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Proper girls names to call your daughters (that nobody else will use and aren't surnames or nicknames)

44 replies

LapsedPacifist · 11/04/2014 03:22

Mary
Susan
Caroline
Michelle
Karen
Linda
Sandra
Deborah
Pamela
Kimberley
Julie
Christine
Angela
Pamela
Jennifer
Denise
Cheryl
Diane
Jacqueline
Catherine
Melissa
Paula
Anna
Juliet
Rosalind
Dawn
Patricia
Janet
Andrea
Valerie
Beverley
Jane
Monica
Melanie
Virginia
Yvonne
Rita
Sylvia
Lorraine
Audrey
Felicity
Marcia
Glenda
Hilary

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PeaceLillyDoge · 11/04/2014 04:15

No one else will use them because they are a bit. ..80's.

Anna is still a good old classic and popular name tho.

treaclesoda · 11/04/2014 04:21

Julie! I'm in my late 30s and there are about loads of Julies my age. That's one of those names that I haven't heard a child called in years. It's maybe due a comeback?

Bearleigh · 11/04/2014 04:51

I know a family with Juliet Anna & Rosalind, all less than 10. And Guy. Trad or what?

BlueChampagne · 11/04/2014 12:20

Belinda
Kerenza
Tamara
Heidi
Julian
Gillian

squoosh · 11/04/2014 12:52

Loads of the names in that list are currently popular.

hellymelly · 11/04/2014 12:58

I know a baby Felicity (lovely name) And a few others on that list.

Ludways · 11/04/2014 13:04

I know a few children under 10 with those names, they're in no way unusual and never commented on as being old fashioned. Such as Mary, Kimberley, Jennifer, Anna, Jane etc

florascotia · 11/04/2014 13:08

On OP's original list, Beverly, Kimberly and Lorrraine are PLACE names. Does that matter?

Megrim · 11/04/2014 13:37

Isn't Rita usually the shortened version of Margaret or Margarita?

wigglesrock · 11/04/2014 15:57

I have an Anna, I'm tripping over them where I live.

AberdeenAngusina · 11/04/2014 18:27

From that list I know a small Catherine and a small Kimberley, plus three small Annas.

2tired2bewitty · 11/04/2014 18:29

These are the names our grandchildren will have, give ittime OP!

lambbone · 11/04/2014 18:32

I am 50. This list sounds like my year at school.

Tranquilitybaby · 12/04/2014 00:05

Out of that huge list the only name I like is Felicity. Most of those names have had their day and won't be making a comeback any time soon.

HolidayCriminal · 12/04/2014 00:13

I am resisting the itch to start a thread about "improper" names.

ohmymimi · 12/04/2014 08:54

Gladys, Brenda, Gertrude, Hildegard, Winifred, Shirley, Bertha, Dyphna, Sandra, Ferdinanda,
Frederica, Daphne, Leticia, Norma, Erica, Stephanie, Marion, June, April, Patricia, Helen, Iris.

SimplySara · 12/04/2014 09:08

Thanks for dictating to us Lapsed. Without that list, who knows I may have named my child an improper name.

Rtfairy · 12/04/2014 11:21

Erm ok...thanks..won't be using any of those names but Anna is nice enough.

HolidayCriminal · 12/04/2014 16:52

Alberta. Ffs what's wrong with you people. Wink How much more proper could a name get?

Queen Victoria, her DD's and grand-DDs are almost entirely missing so far, too. Tsk Tsk

Mumzy · 12/04/2014 16:57

Bertha, Helen, Fiona, Mavis, Virginia

insanityscatching · 12/04/2014 17:05

I only like Anna on your list which sounds like the list of girls I was at school with more than thirty years ago. To me some of them are grim and probably the reason other people won't be using them either.

tethersend · 12/04/2014 17:09

I have a toddler called Shirley Smile

sonlypuppyfat · 12/04/2014 17:12

Nothing wrong with Deborah proper woman's name but it should never on pain of death be Debbie.

ApocalypseNowt · 12/04/2014 17:12

I have a proper name. But then I went and gave both my daughters improper names. I'm not sure what my point is.... or yours for that matter

Emilymummyof4 · 12/04/2014 17:46

I know a Mabelle (mabel) and it is such a cute name