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?

[BunnyLebowski]

No way to Rhonda! Do not like!

Help me Rhonda help help me Rhonda!

[Misfitless]

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.

[BunnyLebowski]

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.

[TheLostPelvicFloorOfPoosh]

Wilma?

[Misfitless]

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.

[CrazyThursday]

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....

[TheLostPelvicFloorOfPoosh]

ooh ooh Bunty?

[DoesZingBumpLookBigInThis]

Jethro

coz it sounds like retro!

[JumpingJackSprat]

I like cherry :)

[BillyBanter]

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

[FracturedViewOfLife]

I know a Cherry and she is great.

[FracturedViewOfLife]

And she loves her name.

[blackandwhiteandredallover]

Polly
Audrey
Josie/Josephine
Sadie
Pearl
Violet

[BunnyLebowski]

Oooh two more votes for Cherry

Yay!

[JumpingJackSprat]

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! !

[Sunshinelaulau]

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

[BoreOfWhabylon]

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.

[BunnyLebowski]

I agree Jumping

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

[BunnyLebowski]

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 .

[BoreOfWhabylon]

Nina
Opal
Jewell
Mitzi

[Wannabestepfordwife]

Moya
Edina
Maura
Josephine
Blanche
Connie
Magdalena/ magda
Beatrice

[BunnyLebowski]

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.

[BunnyLebowski]

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

[Pointeshoes]

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!

[BunnyLebowski]

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