What's your mum called?

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Thinking about the cyclical nature of names - those that I used to think of as awful 'granny names' when I was younger - Florence, Edith, Mabel etc - are wildly popular now.

I wonder what the equivalent names will be for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren?

My mum is called Christine (I am in my mid 30s).

My lovely DM is another Jennifer, it's always been my favourite girls name and will also be DD's name (due in 4 weeks)

DM is Jean, same as her mum. Luckily she decided not to continue the tradition with me. I'm mid forties, she's almost 70.

DMIL is Elizabeth, which I like, but we didn't want to cause jealousies by calling either DD after living relatives.

DM is 75 year old Coral, but prefers Coralie

DM is Agnes with an accent on e I can't do! so a soft G. She is not English.

Sarah.

Carmen. I'm mid twenties (not Spanish)

My mum is Vivien (late 60's, born in 1945). Mil is Mary (early 60's, born in 1950).

I'm Yvette born 1970!

Vivien (no one calls her that unless she's in trouble though, so it's normally viv).

I'm in my 20s

I'm late 20s and my mother is Janet (she's late 50s).

Janet, she would have been 70 in a month if she were still alive.

MIL also Janet, also almost 70.

Funnily enough both dh's grandmothers were Dorothys.

It's a family tradition to marry someone whose mother has the same name as your own

Haha, me too Schlock! Mum and MIL are both Margaret. I'm very very late 20s.

Mum is Jennifer (Jen) and MIL was Anne-Marie (I'm 33). My grans were Florence and Edith so would be back in fashion!

elizabeth, lizzie for short i am in my early 40's

Was she born in WWII? Lots of Elizabeths and Margarets then.

Jayne. shes 62. im shocked there r not more jaynes/janes!!!

My mum is Ann and my MIL is Susan (me mid-30s)

Sally.

(Me early 30's, my Mum coming up for 50)

Diana. I like it.

Flora - tres bang on trend these days.

I wanted to call dd Flora after my mum who died before she was born, but dh vetoed it.

Maxine, but everyone calls her Max

My mum is Maureen but goes by her middle name Chris (Christina).
The story goes that she was named by my Nan during the WW2 whilst my grandad was away at war. When he came back and met her, he said he wasn't having a daughter of his called Maureen and so started calling her Chris! Mum also hates Maureen so that's fine.
Women in our family have a habit of not using their real names - said Nan was always known as Pat - when she died we found out her name was actually Edith Maud!

nenehooo my mum was due to be called Muriel....but when my grandad went to the local vicar to register the birth, the vicar said 'If I had a little girl, I'd call her Flora' - and my grandad replied 'Aye that's nice right enough - just put that down'

Alls well that ends well - my mum really liked her name and it suited her, she deffo wasn't a Muriel. But hell, my granny must have been mad.

Ah pictish that's a brilliant story! From Muriel to Flora... Lucky Mum! (no offence to any Muriel's out there!)

I quite agree!