Sheila, Lorraine or Glinda?

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I know these names are unconventional but I was thinking they might be nice. I was originally going to go for Sheila or Lorraine (Lorrie for short) but after watching Wicked I’m thinking maybe Glinda would be fun!

There’s a bit of a trend in London to call restaurants & cafes these kind of names; Jolene, Rita’s, Cecilia and Gloria to name a few, any of those take your fancy OP?

I am currently pregnant and we call my bump Herbert, much to my MIL’s horror 😂😂🤣. It was never ever a contender on our name list in reality but I still feel a bit nettled about MIL constantly saying how horrible and gruesome it is - what if it was actually in the running?! I couldn’t imagine being so rude about someone’s name to their face…

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It’s happening… the ugly names are returning! It sounds like a roll call in my Mum’s hairdressers circa 1978. I’ve always said one day we will see the rise of the Brendas, Paulines, Maureens and Pats, then later the Debbies, Alisons, Lesleys and Donnas of their offspring! When I was at school any child named like my children now would have been bullied for being ‘posh’- their nursery list was like an old people’s home and I loved that, so maybe it’s just a generational thing.

Having said that Sheila always appeals a bit from favourite songs and writers but still no! I still prefer it to the godawful Shelby that was suggested, but then I hate those American surname names (Carter, Marshall, Bailey etc) as well as the constant variations of Kayden, Kaydee, Jayden, Jax…

You know what… go with what you love. Someone somewhere will love it too! Glinda is an exception though- that’s an abomination (and Wicked is utter shite).

But at least Cinderella and tinkerbel are pretty and have decent nick names 😅. Glinda is awful. Lorraine I guess is the best if a bad bunch as Lorraine’s are usually in their 40’s where as Sheila’s 50’s and you can get some younger sounding nick names - lorrie, Rainey etc but seems daft to name a child a bad name only to shorten to something you do like. You could get those from other far nicer names like Loretta

My child went to school with a Rapunzel! Other siblings also had Disney names.

Some of those names are long timers though. Still get bay James, Ben and maybe less so but still around Christopher. They are a bit like Emily or Isabelle. Popular Rory waxes and wanes but they never disappear unlike Herbert and Sheila

Diabolical

Oh I quite like this. Could have
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Boli or Cal as NN.

None. All are terrible.

Love this word . LOVE 🤣

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Not as unkind as you’re potentially being to your DD.

Laurie is cute. Like the french girls name Laurence. But in English that sounds like a fairly boring mans name. What about Lauren or Laura? Or Lola?

Glinda is diabolical (sorry.) and Sheila is just very very old fashioned and frumpy sounding. It also reminds me of Australians calling women 'sheilas'.

Lorraine is my daughter’s middle name (after my mother) and I think it’s cute but it will likely never see the light of day as a name unless she’s actively discussing her middle name someday.

Not in the original story or film. It was Glinda and pronounced as such.

I have no idea how or why it transformed into Ga-linda on the story's more recent iteration.

Oh golly op, I don’t want to be rude in case you are actually serious, but errr, let’s just say it’s a No for all of them…

Greta Thunberg - nope!
Alison - see Lorraine

Nah, very few Lorraines in their 40s I think - I never came across any at school or growing up, or more recently at work. I reckon there are probably more in their 50s or 60s (so 1960s and 1970s babies).

While I suspect this is intended as a joke thread there is nothing wrong with Sheila or Lorraine, or indeed most of the other options suggested. It is not necessary to give your child a 'fashionable' name, both names are perfectly acceptable names that are well known and are the standard spellings. Also, I really dislike how rude people are being about quite normal names that just happen to be less popular at the moment. In another 50 years the appropriately fashionable but not too fashionable names you have all chosen for your children will be the Sheila or Lorraine of the future and your grandchildren will dispise them just like you look down at those names now. There are some names that might have only a very negative connotations (Adolf or Myra being the most obvious ones in the UK) but most other names are fine and people grow very used to them. Even Glinda (other names that come from literature: Lorna, Wendy, Fiona, Shirley).

I know. It's just a joke quoting the film, I wasn't genuinely correcting OP

Absolutely not!
What that looks like is fake Irish spelling.
The Irish language spelling of the name is Síle.

This is genuine!

Its good hearing different perspectives, I do appreciate it x

Lorraine because she can go by Lori.

I know someone called Sheila (aged 93) and when we were chatting about names she said hers was always shortened to 'She' which she hated.