What's your mothers name?

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Seeking inspiration here....

Marilyn is definitely due a revival I think!

fishy - Hello Pants, nice to meet you. Thanks for the giggle

My mum seems to be the only Welsh name on the thread so far. There must be some more out there?!

Joyce.

Marion. Gets very irritated when called Marian.

Glynis. She hates it.

Hilary. MIL was Karen, stepmum Val(erie).
Next generation up - Eva and Patricia (one my middle name, the other is earmarked for future DD no matter how ruddy popular it's become. You can guess which :))

Lesley-Ann

And if you want more - DH's GMs are Mary and Aud. Other older generation female family members - Hazel, Megan and Hilda...

Mary-Beth

Katherine (but known as Kate).
Mil is Dorothy.

Marie

Susan
MIL Pamela

Mary Teresa Anne. Catholic much? :)

Paula

Mum is Eva (she is appalled by its resurgence in popularity and has always hated her name!)
MIL was Christine

Carole

Grandmothers - Ada Gertrude and Mary
Aunt - Thelma

Felicity. She HATES it. Grandma was Evelyn, which I like in a weird way. Next cool baby name maybe??

Other grandma was Ivy. Also oddly cool!

Mums name Sharon, (which she loathes!)
Grandmothers: Ivy and Doris (thought she never went by that she was always dolly)

Evelyn is one of my favorite names. I want a name though that won't date and I was hoping to find names that seemed timeless, so not only lovely in our grandmothers generation but also in our mothers. However, maybe some of the names may not be ready for a resurgence just yet!

Elaine.

Ann. Her sister was Sylvia. Sylvia was a departure. Most of the women in my family on both sides had the names Annie/Ann, Lizzie/Lysbeth (Elizabeth on birth certificate) or Margaret/Margie.

We have a couple of Euphemias in the family too, known as Effie for short in one case and Phemie in the other.

MIL was Joan.