Name panic >> Susan + Suggestions....

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I'm having enormous trouble with names with only a week 'til due date. We know we're having a little girl. OH has turned his nose up at most of the list and the only name we could even remotely agree on is Susan (Susie/Suzi) which wasn't my favourite but I could compromise. At which point, my mother who has been giving 'helpful suggestions' all along (most of which sound like boarding-school prefects or horsey-horsey-rah-rah names) said that Susan was boring, outdated, dull and WHATever that she would call her something else - quite out of character !!! So, please please I'd like MNers's thoughts on Susan? And any more suggestions that aren't Top Ten but aren't strange or twee as my brain has stopped.....

My first name is Susan, have always been known by my second name, never really liked it - hate Sue, but the more I say it now the more I'm starting to like it. (Much prefer Susannah tho!)

I'm with your Mum! I like horsey-horsey-rah-rah names and I find Susan a little 'boring, outdated and dull' especially when it turns into Sue. Probably because I grew up with a lot of them. Susie is okay.

How about..

Sasha
Helena
Josephine - Josie
Clara
Louisa
Julia
Anna
Juliet

...Trying to channel 'Susan' era and not twee....

I know a Susan Michelle, she doesn't like her name - I call her Soozie Floozie

I think it's a nice name, but also like:

Cleo
Freya
Ruby
Scarlett
Clemency
Daniella

I also like Elsie

I am a Susan under 40 (just!), known as Susie. I never felt comfortable with Susan when I was younger and would have preferred to be Susannah which seems a bit younger and prettier and is at least longer than Susie - it always felt odd to have a "short" name which was the same length as my "real" name.

susanne i prefer i dont like the prenunciation of susan.

I like Susie but not Susan.

You don't really like it and that's all that matters. Why don't you and your H write two more lists.

fwiw, my parents couldn't agree between Suzanne (mum) and Susannah (dad) so I ended up as something else entirely, chosen by my aunt. I knew quite a few Susans growing up and one Suzette, which I liked a lot. (I have since then met a lot of 40something Sues).

Oooh, I hadn't realised that there was a whole another page of posts! Thankyou all for your opinions!! @pressingbuttons & mathanxiety I think you've hit the nail on the head. It was already a compromise and i haven't found a "YES!!! she's one of those" yet. Thankyou VM for pointing that out !!!! She is a few days overdue now and I'm off work finally, so I've got my MN suggestions above, reloaded all the name websites and taken the books of names off the shelf again!!