Fashionable names

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A birth announcement in my local paper read To x and x on sunday 25th April the birth of a daughter, Ethel. .

I love all the old fashioned names that babies are now being called .... Ivy, Edie, violet, lily, daisy, , Arthur, Archie, Ted, Charlie, Sidney. So sweet!
Can’t stand names that are made up.

My two youngest are called Ted and Daisy, Gingster. They’re in their 30s though.

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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?

I know about 3 or 4 Susans, now in their 40s and it was popular in the early 1970s. I wonder if there was a film or TV programme starring a Susan?

My name is not unusual yet I’m often asked to spell it if I’m calling an office. It’s not a name that can be shortened or lengthened. It’s a traditional British name. It’s important a name is given with traditional or at least not silly spelling. It may be trendy now but the child could live 2 score years and 10. Imagine a lady of 70 being called Buti (Beauty). The Bible has always been a safe bet for names Abel, Ruth, Martha, Luke, Jessie, Jerome, etc. Although some don’t follow that discipline their are some great names there and worth a look.

I love the name Grace

My 10 month old grandson is Arthur. I really don't like the name and I'm still struggling to get used to it. I know it's irrational and I never say anything, but to me it's still such an old man's name and I just hate the sound of it. I love my grandson though, more than I could have imagined.

A friend’s gs who is now 18 is called Arthur, not my business but I couldn’t understand why they would choose that name all that time ago, it was unheard of then, but it’s more commonly used now together with Stanley’s and other such ‘old man’ names. After a while we get used to them and you will do the same. Enjoy your little Arthur.

I always wanted to be called Susan - named my doll Susan.

Having taught classes with several (confusing) David's, James', Alex', etc I wanted to call my sons something unusual - having only ever, in 13 years teaching and thousands of children, only ever taught two Ben's, one a Benedict and one a Benjamin, I called him Benjamin - it turned out to be the most popular boys name that year!

Aligrias1. My husband and I are David and Barbara. He gets Dave, unless I’m annoyed with him apparently and I get Babs most of the time!!

When my grandson was born (in Toronto) 19 years ago I struggled with his name. Stanley. But at secondary school, college and now university it is considered cool.

A pal of mine has called his daughter Clara. Outside of Bewitched associations I do quite like the name.

My neighbors recently called their daughter Lyra -after the girl in the Phillip Pullman books - my other half thought they have called her Lycra - he isn't a reader of fantasy!

I wouldn't worry about Susan at all !
Think back - she could have been Chardonnay !!

I've got a baby great nephew called Arthur - it seems to have suddenly become very fashionable along with Stanley.

I expect there will be lots of little Arthurs in Reception classes in a few years.

I have a 7 year old granddaughter Olive so it made me smile that the author of this thread considers people might choose the name because its “edgy”.
Don’t worry I’m not upset. They chose the name as it was my mother’s name and my son dearly loved his nanny who died two weeks before the new Olive was born.
At the time I was horrified at their choice of name and told them that my mum hated it - but they love the name (they have never heard of Olive Oil or Olive on the buses ?)
I’ve got used to the name now - and more importantly Olive loves it too.

A friend of mine had 7 children, they called the last one Yeter, (pronounced Yet air) it's Turkish for enough!!

My DM’s name was Minnie as was her DM’s I hated it and hated anyone knowing her name although she was always called Cis. Her middle name was Selina which to my mind was so much better. I was horrified when my DD wanted to call DGD2 it and said I’d refuse to use it if she named the poor child that! Luckily she ended up calling her Georgia but still says she regrets not naming her Minnie! My name is of the 50’s era and as yet not heard of a baby being called that yet.

We have 4 grandchildren all with good “English “ names and linked to great grandparents. Our only GD is named after two of her great grandmothers which is lovely although it is only used formally, she uses a shorter version which is likened to tinned peaches ?. The 2 elder boys have their paternal granddads name as their second name , which is a lovely reminder of my dad , and the youngest boy has his dads first name as his second one .
We had no hand in suggesting their names, just said they’re your babies , it’s up to you !

My daughter was born in the early eighties and she was given her first name by my DH and second name after my sister. Wasn’t too keen on her first name and was told quite pointedly by the midwife ‘oh there will be loads of those when she’s at school’! As it turned out there wasn’t another one!
I don’t mind Susan and quite like the older names which have made a come back. I love Elizabeth tho and wish I’d put my foot down when my daughter was named although I also love her middle name ‘Marie’

I have always detested my name... Consequently I gave my two daughters very unusual but very pretty names. My son was named after my father. All my grandchildren have unusual but lovely names.

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A friend was horrified to learn that her new granddaughter was to be named Rocky! Turns out she misheard and her name is Roxy! With sisters called Daisy and Betsy, which I think are cute names.

There were five Patricias in my first class at primary school. In the 1950's, I was a great fan of the Milly Molly Mandy books (written in the '30's ), and, in one story, there was a build up of expectation as to what the name of a new born girl would be. It turned out to be Doris. I read the story to my Primary one class in the early nineties, and gave them all a slip of paper to write a potential name - not a single Doris. I doubt if any of them had heard that name before. I once got the only two names left in a guess the doll's name competition - they were Gladys and Daphne. I didn't win!

My granddaughters both have slightly unusual names and I love them. They’re part of what makes them special. They would never have been my choice, but then it’s really nothing to do with me what their parents choose to call them. Neither name can really be shortened either which is great.

My Grand daughter is Marianne. There are no other Mariannes in her school. I was at school with a lot of Lindas, Janes, Claires and Susans and a Verity and Edna