Hilda and middle names

[tummytickler]

Hello,

Dh are starting ttc after Christmas and we have got a short list of girls names already.
The only one we BOTH really love is Hilda so although there is at least 10 months to go, we think it might stick.
We are a bit stuck for middle names though, as we have used close family for our other 4 children, so this time we can use pretty much whatever we like, but we are a bit stuck!

Any suggestions? Other dc's have two mn's but one or two is fine.

Also have a double barrelled surname sounding like Barmy - Monsters!

Other names we like are
Mary
Joan
Prudence
Dorothy
Althea
Enid

and one other front runner that i cannot for the life of me remember!!!!

So opinions and mn's please. Have to go offline for the afternoon in a bit, but i will be back!

Thanks all

No I'm sure you are very funky Soupy

The problem with all those early 20th century names, Elsie, Winifred, Freda, Ethel, Ivy etc is that they had a brief burst of popularity and then disappeared, I think the same will happen this time around and it will be very dating.

I'm not sure you can have Hilda Althea because of the vowels but other than that I think Althea is quite pretty on its own, and I like simple Jane.

Frieda is OK.

Oh sorry you didn't have Jane on your list.

Ouch ouch

Not the English version without the i though, Anna.

Agree i is essential (as in That Artist).

Or maybe she was a Frida?

Well, anyway, i or ie is ok, e alone is not.

hey i am not elderly, lower middle class nor do I live in a suburban bungalow!

I personally prefer those names to the more 'exotic' ones some people favour! But each to their own, life would be boring if we were all the same.

I like Hilda. I think it needs a one syllable name with it. May or Rose would go well.

Hilda is nice, I would go for quite a femme middle name:

Hilda Cecelia
Hilda Emmeline
Hilda Berenice

Hilda Jasmine

I'm really sorry - but I think ( and remember that the baby we're talking about is not even concieved yet, never mind born and named, so uninsultable!) that Hilda Jasmine is the worst of all possible worlds!

If you want a name roughly in this ball park, how about Edith?

Oh, I'm so pleased to see several people backing Hilda. My lovely great-aunt Hilda died earlier this year and I had a moment of thinking oh, it's such a shame all those other great-aunt names like Ivy and Dorothy are back in fashion, why not Hilda?

My Hilda was fab, very funny and rebellious, a purveyor of sweet to small children, owner of a performing budgie and an all round good egg. Didn't hang up her dancing shoes until she was 92, was a renowned community midwife who delivered several generations of babies (including my dad). There should be more Hildas in this world!

Mind you, she changed her name to Penny when she moved into a nursing home because Hilda was 'too old-fashioned'.

(sweets, obv.)

Hilda Mary will be the envy of her friends

Matilda

Do you think there is a chance she will be teased - Hilda the builder.

I think there is every chance. A lot of these old maiden aunt names went out of fashion because they just sound ugly.

what's the difference between Matilda and Hilda, then, Tinker? They may sound ugly to our generation but then you could argue 'Jack' sounds ugly with those hard sounds while 'Terry' sounds soft and friendly. Yet Jack's no. 1 on the baby names list and Terry's nowhere.

I will have to refer you to this thread

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/660541-What-do-you-say-when-you-cant-think-of-anything

Hilda's not good

The Ma at the beginning of Matilda softens it. If shortened to Tilda, the T is softer than teh H of Hilda (when I say it). I don't think Terry sounds ugly, just out of fashion. Hilda does the double whammy of sounding both ugly and being out of fashion.