Bridget

[SeanChailleach]

What do you reckon for a girl born on 1 Feb?
(Not me, just this is At Bridget's day).

you are right, @TansyViolet, to me Bridie is the unhippest great-granny name there is, but I can picture a North London hipster couple having daughters called Bridie and Queenie and everyone cooing over the names

OP how about Beatrice, which is lovely, then a good B short form?

Bea
Beattie!
Beata
Birdie if you want - why not?

I've known of trendy Londoners with kids called Agnes and Maud.

I love Agnes and Maud. Beautiful, strong, classic names.

Agnes and Maud are bold choices. Love 'em or hate 'em names I suspect.

Anyone like Eily ?
Another old fashioned Irish name.
I like it.
John Rocha's ex wife's name is Eily Doolan.
He used to be in fashion partnership with her. She designed beautiful whimsical pieces.

@WagnerTheWehrWolf

Agnes and Maud are bold choices. Love 'em or hate 'em names I suspect.

Lot of hipster baby Agnes and Mauds out there. The most hipsterish baby I’ve encountered in recent years was called Ursula.

I quite like Ursula. Probably wouldn't pick it myself but it's got a bit of haughty sass to it. Would certainly prefer to be called Ursula than either Agnes or Maud. I would not enjoy being an Agnes and I would most certainly not enjoy being a Maud.

Really like it.
Hate Bridie though.

Maude - usually spelled this way - is super cool now.

Margot, Mabel, Enid, Maude, Willa - they are out there and they are COOLER THAN YOU!

I refuse to be outcooled by a m'fuckin ENID!

NO.

Would love to see a class list from North London. My kids went to school with Lilys, Molly's, Evies etc. What are the boys called in North London who are classmates of Maude and Enid?

Cedrics and Cyrils no doubt.

I knew a lovely Maud.

Wasn't Maud Gonne Mc Bride the great poet WB Yeat's muse and unrequited love.

muse and unrequited love, or as I call her 'serious victim of Yeats' obsessive stalking'

Possibly.
A bit like Hilda Moriarty O' Malley and Patrick Kavanagh

These literary types and their passions.

Kavanagh had a passion for the bottle too so I'll bet he was a 'hammering at the front door at 3 in the morning' type of besotted suitor.

I like Maud G, and the fact that she clearly thought Yeats was a bit of a ninny a lot of the time, but there's no denying she had her own brand of 'have sex with anarchist boyfriend in my dead child's mausoleum to see if his soul will transmigrate into a new baby' crazy.

(Actually, I'm sorrier for Iseult, who had Yeats propose to her mother and her within the same year, and then had an affair with Ezra Pound and married Francis Stuart. That's a lot of fascism.)

I love the name Bridget. I have one very close to me. Her nicknames are Bird or Biddy (family) and Bridge and B (friends).

And perfect if born on St Bridget's day.

she had her own brand of 'have sex with anarchist boyfriend in my dead child's mausoleum to see if his soul will transmigrate into a new baby' crazy.

Oh my God, the goth tendencies were strong with that one!

Wonderful

Love Bridget and yes the day of birth is sweet.

Same as a previous poster, I WANT to like it but I don’t. I think it’s like my name, nothing wrong with it but still on the wrong side of old fashioned.
As with all names, if I saw an adorable little Bridget, I could very well change my mind :)

I've got one, named after her lovely granny who died before she was born. Also the most excellent ship's baby in Swallows and Amazons. Really unusual but not weird if that makes sense.

Really ugly sounding, I really don’t like it. I would hate to be called Bridget.