Maude

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My great grandma was called Maud and I always thought what an awful old name until the last few months and I’ve completely fallen in love with it!!

currently like;

Maude Elizabeth
Maude Penelope
Maude Vivienne
Maude Jacqueline
Maude Isabelle

I absolutely love old fashioned names 😅

what do you think

Love it !

Yes, can be pronounced either way that Laura is

I don't know what I think of Maura, certainly nicer than Maud. But it sounds a bit like someone saying tomorrow in a very Glasgow slang way - the-maura.

I do like Laura though.

I mean I'm 30, prime time for friends to have babies. Maeve, mabel etc are certainly trendy. There's 2 Mabel's in DDs nursery and my friends dd is Mabel.

Maud is another kettle of fish. It's in the same category as Deirdre, Edna, Doris.

Plus the sound of it does remind me of someone hurling. How can bored with an M sound nice for a little baby I have no idea.

Maybe I'm scarred by my great grandmothers horrible sister when I was a kid, she was a Maud, and suited the name.

Yes, agree

I always think George sounds like hurling actually do I see where you are coming from with that comment.

That said, I don’t think there is loads of logic to which ones are being rejuvenated and which are still rejected. I don’t think Maud is any uglier than things like Edith - I actually much prefer it to Maeve. Mabel sounds like table: “Mabel, Mabel if you’re able, could you lay the kitchen table.” You can criticise anything. One name I really think is cute is Mildred but that gets put in the dowdy bin even though the sounds are quite light and pretty.