Why do some people not like this name?

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I really like the name Millie but have noticed it doesn't seem very popular in some quarters on this board. Can someone let me know why this is? Is it just a personal taste that people don't like it or is it perceived as so-called 'chavvie' ?

I don't want to give DD a name that is looked upon negatively or will sound dated quickly. Please be honest as I'd really like to know!

Also is Millie very popular and how many Millies do you know?

Reasons not to pick Millie?

1. It is popular.
2. It is not only popular but it sounds like a lot of other names (Tilly, Maisie, Molly, Emily, Ellie, and so on).
3. It forms part of the trend for cutesy nicknames, which will probably fall out of favour within the next few years.
4. It sounds a bit insubstantial for a grown woman.
5. It can be spelled in a variety of ways and often has a hyphen tacked on the end of it:

MILLIE (1,641) MILLY (220) MILLIE-ROSE (36) MILLIE-MAY (16) MILI (11) MILLIE-ANNE (11) MILLIE-GRACE (11) MILLI (9) MILLIE-MAI (8) MILLIE-ANN (7) MILLIE-JANE (7) MILLIE-JO (7) MILLIE-JAYNE (5) MILLY-ROSE (5) MILLIE-MARIE (4) MILLIE-LEE (3) MILLY-MAY (3)

1. In relation to point 5, people therefore consider it to be a lower class name.
2. It peaked in the early 2000s and is now declining in popularity, making it seem a little tired.

The cool thing to do in 2012 is name your daughter Millicent or even Mildred and nickname her Millie. You'll get lots of MN brownie points for this.

Loads of Millies around here. "inoffensive and ubiquitous" sums it up.

There was a huge blip of Millies in 2000 IME due to lots of people al having the same " clever" idea to saddle their DDs with a name that reflected the millenium....

NEVER please "Melina" as I've seen up thread. melaena is the name for bloody/tarry stools reflecting a bowel bleed. Not a good tag for a child!

We bought a pony called Milliey. We changd it. Its just boring!

I don't dislike it but I find it a bit loo la la la milly molly mandy if you know what i mean.

but that's just different tastes. middle ground for me. I like Rachel, Juliet, or even, Emily (which is LIKE millie but less frilly, more substantial).

I wouldn't like a name like Constance or Prudence either, which to me would be at the total opposite end of the scale.

hope that helps. find me a name that everybody likes!!

@wannabedomesticgodess that is interesting, i wonder hwo that came about! i quite liked the name Stella until I discovered that in some parts of Ireland it means a heavy-drinking, tracksuit-attired, champing at the bit for a fight type of laydee.

Yes, I think others have hit the nail on the head when they say not only is it very popular, it is very similar to lots of other names that are very popular - Milly, Molly, Polly, Lily, Tilly, etc. So it could date very badly.

Names like Jessica or Chloe are also super popular, but less similar to other popular names, so don't sound quite so overused.

Personally I don't like it because in my opinion it is a nickname not a 'real' name. I just think that if you're named Milly (or Billy or Tilly) you don't have anywhere to 'go' with it when you're older.

If you're named Amelia/Millicent, William, or Matilda you have choices of what you want to shorten your name to.
I say this because an acquaintance of mine has children with the shorter versions of their names, and they're now of the age where they are getting annoyed that they have no 'control' over what they're called.

just know too many tbh. at least 4.

That is true. Chloe was the number one name for years and yet I don't know one. Iknow a good few Millies and Amelias.

I feel (a hunch) that names that do not end in ie, or ia will be fashionable next. Juliet, Meredith, Miriam, Caroline, Mary, Penelope, Rachel, Margaret, Catherine, I feel that names like this will become more popular. they are still feminine, but stronger. Although I could just be confusing my taste with a prediction!!

Liz

Millie
Female variety of Spide (Northern Ireland) or Chav (Mainland UK). Millies were first established in the 1960s when then worked in the Mills. Financially challenged and burdened with 10 kids by the age of 19, the chain smoking, gum-smacking hoorbags reproduced at astounding rates with their spide counterparts to form the population of council estates. They then spilled out into the wider suburbs of Belfast, infiltrating every park and street corner in Glengormley, Carrickfergus, Bangor and Antrim. The collective noun is Wall, ie A Wall of Millies - demonstrated by their linking of arms in a chain with a minimum of 10 Millies (aka Millbags).

That is from the urban dictionary.

ps, also, last post on the subject of Millie! and this is to the OP, ten years ago when my god child was being named, her mother said to me that the name would be Amelia, and her mother wanted something 'a bit different'. Even then I thought, 'I won't SAY anything'. I was thinking 'different?'. And that was a decade ago. My dd already had a name that some adults have, so it didn't have that new fresh feel to it perhaps but we never meet other children with same name.... I know two others and they are adults, but yet it has gone up in popularity so it's not like I called her Linda or Karen! ykwim.

oh thought of another one! I have an old school hatrid of girls names with a"ie" ends, and any girl who writes her name with a circle (or a million times worse, a heart) over the 'i' is normally the sort of sneaky bully who'll do doe eyes at teachers and boys and when older pretend to be a bit "oh, poor me, I'm such a little girl I can't do X Y or Z, can you help me big strong man?" - you know, the sort other girls are only friends with because they are scared of her, not because they like her and will blatently eye up your boyfriend when you're sat next to him.

'ie' endings all all banded in our family.

*all banned

Top post from Gwennan and this is fab advice:

The cool thing to do in 2012 is name your daughter Millicent or even Mildred and nickname her Millie. You'll get lots of MN brownie points for this.

No idea who that is, but I think the same name can have a totally different image / impact depending on how rare it is.

I have an adult friend called Freyja. Think she has mixed feelings about the popularity of Freya now.

@ wannabe, janey mackers!! lol.

I like Amelia, but agree not simply Millie.

This despite the fact that I'd rather my shorting on my Birth certificate as I never use it in full.

Hint, don't only use Amelia or Millicent etc. when DD is in trouble.

This is also from the urban dictionary, it made me laugh so I will share for any fellow N.Irish :o

^Girls that hang around in big group, mainly in very loyalist or republican areas of Belfast and in run-down housing estates. Classic Millie icons include tracksuits, (either in brightly coloured vile velour or a rip-off of adidas or other brand name) huge hoop earrings, 4 piercings in each ear, hair tied back very tightly into either a bun with too many 'scrunchies' to count or in a really high ponytail with 6 bobbles, making it stick up at an angle....Millies add 'like' to the end of every other statement....
Millie:'u slabberin 'bout my mate?'
'if yer slabberin 'bout my mate i'll get me boyfriend's cousin's mate ta knack yer black aff like' ^

LizLemon - I said this on another thread where someone was asking about Olive (not Olivia). You have some of my favourite names on that list.

:o Liz

I don't dislike it but I find it a bit too cutesy for my taste, and much pref the full name. Lots and lots of them around.

Merges into the general trend for names ending with an 'ee' sound - Molly, Poppy, Evie, Edie, Maisie, Ellie, etc.

There is no name in the world that everyone likes. Do not be a sheep, go with what you like for your daughter op. You can find something negative to say about any name under the sun and you can bet your bottom dollar someone will come out with it on the Mn baby name boards!

I went on a tour bus round belfast about two years ago and the guide was hilarious but he didn't say anything about this! tut tut. I do remember thinking it as very interesting that the ship building industry was staffed only by protestant and the mills were catholic (or was that the other way around?? can't remember) so is there a different word for the protestant chavs? serious question? shippies? shippettes?! or is Millie accross the board?! ;-p

If you like Millie call her Millie - there is absolutel nothing wrong with it at all. I think its a suitable name for any age maybe because professionally I know a hugely repected woman in her 40's with the name and no-one thinks it's in any way in-appropriate for someone of her status.

Before anyone jumps to conclusions and thinks this woman is me - it's not (despite my forum name). My real name is one of those that you don't hear anymore.