So out it’s in?

[Scrunchies]

Belinda, nick name Bee?

I want a traditional name that is unusual and not popular - ahead of the ‘come back curve’ so to speak!

Don’t like the very popular ‘granny’ names for the reason that they are too popular.

Not keen. In my class at school in the ‘70s we had two Lindas and a Belinda.

@GlamGiraffe

Honour Belinda nn Honey Bee

You’re joking, right?

May as well call her Honey Boo Boo while you’re at it.

I rather like Belinda.
Like you say, "known" but nobody else being called it unlike so many of the oder names that have become very overused.

Audrey
Justine
Josephine
Deborah
Margaret
Tania
Leanne
Michelle

Know a Belinda and she is a lovely young woman! I like the name

I work with a lovely one who is in her late 40s. Nicknames Bee or Bel.

It was the name I chose for my favourite doll! I was also at school with a Belinda who’d be in her 60s now. Lovely name.

Minnie is short for Hermione as well as Minerva

Peggy reminds me of Mad Men

Susannah and Belinda make me think of ....

Jessica
Samantha
Stephanie
Vanessa
Lucinda
Melissa
Rosalind
Rebecca
Angela
Alison

I like a lot of these retro names. Belinda, Susan, Lorraine, Miranda, Clementine and Jennifer are all good.

Rebecca
Angela
Melanie
Elspeth
Paula
Amanda
Louise/a
Rachel
Claire
Zoe
Georgina
Julie
Cheryl
Diana
Joanna
Sarah
Emma

If I had another girl she would be Elizabeth, so classic.

It's so strange how people can view a name very differently. To me Belinda is nothing like Karen, Lorraine, Brenda, Barbara, Beverly etc as it's never been popular enough to really date or feel out of fashion (as it's never really been fashionable imo). To me Belinda feels the same as names like Lorna and Vanessa - it's an older literary name with a very feminine, romantic feel.

I think Melissa, Marissa or Vanessa would be better than Belinda

I think it's awful, really can't imagine it on a baby or a little girl but I'm clearly in the minority!

Having grown up in the 70s I really don't like Belinda - to me its exactly akin to Linda, Julie, Jackie, Tracy, Laura, Janet and Karen.

I like Bea though.

I also like (trying to steer clear of the most obviously popular names):
Juliet
Josephine
Anna
Collette
Thea
Lucy
Stella
Estelle
Rosalind
Stevie

Beatrice nn Bea

Noooo! Bell-Ender! Did you NOT go to school in the 80s/90s?!

Another one saying it'd remind me of My Dad Wrote a Porno hahaha - sorry!

I do think it'd be due a comeback otherwise but it's one of the most downloaded podcasts of all time so I reckon it's tainted now 😂

Penelope: Penny?

I really don't like it- sorry. MUCH prefer Beatrix if you like Bea though.

Black in the 60's I was almost called Belinda. It's prettier than my own name, but not keen on the 'Linda' part. Do you like:

Justine
Lindsey
Meredith
Fiona
Helen
Christina
Aileen
Louisa
Kate
Juliet

Belinda is a lovely name OP.

Not my taste, but disagree that it's modern or down-market. There were never enough of them in the UK.

Looks like it was a top ten name in Australia in the 60s, though, and top 200 in the US in the 70s.

I'd prefer something like:
Marissa
Melissa
Vanessa
Veronica
Melinda

[quote Scrunchies]@happylittlechick I don’t get it 🙈 is it from the podcast?[/quote]
Yes. You should listen to the podcast. It's very funny.

I too was at school in the 70s ...

Other names (apart from Suzanna) at my rather smart school included:

Louise
Barbara
Clare
Helena
Frances
Katherine
Christina
Jaqueline (love this name).

Really amazed at the ‘chav’ accusations! I only know two Belindas: one in her eighties who is very grand indeed and the other in her fifties who is only slightly less aristocratic... and she is called Bee by her family.

Minnie is a name in its own right, but was also commonly a short form of Wilhelmina rather than Minerva as suggested up thread. (For all those disappointing girls due to be called William if they’d been a boy.)