Agnes

[milene]

Any thoughts? An old lady name or cool again?

God, that is bad when even the grannies think it is 'old ladyish'!

Librarian with spectacles on the end of her (very long) nose!

what about Inez or the Italian Agnese pronounced "anne - yeseeee"

I like it

the old names are back! Its only old to us because we are fairly old and remember or know of people who were called them.

Martha is one of my favourite names, and Elsie. Both are ancient names but know a couple of babies called this now.

I like it.

Agnes is a really old name running through our family so we did a bit of research and Annis/Anis is the old old English version of Agnes.

We liked this a lot hence it is dd1's name.

Think Agnes is lovely!
All my favourite girls' names are on this thread...

I adore Agnes

When I was very little (so young I can't remember it myself) I named my favourite doll Agnes. My parents have no idea where I came across the name either, I can only have been about 3 when I named her. I still feel a lot of resentment towards the two boys who broke her

I really like Annis. That's lovely.

And I still harbour deep resentment towards the horrid little boy who wrote on Elizabeth's forehead.

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It's awful.

My granny is an Agnes and she calls herself Nancy too.

I like them both, and Senga too.

If I was to have another DD I would give Agnes or Nancy as a middle name.

DH's gran is Elsie, another lovely name but SIL nabbed it for DN's middle name!

hate it. as someone said earlier, it sounds 'hard'.

My dd is has Agnes for her middle name, she's named after my Nan ho died around the time dd was conceived.

My nan actually hated her name (Vera Agnes) but i quite like it and i love the meaning of it. My business is called Princess Lamb after the meaning.

my mum is an Agnes but had been called nan for as long as I can remember.

My DD thinks granny's name is hilarious and does tease her calling her Senga. IMO I think it will make a return though and become quite cool, the model will help I think.

whoops has been called Nan

I like it.

Annis is pretty.

Quite like changing it slightly to anais or similar.
Think it will come back with Edie , Elsie etc.

Please...don't do it to your dd....my next door neighbour (who is super lovely)hates her name and she is Agnes.....

horrible sorry

Dreadful!

I wouldn't want her to end up with Aggie as a nickname... I also love Annis, and Anais (but worry that giving a French name when we're not French is a bit pretentious?).

Annis is very English, no French anywhere near !!

No, but Anais is French isn't it?