agatha

[lisbethsw]

ok...for some weird reason NO ONE seems to be calling their baby girls this, and i love it - it's also really one of my only girl options now (6 months). i don't want to use a popular name but i'm worried there's a v obvious reason why agatha isn't a popular option....

be honest - what are your thoughts????

I like it. Aggie is great, too.

Oh i love it. I said to DF the other day how pretty it was after wtaching something about Agatha Christie and he looked at me like I was suggestng Gurtrude !

It is lovely, I like Aggie too. Very classy.

I think it is a name due for a comeback though.

absolutely lovely, really gorgeous, I would have loved an Agatha but my dh vetoed it

Agatha is an excellent name. Beautiful. I hope you choose it

I'd have loved it for a DD but I had to use it for one of our cats instead. It's pretty much unpronounceable in the language they speak were I live...

I had a brilliant Great Auntie Aggie.

She used to spike her husband's tea with valium.

oh thank god! yes, i love agatha christie, and it's such a beautiful name - i also like agnes, a family name, but people seem more divided on it. our agnes was a great beauty (appearentl), but i really don't cary those genes

apparently....

well that aunt agatha sounds amazing, if this bump is a girl i only hope she is as clever as your aunt

if it's a boy...i hate thinking of b's names, too dull. going to use one of the family surnames i think, meh.

(i know i should care more...)

I'm not so sure. Wasn't that the name of the headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda?

noooooooo!!!! but then i don't love cutesy children...so perhaps if potential-she grew up to be a mean headmistress i'd secretly be rather smug

what about a middle name for agatha? i rather like it on its own...

and what can it be shortened to? apart from aggy?

Miss Agatha Trunchbull.

love it.

Great Aunt Agatha in the Jeeves and Wooster stories ate broken glass for breakfast. There are some good strong Agathas out there - DS3 might have been an Agatha.

love the idea of this little punk being a grumpy old lady

I love it. It has gravitas. Top name.

I love it.

Agatha Christine?

oh haha! i love it

love it love it love it. I wanted to call dd this but dh wouldn't let me

Oh dear, I think its awful - harsh sounding and reminds me of frumpy old ladies. But clearly I am in the minority!

i think grumpy old lady names are the next big thing though

i mean, there are an awful lot of pretty (and genuinely lovely) girl names out there, but we have run out of them. there can only be so many flower-based names (i too have one)

OR 1950s names will come back - barbara, susan, jane, janet (secretly LOVE janet, will never be allowed it).... i mean, you mum's friends' names.

we've had victoriana/edwardian, some flapper names (pearl etc), so surely these have to come up at some point?

you know what, i might try and sneak janet onto the birth cert.

I wish someone would spike my tea with Vallium !

I like Agatha.

A friend had it as their name but then had a boy.

I also like Agnes (for DS2 - doh!) and no-one is using that either. (reads on) oh I see you liek that too lisbeth - great minds eh!

I have posted this before but a (former) colleague, on hearing it was a name we favoured for DS2, said "Good thing he was a boy then!"

I forbore to make rude remarks about her choice of names because I'm nice really.

I love Agatha - it's absolutely gorgeous. And Agatha Christie was wonderful - 70 books over 6 decades, what a fab person to share a name with.