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Tell me what your name is without telling me what your name is

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BatsatHalloween · 14/10/2025 17:20

My name has a male and female variant
It was number 36 the year I was given it
It was acceptable in the 80s
It's a bit French
It's also a little bit Essex
Most people shorten it

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2025mustbebetter · 14/10/2025 21:56

A classic name, there is usually a few in each school. Common in all years and ages from newborns to 80+. Short name meaning "light"

Alexandrine · 14/10/2025 21:56

Holluschickie · 14/10/2025 21:51

Juliet

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Yeah, a part of me wishes my parents had used Juliet instead of Julia. But then a lot of people might have misspelt it as Juliette - at least you can’t spell Julia in multiple ways. It still gets misheard as “Julie” though (I think Julie Christie had a lot to answer for in making Julie so popular!).

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:56

2025mustbebetter · 14/10/2025 21:56

A classic name, there is usually a few in each school. Common in all years and ages from newborns to 80+. Short name meaning "light"

Claire?

DrowningInSyrup · 14/10/2025 21:56

Bessica1970 · 14/10/2025 17:26

Alexander/Alexandra or Francis/Frances?

My name is very ‘of its time’ 1970’s
It’s become synonymous with hairdressers and one of a pair of Viz characters!

Your parents never called you Fat Slag!! Outrageous.

SmolkedSamon · 14/10/2025 21:57

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 14/10/2025 21:48

Cecelia?

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Yes!! Cecilia (but always Cece for me now)

Feetfingers · 14/10/2025 21:57

Alexandrine · 14/10/2025 21:49

Mine is one of those names that is considered classic and timeless - but only with the “a” ending or “et” ending. I have the “a” ending version and it’s more popular internationally that it has ever been in the UK (where it has never reached the Top 50).

However in the “e” ending variation WAS uber popular in the UK during the 50’s-70’s - but particularly in the swinging 60’s due to a certain glamorous, fashionable actress.

My “a” variation is very literary -it’s mentioned in the Bible, and used by Shakespeare, the Brontes, Austen, Dickens… but Shakespeare was the one who made the “et” ending variation very famous.

Julia Juliet (Julie Christie?)

QuickPeachPoet · 14/10/2025 21:58

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 14/10/2025 21:52

A spelling of Lindsay

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Yes, but not that one haha

bluedelphiniums · 14/10/2025 21:58

caringcarer · 14/10/2025 21:20

I'm in Peter Pan.

Wendy?

Citrusbergamia · 14/10/2025 21:59

French name. Quite long. Derived from Greek apparently.

IDontLikeSpam · 14/10/2025 21:59

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 21:55

Maggie?

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Nope.

Quite a few fictional characters have either this name or the longer version. There is endless potential for mickey taking, but mostly from mine or an older generation; not much from younger generations.

LiquoriceAllsorts2 · 14/10/2025 21:59

Bloatstoat · 14/10/2025 21:50

Very popular in school - 3 in my class in the late 80s/early 90s, but still used now, there's one in my DD's class. It's the name of a tv character writer turned detective, and the shortened version drives around with Postman Pat.

Jessica?

MudMyNameIsMud · 14/10/2025 22:00

GodSavetheJean · 14/10/2025 21:00

Lol, no, but in that vein.

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Eleanor?

bluedelphiniums · 14/10/2025 22:01

AnAudacityofinlaws · 14/10/2025 21:41

Notorious scandal involving a high profile politician back in the day.

Christine? As in Keeler?

LesbianNana · 14/10/2025 22:01

My name is unequivocally male. It is also the title of an extremely popular Pearl Jam song.

Alexandrine · 14/10/2025 22:01

Changingplace · 14/10/2025 21:46

It’s more often known as the surname of the author of what’s commonly cited as the first science fiction novel.

Shelley? I love Mary Shelley’s works ❤️

MudMyNameIsMud · 14/10/2025 22:01

2025mustbebetter · 14/10/2025 21:56

A classic name, there is usually a few in each school. Common in all years and ages from newborns to 80+. Short name meaning "light"

Lucy 💕

Lelumpolelum · 14/10/2025 22:02

IDontLikeSpam · 14/10/2025 21:47

I was born in the 70s and have never met anyone else ( even younger or older) with this name, even though it’s a very old name you’d think of as being very British.

It’s in a song.

You can shorten it and I have the shortened version. Very few people believe that the shortened version is an actual name and assume that my name is the longer version. I have had people actually argue with me about what my name is and what’s written on my birth certificate. (Not because it’s that unusual but because they are stupid and don’t understand that the shortened version is actually a name too).

I googled a list of famous people with my name and recognised only one person with my shortened version. A couple more with the longer version, but still not loads.

I don’t mind it now, but I hated it as a child. I would advise any parent wanting to call their child this name to think again.

Tilda?

measureofmydreams · 14/10/2025 22:02

Mine was very popular in Irish Catholic families until the 1960's but is very rare to hear a child called it now.

Alexandrine · 14/10/2025 22:02

LesbianNana · 14/10/2025 22:01

My name is unequivocally male. It is also the title of an extremely popular Pearl Jam song.

Jeremy?!

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 22:03

IDontLikeSpam · 14/10/2025 21:59

Nope.

Quite a few fictional characters have either this name or the longer version. There is endless potential for mickey taking, but mostly from mine or an older generation; not much from younger generations.

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Hmmm. Something like Bathsheba?

IDontLikeSpam · 14/10/2025 22:03

LesbianNana · 14/10/2025 22:01

My name is unequivocally male. It is also the title of an extremely popular Pearl Jam song.

Jeremy?

Glowingup · 14/10/2025 22:03

measureofmydreams · 14/10/2025 22:02

Mine was very popular in Irish Catholic families until the 1960's but is very rare to hear a child called it now.

Mary?

Alexandrine · 14/10/2025 22:03

measureofmydreams · 14/10/2025 22:02

Mine was very popular in Irish Catholic families until the 1960's but is very rare to hear a child called it now.

Philomena?

Lorddenning1 · 14/10/2025 22:03

My name is Russian, and a shortened version is what a man sometimes has.

”The rest is still unwritten”

CherrieTomaties · 14/10/2025 22:03

4 syllables.
Lots of nickname variations.
Has a female and male variant.
Greek origin.

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