Clara or Mabel?

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Siblings are Elsa and Arthur.

Quite like that Mabel doesn't end in 'a' as the others do (or sound as if they do), but it's a bit Marmitey, isn't it? Or too trendy .... We are not trendy...

Merran? Merle?

Hilda. I love Hilda.

Greta.

My Mum LOVES Hilda but DH thought - and then wished - that she was joking, so it's safe to say that he would exercise his veto rights there!

I did think about Greta before and have slightly gone off it, though not sure why. Gretel? Too Hansel and...?

I would say Mabel is very much of my Mums generation, Other names around of her friends anf family are:

Henrietta
Norma
Margaret (Rita)
Elizabeth (Bunty)
Lillian
Lily
Alison
Beth
Mary
?? shortened to Ena

?? shortened to Ria
Elspeth (Ella)
Philomena
Helen (Nell)
Irene (Rene)
June
Christina (Tina)

Myrtle?

Or you could combine Mabel and Clara to Cable.

May
Doris
Daphne
Edna
Euphemia (Effie)

or Clarabel?

Maybelle

Iris?

Clover.

Norah?

I like Mabel ! Also Nell, Martha, lottie & betsy. These names might go ?

ABWACADABWA, ha!

Clarabel is one of Thomas's carriages. Maybelle just seems like an elaborate Mabel.

Hm. I might have gone too far down the old lady road if Euphemia and Doris seem like the logical next step!

Maude is lovely, also Maeve is quite popular here in Ireland.

I think you're going for a 1940's vibe?

Frances
Betty
Evelyn
Nancy
Lucille
Vivian
Sylvia
Audrey
Lillian
Violet
Honor
Jean
Polly

But please, no more Mabel/Mavis/Phyllis/Hilda scares.

Some good ones, squoosh, thanks. Some sadly impossible due to surname/friends...

Who the fuck said Doris???

That was our female equivalent of a Wally, another one with a cross over pinnie and enormous boobs.
And Hilda.
There is a reason these names became extinct!

What about Brenda or Barbara?

... I am clearly giving off some weird vibes... Brenda!!

Elsa is such a beautiful name. You don't want to create sisterly resentment.

Ha ha - I didn't suggest that they would be good, I just listed names that were in my Mums generation :)

Constance
Meredith
Matilda
Naomi
Audrey
Celia
Sylvie
Imogen

I like Clara (obviously) and Mabel. Both are lovely! Clara is slightly less traditional. I have a Martha. Which I LOVE!

Prefer Clara to mabel but if you want to avoid three names ending with an a sound how about

miriam
mary
merryn

Go back to Greta!

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