Wanted: girls name. Must be fabulous.

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Why am I pregnant again ffs? Stupid Catholic upbringing. My body will an unsalvageable wreck and we will be living in penury for the next two decades.

Anyway. Need a girls name. I am utterly devoid of inspiration, being interested only in grab bags of Skips and having naps.

Already have an Agnes and an Enid. Surname Stephens.

Dislike: frilliness; 'ah' endings; 'classic' names.

Like: fabulous names. I was keen on Ramona the last go-round, but think I might have lost my love for it.

Any suggestions?

I've seen some Mad Men names on here, so here goes a Mad Men specific list (those I can remember)

Betty
Peggy
Joan
Ida
Sally
Trudy
Megan
...any more?

Liv

Back again with more suggestions (yes I am bored with BGT)

Delphine
Pauline
Honor
Nadine
Clotilde
Gwyneth
Bernice
Queenie
Odette
Ottoline
Artemis
Norah
Jocelyn
Yvonne/Evonne
Hepzibah
Briony
Xanthe
Clodagh
Rhoda
Jeanette
Jeanine
Deirdrie

Aphra- I knew there was a name I was forgetting! But maybe you don't want to names with th same first initial.

I think most of the London name stuff is said with everyone's tongue firmly in thier cheeks. I like it. It's, entertaining.

Alma
Mary
Lois
Frith
Hedy

Aline

Millicent

Kay

What's wrong with Doris? Is it not gentrified enough?

'Doris' is used fed an an affectionate insult for someone a bit dippy in East London, Mitzi.

I was thinking Zoe and noticed you liked it OP has the same meaning as Vita.

Only Vita Sackville-West seemed quite a PITA rather than fabulous, just extremely high maintenance.

What about Palaver.

Op thank you for the mist wonderful name thread. Got home from a crap day and am crying with laughter. We live in the darker areas of sarf lunnon and DH 's face when I mentioned Stabber or indeed Stabba was a picture.

If not Stabba, then Staffa ? Goes wiv the dog.

Abigail ?
If too n London can be shortened to Gail. Or Gael if you want a Hibernian pretentiousness.

Am assuming Charday, Charbonnay, Charbonnel, Carbonel, Rhone, No use but

Claret,
Sapphira/ Sapphire

More seriously, how about Rhoda? I know it's an a sound but it's not too frilly.

Genevieve ?
Caroline?
Jocelyn ?
Peta ?
Gladys
Ethel(dreda)
Matilda/Mechtilde/hilda
Molly
Polly
Mally
Darrell
Mary-Lou
Gwendoline
Joanna

Oh and
Rosalind
Rosamund
Linnet/Llinos
Linda

Pascale

If not Rhoda, what about Rhona/Rona?

I'll just mention Velma again.

A propos of nothing at all, it's just occurred to me that if you had three daughters called Ruby, Amber and Jade they would make a set of human traffic lights. I won't be able to stop thinking about that now.

Ancient love the malory towers names, me and dd met a American woman called gwendoline, we admitted she was a character in a classic English children's book but omitted to describe further, hope she never reads the book. Much giggling later on about a sharp slap with a hairbrush being required.( poor woman she is lovely)

Bike, yup. I couldn't remember any of the rest.

Claudine ? Who were her friends at St Clare's?

Dervla/Dervorgilla?

Wilhelmina or bill as she prefered was pretty cool, rode to school by horse with her six brothers, possible proto - lesbian if that is a term?

I'd forgotten Bill. And who was the artist ? belinda? And the musician ?

Oh this thread is wondrous.

OP, two brill names coming up

Griselda, or the wonderful scots version useful for so many unpleasant children Grizel. Or even in the Elizabethan version, Grissel. As in patient. Admittedly gets changed into Gristle but who cares?

And has someone said Grete or Gretel, instead of Margaret/Marguerite ?

Robin?
Tamsin?
Jan?

cough
Hephzibah?

cough

Demelza
Damaris
Bathsheba

Aneeka
Gisele

How about Vivika?

Good grief - did that Bill grow up to be Bill in the Chalet School?

Griselda, Robin and all possible versions of Margaret all strode the Austrian mountains too. (So obviously couldn't be the sisters of girls with "housemaid" names.)

And there was Ted and Len too. Any girl who arrived at the Chalet School with a vaguely frilly name was pretty much ordered to change it to something that made her sound like a member of the local male darts team.