Ethel

[Moonbea]

What do you think of the name Ethel?

Is it too old fashioned?

What middle name would go with it?

Opinions and ideas please.

It's sweet for a little girl, but will she want to be called it as a teenager?

They call it the streak!
Ethel! Ethel! Don't look Ethel

You're too young to know what I mean OP. Google it. Very funny song.

Lyrics to 1st verse:

Lyrics
Hello, everyone, this is your action news reporter
With all the news that is news
Across the nation
On the scene at the supermarket
There seems to have been some disturbance here
Pardon me, sir, did you see what happened?
Yeah, I did
I's standin' over there by the tomaters
And here he come
Running through the pole beans
Through the fruits and vegetables
Nekkid as a jay bird
And I hollered over t' Ethel
I said, "Don't look, Ethel!"
But it's too late
She'd already been incensed.

I love it , timeless and classic .

God no. It's awful. My nana was called Ethel and absolutely hated it lol

@TwitterQueen1 I've just been on to YouTube and listened to it 😂

It's awful

I think it's a fantastic name.

But very unfashionable for quite a long time now

It's really awful. I can't think of anything positive to say.

Awful frumpy and dowdy..However like I always make a point of saying. That's only my opinion not a fact. If you like it that's all that counts.
MN ideas.
Ethel Rose.
Ethel Jane
Ethel Grace
Ethel Jean
Ethel Ray
Ethel Joan
Ethel Corrine
Ethel Marlena
Ethel Rosabelle

It's awful, it really is. Dreary, frumpy & unusable IMO.

TQ I remember that song

Ethel Mairead
Ethel Renée
Ethel Amelia
Ethel Rosanna
Ethel Maude

Moonbea
They used to play it on Stewpot's Family Favourites on Radio 2 - along with Camp Grenada by Allan Sherman. I loved these songs of my childhood....

Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
Here I am at Camp Grenada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining

I went hiking with Joe Spivey
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got Ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.... [it continues]

I'm not really Sorry for the derail OP, but Ethel? no...

No, no and no again!

Lily Allan has an Ethel Mary I think. Not a name that sings to me tbh

OAP name. Sorry.

Horrendous, sorry! I can't think of much else that's worse!

Pretty awful

Timeless means names that aren’t heavily attached to a particular age group - this couldn’t be further from that

As for middle name, anything except Rose or Mae.

It's not nice. I don't know why, but it's just not a pleasant sound. There's a reason old lady chic has done a big swerve around it.

I don't usually go in for the far-fetched 'Jane' reminds me of 'Potato' type comments you often find on here, but I can't help feeling taken back to chemistry lessons at school and ethyl and methyl alcohol.

It's really, really, really awful

Really.

God, no. Just awful.

Makes me think of an ugly old lady with curlers in her hair and a housecoat.

I know an Ethel in her early 20's and she's not a fan. It's very dated.

She's the baddie in the worst witch. And it's just not nice sounding, so no.

No, there are nicer names