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Only old and codgerly suggestions wanted thank you.

128 replies

MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:02

The suggestions are to go with (already we have) The dds first and subsequent names.

Dora
Eliza
Henrietta
Mary
Iris
Anne

Boys on the list are Henry and Arthur but no ideas for girls.

I have a theory that one day dd's names will be in vogue and people will like them

Feel free to say they are hideous, I care not. (skin like a rhino) but I will hunt you down etc...

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MamaG · 05/06/2008 13:03

Alice

ElfOnTheTopShelf · 05/06/2008 13:04

Evelyn?

EffiePerine · 05/06/2008 13:05

Evelyn (or Eve)
Clara
Jane
Sophy

lulumama · 05/06/2008 13:05

Pearl
Violet
Clara
Kitty ( wish i had called dd kitty)
Hatty
Florence

I like Dora although dora the explorer would take away from ye olde worlde aspect... mary, not for me, i like the otehrs though

jumpingbeans · 05/06/2008 13:05

Florence, I love it

EffiePerine · 05/06/2008 13:05

Frances
Helen

EffiePerine · 05/06/2008 13:06

Verity
Hope
Constance

MadBadandDangeroustoKnow · 05/06/2008 13:07

Violet? Stella? Primrose? Emmeline?

MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:07

Best friend's dd is florence.(alot of names get discounted this way!) I already have a Hattie. I wasn't expecting such a list already. Looks like codgerly may be easier than I thought.

Evelyn is rather pretty.

Is Primrose a bit naff? Could be Rosie?

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BlueDragonfly · 05/06/2008 13:09

old lady names?

Dorothy
Edith
Mavis
Ivy
Pearl
Muriel
Marion

(based purely on actual old ladies i know btw)

MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:09

I did forgot to mention I told my dh that I really liked Posie and he turned around after making a face.

Hormones?

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gooseberryfoolmoonfiend · 05/06/2008 13:09

Your dds have lovely names!

Mathilda (Tilly)
Daisy
Agnes
Dorothy (dotty)
Ruby
Pearl
Ivy

RubySlippers · 05/06/2008 13:11

louisa
Laura (not sure if old fashioned but very lovely)
Mabel
Martha
Rose
Patience
Milly

Oliveoil · 05/06/2008 13:12

dd2 was going to be a Mary but was an Alice when born, no idea why as she looked like an old man initially...

I love Iris on your list

Martha?

RubySlippers · 05/06/2008 13:12

Sadie

MrsBadger · 05/06/2008 13:14

Jane
Susan
Fiona

MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:14

I thought Sadie was quite a newish name.
Thanks these are really lovely, gives me some food for thought.

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RubySlippers · 05/06/2008 13:17

one of my very aged great aunt was called Sadie

jingleyjen · 05/06/2008 13:18

cybil

lulumama · 05/06/2008 13:18

mien too ruby !

lulumama · 05/06/2008 13:19

we had two auntie sadies. auntie sadie , annie's sister and auntie sadie, eileen and gertie;s sister

niceglasses · 05/06/2008 13:21

I have a Nancy (and long before the blardy 'I'll do Anything' carry on).

Shes very fiesty.

lokka · 05/06/2008 13:21

maude

MrsPScholfield · 05/06/2008 13:23

Maude is wonderful is it short for anything?

I like Ethel but my husband will not hear of it. I think it suits a little one and an older woman, but is a bit out there. I am finding naming the last dc very difficult.

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LadyThompson · 05/06/2008 13:24

Ottilie? It's Edwardian, I believe, and very pretty.

Evelina? (as in C18th novel by Fanny Burney)

Some lovely names suggested above though, and your daughters' names are lovely.