Old lady names.......

[Babylove502]

I really like old lady type names.

My favourite is Elsie (I'm thinking Elsie May)

Also on the list is

Olive (olly for nn)
Ethel
Mabel
Iris
Millicent
Bessie.

Other names I like are

Delilah or Lila (Rose as a mn)
Cedar
Willow
Alyssa (Lissy for nn)
Orli
Phoebe

Let me know what you think?Are they all silly or do you like any of them.I quite like the idea a name that can be shortened or have a good nn!

Thanks

ivy, my grandma's name. desperate to have a DD so I can use it!

Thea
Ada
Dora
Edith

my current favourites

The Elsie that I know has always been known as something else. She hated Elsie as a DC and she hates it now she is an old lady. (I am not surprised).

Violet nn = Vi

Hilda is grim, please no one use Hilda.

Or Enid.
Or thora.

Edith
Constance
Patience
Hope
Primrose
Violet
Lucille
Agnes
Agatha

DD's bestfriend is Norah, has grown on me!

Colinfirth - Hilda is our top name - followed by Enid! And we quite like Thora but not enough to use .

Tummytickler, you must of course go with what you like. But do have a search in the name threads - there was one on hilda and it did provoke a lot of negative reactions if I remember it correctly. There are lots of more attractive suggestions on this thread!

Edith, Norah, Agnes, Agatha etc

I think if you like names with shortenings then you need to look at longer names! Like Elizabeth, Margaret, Katherine/Catharine, Eleanor (Ellie, Nell, Nora), Alexandra etc

Your names are generally a bit to short to have many diminutives.

I know a woman my age called Hilda and it sounds really odd. I think I would be embarrassed if it was my name and would have changed it!

Thinking about it, I suppose that if they get popular, in 40 or so years time there will be masses of Hildas, Elsies and Ethels so it won't be embarrassing! 20 yrs after that people will start saying they are old lady names again! Perhaps they recycle every 80 yrs. It is only a matter of time before Brenda,Sheila and Patricia come back.

They do cycle - there is some evidence that girls name cycle every 100 years I think, and boys every 120. Something like that. I think it is to do with our preference for calling our children after our grandparents and not our parents.

Back to Ethel;

It's my Ma's name, she hates it, but everyone calls her Eff or Effie.

I'm surprised Effie isn't more popular i think it's a pretty cool name now.

Has anyone suggested Bertha yet.....;-)

I love Effie - lovely!

Harriett/Hattie

Olive

Blythe

Meredith