Girls names

Good friend named her girls Robin and Lark...always reminded me of spring. Only request, use traditional spelling. Instead of Marsha, my parents chose Marcia. All thru my life people have called me Mar-Cee-A.

The Telegraph recently published an article that said Ottilie - has come out ahead of more obvious girls’ names such as Daisy, Florence and Isabella (all in joint second). I know babies with all four of those names, also a Dorothy, Rose, Mabel, Martha and Esme.

I've heard of a couple of baby Ethels.

Interesting. I note, however that Hilda, Ethel, Winnie and Gertie have yet to become popular.

I think all the names will eventually roll round and be popular again.. they always do.
A few years ago nobody would have dreamed of having a baby called Albert or Arthur, but there are plenty now.

My girls are Heather , Holly and Chloe , all named after plants

(Chloe means green herb or green shoot in Greek)

My mother gave us three girls middle names of trees - Linden, Hazel and Rowena (Rowena is mine after the rowan tree but she was also influenced by Ivanhoe she said)

But the names of the 50s and 60s are in the doldrums- no-one calls their children Christine, Pauline, Linda, Jane, Janet, Maureen, Barbara, Patricia- all the names of my schoolfriends. I wonder when they will become fashionable again? The boys in my class were Peter, John, David, Mark, Paul, Alan, Christopher- again names that have been forgotten. Perhaps we need another generation’s distance.

Some traditional names are prettier than others, I think.
A baby called Gladys doesn't float my boat, but everyone is different.

I want my DD to have a little girl so she can call her Margaret and shorten it to Peggy it is just adorable.

I met a baby called Ida last week.It kind of grows on you.

Come into the garden Maud ?

I love the floral names for girls, Ivy, Cicely, Holly, Poppy, etc.

Sorry TrendyNannie6 … not so keen on Maud!

My youngest GD is Florence, we also have an Elsie and a Ruby. I like the older names too.