Shirley or ?

[ClaraBean]

Thanks for all the opinions on my other thread 😄
Dh and I have continued to ponder and have decided Susan is no longer on our list, but we have added a couple of others that we are now considering. So our updated list is
Shirley (my favourite for years)
Bernadette (Bernie or Ettie for nn)
Marjorie
Magnolia

Dh likes nn Madge for Marjorie 😄

Thats rude

I'm late 50s and these were old fashioned names when I was a child. Two were names if friends' mums. As an OP suggested, would you really want to be called any of these names yourself?

Missed your other thread but Suzie is a great name.

... you can't be serious?

Sorry yes I'm being rude. To 50 year olds. Should have said 75! (Though I do know a lovely 50yo Bernadette).

Those names just haven't come back round yet. I'm not the only one thinking it!

Susan is a much nicer choice than any of these!

I do know a Bernadette in her twenties, but she's from a very religious family. That's the assumption I'd make, that it had to be after the saint. If I had to pick one from your new list, that's what I'd go with - but none are great. Surely you can't be serious about Shirley!

🤦🏽‍♀️ Good grief!

Awful names...just imagine your child as a little 4 year old, starting school, called any of those names!

Then imagine her first days in high school...poor kid is going to get slaughtered!! School is brutal!

Susan is better than any of these , which quite honestly are all dreadful .

Hmm. Valerie? Love Valley!

We must have met a completely different set of Shirleys then!

When my DC were four, there were several kids in their class called names that might be deemed very, very old-fashioned- Eg, Joyce, Trevor, Patricia etc. They did not get slaughtered. No one cared.

I think Joyce could come back too. Isn't there a character in Stranger Things called Joyce.
Joy has come back already, as a middle name.

Anything. Literally anything is better than Shirley.

Is this a wind up thread ?
Those names are awful.

All I can think of is "don't call me Shirley"

Susan is better than all of these but Bernadette would be my next choice. This child is going to be very jealous of it's sibling's name...

How about Myrtle?

Marjorie like margerine?
Madge like Madge Bishop?
Ok.

I prefer suzannah to Susan. I think Bernadette is fine. There’s a Bernarda in my daughters year at school.
marjorie is too old fashioned for my tastes, but I do like magnolia, and think Maggie makes a sweet pet name.

Also, in my family Shirley and Marjorie (&pp suggestion of Joyce) are in my great grandparents generation, Susan belongs to my parents generation, I’ve met several Susannahs around my age (23-35) and I’ve never met a magnolia.
If it’s the older fashioned/less common aspect that appeals how about Jaqueline? Carol? Barbara?

They are all awful sorry!

I'm a Susan and although I know I'm young for a Susan (it had already been in the top 5 American names for 20 years by the time my parents named me!) I still like it. I prefer it to my surname which is hard to say
Once when I was 30, I finally found my name on something, a teatowel at Winchester cathedral! So I bought it.

I think Suzanne was the more popular choice this side of the pond, Susan was more popular in the USA. I think.

Im always the only one which surprises me. In my year at schhol, in my last job, in this job... 🤷‍♀️

My daughter is Magnolia, nn Maggie. Can also be shortened to Lia or Noli if she fancies when she's older. Never met another (nor had any of the midwives or health visitor). It's a beautiful flowering tree. Forget what people say about the paint.

I actually think Shirley is a really rock n roll name. Shirley Manson is ace

It sounds like you're trying too hard to be different.
I'd wait until you meet your baby . You'll probably think very differently.