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Old Lady Girls Names..

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Zebraa · 07/12/2008 15:50

To go with Charlie.

Baby isn't due until March but we just can't decide on any names and it's exhausting us both a bit...

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ToysAreLikeDogs · 07/12/2008 16:53

Lettice
Minnie
Nora

PrincessButtercup · 07/12/2008 16:53

Alice
Edie (Edith)
Dolly (Dorothy)

TheNewsMongersGeansaiNollag · 07/12/2008 17:07

Maggie, Dulcie, Polly, Nancy, Lois, Edie

TheNewsMongersGeansaiNollag · 07/12/2008 17:09

Zebraa, if you like EMma but feel you can't use it, what about Jemma short for Jemima?

navyeyelasH · 07/12/2008 17:14

Iris

Macy

Thora

Lucille

Lotster · 07/12/2008 17:32

How about Charlie and Mabel?

Mabel is top of my list at the mo...

ramonaquimby · 07/12/2008 18:23

I love the name Mabel

pramspotter · 07/12/2008 18:23

Parthena or Parthenia is very 1830's.

Eliza

Nancy

lottiejenkins · 07/12/2008 18:29

Dulcie
Dolly
Mabel
Myrtle
Bessie
Dora

Vronsky · 07/12/2008 19:08

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lou33 · 07/12/2008 19:10

my mum was margaret , shortened to peggy

i think peggy is a lovely name

Hulababy · 07/12/2008 19:23

Martha, Matilda, Mollie, Florence, Kitty, Millicent (Millie), Rose, Lillian (Lily), Elizabeth, Edith, Jane, Cassandra, ...

Pick up some of the old classics such as Jane Austen books - have a look for inspiration.

BikeRunSki · 07/12/2008 19:32

LLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEE
Martha

But had a boy!

frazzledoldbag34 · 07/12/2008 20:18

My DH loves Mabel and Martha.
Both nice with Charlie?

Hulababy · 07/12/2008 20:20

Friend's DS is called Charles/Charlie. Her DD is Olivia.

ja9ladiesdancing · 07/12/2008 20:22

artichokes you named both my grannies! maud and josephine.. - both awful names

artichokes · 07/12/2008 20:24

Awful? I love them both!

PlonkerTeatowelOnTheirHeads · 07/12/2008 20:27

Oooh Mabel is lovely with Charlie!!

Others:
Molly
Harriet
Nancy (v v cute)
Rose
Anna (same sort of 'feel' as Emma)
Lily
Millie

PlonkerTeatowelOnTheirHeads · 07/12/2008 20:28

My grannies are Alice and Jessie ...both gorgeous!

hester · 07/12/2008 20:28

I like most of these names

Als0 Ada...

ja9ladiesdancing · 07/12/2008 20:30

artichokes - really?

i really wanted to like maud when was preg with dd - would have given it to her as a middle name if i could have brought myself to like it!

Hassled · 07/12/2008 20:32

Clarice. Pronounced Clariss rather than the Clareese of Silent of the Lambs.

chequersandroastedchestnuts · 07/12/2008 20:33

My grandma was Blodwynn, don't suppose you fancy that much

artichokes · 07/12/2008 20:43

Ja - I wanted to call DD Matilda with the nn Maude. I really love it.

I am now pregnant with DD2 and would use Josephine if SiL didn't already have a Joseph.

mooseloose · 07/12/2008 20:43

Amy
may
Nell
celia