granny name chic

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So what other names are going to be a bit more popular

Thora
Gladys
Doris
Joan
Joyce?

So what do we reckon?
Quite like Thora.

Maud is due a comeback.

Gertrude

Betty
Betsy
Elsbeth
Emily
Elsie
Dotty
Edith

Maud, Edith and Emily are already riding high aren't they?

I would imagine it will be a bit longer before Doreen, Noreen and Maureen make a big comeback. I do like Maura though, Dora is big and Nora could be on the way.

I know an Edith, a Gladys, a Betty and a Betsy all under 3.
An Elsie who is 7 and a Thora who is 12.

I like Dora and Mabel.

I've already met a Gertrude

I think some granny chic names are really nice and classic.

But other names I hear I just imagine an old bag in Last of The Summer Wine. With American tan tights, tight rollers, hair hanky, ditsy print tea dress and wrinkles

Mildred

Millicent?

Margaret

Agnes
Vera
Rita
Mavis

I know a Peggy. A 4 year old....

Not Gladys, my dear Great aunty G would turn in her grave (except she was cremated).

She hated her name, always signed cards Auntie G.
My aunt (her niece) has it as a middle name and she hates it too!

I know an Agatha, a Martha and a Vera. And a Kay!

All nice names, I think.

Auntie or Aunty oh bugger my dyslexic brain, I think the first is correct, but autocorrect doesn't care

Edna
Cybil
Marjory
Shirley
Sheila

I agree with Shirley! Love it already!
Sybil, Ethel, Agatha, Meryl and Beryl. Ida, Edna, Greta, Hattie, Mary, Jane, Dorothy, Irene, Effie, Jean and Joan. Joyce? Virginia?Gloria? Theresa, Nancy and Sally.

I don't feel Patricia, Geraldine, Barbara and Helen. Or Norma, or Phyllis.

I love granny names, particularly

Elsie
Betty
Betsy
Nora
Edith
Mabel
Maud
Nell

Hazel is a granny name to me and thats back.

I have a Meg which is the only one I.know.of under 70.

Maeve
Edith
Thelma
Pauline
Margery

'Granny chic' names that are already back in the top 300:

Ava, Alice, Betsy, Bonnie, Clara, Constance, Edith, Esme, Elsa, Elsie, Eliza, Florence, Grace, Iris, Ivy, Josie, Josephine, Lily, Mary, Martha, Maisie, Nina, Ruby, Rose

Names that I think are on the up but not that popular yet:
Ada, Agnes, Betty, Dorothy, Daphne, Dora, Ida, Janet, Jane, June, Lillian, Mabel, Maude, Nora, Olive, Pearl, Ruth, Rita, Sylvia, Una, Verity, Valerie

Names that I don't think are coming back:
Agatha, Avis, Bertha, Beryl, Barbara, Brenda, Doris, Dorcas, Deirdre, Edna, Enid, Ethel, Edwina Freda, Gertrude, Hilda, Hilary, Irene, Ilsa, Jean, Joan, Joyce, Myrtle, Mildred, Patricia, Prudence, Pauline, Queenie, Sheila, Shirley, Theresa, Ursula, Vera, Wilhemina, Winifred, Winnie, Yseult

I like Joan. To me it sounds graceful and sophisticated. But I think it needs a few more years before it's ready to come back. I meet lots of women called Joan aged 65-75. I think it seems to take longer than that for names to come back round again.

Ethel !!

I wanted to call dc4 Joy, but dh vetoed.

Also love Mabel and Enid

I know of four under twos with James off your not list manicinsomniac

Not sure if that's a good thing....

Duh names not James

DD2 has Joy as a middle name

I know a Florence, Nancy, Ivy, Sadie

I love old lady names!

Trying to persuade dh that Joan or Agnes are lovely names. He's not having any of it though.