What names make you think of a sweet, pretty little Girl ?

[Mintymoomoo]

Basically that, what girls name would you associate with a sweet, pretty little girly girl???

I think Lucy and Alice but want more please

About 40 years ago Sharon, Michelle, Clare, Maureen were all names that parents chose for their sweet little girly girl!

My dd has a name mentioned on this thread and she isn't particularly girly girl (although she is very sweet!!).

Names like Emily, Emilia: but they're also a bit wet.

Amelia and emily sprung to mind.
Some of the cutsie flower names such as Daisy and Poppy, I associate with strong feisty girls I know.

Clover

Alice, Emily, Posy

Naomi.

My DD2 has a very pretty feminine name now she is 8 she hates it and wants to be called Sam as it's gender neutral

Isabelle, grace, hermoine

Can I just say I have a rugby playing, rock climbing Poppy - beautiful child, but in no way feminine at all...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ophelia, Laurel, Jemima, Sophie, Coralie, Astrid, Gretal, Cecily, Matilda or "Tilly" I think are pretty names.

Surely you make associations based on a person with a particular name, unless of course you don't know anyone with that name? Rather than assuming a person with a particular name will behave a certain way?

I can understand wanting to choose a name that is liked by a large number of others but associations only stand up for as long as that person lives up to them.

My two daughters' names and my name are on this thread and none of us are particularly sweet or delicate.

Please not Milly that's what we call front bottoms!

"sweet, pretty little girly girl"

Oh please- don't women have the vote now?

Is that the aspirational slant you want to label a female child with?

My sister gave her daughter a "sweet pretty girly girly" name, that child- despite her name -grew up to have multiple facial piercings and tattoos, become a lesbian, gain a PhD in Engineering, not be particulary pretty, and spends her days on filthy building sites ordering teams of hard men around.

We tease her about her name.

What's wrong with strong feminine names?

Susannah?

The more I think about "sweet pretty little girly girl" the sadder I feel.

Agreed Curlew!

I think some of you ladies are taking this a little seriously. It was clearly not meant in a derogatory way by the op. She wants a pretty, feminine name what's up with that? We all have our own choice. It doesn't mean she expects her daughter to be of a certain character.

Lotty- taking it too seriously?

"sweet, pretty little girly girl"

That description makes me cringe.
It depicts a lot of what women have been trying to shrug off for decades. The idea that females should be "sweet" , kind, compliant, having "girly" traits in being eager to please, docile, biddable, compliant, accepting, serving.

Sorry I wouldnt want to cast my daughter into a role like that.

The fact that the OP didn't mean it in a derogatory way makes me even sadder. When she thinks of her coming daughter she thinks "sweet, pretty little girly girl". She doesn't think strong, determined, assertive, funny, clever, loyal....she thinks sweet, pretty, little.

These are some of the 'sweet pretty little girls' that I know. (But of course several of these names also belong to children who do not fit that description):

Poppy, Catherine, Phoebe, Sadie, Isabella, Flora, Matilda, Aliya, Madeleine, Alexandra, Millie, Katie, Annabella, Darcey, Evie, Harriet, Rachel, Annabelle, Amy, Emily, Isabel, Maia, Amelia-Rose, Sophia.

I can read that list and picture professional happy confident women though, not only blonde princesses

Ps my dd has a name mentioned on this thread but i saw it as simple traditional but modern and elegant i think.

Boris

LOL, 1994, - I was going to say similar!

I have one of the other spellings of that name, and it has been listed on this thread. I was given the name in 1970s when it was deeply unfashionable, and I can just never, ever think of my own name as anyway 'girly girl' or 'pretty' or 'sweet'.

Which is a good thing.