"Old Lady" names which should never see the light of day ever again

[MrsSchadenfreude]

In my opinion. I give you:

Ethel
Enid
Edna
Doris
Maud(e)
Hilda
Ena
Elsie
Gladys

My name puts me firmly in the 70s My daughters all have old lady names, youngest being 10 week old virginia. Sisters want to shorten it but should it be ginny or gini? Anyway, I would have called her genevieve or guinevere but got vetoed. Boy would have been solomon. There's always next time

I think names are popular in cycles as a previous poster has also mentioned.
Old lady names are popular now, and names from the 70's like Tracey,Emma,Sharon are not so popular.

Wonky?

if i ever have a boy i would love to call him
ezra or josiah love those 2 names
i also like for a girl
celia
elsie
florence
betsy
constance [my great aunt was constance]
i had great aunts called thelma,muriel,leah,selina,barbara,bunty
my nan was rachel which isn't a name you really come across in 'old ladies'and my dads mum was sylvia

I love Maud and Mavis, and Minnie (my great aunt's name).

Don't like Beryl or Olive.

My gran is called Winifred, Winnie for short, she dislikes it too. :)
Personally old names like Edna, Ruth, Maureen etc... no way... but then names like Heidi, Harriet, Josie, Lillian, Ruby, Francesca, Edith [Ee-di for short], are all making a come back. Some names are a big no no, i worked with a seven year old called Margaret once, poor little lass.

My Mum was Ivy Marie. My Nan's were Harriet and Daisy.

My DD is Betty (6mths). Cat is Neil FWIW.

Vera
Constance
HIlda
Fanny

I actually like my name, it's Pauline.
I'd even consider calling a dd it.

er...

so there.

My Grandmother is Phyllis and I love the name. dd has it as a middle name.

Jane1002 - I would've loved a Joy. It just didn't go with ds's name, too similar. One of my favourite names of all time...

not old lady names but does anyone ever call their children sharon or tracy anymore, or jackie

Mildred, Doris, Enid, Ethel and Edna. All horrible. Personally I wouldn't inflict any old lady chic name on a baby.

Mildred reminds me of Mildew.

woahthere - definitely not, I haven't heard of any Karens or Julies recently either. (All of which I quite like).

Surprised that this list hasn't featured:
Kathleen
Theresa/Therese
Blanche

The name that you all seem to dislike is ENID and I love that.

diane...thats bad, i prefer old lady names to ones that were popular in the 60's, 70's

sorry to all dianes, jackies, sharons and tracys, i have a bad name too that i doubt will ever be brought back so i sympathise

I know a small Audrey; in fact I think that one's on the rise. And I would use Margaret in a heartbeat if it weren't for The Thatch (I think the name still has connotations -- if not in general then for one of DH's friends who is an ultra-Thatcherite and I know would never shut up about it until I gutted him with a fish knife).

Someone was considering Irene on here the other day.

I think some names are clssical rather than old lady, like Annie and Josie.

I also know a nancy, margaret, vivienne, ava and mary - ann.

Everything does come full cycle.

sorry should read classical.

Also know a jacob and a Jerry, Jake.

Surely though these "old ladies"names weren`t old when they were children? I help out at out local primary school and have just spent a year with the reception class where we had Vera and Beatrice, gorgeous little girls, tbh I prefer some of the older names to the like of Zoe! My mum is 82 and her name is Muriel, she has hated it all her life and says she used to dread the register being called out at school!

R.E: Margaret, i said poor little lass as she was picked on at her primary school for having an old name compaired to all her school friends, so in that respect, it was affecting her by having an older and unusual name in school aged children!

Doris and Shirley
I read bedtime story about two elephant today :)

Archetypal old lady name where I grew up was Esmé (that, plus particularly awful Scottish versions of feminised male names, eg Andrewina, not making it up)

But Esmé is absolutely the last word in trendery round here