"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

I agree pranma - I like all those names. Edie/Edith too.

I like lots of these names.

Maud is a lovely old fashioned but strong name. Not as wet as alot on here inc. lilly, milly, molly, holly etc.

Maud is my unborn and never to have DD...

so why the very hip song Valerie?
I think it is a lovely name

My sister is called Edna

I bet they will all come back in time.

Bertha

Edna perhaps not so much but only because of Crabapple..

I like Maude, too

I used to know a little girl called Dorothy with dark plaited hair and she was just like a Dorothy. I think it is a lovely name!

Norma

Pearl - its not so much the name as I alway think pearls a stripper

I really like Winnie and Dotty

and Ivy hich is really 1920's

I might like them better if the old ladies themselves had ever liked them. I know an Elsie and a Freda who have always loathed them-the Elsie so much so that she never tells anyone her name and goes by a nickname.

Jane and Joan are both going to make a comeback along with Mary-Jane and Mary-Ann

I also like Maude! Enid reminds me of the worst witch, so I find it hard to think of anything else. My gran was Violet and HATED it, and that is getting rather popular, and her sister was Elspeth - known as Elsie.

I'd say Barbara, and i agree with some of the others like Bertha, Norma, Edwina etc.

Ivy is another one that seems to be making a comeback and is on my list.
Mary is a classic and so is Jane and Ann, or Anne.

I think Elizabeth is going to make a massive comeback.

I quite like old lady names. My great-aunt was called Hilda and she was fab. I saw her just before she died and she said 'I've had a lovely life with lots of naughty fun and now I'm ready to go and meet all the people I love that went before me'. She only gave up going out dancing every week at the age of 95!

Mind you, have to admit she hated her name and changed it to Penny whens she finally had to go into an old peoples' home.

Re Joan as a middle name, there is the very very cool Polly Jean Harvey which is nearly the same

I would have said Reenie but I saw a card for a Reenie on CBeebies the other day!

Elizabeth is in every generation-it can't make a comeback-it has never gone away!

I know a Hilda my age and it sounds really odd when she introduces herself-I would find it an embarrassment.

I know loads of little Noras, it's really fashionable amongst the American yupster set.

Intrigued that you all hate Phyllis. Was my deceased grandmother's name, I think it's soft and pretty. Like Phoebe.

Ivy is great. I'm culling ideas from this list for HDD2, to be honest.

thesecondcomings dp has great taste along with thesecondcoming having even better taste in names two of those names are on my dd2 birth certificate