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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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LilySwalLoosHerTurkeyBaster · 07/12/2008 20:46

Lol just had to click on this as i get told i have picked 'old people' names for my dc's esp dd2 and they are here

Harry , Lily and Martha

lalalonglegs · 07/12/2008 21:24

Artichokes - I called my daughter Matilda - what put you off?

zebraa - Constance, Nancy and Nell (wanted that but didn't work in Italian). Maybe it's time for a revival of Enid, Ethel and Eunice.

BahHumWug · 07/12/2008 21:36

Betty, Ethel, Kathleen, Bud, Sheila, Patricia, Peggy, Doreen, May, Eileen, Ernestine, Hilda, Agnes.

Just a few ideas.

Have met a few babies with some of the above names - still never seen a baby Doreen though!

lalalonglegs · 07/12/2008 21:42

Ena, Ada, Ida, Eudora, Eugenia, Gladys, Lavinia, Octavia, Winefride. Can't imagine why Lucretia fell out of favour .

troutsprout · 07/12/2008 21:55

Gladys, Florence, Doris, Edith, Mabel,Mary,Margaret,Queenie,Iris,Pearl,Irene.
Iris is lovely

Milkycheeks · 07/12/2008 22:02

We have two elderly neighbours named Charlie - their wives are called Joan & Mavis?!? (quite like Mavis - not so keen on Joan, (the names that is, the ladies themselves are lovely))

SnowMuchToBits · 07/12/2008 22:20

My grandmother Edith, her sister Mabel (known as May).

My other grandmother Nana, her sisters Gertrude, Margaret, Audrey, Gladys and Hilda.

My great-aunts Edith, Kate, Alice and Lily.

Others from their generation - Emily, Gwendoline, Elsie, Dorothy, Helen, Ivy, Sarah, Irene, May, Emma, Jessie, Valeria.

jellybeans · 07/12/2008 22:28

Agnes
Elsie
Evelyn
Florence
Mary
Margo
Winnie
Enid
Lillian
Esme
Frances
Veronica
Vera
N ora

theramones · 07/12/2008 22:29

Catherine, Edna, Lois, Gladys, Naomi, Ella, Ruth.

dizzyjingles · 07/12/2008 22:31

isa or ida?

Ismay

Cecelia nn Cece
Beatrice nn Bea?

secretgarden · 07/12/2008 22:35

violet, pat, linda, marjory , harriet

cece · 07/12/2008 22:37

Cece is quite nice

noiamnot · 07/12/2008 22:37

Ellen

noiamnot · 07/12/2008 22:39

Viola

secretgarden · 07/12/2008 22:42

pippa
elsie
gretha

frazzledoldbag34 · 07/12/2008 22:59

Dora
Mary
Dorothy
Muriel
Marion / Marianne
Margaret

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Zebraa · 08/12/2008 12:23

I love Matilda, Emma, Mabel, Elsie and Nora but DP has said absolutely not a chance to all of them. He likes... Erica!!! NO CHANCE!

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RachieB · 08/12/2008 13:05

Alice or nell go lovely i think

DeckHallsWithFIMBOughsofHolly · 08/12/2008 13:09

Dorothea, Diana, Gina, Hetty, Betty, Ada, Ena, Nancy, Cora, Jinty, Aileen, Eileen, Greta, Phyllis, Anita, Doreen, Joanne.

Linnet · 08/12/2008 13:11

Beatrice
Alice
Florence
Emily
Audrey
Ivy
Cecily

DeckHallsWithFIMBOughsofHolly · 08/12/2008 13:11

Lynette.

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Zebraa · 08/12/2008 15:07

What do you think of Holly?

I have been throwing this name at him for a while now and he's starting to agree.

Is it too normal?

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Boulders · 08/12/2008 16:37

Eula

PuppyMonkeyNuts · 08/12/2008 16:39

Esme
Esme
Esme
Esme
Esme
Esme
Esme

I've got an Esme, btw . I also have a Madeleine. And I like Eliza. So there!

ForeverOptimistic · 08/12/2008 16:41

My grandmothers were called Bertha and Winifred, Dh's grandmothers are Kathleen and Sarah.