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?

No way to Rhonda! Do not like!

Help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda!

I'm wary of this because my sister has travelled to a country where my friend's DD's nickname means something quite obscene. My sister has pointed this out to me, and now her nickname has been a bit spoiled and my dsis and I only ever use her full name as once it's in your mind you can't forget it! Obviously I haven't mentioned it to my friend - she'd be devastated, and it doesn't apply in this country, anyway.

I didn't realise there was a difference between retro and old-fashioned .

I mean cute and unusual 40's/50's inspired names as opposed to what are, imo, very dated 70's names like Deborah and Lindsey.

Wilma?

Sorry - this was the second message, the first one got lost.

To some people, the word 'Cherry' has associations of losing your virginity/female anatomy.

This is quite an old fashioned term, but a lot of people would still have this association with the word 'cherry' imho.

Jemima
Tabitha
Martha
Iris
Polly
Phoebe
Hazel
Dora
Flora
Olive
Maeve
Elsie

Though saying all these I think you need something one syllable to go with Cassie....

ooh ooh Bunty?

Jethro

coz it sounds like retro!

I like cherry :)

Retro is in. Old-fashioned is out. Old-fashioned is always out. Retro is old-fashioned enjoying a comeback.

I know a Cherry and she is great.

And she loves her name.

Polly
Audrey
Josie/Josephine
Sadie
Pearl
Violet

Oooh two more votes for Cherry

Yay!

If you introduced your child as cherry I hardly think anyone will jump to the losing your virginity association! I had a teacher at school called cherry and I never heard any of my secondary school aged peers day anything remotely like that! !

Love cherry and dolly how about Mavis? Cassie and Mavis sound lovely together

Great great Auntie Dolly toured the music halls with her dance partner/gentleman friend. They even went to the USA! At one time they were billed as the World's only ski-dancers - there are pics of them, dancing on skis! She then retired and sank into an alcoholic mist for several decades but think she must have been quite a girl.

I think what you actually need are babies' names from the 1920s/30s as they would then be young adults in the 50s iyswim

Any of these take your fancy?

Oh, and I went to school with a girl named Cherry. She was Not Nice, so am afraid I cannot approve of it as a name for your DD.

I agree Jumping

Not keen on Mavis. It was the silly nickname for a friend of mine called Maeve.

Loving that link Bore.

Ruby jumped out at me - it was my favourite name for years but is far far FAR too popular now.

I bet this baby will be a boy now that I have all these fabulous girls names at my disposal .

Nina
Opal
Jewell
Mitzi

Moya
Edina
Maura
Josephine
Blanche
Connie
Magdalena/ magda
Beatrice

I like Mitzi Bore. Not sure DP would though!

I'm not bothered by having another name ending in and ee sound. There aren't many single syllable names that I like.

Don't like any of that list Wannabe. Thanks though.

Darcy . I'm in loovvee with this name and want a baby girl just so I can use it , not having any more any time soon though!

I quite like the sound of Darcy but really don't like how popular it is.