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?!)

Mind you I can't say anything - comments on Eliza May?

sidge come on now be fair! ida doesn't sound hard, and surely doesn't have the (direct) NORAH BATTY connotations....

I like Anna and Lucy as well.

Jekyll Ida is a very popular name here in Scandi land, where it is pronounced ee - dah.

I like it ...

ida!!!!! my mum is friends with a mean old lady called ida, so no i dont think you should call anyone ida

its lovely i know one already and she is gorgeous and really tiny like a little doll very sweet

I like old fashioned names (ds has an old English name and dd is named after two great-grandmothers) but I think Ida is just well, dull. Too short, no alternate versions etc. I like names that offer potential (I like to think will it work for a baby/teenager/adult; could they be a footballer/judge; what if they are butch/girly etc).

Maybe it works with your surname and the middle name(s) of your choice though.

I think it's lovely. And I have a friend called Ida and thought when I met her ohhh what a lovely name, and she is a lovley, lovely woman. it's unusual and makes me think of a kind person! Odd I know but it does.

yeah but fawkeoff, i know several slightly unpleasant people and i refuse to blame a persons name! i'm sure there are lots of stoical old lovely grannies out there caled ida too. NO. that argument has not convinced me. still love it.

No to Stan, Ida, Ada, Norah and all the other granny names.

There are some lovely older names, like Rose or Isabella but some of the names mentioned on this thread sound like a roll call of the church choir from 1955.

noddy and thomcat, you obviously have fantastic taste!

I read a book (or was it short stories?) by a Danish author whose main character was Ida. I liked the bookd but I've totally forgotten the book or the author's name.

I love Ida (and Ada, Ava and Dora); I think it's ripe for reclaiming and you could start the trend!

no imagination kindersurprise!

yay! so i'm not mad. but how to convince the oh???

Hester is a nice name too.

Convince Dh by finding songs containing name and famous Ida's.

Or might be easier to convince him by denying him 'his rights' as it were!

I like Ida, and Ada. But if your DH doesn't then you are not going to convince him -- Ida is a love-it-or-hate-it sort of name.

Would Isadora be more acceptable to him, with ida as a nickname?

Hey! your future son in law will be able to call her "My Own Private Ida Ho"

Baboom tish!

Seriously though, I think Ida is a lovely name.

love it adamant! hehe

Sorry jekyllandhyde, but I do think it's a hard name. I really really can't picture a pretty little baby, all soft and pink and squidgy, called Ida. In the same way I have no idea why someone could call a baby boy Stanley or Arthur.

(But then I'm a nurse and all the people I've met called Ida, Stanley and Arthur are over 70!)

But it would be dull if we all liked the same - I bet you would hate my DDs names!!

I think so, artichokes

(It's not my real name, of course, though there is a prolific MNetter whose RL name is Hester - I'm so jealous.)

Sorry I'm late to this thread but I think Ida is a lovely name. I also love: Ada, Dora, Olive, Iris. Imo they are all unpretentious, straightforward, slightly 'classy' (for want of a better word!) names which to me don't conjure up old ladies as I've never known old ladies with these names!

I'm late too and don't like it. Sorry.

WindUpBird - They don't come across as classy to me, they remind me of old ladies with a blue rinse. Dora obviously reminds me of a little spanish girl with a backpack named boots.