Ethel

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What do you think of Ethel?
I am loving it more and more at the moment - dh is besotted by it (and Morag!). Would love some opinions, as we will not be talking to people in rl about our name making choices!
I am loving Ettie as a nn (and Raggy for Morag!). We would probably use Ethel most of the time and not a nn though.
Middle names will be two from Denise, Violet, Mary, Jean, Eileen, Angela (all family).
Is it going to become huge like Edith/Elsie/Esme?
This is dc5, and my 2dd's have old names and ds's Hebrew (so very old!)

Thanks

Now Daphne and Dalia are so nice, and Denise would go well as a mn too.

I called my hen Ethel

Sorry, not much help am I?

Aphra is also beautiful, in fact better than Juniper Jean! I don't like Ethel!

Love love love Aphra (as in Aphra Behn?) and Juniper Jean. Ethel is actually quite a nice name imo but if you're worrying about names sounding dated, I think i'ts more likely to - as part of the noughties 'old lady name' phenomenon - than Aphra or Juniper.

good luck!

I really dislike Morag, it's very harsh sounding name.
My GGM was Ethel, I love it. Her real name was Margaret, but everyone called her Ethel.

I also really like Agnes, Enid and Esther.

Ethel is ok but like someone said if you know she will be a strong character and carry it off then great but if not then you should choose something else!

How about Nancy? I think that is really nice.

My DD is called Georgina but we call her either Jeanie or Jean most of the time!

I love Edith the most but I like Ethel! I'm not even ttc yet so I don't know what I'm doing on this thread really (wasting time when I should be working ). But I want to vote for Ethel - I think it is gorgeous.

It's awful, really awful.

Why don't you pick a pretty name? Why give your child an ugly name when there are so many lovely pretty ones out there?

I love granny names so I can see where you're going with Ethel, already having an Iris and a Pearl (both GORGEOUS names BTW). There's just something about Ethel that's not pretty enough IMO...I much prefer Mabel which was on my shortlist had 2nd DC been a girl. Love Violet for a MN too.
An earlier poster said Ethel reminded them of witches. Wasn't Ethel Hallow the nasty one in the Worst Witch series? Morag also makes me think of witches for some reason, and that nasty old lady character in Neighbours, (or was it Home and Away?!) a few years back.
Good luck with TTC. x