Help me find a retro-ish name!

[BunnyLebowski]

Not Jean

I'm 6 weeks pregnant with DC2. Just playing around with names

If baby is a boy he will most likely be Frank after my granda.

A girl is more difficult! DD is Cassie and we love her name. Not on the dreaded top 40 list but wacky not wacky either.

I like straightforward, pretty but non-flowery names with a retro feel.

I love Betty (and Betsy) but stupidly named the dog that not anticipating any more babies!

What do we think of my current favourite, Cherry? Not to everyone's taste I know but I'm in love with it right now .

I also like Dulcie, Violet, Maggie (my father would disown me for Thatcher) and Ivy and I like Dahlia but DP doesn't.

Any ideas?

Honestly if you rename the dog now by the time the baby's born everyone will have forgotten it was ever the dogs name. Inc the dog! If you love it you should call your baby that name otherwise you'll always regret it.

Millie?
Meredith?

Jane
Melanie

Nell
Clara
Lydia

Undaunted, I offer a further random list:
Bibi
Gloria
Shelley
Betsy
Jeanne
Alma/Dulcie/Jessie (great aunts of mine!)
Suzanne
Loveday
Ankaret
Jana
Mary
Marisa
Yvonne
Gigi
Zizi
Zoe

I love Dulcie and Cherry!

How about Darcy?

You like B so..
Belinda
Bryony
Buffy (Elizabeth)

Penelope already mentioned. Pretty. Oh but Penny was out wasn't it?

Ethel?

Moira, Maeve, Hilda, Hedda, Avery

Annie!

Cassie and Annie - perfect.

And of course could be short for Anna, Annamaria, Annabel etc. (Anna!)

But I think Annie on its own is just amazing.

Susan (Suzy)
Jane.

I think my favourites that have already been mentioned are
Betsy, Annie and Marnie.

Millie?
Meredith? No - both too frilly.

Jane
Melanie - too 70's.

Nell - not keen.
Clara - too popular.
Lydia - too posh.

Bibi
Gloria
Shelley
Betsy - On my list!
Jeanne
Alma/Dulcie/Jessie (great aunts of mine!) - as is Dulcie!
Suzanne
Loveday
Ankaret
Jana
Mary
Marisa
Yvonne
Gigi
Zizi
Zoe - don't like any of the others.

Belinda
Bryony
Buffy (Elizabeth) - not keen on any of these.

Ethel - definitely not.

Thank you all - this is really really helpful! And hurrah at another vote for Cherry .

Margot

Penelope (nickname Penny).

Sally

It would just be Annie Talkative.

I'm not one for having a 'proper' name and then shortening it. The idea of Cassie as a Cassandra or Cassiopaea makes me laugh. Far too posh!

Jeannie? as in 'I Dream of...'

Daphne?
Sadie?
Sylvie?
Verity?

I absolutely love Dulcie!

How about Mamie or Bertha (Bertie)?

I begged DH for Betsy for DD. But his brother and SIL had just named their dd Maggie after DH's gran. So he thought Betsy would be copying them as DH's Nan is Elizabeth.

Judy
Rita
Gaynor
Belinda

Personally, would go with Dulcie or Dolly (had a great-great Auntie Dolly - she was a dancer in her heyday!)

Yeah Dulcie is high up on my list Pelvic (loving your name btw!).

Mamie and Bertha both make me think of large elderly ladies. How do we do this with names??

Bertha makes me think of large old ladies too. Probably because I know one.

I like Jeannie

Loving the sound of your Aunt Dolly Bore!

DP has taken Mabel off the list.

He says Dolly might grow on him .

Peggy
Joy
Liz
Dorothy
Agnes
Agatha
Marilyn
Edith
Joyce

Haven't read all 60-odd posts, OP, but just thought I'd point out that to some people, the word 'cherry' has implications of virginity/losing virginity/female anatomy.

This is quite old fashioned, and i doubt many people use it to mean this now, to be honest but it's worth taking this into account as obviously nobody wants their daughter to have a name with that sort of association.

Maybe this has already been mentioned. It's a cultural thing, it might not mean that if you are not in UK.

I'm not bothered about that Misfit.

People will find negative associations for most names. I wouldn't let it affect my decisions.

Within reason. Obviously I wouldn't call my son Dick if our surname were Head or anything. That would be silly .

Rhonda?

My first thought when reading your OP was Frankie

I think by retro you mean old-fashioned as the 60/70s names aren't seeming to be so popular

Martha
June (although not sure if you have a July/August due date)
Joanie
Lizzie or just Elizabeth so then you have Liz, Lizzie, Libby, Beth, Betty & Betsy!
Virginia AKA Ginnie
Jenny