If you are a big fat lefty..

[EllenTheEgret]

What did you name your DC?

Very much light hearted of course.. No offence intended towards non lefties or their dc's names, I'm just

A) nosey
and
B) looking for inspiration for names that my (very lefty) dp might not veto.

Thanks and please don't flame me!

What about Ellen, for Ellen Wilkinson? Her nickname was "Red Ellen."

Fabian
Frances (O'Grady)

I'm heavily pregnant, hormonal and miserable. The left handed comment had me in stitches! Thank you.

Barbara has become slightly voguish,; reminds me of Barbara Castle.

Margo for Margo MacDonald, a socialist Scottish Nationalist.

DS1 is named after a fave leftie of ours and a major figure in union fandangos of the 1970s/80s. (I reckon that's pretty clear) It's also a name we love

The other two, not especially lefty. I liked Rosa as in Rosa Luxembourg for DD but DH said no. DS1 when a bump was nicknamed Fidel as in Castro which I floated as an actual name for DS2 but we decided would be too much for the oldies in our family. Regret that a bit now...

I certainly would never name a child Margaret or David. Especially Margaret.

Kezia! It ain't go down well with any SNP loving relatives though

Anthony/Tony
Richard
Clement
Nelson ( Mandela)
Herbert
Nye/ Aneurin
Hardy/ie
George (Lansbury)
Bernard
Ernest
Robert ( tressell)
Keir
Ramsay
Philip (snowden)
Ben (Tillett, ref to tony Benn)
Frederick, Engels anglicised

Tolpuddle martyrs, George, James, John, Thomas

Estelle ( much loved education Secretary)
Keira
All the others mentioned plays female versions if the above eg Clemency, Philippa, Frederica, Roberta

DS middle name is Keir.

Wolfie.

I really wanted a Rosa but DP vetoed it, said I was being a socialist cliché.. I doubt I'd get away with Leon or Karl either.

How about Corbelia?

If you like Leon, Trotsky's first name was Leon, which is about as lefty as you get...

Adaline was the name of the first ever female computer programmer.
I thinks a really lovely name.

I know MASSIVE fat lefties with a Maggie

it never really comes up anymore

cute funny little lefty Maggie has reclaimed the name for FLs everywhere

Ernesto (nn Che)?

Seriously though I am as lefty as they come and I have only just realised I gave both DC royal names

whatabout Sylvia as in Pankhurst

she was the fabbest Pankhurst by miles

and a bfl of course

Aneira for a girl - means "snow" in Welsh and is the female version of Aneurin (Bevan - founder if the NHS). Eira for short.

Had I had a DD I would have called her Rosa. I know a Nye (Aneurin) in RL. Great name

Sorry, it was Augusta Ada Lovelace (nee Byron), who was an Ada not an Adaline who was the first computer programmer Sorry to be a pedant.

Rebecca (West)
Dora (Russell)
Winifred (Holtby)
Vera (Brittain)
Mary (Wollstonecraft)

Rachel (Carson)
Dolores ( La Passionara from Spanish Civil War)

Personally I would go for Sylvia.

I wanted to call DS1 Tyler, for Watt Tyler (peasants revolt). DH was having none of it and declared it too American

One of my DC is named after a West Wing character...does that count?

I also suggested Vera as a middle name, inspired by Vera Brittain, but DH not keen. I would love to have named a child after one of the Pankhursts but not keen enough on Sylvia or Christabel as names to actually use them. I do like Emmeline though, and Emmy is a nice nickname.

I actually would have used Margaret as a name, believe it or not, after my beloved granny, (and would have used Peggy or Meg as a nn) but it didn't go with our surname anyway. I think it's a lovely name and maybe one day it can be reclaimed.

we named DS1 Fabian for the left leaning connotations!

DS isn't actually called after the leader of the Labour Party, but I suspect in years to come, when it's less apparent that he was born years before Corbyn's leadership, people might think that he was.

I was going to suggest Rosa for a girl, too.

I am very lefty yet my DD is called Margaret. Hey ho. (She's not named after that one.)