help me convince dp that our next dd HAS to be called ida?

[jekyllandhyde]

i love the name ida, and i have my heart set on it, but dp won't even entertain the idea! btw i'm not pregnant but just thinking ahead if you can rid your minds of blue-rinses and nora batty style tights, don't you think this is a great name???

(or is it just me?!)

lovely name

agree with check on the surname thing though

there is a girl at dd2's playgroup called Mabel and that is lovely too

I LOVE 'old biddy' names though

I knew an old lady called Ida - she was a doughty old lady and henceforth she has coloured my expectations of what Idas should be like.It's a name for a strong (mentally tough)lady to me.

I also knew an Ada by the way - and an Asia. No Isas though .

to be fair, dp thinks if next dc is a boy then we should choose sid or stan. so i really don't think he has a leg to stand on.

No matter, ja, it's still an fug name .

my friends son is called stan

I don't mind an old granny name, but I don't think Ida is pretty at all actually. It's a bit lumpen-sounding. Ada too - I know some people like it but it was my granny's name and she hated it.

ha

oh I love old names though, better than Charmaine-Loooli-Mayyyy

There was a Stanley in my dd's nursery.

Ada is lovely as well

I am the defender of old names

don't get me wrong i like stan and sid. but they are fairly old school too. so i can't accept the old lady argument.

mmj you are just a rotter obviously

Stanley would have been DD's name had she been a boy.

Hmmmm. Feeling a bit stalkerish on this thread. I am not meaning to copy you J&H.

I like Ida. And Ada

You're all crackers.

Ida, Ada, Stan?

haha, artichokes, i can see an injunction coming here! no seriously though, we are obvoiusly of a similar mindset on this one, so come on, what is your dd called??? or is that too nosey?? (sorry fairly new to mn so not sure of the rules yet)

Those kind of names are having a real resurgence Expat.

Im my DD's playgroup we have a Stanley, an Olive, a Maude, an Alfie and a Betty.

oh expat it's not that shocking come on! it's lovely. in twenty years everone will be called ida! or stan...

J&H - I don't mind you asking but DD's name is not really of this ilk. In the end she was named after my mother who died shortly before she was born.

Some nursing home names are lovely though, such as Harry, George, William, Flora, Norah, Cecily, Rose etc. Ida just seems so, well, hard.

Sorry sidge but nooooo to Norah, all I can think of is nitty norah the bug explorer . William gets willy (rudish) or Billy which sounds a bit dim. Nooooo.... Mollie, thats ok. or Bea, Alice.

artichokes - i'm really sorry to hear that about your mum, and i think it is lovely that your dd is named after her. apologies for nosing.

another name i like is annie (for the familial connection), but dp poo-pooed that too. doh.

Ida sounds like a quilt as in ida down!

J&H. This is too weird. Iwas not going to post DD's name but I have to now. She is Annie (Mum was Anne). .

Tori32 - I wouldn't use Norah myself but I prefer it to Ida!

oh, wow that is weird artichokes!!! are you my alter ego or something??!