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Belinda

54 replies

FineLookingHighHorse · 31/12/2016 00:38

Pretty and due a resurgence?

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IHeartKingThistle · 31/12/2016 00:41

Ooh pretty!

OvariesForgotHerPassword · 31/12/2016 00:43

Nope.

DramaAlpaca · 31/12/2016 00:43

No, not yet.

Sorry!

LouiseBrooks · 31/12/2016 00:48

Lovely, and yes why not?

Nibledbyducks · 31/12/2016 00:50

OK as long as you don't mind Billie and don't give a middle name begining with J, (yes, happened to a family member).

twinklefoot · 31/12/2016 00:51

No - but like Billie.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 31/12/2016 01:59

Oh I like it, plus. There are plenty of nn options.
Belle
Bella
Lin
Linnie
Lindy.
I wouldn't have thought of Billie as a nn, tbh.

MilkTwoSugarsThanks · 31/12/2016 02:03

Definitely pretty Smile

TheUnforgiven · 31/12/2016 02:08

Like it. My friend at university was Belinda, known as Bells (although she was vair posh)

GloriousRoob · 31/12/2016 03:35

Love it.

FastWindow · 31/12/2016 03:38

Yes yes yes. Love Belinda. Please use it, or Tabitha?

Pluto30 · 31/12/2016 07:30

I don't like it.

I also think Billie is a standalone name, or a nickname for Wilhelmina, not a nickname for Belinda.

Bel is the nickname for the Belinda I know.

Batfurger · 31/12/2016 07:35

theres a very popular podcast (and book) featuring a Belinda currently.

AmberEars · 31/12/2016 07:37

I was at school with a Belinda, her nickname was Bim.

LobsterQuadrille · 31/12/2016 07:40

I like it. I was at school with a Belinda and her nickname was Bellie - cruel as children are, and she was the only chubby 11 year old in 1980 in our year.

Vixxfacee · 31/12/2016 07:43

No way

Cosmicglitterpug · 31/12/2016 07:46

The Belinda I knew at school got called a'Belinda bell end' for years.
Barbara?

Stalingrad · 31/12/2016 08:10

A girl at school was always teased as Belinda-the-bell-end.

AmberEars · 31/12/2016 08:26

Just remembered that the Belinda I was at school with also got called Bimbo!

HawaiianPartyBunker · 31/12/2016 08:45

'Belinda' sounds massively dated to me - there's nothing wrong with it as such, it's just very 80s and hasn't had the chance to get its second wind yet.

'Billie' is HORRID. Because I'm a bit slow, it took me ages to realise that the utterly gorgeous Billie Lourd is Carrie Fisher's daughter. Probably because I refuse to accept that anyone can name a child 'Billie'.

SaltedCaramelEverything · 31/12/2016 09:07

Yes like it. So many nick names as PP has said

1horatio · 31/12/2016 09:11

Billie is a cute nickname, I love it.

Belinda is absolutely lovely and Wilhelmina is simply fabulous, I also like Wilma :)

MollyHuaCha · 31/12/2016 09:16

Nice

IAmNotTheOneWhoKnocks · 31/12/2016 09:28

I've never known one, but I'm fairly certain she'd have been called bellend if I had.

mumhum · 31/12/2016 09:30

Love it!