Old lady names

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Not pregnant, just wanting to expand horizons. I love ‘old lady’ names and wondered if anyone had any to add? So far I love:

Agatha
Enid
Violet
Mabel
Elizabeth (although I think this is more classic than old lady)
Joyce
Jane

Also, Doreen.

Nelly
Betty
Mary
Anne
Gwenda
Gillian
Sue
Mavis
Rita
Barbara
Marion
Miriam

Gertie
Mona
Gretta
Von
Maureen
Betty

Joanne

Oops meant Joanie

I’m 69 and every one of those names was on my class register at senior school! Disconcerting to think we girls born in 1955/1956 have “old lady” names!

Also:
Diane
Sylvia
Rosemary
Deborah
Deirdre
Jennifer
Beverley

Some of you really aren't trying here!

Eglantine
Hester
Elvira

All names belonging to dearly departed family members!

I’m irish

Majella
Assumpta
Concepta
Immaculata
Bernadette
Goretti
Geraldine, although I love this
Sheila
Kathleen
Eileen
Teresa
Mary, Maura, Marie, Maria,Marion, Marian, Maureen
Bridget
Noeleen, Nollaig

Betty
Joan
Sylvia
Edith
Peggy
Rhona
Margery
Pamela
Shirley

I love Enid, Violet and Elizabeth

My grandmother was called Gertrude,just why !?
I love so many more prettier names
Annie
Elsie
Dora
Olive
Winnie
Sylvie

I love Agatha. A stunning name.

Greta
Winifred
Joan
Vera
Frida
Lena
Ruth
Vita
Dinah
Margaret
Bridget
Beatrix
Wilhelmina
Beulah
Annette
Lucille
Mary
Leonora
Della
Celia
Johanna
Audrey
Laura
Alma
Irene
Marian
Honora
Finola
Ursula
Frances
Drusilla
Philomena
Daphne
Monica
Bernadette
Dymphna

Dottie/Dorothy
Edith
Elsie
Ada
IriS
Jean
June
Ivy
Grace
Patricia
Doris
Yvonne
Betty

Oh also:

Lynn
Kathleen
Moira
Shirley
Beverley

On the other hand kids I know are:
Edith
Daphne
Dorothy
Ada
Betsy
Joan(ie)
June
Effie (I guess 100 years ago Effies were actually Euphemia)
Many Violets

Most of the ‘old lady names’ on this thread are names from 100 years ago as PP so assuredly told me, and therefore are now baby names rather than old lady names. As those old ladies are mostly all dead, and names tend to go in century cycles.

See they all sound so current to me. I know kids called all of those names other than Dora. Don’t know any oldies left with those names!

Bertha proper heavy, lumpen name like a lot of the pre war names - harsher consonants.
Do you mean boomer, post war names like @ResusciAnnie’s list? I’d add Alison, Elaine, Helen, Sharon, Tracey, Sarah, Claire though these are getting towards Gen XYour original list is more like dead old lady, but these are the ones that are coming back. @Littletreefrog’s is a mixture. Emma and Lucy have never gone out of fashion.

Lorna
Constance
Liberty
Veronica
Rowena

Love Enid and Mabel. Also love

florence
daphne
hazel
clara
martha
edith
esther
pearl
minnie
winifred
ida
iris
daisy
ivy
olive
penelope
nancy
stella
nora
dorothy
betty
dora
sylvia

My grandma was a Doreen. It's not very pretty though. My other granny was Joan Phyllis but always known as Phyllis (until she was in a care home/hospital when people kept calling her Joan and she didn't reply)

Doris is the name my dd chose for her baby doll 15 years ago lol. No idea why.

Don’t think I’ve seen Rita from any PPs so I’ll add that in!

Same! She died last year aged near 100.

I like all the Cazalet names, especially Sybil, Polly, Florence, Phyllis, Stella, Nora.

I don't want kids but if I had a girl I'd name her Stella Rose.

Lillian - Lilly
Elsie
Winnifred - Winn
Jean - Jeanie
Joan - Joanie
Millicent - Milly
Violet
Florence - Flo
Iris
Ruby
Beatrice - Bea
Ivy
Gladys

Margaret

Have we had:

Nanette
Brenda
Gerty
Sheila
Shelly
Flora
Ingrid
Hetty
Hortense
Jesamine
Juliet
Vanessa

But Maeve isn’t an ‘old lady name’ at all. Are you confusing it with Mavis?