Names like Gwen

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Totally imaginary DD but realised I freaking love the name Gwen. Also Jean. Also Imogene (not Imogen). Also Olive, actually. Non frilly and pretty darn cool, but not boyish. What kind of era are these? Are they even from the same era? Any other suggestions of the same ilk?

@ghislaine I thought the same thing 🤣

I love Gwen/Gwennie! Evan and Gwen are lovely together

I love Gwen, but am put off Gwendoline by Gwendoline Mary Lacey. I love it as short for Guinevere, but that strikes me as a hard name to pull off (and maybe slightly pretentious given my only knowledge of Arthurian legends comes from watching Merlin)

Gloria
Faith
Prudence
Doris
Della
Wilma
Dot
Sylvia/Sylvie
Phyllis
Beth
Joyce
Joy
Verity
Yutha 🙂
Maud

Gwen can also be nickname of
Gwenno, Gwenllian,Gwennan

Go round your local graveyard, loads of strong female names from the old days.

I love the name Gwen. My granny was a Gwendolen and I would have considered it for dd2, but ds2 is Leonard and I couldn’t have a Gwen and Len!

Every single name you listed I knew from my grandparents generation 1914-1920 birth scale.
Margaret
Joan
Gladys
Marjorie