Mabel

[SAEJ]

Ok, meant to ask this when I asked about my possible DS name of Herbie but now - what do you think of Mabel? Not even sure if this is the correc spelling yet - heard it last week and love it.

[Madmentalbint]

I absolutely love the name Mabel and would consider it if I were to have another DD.
My great grandmother was Mabel.

[phoebe123]

My sisters name is Mabel-Eva
She was originally going to be called Ammabelle Eva, luckily she wasn't

[SAEJ]

I think Mabel Elizabeth Rose may be a winner!!

[NorktasticNinja]

Mabel is a great name, 'tis on my list too although DP is far from keen.

Would you consider Mabel Elizabeth Rose? 'tis a really lovely name IMO

[turtledove23]

Befor I met DH Mabel Elizabeth was going to be my girl's name. He doesn't like it so it's off the list but I love it!

[SAEJ]

Not all all bothered by the negative - would not have asked for opinions if I did not want honest ones! Despite some negative (and you really can't please everyone) I still love it and I think the majority of responses have been positive.

Lobster - love Rose and Rosie as middle names - we have a family tradition of including Elizabeth for eldest girls so we will be using that - but we also have a tradition of using two middle names so just one left to choose!!!

[LuLuBaihasbeenagoodgirl]

I really, truly love Mabel. I have had a secret soft spot for it ever since I can remember. Was v. surprised when the couple in Mad About You named their baby Mabel as I thought I was the only person in the world who liked it.

DH would never let me use it for a child, but I have negotiated that if we ever get a dog it has to be female so that I can name her Mabel.

[lalalonglegs]

It's a dreadful, old lady's name (and I write as someone who has the Italian equivalent in dowdiness as a middle name which always has everyone falling about whenever they hear it). Just give her something with fewer connotations of mothballs and antimacassars..

[Lotster]

Can't believe some people are so insensitive with their comments! Don't think swearing or vomiting over it is necessary.. It's so mean to people who have already said this is their child's name

Ignore em SAEJ, gits.

[Pinkjennybellrock]

It reminds me of the lady in 'Come Outside' with that dog, Pippin. Isn't she called Aunty Mabel?

[PlonkerTeatowelOnTheirHeads]

Aww I think its really sweet

'tis very 'now' though ...don't know if that bothers you ...?

[CatchaChristmasStar]

It reminds me of the dog from blue peter.

[lalalonglegs]

Horrible. [vomit emoticon]

[Lotster]

Hi SAEJ - this is at the top of our shortlist too, Mabel is taken from old French for "lovely", and Mabelle is taken from the French for "my beautiful". Maybelle is a US creation.
Just can't think of a middle name to go with it. Rose works perfectly (as it does with most names) but everyone round here uses it...

Always makes me laugh how people can be so vehemently againgst an old lady name (and Mabel is hardly Vera or Hilda is it? much prettier sounding) - the "100 year rule" brings everything round again. In another 50 the modern names now will be the granny ones!

[preggersplayspop]

I really like it, though I had a great auntie Mabel so for me it feels a bit odd without pronouncing it Auntiemabel. Mabel on its own feels like something is missing!

[LouMacca]

Wow, am amazed how many people love the name Mabel. Sorry, think its awful. Think Florence and Martha are pretty but I wouldn't put Mabel in the same bracket at all.

[gladders]

love it!

if had thought of it soon enough, it would have been dd's middle name

cute for little girl, not too popular (none that I can think of in fact) and would grow up well......

[Pollyanna]

I love it! Dh wouldn't let me use it so we have a guinea pig named Mabel now

[Cupofteaplease]

Mabel is my dd's name! Well, she is Mabel-Daisy (Mabel-Daisy Doo Daroo to her 3 year old sister ). To most people, she is simply Mabel and we adore her name.

But it is like Marmite, some people will tell you to your face that they HATE it! Never mind, you can't please everyone.

If we ever have baby number 3 he will be Bear, or she will be Primrose

[LiffeySaysNollaigShona]

Clary It's not that they're lying! It's that their husbands are boring bastards. I would have called my children entirely different names if it had been my decision alone.

[SAEJ]

I love Florence!!That was really high on our list too as is Molly.

I think we might have Mabel Anna Elizabeth or Mabel Amy Elizabeth.

[Clary]

I love the name Mabel sooooooo much.

Now usually when people say they like a name you know they are lying because it's not what they chose (or anything like it).

But I really do like Mabel - it would totally have been top of my list but DH vetoed it (and tbh it sounds slightly odd with our surname).

DD has a very "Mabel" sort of name tho.

IMO it's not really become that popular - I have never met a small one, while I do know at least one child called:
Elsie
Muriel
Florence
Martha
Edith
Ava
all of which I would put in the same bracket.

[lunamoon2]

I think this will start to be popular very soon.
x

[LiffeySaysNollaigShona]

Yes, Maybelle takes a lovely name and kills it stone dead.

I can't understand why Mabel hasn't risen already. May is v. popular and so are Bel names. But put them together and for some reason a lot of people still think 'oh too old lady'.