What's your mum's name?

[tyaca]

I met a five year old Jacky the other day. Same name as my mum.

Everyone's always so obsessed with naming babies after their nan's generation, but I reckon naming them after your parent's friends is much cooler.

Nigel, Mark, Colin, Mike
Jacky, Cheryl, Angela

My mum is Vincenza (Italian)

Friends' mums are...
Evelyn (x2)
May

Mum's friends are
Patsy
Antoniette
Mary

yes - 'there was Mary Beaton, Mary Seaton, Mary Carmichael & me' - is that right?

Sounds about right. I read Antonia Fraser's biography of Mary years ago but have forgotten most of it. The 'Four Marys' stuck in my memory, though.

sandyballs My Mum is Josephine, MIL is Mary!

Jennifer

Janet

Peggy

DM.is Maggie but that is pretty 'in' at the moment.

She has friends names Jane, Lisa, Anne, Amanda.

All pretty normal tbf.

Oh but knows someone called Jonquil

Mary

Frances
Susan
Janet

Janet is a name I have come 180 on. I used to dislike it as a child but now think it's immensely cool.

Hazel

My biological parents were Trevor and Ingela, my ex step mum was a Louise. My parents are called Yonatan and Maya.

Mum is Julie.

Susan.

It's weird how names go around isn't it. My great grandmas were Hannah and Louise, they gave birth to Enid and Ivy who gave birth to Cheryl and Robert who named their kids things like Hannah and Louise, now Cheryl and Robert's kids generation are calling their kids things like Enid and Ivy.

I think the names Penny, Heather, Deborah, Ruth, Jacqueline, Dianne, Karen, Lisa, Pamela will have a resurgence eventually

Greg, Lawrence, Jeremy, Russell and the like for boys

My mother is Catherine, father was David.

Anne

My mum is Ellen and I know a 4yo Ellen and another one with it as a middle name. Aunties include Virginia (the others are boring, lots of Janes!)

We also know a Lesley (and that IS the correct female spelling), Janet, Beryl (older though), Jessie (also old enough to be my granny).

Rosemary

Eleanor May

Lovely mum

Elspeth, Phoebe

My Mum is Helen. MIL is yet another Mary.

DD is named after both of them (with a slight twist).

Tyaca, there is definitely something in your theory. I was given a 'Mum' name in the 70s. It was deeply old-fashioned then. I was given a nice, plain middle name and my parents rationalised their 'out there' first name choice by reasoning that if I truly hated my name, I could always default to my middle name.

Anyway, turns out they were just a generation ahead of their time, as now you can't move for babies with my name (Is o bel).

DS has a Dad name. Again, really unfashionable right now, but I figure by the time he hits his prime, it'll be coming back in again. And the bonus is, he's absolutely the only one in his class!

Mum/friends' mums/MIL/mum's friends/aunts (in no particular order):

Tanya
Anne
Barbara
Debbie
Denise
Sue
Louise
Juliet
Judy
Mandy

Margaret
Angela
Patsy
Kathy
Liz
Barbara
Gillian

David
Michael
Steve
Ian
Neil
Robert
Brian