Girls names

My youngest DGD is called Norah. I remember, from my teaching days, a girl called China-Blue.

My step daughter called her baby Clemency Honeysuckle Plum! And they have a double barrelled surname! Poor child !

'Tintin Jellybean' - that's the best name I've ever heard! I love it. Wonder if I'm too old to change my name to Tintin10?

Why give a child a name and then use a diminutive?

Surely because it gives the child choice in later life. I was christened Margaret, and much prefer Maggie. I was named after my grandma, who preferred Meg. I also know Margarets who are Mags, Greta, Rita, and Peggy, as well as a couple who've stuck with the full name.

Similarly with Elizabeth. Register a child as Lizzie and she's stuck with it. As Elizabeth she can choose from many other diminutives.

DIL's sister has just had a new baby girl....Brody HEARTFILIA...what do you think of that??!!

Each to his own but personally I don’t like those old fashioned names and find it very difficult looking at a chubby little baby called Arthur or Gladys

Every time I hear these old names such as Elsie, Ruby and Edith I think if my great-aunts. Elderly ladies who smelt of a mixture of lavender and cabbage!
I have a very unusual name, too unusual to write here as I might be recognised. I have loved it and the advantage is that it has not dated. We chose our children's names that were never too popular so that they would not be dated.

My controlling M chose boys names for her forthcoming grandchildren, her 'wishful' thinking, not mine, that I was having boys. No scans then. I went along with it but got the better of her by having girls..

I was in the supermarket this morning and thought of this thread when I heard a woman shouting Elsie.
"I'm here" came the answer from a little blonde cherub.

A friend’s daughter has called her baby boy Wilf. Just that.
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I wonder if gender neutral names will be popular this year?

I think it is the same everywhere, names used by our great-grandparents are back in fashion.

However, no-one has been registered as Adolf since the last war in Denmark, where it was used before. I imagine the same applies in Germany. I do however know a German my own age (68) called Horst, which rather surprised me.

One thing we can be sure of, most parents who chose a "new" name for the child, will discover when he or she starts school that there are four to six others in the class with the same name.

In Denmark there is a list of ministry approved names that you can give your child. If you want a name not on the list, you have to apply for permission.

It will not be granted if a name could be considered obscene, which would rule out Klamidia, or is not usually considered a name. You wouldn't get permission to call a child Tinkerbell here. You could use it as a pet name and give the child a name like Isobella.

I love the old names - a neighbour has two girls, Rosa and Violet, Evelyn seems to have had a really big revival, I know a tiny Florence, and my granddaughter has classmates called Archie, Rupert, Henry, and Edwin. However, other names seemed doomed never to be revived; who would call a tiny baby Ernest, Gladys, Horace, Edna, Ronald, Derek, or Stanley? No doubt some have!

My daughters friends know that they will get the withering look if they dare to shorten her name: it's Kathryn.

Thank god my father didn't get his wish when I was born: he wanted Ethel☹️

Some years back I was helping a friend with some form filling. I've always known her as, Sue, but she's really a Deirdre. I found it very amusing, she didn't ?

Who would want to be subjected to the christian name of River as one well known celeb has bestowed upon one of his children.

There was an Ida in our family & she was lovely so I love the name. We now have an Amy and a Violet.

I was talking to a Mum whose DD was Elsie. My Gran's name I told her, no it is Elise she said. Wrong spelling for 5 years and no one had told her at the time ? Also seen Ellauise instead of Eloise. Spelling is very important

My Aunt who died last year aged 86 was known as Dot (Dorothy) but that was her middle name. She was given the first name of Ernestina, no wonder she changed it to her middle name!

One of my granddaughters is Edith a real old name which really suits her now she is 11.

I really don't like the old fashioned names that are making such a comeback. Dorothy, Edith, Ivy - names of my grandparents' generation. One of my grandfathers was called Dennis Bernard. Hard to imagine some poor little boy being inflicted with those names.

Years ago I was visiting the church in the Bronte village of Howarth, and heard a woman call to her two wandering children, "Catherine, Heathcliff, come here!"

My grand-daughter and her litt1e son have 12 and 20 letters in their attractive given names. They reduce them to 2 and 3, saves time and effort when writing, e-mailing, I suppose.

American here - we have the worst habit of making up names or just using awful spellings. American seems to think you can throw an apostrophe or a Y into anything and makes it cooler. My oldest went to school with a boy named Josh. However, it was spelled Xjosh. The mom would say "Oh, the Y is silent".

A friends gc are called winnie and reggie! Each to there own but I'm not keen!

I've never met anyone, ever, with the middle name I was bestowed with - Cordelia.

Cordelia is a lovely name

Reggie! They obviously don't know much about recent history