Retro girl names

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I only have a few days before I’m due and we still haven’t decided on a name. We’ve narrowed down boys names to Dale, Lyle, Floyd and Dean. I know these names won’t be to everyone’s taste but they’re what we’ve decided on and we’ll most likely wait and see what name suits the baby the most.

For girls we are a bit stuck, we like similar names to what we do for boys, sort of mid-century maybe even a bit ‘dated’ and not very common now. More retro than vintage. We like Darla, Patsy, Tansy and Thelma/Velma but not dead happy with any of them. Darla is probably our favourite but I think it’s becoming a bit more popular. I prefer prettier names for girls than I do for boys. Any ideas?.

There’s a lovely YouTuber who lives in Japan (she Canadian) called Sharla. It has never occurred to me the name could be mocked, kids could turn any name into something silly if they wanted to. I’m not convinced kids nowadays even do that much as there is a much larger variety of names out there than a few decades ago.

Just to update everyone, we had our baby on the 2nd and he is a little boy!. We’ve named him Davey John. Thank you to everyone who gave suggestions and we will be saving them for next time in case we have a girl.

Congratulations!

Awww Congratulations. 2 days old all new and squishy.
🧸 for baby Davey John. Will he be David on his BC or just Davey.

Congratulations 💙

June
Lynn
Alison

Congratulations. There’s a lovely demo song from Kate Bush (never properly recorded, when she was just a teenager, ) called While Davey Dozed. I’m a huge fan, it may not be your cup of tea but I think it’s beautiful.

He will just be Davey on his BC 😊