If you weren't called your first name , would you use it for a baby?

[glovestrains]

no for myself

No, it's bland, nothing going for it.

If I'd been a boy, I think I was going to be a Gavin, so it could be worse.

No I like my first name but it's nothing special.
I did use my middle name for dd and she is planning on using it as a middle name if she has a daughter which I think is lovely.

No, my name is very much of the 1970/80 bunch. It's not awful, just dated.

Yes, but I don't think it would necessarily have occurred to me. It's unusual, although it is a name everyone will have heard of.

Nope

My first name is DD's middle name.
All the eldest girls in my family have this name somewhere.
It's a popular name which comes up on Baby Names pretty often, and is largely very well liked.

I have had a lifetime of spelling out my name so no, I wouldn’t use it for a baby.

It has in recent years become enormously popular, in a number of variation, from my knowing no one my age with my name to there being masses of them everywhere, so, regretfully, no.

Yes, I like my name.

We used dh's name as a mn for dc2 too!

Do you mean if you were Margaret Rose, but everyone called you Rose, would you name your daughter Margaret? I suppose it’s no different to being Charlotte Elizabeth and using Elizabeth; you wouldn’t get any day to day confusion. If it’s a family name and one you like, then I don’t see why not.

Same!

I think if I wasn’t called it, I might well have considered it if millions of other people hadn’t also used it.

I like my name but unfortunately it’s very much tied to a few decades as was so popular so I wouldn’t. I think it will come back but too early for that at the moment with my children.

No, it will be a while yet before my name makes a comeback.

I'd use my sister's though ...

Absolutely not. It's awful.

I might have used it if I was naming a baby in the era I was born in. It is a nice name for the time.

I also think in general women are conditioned to see their names as dated and unfashionable whereas men are more likely to want to pass their own names on to sons.

Might do. I really like it!

No, I dont mind it as a name and I think the shortening I go by would suit my daughter but its not something I would chosen- plus I have had a lifetime of The Police/put on your red light jokes and I don't want that for my children.

No it's an 80s name!

I'd use it as a middle name

No way, it's hideous and should not be inflicted on anybody.
It wasn't even suitable for the era I was born in, I should really be about 30-40 years older.

No, it's a very sixties name and no one can ever spell it correctly either!

I like my name but it feels a bit dated. I expect it'll make a comeback by the time my DC have kids.

as it'll be an "old lady" name then.

Yes, quite possibly. It's a great classic name in the Jane Austen mould. My great aunt had the same name, and it is my eldest DD and my nieces middle name.