If someone handed you a baby girl...

[CheerfulYank]

And said, "you have seven seconds to name this child," what would your off-the-top-of-my-head response be? (Besides, obviously, wondering who this loon passing a baby around is.)

Kate actually is one of my favorite names but I've got a cousin and a SIL called this, so it's out. :(

Presley or paisley

What about Katya? Kat is a great name as long as you ignore EE!

Shauna

Valentine or Katie or Tara or Lola or Shalrose

Shona

I have name changed for this (fairly obviously) because, along with other personal information I've shared, I would utterly out myself if I used my normal name.

I have a Margaret and I absolutely love and adore it. She's nearly two and I'm so glad that the 'Thatcher' comments I've seen on here didn't put us off. I find that, in real life, lots of people have a much loved aunt/grandmother/other relative who they think of when they meet my Margaret. I love that her name is strong and has lots of shortenings to suit what she likes - she can use cute ones when she is small, funkier ones as a teenager if that's what she wants. I love that her name doesn't end in either an 'a' or an 'ee' sound, which almost every girls' name at the moment seem to (nothing wrong with that, my other daughter has a name which does). I love that little old ladies stop me to say how pleased they are to hear a name that they thought had gone forever come back.

I hear people on here quite regularly say that it is harsh, or clunky, or ugly. But personally I think that is because the trend at the moment is very much for frilly, cutesy names. We are very much in a phase where people go for Annabella, not Anne. And I think that skews perception. Personally I am of the Anne (not Annabella), Isobel (not Isabella), Mary (not Mariella) school of taste and I don't think that's harsh, just not as overtly cute as some taste.

Go for it CheerfulYank. It is a brilliant, versatile name and we love it.

Oh lovely MargaretsMum! :) Thank you for posting. I think it will be her name, we really can't agree on anything else and I love Maggie as a shortening.

And, as previously stated, neither Thatcher nor Princess Margaret mean much to most Americans, so I'm not too worried about associations there.

Eilonwy
Demelza

Elspeth

God for it! To be honest, I'm not sure 'Thatcher' is the first thought of most Brits in real life these days either. It just is on the internet and they think it would be.

We love Maggie too, though weirdly we use her full name more than we expected.

Bryony

Esme. This is not dd's name, but was one I wanted fo her but dh disliked it. That said, dd totally suts her name and did from the moment she was born.

I hate Thatcher but I still like the name Margaret, mostly because it's my gran's name and she rocks. Seriously, totally and utterly rocks.

My immediate choice would be Audrey i think.

I do like Seren and Agnes too

Niamh, Aoife or Alice

I love Margaret. There are too many in my family to use it.

Niamh, Aoife, [Angharad] or Alice..

Robyn or Martha

Juliet

Or Audrey.

Celeste, Darcy, Daphne, Anastasia. I love them all

Wallis or Willow love the names

Alys

Cheryl

Tilda