Fashionable names

My Dad was Arthur. When it came to naming our son in 1995 it was so unfashionable. Now it is very trendy!

I love Margot, Dorothy and Daphne

I love the name Josephine but DD hates being one and goes by the boring name Jo.

Someone in our family has just had an Elsie , and I've heard lots of older names making a comeback which I think is lovely.

I love the name Ivy, ended up calling my dog it.

I go for versatile names - I gave my daughters middles names of Katherine ( she could be Kathy, or Kate if she preferred) and the other DD is Elizabeth (she could be Beth, Liz, Lizzie, but so far they have kept their 1st names.
I always hated my names - Gwenda Enid, I would have preferred Rachael, or Lorraine!!

I should have been Eleanor but as older sister had been named after maternal GM my paternal GM just went about telling all I was named after her. DM hadn't the heart to tell her otherwise so I was stuck with Mary. I don't go for the made up names, kind of a bit of one and a bit of another or all the different spelling of basic names. I also don't go for naming children after their relatives - they are not that person so why give them their name (hang up from GM probably).

Genghis ??????

I like the name Valerie. I had two friends when I was in my teens, both called Valerie. My own name is very old fashioned now and I've never come across another person with it in my life, except a singer from the fifties and once or twice in American films. I like my name though.

I don’t think anyone will be naming their baby with my name Karen any time soon as it is being used as a pejorative to describe a middle aged white woman doing all sorts of bad things, yet it was really popular in my time. I think that Alexa is one to avoid as well, which is a shame as it is a nice name.
So beware as any name can be chosen to be the in the latest name shaming trends.

I have come across a couple of Doris’ in Europe and it sounds quite different, and much nicer, when they say it.

When I was in primary school over 50 years ago, my best friend was called Vivienne, I always said if I had a daughter I would call her by that name. I had a son first then when my daughter was born 2 years later I had gone off it!??

Frank and Francesca

One of my daughters is called Susannah, nobody spells it correctly. I think she's just about given up! "Oh, hello, you must be Suzanne?" (Big sigh, "yes, that's me"!

My grandmother's lovely name, Florence, seems to have made a come back. Or did for a while.
I don't like my first name at all, hopefully it will never make a come-back, but much prefer my royal middle name and have often used it.

I am blessed with the perfect Christian name: Anna. It is ageless, classless, stateless and is not easily shortened. However, my twin sister loathes her name and no longer answers to it. Incidentally, my youngest Grandson was at primary school with a girl called Doris and personally I think it’s an absolutely sweet name.

I knew some Susans when I was at school.I like the older names,Christine Lampard called her daughter Patricia,I like that.I know more Margarets my age and older than any other name,probably because of Princess Margaret,I wonder if that will ever become popular again.

When I had my baby in 1990, I thought I would be different and call him. John....two other mums I knew expecting at the same time had the same idea ?

I'd rather have Susan than some of the modern "made up names". Any Janet you meet is almost 70. There were 7 in my year at school. Never heard of a younger one.

My daughter was born in the seventies and she is called Susan. It was a name I'd loved since childhood and I felt no other name would do. I love the way names come and go. I've heard of a Stanley recently. Alfie, Arthur and Charlie came and went again. Will Gladys ever come back?

Just had a new grand daughter called Penelope..Penny .

MerylStreep I knew a Geraldine many years ago when our children were at playgroup, a lovely woman.

I also know a Meryl

MerylStreep, one of GN's early mods was called Geraldine - is it you?

My first and second names were registered in the wrong order. On a personal level I am known by my middle name, as intended, but officialdom has me down as registered. I dislike the first name intensely and I am uncomfortable being called by it at, for instance, a hospital visit. It's not me, it's not who I am.

Kitty
My mother was Irish. My brother is Patrick
I once worked with a Gaelic speaker, she would pronounce my name in that language, it sounded lovely.

I knew a Geraldine whose husband was Gerald.