old lady names'

There are no 'cool old lady names'- they are all dire! e.g. Hilda, Maud, Elsie, Ivy, Beryl, Winifred, Freda, Ivy, Pearl, Ethel, Muriel, Mildred-horrid!

Loving practically all the names on this thread.
I have an Edie but also love Margot, Nancy, Daphne, Agatha, Clementine and Violet.
I almost wish I had six girls
Recently found out that two of my great Aunts were called Cissy and Lena, both of which I think are fabulous names.

Daphne ?? NO

Elsie
Betsy
Kitty
Ivy
Iris
Lily
Violet
Minnie
Evelyn

and my personal favourite (although not so old) Rita

Molly, Maisie, Isobel, Anna, Emily, Hannah are not old lady cool names!!!! They are sweet-little-girl-everywhere names!!

Totally agree. Shout these names in a playground in any vaguely leafy part of town, and ten little moppets aged between 2 and 10 will come running. You may think they're chicly recherche, but lots of people have thought the same, and most of them have beaten you to it.

If you really want Old Lady Cool you'll need to ramp it up a notch, viz: Ethel, Edith (though that's borderline popular), Gertrude, Sybil, Maureen, Jean, Janet. Elderly nuns' names might be a fruitful avenue (as it were)? I offer: Dymphna, Perpetua, Fidelma, Philomena. But perhaps not Mary Patrick.

Have fun.

Eloise Honor May Iris Sadie

Margaret and all it's many variations/nicknames. A wee Meggy Maggie or Peggy would be sweet but it is a versatile name. All these are derivations/nicknames!

Madge, Marge, Meg, Megan, Mog, Moggie, Rita, Daisy, Greta, Gretel, Gretchen, , Marg, Margot, May, Molly, Margo Sanna, Meggie, Peggy and Peg.

and wiki missed the "hip and happening " punkified version- Maz!

Eileen

Doreen/Dori
Dolly
Irene
Maureen
Sylvia
Ethel
Dotty
Ursula