What do you think of the name Bridie Ann Wales?

[Carolwales83]

Bridie has been my favourite female name for a long time. Ann is the middle name, do you think it flows well? What are your thoughts about it?

I misread it as birdy at first

My mother nearly called me Bridie, I'm so glad she didn't.
It might sound ridiculous but I remember a (horrible) relative saying about a woman at a wedding "she may be called Bridie but she's never been a bride".

I quite like it but Bridie Ann sounds a bit Mills & Boon. And it looks like it should be a soft cute name but isn't in my accent. But despite that I do like it

So old fashioned and when combined with an old fashioned middle name it just sounds dull and dowdy.

@WhoppingBigBackside

Doris, Enid, Gladys

I think these are due a comeback. Enid is welsh and is pronounced Ennid, not Eenid.

I think Beryl is ok too.

With a surname like Wales, I'd be tempted to use the first name Josephine nn Josie.

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Ann is a lovely name, but was so overused as a middle name in the middle of the 20th century.

Bridget nn Bridie is nice, but not with Ann as a middle name.

@larkstar

I love the name Bridie - I knew a lovely girl by that name when I was at at school in the 70's but doubt I have heard it since - it does sound old but it looks and sounds pretty and is nice to say - Bridie - "like a bride" - what could be prettier!? I'd ignore the resonances from Ireland.

Bridie Ann goes together - Bridie Wales is fine but Bridie Ann Wales not as much perhaps that is just my opinion - it counts for nothing - a one or three syllable middle works best i think - Bryne, Lynn or Wyn have Welsh connections and seem to go well (not that that means anything) - I don't understand why we have middle names - I dislike my middle name and don't even use it when asked to give my full name unless specifically asked for like on a passport - my signature never uses my middle initial - I'd never use it as an alternative to my first name (which I also dislike!)

Paisley Ann Wales goes well - it's not that dissimilar. Maybe Bridie Ann Wales does work if P.A.W does!

So are you expecting or looking for a pen name?

Well, assuming the OP lives in the UK, and ‘ignores the resonances from Ireland’ and also ‘ignores the resonances from Scotland’ which associate the name with a meat pasty, that’s quite a lot of ignoring to need to be doing.

Paisley Ann Wales goes well - it's not that dissimilar. Maybe Bridie Ann Wales does work if P.A.W does!

You've never been to Paisley, have you?

I knew a Bridie. Always thought it was lovely.

I think it's pretty.