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

Sophie?

Alice, Emily, Charlotte, Jane, Matilda?

Marian?

(Batman, good one! )

it’s pretty obvious really!🤣

Very popular in late 80s early 90s.
2 different ways to spell it however everyone spells it like there's only one way.
Something about my mum but it's not my name

No but that’s a great guess! I’m never sure if that’s pronounced A-leen or eye-leen

Wow! That’s an unusual name but it’s not that one.

Yes!

Dr Zhivago

Michelle? Mine, too. It was so new in the US in 1960 that my grandfather referred to me as "the baby" for the first year of my life. The song came out a few years later, although he'd started calling me by my name before that.

Lara?

Elinor /Eleanor?

Mine is a housekeeper who doesn't understand emotion in a book by LM Montgomery, and a moody worrier in an Enid Blyton school story. I've never met one my own age!

Sarah? Loads of Sarah Louises at my school

A very cool name 🙂

Thank you!

This is a brilliant thread 👏🏻👏🏻

Bingo! damn, that didn't last long!

Ha! Right book, wrong sister!

And Eleanor Rigby is not the song with the wrong spelling but there’s one by the band who did Happy Together that’s Elenore

Well done!

yes it is. Jane Austen spells it another way.

Teachers at school didn't care though - I frequently had Eleanor Rigby sung at me ...

(I quite enjoy the song Elenore when it comes on the radio )

Obama. Not the president.

I’m mid 30s but mostly hear my name on people n their 40s - my parents were a few years behind the trend. It can’t be shortened but has an obvious rhyme that I used to get a lot. Cilla Black butchered the pronunciation.

Kylie?