Too old-fashioned?

[phoenixrose314]

Feeling really upset... wanted to call my baby Penny if it's a girl, after my favourite nan who passed away right before I met my hubby. She was an amazing woman who raised me for the first five years of my life, and she meant the world to me. I love the name, especially on a cute little girl, but when I mentioned potential names a while back (before I was preggers) to my friends, more than one of them pulled a face and said that they hoped for the baby's sake I went with one of the other options...

What do you think? Should I just go with my gut feeling that I love the name Penny, or should I listen to my friends and think of some more options? Is it really too old-fashioned to be given to a little baby?

Penny, for Penelope, is a beautiful name, and if I ever had a DD would be my first choice!

Am really taken with Penny! Just pit it DH and he agrees too!

I love Penny too and wouldn't say old fashioned at all.

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Gorgeous name. Go for it. I love the family connection too. Very special

Anything you say about a name when someone isn't even pregnant is fair game

It's not a name I would have considered - but as I was reading your OP I could just see a cute little toddler running around :) and it's a name that suits a baby/toddler/child/teen/adult - but the main thing is, it's after your Nan and you love it - don't hesitate to use it!!

When is she due?

It's a lovely name! Ignore people. You could pick the nicest name in the world, and people would still pull faces. I know it was said upthread, but you really shouldn't mention your chosen name until it is a fait acompli. We are not telling anyone the name we have chosen for our DD.

It's a lovely name, and probably going to have a bit of an increase in popularity since Kourtney Kardashian just named her new baby Penelope :)

Love it, go for it, and don't tell anyone in RL what you have chosen until your ds arrives! My mum turned her nose up at one of my choices, in fact she said "oh, I don't think so", so I just went quiet on the subject for 6 months then called ds that anyway! She now completely denies she ever did it, and loves his name. (Which is a perfectly normal English name, btw!)

I'm a 30yo one, there aren't many of us but we're pretty scattered in age! There was one other at my senior school, several years above me. I think another might have been starting as i left?

FWIW i have the long version on my bc but have never been called it and don't answer to it in consequence. It's no hassle to tell people I prefer the nn, many then shorten to three letters anyway :)

In defence of the main friend who made the offending comment, she is extremely autistic and doesn't exactly get the social convention of lying to appease a friend's feelings!!

Honestly, no-ones lying on here to spare your feelings. Posters are genuinely positive about your name choice.

I know a 6yr old Penny/Penelope. Doesn't strike me as old fashioned at all.