Gillian

[Gitzpoll]

What does everyone think? It doesn't seem to be very popular at all but I can't work out why. Is there something weird about this name I haven't spotted?

Not a timeless classic one here, dated and frumpy. Usually known as Gill. It's a bit in the same category as Sandra and Pauline

I'm going to come clean and admit that this is my name. I was intrigued to find out why my name is so very unused at the moment

This is baby names. I might have tempered my response if I'd known you wanted opinions on your own actual name!

Your name isn't underused at the moment it was very trendy, back in the 1950s and 60s (when it peaked), and only moved just out of the top 100 in the 1980s, so you share your name with similar age to yourself and older people. As to why people aren't using it in vast numbers for their babies, I think you have your answer from previous posts - it's dated.

It's never been a name which has appealed to me in any way. Nothing about it leaps out at me as being charming. I don't hate it. I don't think it's ugly. It just doesn't charm me. I prefer Jill and I don't know why, because I don't usually like short names. Jilly is nicer I think but sounds a nickname.

'Thanks for your feedback, especially the cheese and onion crisps comment.  I've always been more of a salt and vinegar McCoys kind of girl.'

sorry OP, thank you for taking it in good humour though!