Margot, Hattie, Eliza or Ivy?

[Blooshoe]

Please rank them or tell me your favourite.

I think Ethel is beautiful and Eileen is really nice too!

I love Margot but it is becoming more popular. Eliza is lovely but very very popular- I work in year 1 and we have 4 in the year group. I know Ivy is in the top 20 of names but I have never met one and am not aware of any in the school I work at. Hattie is gorgeous too. Popularity aside I would say Eliza is my favourite followed by Margot then Hattie and finally Ivy.

😂 just shows how things change! My grandmother’s generation and a bit older than that - born 1900-1930ish - all had those names. I thought them horrendously ugly and old-fashioned as a child and still associate them with the very elderly ladies at church - Mildred, Mabel, Ethel, Eileen, Connie, Gertie, Queenie, Nora, Gladys, Dorothy and suchlike!

Eliza
Margot
Ivy
Hattie

Ivy 💕

Eliza is pretty but still think of Dolittle.

Hattie. Nope. Makes me think of Hattie Jacques.

Margot. Nope . Posh and pretentious. I think of Margot from the Good Life . I loved that show as a kid 😁

I have a Eliza and a Harriet (Hattie) Margot is lovely but becoming quite popular.

Favourite to least favourite:
Eliza
Margot
Hattie
Ivy

Agree with others, if you like Eliza use “Elizabeth” and let her choose her own shortened version as she gets older - there are dozens of options open to her with that name.

Seriously ..not trying to derail the thread..but can someone explain the whole full names nickname thing to me? I genuinely don’t understand if you want to call your child X, and everyone else to call your child X, why you feel it needs to be a derivative of a more”proper” name?

Margot, Eliza, Hattie, Ivy

Ivy and Eliza are both lovely and sound nice together too. I'd choose between one of those.

Is Hattie short for Harriet if so that comes next. If not that's a no because people will always assume she's a Harriet.

Margot. Whilst Ivy is more popular, Margot feels even more 'trendy' It's quite ugly written down and is likely to auto correct to maggot. I think there's a few accents that it doesn't work well in too so that one is last for me. Maggie is a nice nickname.

It's a lovely list though.

For me it’s because I have a name that you cannot shorten in any way, and growing up I hated that I was always just “x” whereas my friends went through various versions of their own more adaptable names. When we named our children we gave them the more formal full names so that they could choose what they wanted to be known as as they grew up. Both of our DC have names that can be shortened in many different ways according to what they want.

Eliza
Margot
Ivy

really don’t like Hattie

Ivy or Hattie.
Not a huge fan of Eliza.
Really don't like Margot.

1. Eliza
2. Ivy
3. Hattie
4. Margot

For me, Ivy and Eliza are joint first! Hattie is OK but a bit twee/babyish to my ears, and I really don't like Margot personally!

Yes this, and also I feel that some full names don't sound right for a baby, and names that do might not feel right for an adult!

And to op, I might be in the minority but Eliza is my favourite. I don't know any (dd is 1 & at nursery) and it's a lovely name as it is plus has nn options if wanted!

1. Eliza
2. Hattie if short for Harriet
3. Ivy
4. Margot (I have seen so many people on here say they see maggot that it has put me off! Also it has become really popular out of nowhere so I would worry that it won't age well - as someone with a name that hasn't aged well)

Margot is the best by a country mile IMO, then Eliza, Hattie and Ivy last. I still associate Ivy with Ivy Tilsley in Coronation St!
Am also not a big fan of the endless cutsie girls names ending in an ee sound.

This would be my list too. I really like Ivy and Hattie, don't care for Margot or Eliza. Not sure if its because of Margot Robbie but there are two baby Margot's in the baby classes I go to. Is it on this rise?!

Love Eliza

Margot is going to be very 2024. popular and then dates, it was despised a couple of decades ago now everyone loves itm

It's not a very nice sound.

For me I try to imagine being called the name as an adult. I personally wouldn’t want to have Hattie as my only option, as I would find it too informal to introduce myself with at work. Hattie (to me) sounds like a sweet shortening to call a child or an affectionate nn for a close friend, but I personally prefer to have a more formal version too.

Ivy
Margot
Eliza
Hattie

Margot.

NOT Hattie, but Harriet would be nice.

^Agreed