Frances - classic or frumpy?

[TooTryHard]

I was thinking classic and beautiful and now I'm wobbling.

I like Frances and loathe Francesca. Frances is elegant, not overly fussy like Francesca.

I also like Frankie and Fran (the latter reminds me of Strictly Ballroom, although that Fran was short for Francisca, which I also prefer to Francesca).

Francesca is a bit too Birds of a Feather.

I love it. I really wanted to use it but it doesn't go with our surname.

I like Fran and Franny as nicknames, not keen on Frankie.

I love Frances. It's really classic but cool.

Gorgeous. I know a Frances who is always called in full, but I like Fran, too.

Anyone remember Frances from the Apprentice?
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-560698/Revealed-Sir-Alans-mystery-Girl-Friday--29-blonde-VERY-different-real-life-secretary.html

Frances is a beautiful name. Very eighteenth-century.

In the eighteenth century Frances would be known as 'Fanny'!

It's OK, I know a few, and I like Fran and Frankie, but I prefer Francesca.

Beautiful name.

Beautiful name, pretty, elegant, classic, much nicer than frilly Francesca.

I don't love it - but - that's probably because it's my best friend's middle name and she hated it and we always had a bit of a laugh about it (with her, not at her, IYKWIM).

But I realise to another generation it might not have the frumpy connotations it had for us. :)

Just instantly a boy to me, because of Knowing a Francis for years.

It's my middle name & I have always hated it. Dull, old fashioned & 'tweedy' if that makes sense.

I really like Frances, Fran, Francesca and Frankie. So a yes from me!

Francesca is lovely. Frances I can't stand. Possibly something to do with the fact that I went to school with one and she was the resident bully, but it's not a name I like anyway tbh.

Frankie is a nice nickname-y version.

So, so lovely.

Our daughter's middle name. Love it.

Lovely - classic and elegant.

Live the nn frankie

It's my name (I hope I'm not outing myself and I reeeeeeaaaaally hope I'm not the bully from Tidy's school). My DH and I have just been in fits reading some of the responses. I used to hate it as a child but I've come to terms with it now. In my job I come across new people on an almost daily basis and they invariably assume that I'm going to be a man before they meet me.

Well your parents had excellent taste ;).

I'd never assume a Frances was a man but definitely think of Dirty Dancing. Can't go wrong there either imo....

I think it's quite ugly-sounding tbh. Sorry.