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

[BatsatHalloween]

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

Sacha

Jacqueline?

G-L-O-R-I-A

@FunnysInLaJardin @Pomer0l
Nope. But one of you got my sisters name, lol

No one my age has my name. A lot of my friends mums or aunties are called this. It’s French. About 50% of people pronounce it wrongly

@BatsatHalloween

You robbing toerag! 😄

@WorkingItOutAsIGo I’m pretty sure that most people who have disclosed their names on here will have changed their user names before posting, otherwise they’d have given up any privacy they had. If Bats can find me based on my first name, born in the 70s’ then good luck to her, she absolutely deserves the £3.27 and mediocre credit rating she’ll find waiting for her.

@KawasakiBabe
Is your name Margaret?

Sandra!!

No-one's got mine yet.
It was sort of popular for a while in the 70s or 80s (but not common)
There are two singers with it, one from the 70s who changed her name to it from Rita and one from the noughties. I think .

Issobelle
Jaqueline

Harriette
Eleanorre

Trying to think of 9 letter potential French names 🤣

Louise?

Hmm. I think outing myself on MN is probably the daftest thing I'll do all week, but who's watching?

Ok. My name is fairly traditional, and wasn't particularly common when I was a child (nor is now). It has several legitimate variant spellings but mine isn't the most common of those spellings. My mother was inspired by a Jane Austen novel she was reading while pregnant (no, not that one!) and the spelling is the same. It's also the name of a medieval French queen but not the right spelling. I'm mostly known by its diminutive though. (oh and the wrong spelling is immortalised in the title of a very well-known song...)

Heloise?? Everyone I know pronounces that 'El-Louise'!

Indeed it is I rather like it tbf

I would be a good candidate for Henry VIII.

No, more common than Heloise

My name has more than one spelling, with 3-5 letters.
It is a man's name in some parts of the UK though rarely used now for boys.
It is frequently lengthened! People wrongly assume it is short for another name.
In the year I was born it was ranked 74th most popular girl's name Only a few boys were given it.
It was an acceptable name.
One of its meanings (in English), is to do with water, eg a stream or pool.

Yes, that’s right.

Mine is boys or girls
can be spelt two ways .
very of its time 60s70s
never had another in the classes.

Myra?

Julia

Hilary?

Welsh. Long, shortened a lot, difficult to pronounce if not Welsh speaker

Batman?