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Suggest shabby chic/country style names!!

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YummyMummybee · 23/03/2012 22:54

Hi
Can you suggest some shabby chic/vintagy/english country style names for both boy/girl!! I think the most common names I get when I google this are
Rose, Poppy, Milly, Daisy, Lily, Maisy etc.
I do love all these cute shabby chic names but can you suggest some more & also for boys.
Its hard to describe what I want & I saw the term shabby chic to describe the above in another name thread & thats along the lines we are thinking!!

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EdithWeston · 23/03/2012 23:09

Maud, Flora, Lettice, Jemima, Genevieve, Artemis, Felicity, Verity, Stephanie, Philadelphia, Mabel, Nell?

Harder for boys: maybe Timothy, William, Crispin, Fabian, Benedict?

DoubleGlazing · 23/03/2012 23:27

Cath for a girl, Kidston for a boy :o

Deuce · 23/03/2012 23:27

Nora

Tom

GossipMonger · 23/03/2012 23:28

Hugh

Hugo

Jude

Love Lettice!

Ada

Effie

Nell

blackcoffee · 23/03/2012 23:32

armoire, escutcheon, pointing

MissGreatBritain · 23/03/2012 23:32

Polly
Jemima
Cathy
Sasha
Myrtle
Velda
May
Ivy

Fred
John
Will
Jonty
Sidney
Ted

blackcoffee · 23/03/2012 23:32

coal-scuttle

DeepThought · 23/03/2012 23:37

Mullion or Scullion, Cornish I think

scottishmummy · 23/03/2012 23:37

shabby chic is that code for wanky middle class

DeepThought · 23/03/2012 23:38

aspirational I think

DeepThought · 23/03/2012 23:44

in that the girl would grow up to own a tea shoppe in Devonia and the boy would grow up to be a Morgan car fixer upper.

possibly.

SodoffBaldrick · 23/03/2012 23:54

Oh dear OP, I suspect this is going to go the way of all your other threads and descend into people taking the piss...

Might it be an idea to buy a couple of dolls and names those, thereby taking off the incredible amount of pressure that you seem to have put on yourselves to get just the right name which just perfectly encapsulates your 'hip' and 'trendy' credentials and which will raise just the right levels of envy and awe amongst your circle of friends. :)

As for 'shabby chic' names, you'd be ahead of the curve with Agnes, and Cripsin is spot on.

YummyMummybee · 23/03/2012 23:55

Double glazing your on the money with kath & kidson lol!!!!! If you could think of the baby name equalivant of Kath Kidson that is just what I want!! So far loving

-Polly
-Maud
-Lettice
-Nora
-May

-Timothy
-Tom
-Hugo
-John

Keep the suggestions coming-I do not mind if they are very popular but I do love these kitsch, cutie, proper English names!
I'm Irish so our middle class here tend to go for old Irish names so Deep Thought & Scottishmummy you guys are way off the mark with your codes lol!!!

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YummyMummybee · 23/03/2012 23:58

Sodofff-thanks for your suggestions, will add to my list now. I love Agnes!:)

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usualsuspect · 24/03/2012 00:01

WTF is a shabby chic name?

Loveday?

usualsuspect · 24/03/2012 00:02

Oldbattererleathersofa?

spendthrift · 24/03/2012 00:17

Agatha
Edith
Mildred
Lavender
Charity
Hope
Faith
Posy
Georgiana
Vanda
Arabella
Verena
Veronica
Sukey
Henrietta
Harriet/harriette/harriot

Henry
George
Daniel
Guy
Edmund
Miles
Piers
Mark
Robin

spendthrift · 24/03/2012 00:25

Or just get the Boden catalogue for the last 5 years. Very MC Norfolk.

Also think American Wasp.
Meg Josephine Beth Amy. Laurence

YummyMummybee · 24/03/2012 00:28

Thanks Spendthrift-adding
Mildred(millie), Posy, Georgiana,Arabella,Harriet(Jane Austen's Emma so cute & totally what I am looking for!!)

Love George for a boy-this is one we hadn't considered!

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joanofarchitrave · 24/03/2012 00:34

Inigo

Prudence

perplexedpirate · 24/03/2012 00:37

Lolz @ doubleglazing and blackcoffee. Grin

spendthrift · 24/03/2012 00:37

Millicent is another Millie, and I've had friends who are Matilda who are Millie, Tillie or Mattie.

On the east coast side, Emily, Anne, Rebecca, Polly, Pollyanna.

perplexedpirate · 24/03/2012 00:38

Midden?

spendthrift · 24/03/2012 00:58

Try the Hanoverian princes for boys. Frederick, for example. There were masses of them bleeding the country poor and they all had about 5 names.

Alfred, Albert, Cecil, Edwin, lots of Victorian boys names too.

MadameMessy · 24/03/2012 01:26

I don't think these names Will get quite the same reception in Ireland as in the UK op.
is there any reason why you are against an Irish name? why do you need to label the type of name you give your dc?

can I ask where abouts you live that you feel you need to give your dc a "trendy" name? is one you and your dp like not enough?