Which Name Would You Choose?

I always fancied being a Francesca, or possibly Saskia. Loathe the Christian name my sainted mother chose for me.

lemongrove

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39SJV07 the mean girls I remember were Mabel and Veronica from the Bunty - I heartily disliked their hairstyles, too, especially the way the hair was shaped around their ears.

Goodness me, what a memory you have!
There seemed to be a lot of Mary’s in girls comics but I can’t remember any other ones.I read Girls Crystal and Bunty and can’t remember a thing about them now.

It was The Four Mary’s in Bunty.

Mary Simpson, Radleigh, Cotter and Field.

Mary S was the clever one, Mary R was an Earl’s daughter, Mary C had plaits, Mary F was good at sports.

Then there was Miss Creef, form teacher, and Doctor Gull, head.

Mabel and Veronica were nasty, always got their comeuppance eventually. Used the phrase ‘Utterly, utterly’ a lot.

As you can tell, I was a huge Bunty fan, wished I could attend St Elmo’s School For Girls.......

Must stop now.....

Witzend yes, regarding revival of names...
I don't think that it will be long before we hear of names that were popular during the 40s and 50s.
Pamela, Patricia, Susan etc.
I think that Margaret could have the potential to be very popular.
Any thoughts anyone, on the next big thing girls' names wise?

My names are all right, classic and unembarrassing, but I’d have liked something a bit more exotic. I am always called by my middle name, which does cause problems, but I answer to either name.

As a child I passionately wanted to be called Beryl. I don’t know why I picked on that, but there were a couple of ballet dancers I admired, Beryl Grey and Beryl Goldwyn, so I suppose that’s where I found it.

My surname before I married was very unusual and hard to pronounce and spell. I rather reluctantly took my husband’s name, and found it a relief at first not to have to spell it every time. Now, though, I wish I hadn’t. I miss my interesting surname.

I have two friends with relatively unusual first names. One liked the fact that she was always the only one with that name at school, the other hated her name for the same reason! I’m with the one who liked standing out..

I had a very unusual name, people use to asked me if my parents had made my name up . I pretended my name was Wendy as a child. As an adult I am happy to be different.

I often wonder when the classics John and Mary - the most popular by far for centuries - will make a comeback.

Dd said she’d have liked John for Gds - uncommon but classic - but it didn’t work well at all with his surname.

My paternal GM was Rose, which IMO is lovely and never really dated. I’d have used it as a middle name for a dd but my DM never really liked her MiL so she’d have been very put out!

Dd used it as a middle for Gdd1, though.

The name I remember most from comics is Lettice Leefe - the loveable duffer!
I think she was in the SchoolFriend - I’m sure someone else will remember.

Talking of which, I was once delighted to find in a 2nd hand bookshop, the exact same SchoolFriend Pets Annual I had for Christmas in 1958! I adored that book.
I still have the ‘find’.

Kenver when I was a very little girl, my name was very unusual; lots of people thought that it was made up; and it seemed that noone could spell it.

Then 15 - 20 years down the line it became ridiculously popular - common as muck even!

When I was a mature student a few years back it seemed that half the much younger women were called it.
I'm 49 (today actually! ) can anyone guess what my name is?

One of my friends is named Stella.
Her mom said it was after a story in one of the girls' magazines - 'Stella by Starlight'.

? FannyCornforth.

Will try and guess your name.

A name I’ve never heard of anywhere else is Wilmet - but that was in a novel by Barbara Pym.

The character says she was named after a character in a novel by Charlotte M. Yonge, her mother’s favourite reads.
I’ve never read any of those but presumably BP didn’t make that up.

Happy Birthday FC.???

Chloe FannyCornforth?

@Fanny Cornforth, Olivia?

FC, guessing your name wouldn’t be as dangerous as Rumpelstiltskin but probably as tricky!

Very happy birthday ??FannyC ??

Ah! Thank you everyone! You are very, very kind!

FannyCornforth is it Louise? My sister is Louise and had exactly those problems as a child, but then the name boomed.

Nope! Not Chloe, Olivia or Louise.
Molly - love the Rumpelstiltskin reference

Witzend. One of my GS is named John after my late DH (who wasn’t late at the time!) I was surprised but it really suits him and of course now its lovely to have the continuity of the name in the family.
Happy Birthday Fanny

We considered Isabelle for our first DD but every time it was mentioned my Mum would add ‘necessary on a bicycle’ which was a bit off putting ?. Same with Flora, which I loved. So many people said ‘Flora?! You can’t name a baby after a margarine’. We kept very quiet after that on names for the next 2DDs.

Annabelle was my suggestion for one DD.
"It sounds like a boat" said DH. I've come across some lovely Annabelles but none of them were boats.

Happy birthday FannyCornforth
Are you a Jessica?

Gemma?

Zoe, FannyCornforth?

My son and DIL rejected Flora for the same reason, Marmight. I agree it is a lovely name