Old lady names

[Namesheardinthewild]

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

Doreen
Denise
Valerie
Gladys
Shirley
Linda
Doris
Kathleen
Vera
Hilda
Norma
Brenda

Betty, Edie, Margaret (apparently she can get married free in an amazing place in Edinburgh if that's her name).
It's funny how things go in circles, and how different it is in America, where names we might think of as old Millennial/young Gen X can be considered old!

DS has girls named Alma, Violet, Gloria, Maggie, Martha, Edith, Lois and Esther in his year at school.

Oephemia
Jean
Joan
Freda

My grandmothers were Kate and Anne Elizabeth so wouldn't fit 'old lady' names.

How about these?
Muriel
Lesley
Christine
Frances
Ruth
Judy
Hilary
Gillian
Hester
Heather
Anne-Marie
Elaine
Sheila
Daphne
Joy
Mary

Wilma
Doris
Norma
Norah
Violet
Peggy
Agatha
Petunia
Lettice

I really love the name Mary.

Also really like Euphemia, Violet, Verity, Gladys and Hilda.

My guilty "like" is Gertrude - I know lots of people really hate it but I've always really liked it.

I love Maud and Tabitha (not sure if that counts!)

I know a young Rosemary

Some of these are bizarre. I know a 24 year old Kitty. Why on earth is that an old lady name.

Such a horrible way to describe it.Old lady names.

These are ladies in their mid to late 60s. Not really old ladies!

A comeback for the gemstone names of the early 1900s
Coral
Pearl
Opal
Ruby
Sapphire
Emerald
Diamond

Although Amber and Jade are already popular

I think “J” names will make a comeback at some point, probably as the diminutive versions of classics - e.g.

Jenny
Judy
Jane / Janie
Jilly
Joan /Joni
June / Juni

I could just imagine a baby Jenny or Judy - gorgeous!

Bertha and Gladys

My Nan is a Joyce, 2 daughters one called Elizabeth. My other is called Ruby, and when I named her that, a few people commented that it was an old lady name. Didn’t get that with Elizabeth.

Beulah

Maud Ethel Rita Gertrude Fanny Marlene Winnifred Mavis Vera Gloria Marjorie Phylis Enid
Dora Harriet Iris Beatrice Gladys Dorothy Queenie Cynthia Sybil Mary Enid Ivy Prudence

Muriel
Maureen
Doreen
Sheila
Joyce
Phyllis
Lettice
Pamela
Millicent

Kay
Kathleen
Adeline
Margaret
Margy
Peggy
Phyllis
Philomena
Noreen
Breda
Brenda
Marion
Maura
Nora

Olive
Agatha
Ada
Gertrude
Margaret
Dorcas
Maud
Alice
Vera
Joan
Ena
Beverly

My mum and her friends/cousins. She´s 80 now.

Thelma

My gran and her sisters were: Dorothy, Kathleen, Joan, Vera, Phyllis and Molly. Her best friends were Winnie, Elaine and Joyce

I love Daphne and Marigold!

Brenda
Maureen
Patricia
Enid
Doreen
Audrey