Downton Abbey Names?

[Grandhighpoohba]

So do we reckon that Mary, Edith and Sybil are going to have a resurgence then?

Yes - all nice and fit with the "old lady" trend!

I think Mary will. Not too sure about the other two. Cora is definitely been used a few times around here of late. I know 2 (one 3yo so not DA related, one 3months)

edith already is, i've met about 8 new babies in the last year and 2 were called edith

But what about boy's names? Matthew....a bit 80's, can't think of the others!

I don't like Edith or Sybil but Mary is OK. I saw a Livinia on TV the other day. Is that how you spell it?

Lavinia.

My 5 yo Dd is a big Downton fan and has just named her doll Sybil.

Isis.

I dont mind Edith or Anna and am beginning to love Cora!
Can see them getting popular though.

As for the boys in DA, the ones I can think of are William, Thomas, Matthew, and Richard - nothing too imaginative there.

Yes, quite agree.

I love Sybil.

Mary is definitely making a comeback. I know two baby Marys born recently.

I have an ulterior motive for asking! My mother was clearly ahead of her time and gave me a name featured in Downton 30+ years ago, and I have had a lifetime of teasing, or people commenting on it, and it would be really nice for me if it came back in style!

I love the name Cora.

Dd(16) has friends called Mary and Cora, and we know a baby Ethel.

I meant Edith- was thinking about Ethel, but don't know ny!

DD has a Downton name. She is going to be 6 next week. I know of 2 others.

Bet it isn't mine five!

Isn't Lily Allen's little baby called a Downton name? That'll help make it popular

I have an Anna (10 months old) and I was nosying at Bountys most popular name in my area for 2011 and Anna was really high, much higher than my other 2 daughters names and dd2 has the most popular name in the world ever according to MN . A few people have said "oh like Downton Abbey" when I have told them her name including my Mum!

Grandhigh I really want your name to be Mrs Hughes, but I bet Rosamund?

neither.

It's Sybil, right?

Sybil from DA gives great PR for the name, if it's any help. It's funny how associations can really turn you for or against a name, which if looked at isolation is actually a pretty and interesting name. Sybil Fawlty really ruined it for a while.

DD's (1YO) middle name is Mary, a family name though.

I used to know a Mary when I was at school - chic brunette. The name was very dated then, but she carried it really well.

OP - funnily enough, I do sort of know how you feel. I share one of DA's older generation's names (Matthew's mother; that exact spelling), and it was sooo old lady in a bad way growing up, but now you can't move for babies with the name or one of the variations.

Swings and roundabouts - plus it's quite nice to have a name which is current in your 30s (as opposed to as a toddler), instead of being a generic Claire, Joanne or Sarah.

Laurence Olivier had a dgd called Isis-I love that name [the name of the Thames in Oxford and also an Egyptian goddess].

Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham
Lady Edith Crawley
Mr Carson
John Bates
Lady Mary Crawley
Sarah O'Brien
Anna
Thomas
Mrs Hughes
Cora, Countess of Grantham
Daisy
Mrs Patmore
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham
Matthew Crawley
Isobel Crawley
Lady Sybil Crawley
William
Tom Branson
Dr Clarkson
Molesley
Ethel
Gwen
Lavinia Swire

i nearly called dd1 cora, she is now 11. but i am a last of the mohicans fan. havent seen this yet would be fab if this name made a come back.