Gwendolen

[birdofthenorth]

Still ttc after mcs but wdyt? I like it as heaps of possible shortenings -Gwen, Wendy, Lenny- and DP does too (DD1 also has an old fashioned name with a short & long version) but can see it being a marmite one- or just a panned one!

Love it, loath it or neither? Thanks!

I have just excited myself further by the realisation that it makes Dolly, too nickname fanatic

I like it. I also like Gwyneth and Geneveive (I thought of Geneveive because it has a connection to Gwendolen - Arthurian Legend).

Good luck with TTC - hope it happens soon for you x

MammaT

I've only seen it spelt Gwendolyn - which was my very dear Great-Aunts name. I have never met another one and for that very reason I like it :)

Reminds me of Gwendoline Mary Lacey from Mallory Towers.

It's a gorgeous name.

Love it

It's nice but I far prefer Gwendoline. That's my sisters name . The other names upthread, gwyneth and genevieve are also great.

Not keen. Screams mothballs to me (ignore me, I am odd) :o

Lovely underused name!

Yes, I am unsure about spelling -George Elliot and Oscar Wilde both spelt it Gwendolen but Gwendolyn & Gwendoline seem more proper written down, iyswim?

I like the name but not the spelling, as previous posters have also mentioned. I don't really care for any of the nicknames apart from Gwen so, personally, would be tempted just to go with that! It's a nice choice - familiar but hardly used - and it sounds like it works well with your daughter's name.

I taught a Gwendoline in my very first class. She was known as Gwen though. I didn't like it at first but it grew on me :)

Ruby

Surname is Hen olds though (sorry for space, trying to make it ungoogleable!) so I think Gwendoline Hen olds sounds better then Gwen Hen olds -too rhymey?!

I'm another who would think Mallory Towers.

Malory Towers for me too. And she wasn't a nice character!

Love it actually.

If we are talking 'reminds me of' I say Guin (?) from 'Arthur'. Although I recognise yours is Gwen and a completely different name.

Crap just read your surname post... in that case I wouldn't go for either name. Far too rhymey altogether. For that surname I quite like Charlotte, Lucy, Natasha, Philippa, Clara, Marianne, Isabel, Georgina/Georgiana.

lisaro's Genevieve too... Gen or Ginny Hen olds works.

Loved it in Mallory Towers but was then a (10 yearish) old fan of all sorts of crazy names...this is not a crazy name ad is prettym I wouldn't now but it' nice, if a bit posh

It sounds rather frumpy to me I'm afraid, sorry.

Sorry - it's a no from me. It reminds me of a Wallace and Grommit (sp?) character..

...... but I do like Genevieve

Good luck with TTC and a happy, healthy pregnancy

I like it. My grandmothers name, and DD2 has it as a middle name. I would have happily had it as a first name, nn Gwen.

Not with your surname, sorry.

Makes me think of a character from Chicken Licken...

I like it a lot too. Was looking at my family tree for inspiration and it appears quite a lot as a first and middle name on that. Prefer origional spelling and agree wouldn't shorten to gwen.