Margaret?

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I love Margaret (and it's a name that DH and I agree on), but my parents and in-laws are not so keen. It's been called old-fashioned, ugly, frumpy. Margaret Thatcher has been mentioned. My mum has even said that she will hate her name once she's a teen. Whilst I recognise that this is a possibility, it doesn't dissuade me. My opinion is that most, if not all, people have disliked their own name and wished that their parents had called them a different name at some point. There are all sorts of reasons that people hate their name (too common, too unusual, too long, too short, too old-fashioned, too modern, too hard to spell, too hard to pronounce). It is not certain that our child will like any name (even if not Margaret) that we have chosen in the future. Am I wrong? Thoughts?

Oh! I met a tiny Margaret recently! She was so cute. She goes by Margie (Mar-jee) 😍

At first it was a bit odd to me as Margaret is the name of half the old women at my church 😆 but it really worked on little Margie. Great name!

my mother wanted to call me Emily-but everyone told her it was old fashioned and frumpy…..When I called my dd Grace people said it was old fashioned and frumpy….. Classic names are cyclical!

My DM is a Margaret. She hates it.

It’s about time it came back. Great name!

I quite like it, but I can imagine it might be a name that stands out as a bit dated, and hard for a girl if this generation to wear.
The nicknames are all brilliant though, so much choice! I would use Maggie or Daisy.

Yes, DM was a Margaret, but usually called either Peg or Peggy.

Please don’t

Oh I like Margaret, mainly because it has so many great nicknames: maggie, peggy, daisy, margie

I know too many crotchety, miserable old Margarets to like the full name, but Margaret is like Elizabeth in that you can christen your daughter the full name, then decide on Peggy, Daisy, Rita, Meg or one of all the many other variants as the one you actually call her.
That sort of thing used to cause confusion in the past when people rang asking for Lisa, and you only knew the woman in question as Beth, but I think mobile phones have resolved that problem

I don't love it but I think if you knew a little Margaret it would grow on you.

I don't think Peggy or Peg is a cute name though, who wants to be called 'Peggy'! Or 'Peg'.

I once worked with an American lady called Spencer Margaret and really liked the combination - probably because she was so nice - i didn’t love either name on it’s own and to me Spencer was a boys name. But somehow Spencer Margaret worked.

I so like Margot more

I love it. I toyed with Dorothy for my DD but didn’t go for it, I wish I had. Lots of lovely diminutives for both too.

Margaret is my name and I hate it.

There's many nicknames for it too-maybe more than most people think, which is nice as it gives you a choice.
I like it, but one of my favourite people in the world was called it.
Your family probably sees it as an "old" name but the old names have come around again, like Ava, Rose etc came into fashion again a few years back.

I love the way everyone saying they like it because of the nicknames ie so you could be not Margaret. It's always been an old fashioned, stern, cold name to me.

I like it but only with Meg or Maggie as nicknames otherwise it is a bit frumpy.

I love the name Margaret! I always thought it sounded classic and graceful. I think of Princess Margaret before Thatcher. I love Meg or Margo as a nickname. Your parents don’t get a say in the naming, and anyone can dislike their own name for any reason.

None of my DD's friends have any clue it's dated, and her teachers etc. aren't exactly going to hold it against her!

It’s your baby at the end of the day. I personally think this is taking old names to another level. Some should stay in the past.
If you are going to shorten it to Maggie, Meg and the other choices people then that defeats the whole purpose of the name Margaret.
Most people will automatically relate the name to someone they know like me with the ex prime minister and also a racist woman I used to work with for 5 years. But your baby and her generation won’t know who that is or know of any evil Margarets😂😂😂😂😂😂

My mother's middle name (she's 80) and my goddaughter is Maggie. Classic but not dated, I think.

I have a Maggie (now 9)

We had a couple of comments about MT when she was born but mainly positive comments on her name.

She really suits it now. Ironically, she is just Maggie but we call her Margaret as a nickname 🙈 mainly when she's been cheeky!

I think of Princess Margaret before Thatcher.

And in her youth Princess Margaret was very glamourous

Great name, which will come back into fashion eventually. Plenty of diminutives too, if you like that kind of thing. I like Gretel for a little girl.

DM was Margaret and DNiece who was born 2 weeks after she died had it as her middle name. DN now at 22 uses it instead of her first name. Like DM insists on the full name no nickname.

It goes with Margot, Maeve etc which are popular now so not sure that it will be seen as old fashioned. Also she can shorten it of she doesn’t like it!