old lady names

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I love old lady names which have a vintagey feel. We already have a Faye and I have these names as our girl option. Which one is your favourite? And other suggestions are welcome

Beatrice
Florence (too popular, too many f's?)
Jemima
Matilda
Tabitha
Ada

Ada is lovely. Beatrice Tabitha is also nice.

Peggy, Polly, Dawn, Glenda, Edith, Margaret, Nancy, Lucy, Pearl, Sybil, Greta (which could subtly honour her great grandma Daisy), Amabel, Lettice, Angelica, Josephine, Gail.

I love names like Florence, Harriet and Iris but really don't like the trend for names like Edith, Ivy and Ada which imo are hard sounding and ugly

I love Jemima and Tabitha.

I like Ada and Beatrice.

Some other suggestions (I work with some older ladies)-
Alma
Cynthia
Veronica
Henrietta
Hazel
Dawn
Joy
Ruth
Pearl
Iris
Minerva
Mabel

GreatDuckCookery that's exactly what oh says, though I can't personally see Ada as hard sounding

I love Iris but we have quite a few Iris's where we live- 2 in my dd's class

A lot will be down to what she looks like when she's hear as with my dd we had the name almost from the beginning and I felt I couldn't change it once she was here as we'd told everyone (even though I thought she didn't really suit it at the time). though.....it's hard to gauge what a baby will look like as a toddler as they change so much!

Beatrice is still my top one so far I think. I love the nn Bea. Though Tabitha is a name I love so much

*here not hear

Queenie, Honour, Joan, Dolly

Tabitha is gorgeous. Ada reminds me of Les Dawson's alter ego 😖

Jemima from your list.

If you lake Ada how about Ida?

Constance
Nora
Queenie

Blanche
Irene
Gladys
Gwen

Also Esther, Constance and Vivian

Sybella
Lysette