Zara Tindall

Well I think names skip a couple of generations. Very few in my age group had the names of my aunts and uncles (Winnie,Victor,Joyce, Doris, Stanley, Cyril etc) or my grandparents and their generation (Ernest, Ethel, Albert, Annie, Ada,Sybil)
Many of these names are now coming back but the ones common in my generation are still rare in young children (Such as Susan, Christine, Margaret,Maureen, Gwen, Valerie, Trevor, Alan etc)
No doubt our great grandchikdren will rediscover them!
Of course some names like Elizabeth, Anne, William and Thomas seem to be always in fashion!

My GD is Violet Florence which I think is lovely (but I am biased) She is only 1 year old????

I had a great aunt called Lyd who my dad called Sospan Lyd, took me years to work it out!

I'm sure we all had an Aunty Gladys, mine was very nice but I wouldn't want it for a baby.
I had Aunties named Winnie, Hetty, Gladys, Sabina , Ellen Miriam, Annie and Frances
Uncles Jack, William, Thomas, Aston, Ernest, Stanley, Harry and George .
I am surprised some are still in fashion.

Oh no, surely not Gladys!! Ive just about come to terms with Arthur,Archie,Freddie, Stanley, Minnie, Ruby, Rose and Grace. But Gladys is a step too far!

Menopaws

We have youngish Arthur Betty and Fred in one family, just need a Wilma and we've got the flintstones

I like the old fashioned names, but was rather surprised recently to find not one, but two four year old Dorothy's in my grandson's circle. Elsie, Esme, Polly, Martha, Edith, Daisy, Millie, Lillian, Rose and Ruby are all coming back into fashion; names my mother would say were the sort of names housemaids were given.
My son and daughter-in-law have just discovered their baby, due in November, is a girl. My daughter-in-law is a teacher so choosing a name is going to be difficult I think.

Times have certainly changed - I never dreamed that DGS would be mixing with Anouk, Noah, Zachary, Caleb and Matilda ?

My cousin has an Atticus ,always full name, no shortening and now Hermoinie.
He was surprised when I asked him if the parents were Harry Potter fans, he didn't know and hadn't made the connection

I've just been talking to a friend whose friend has just had a son. They are deliberating between Bertram - Bertie and Atticus - Atti ?
I love the name Seoras, as in 'sure as' which is Gaelic for George. DD decided against it as she felt she, and he, would be forever explaining how to pronounce and spell it!

I felt like I was teaching my aunts and uncles

My granddaughter (nearly 6) has friends called Albert, Edith, Stanley, Anne, Ivy and Margaret. It is rather nice to see Margaret come back into fashion. There were many Margarets when I was a child, along with Jean and Joan, which do not seem to have come back.

I like names to be fairly traditional, but as unusual
as possible within that limitation. I’m not keen on names like Savannah.

My grandson ( 6) plays rugby - his team has a Gilbert, Digby, Alfred , Arthur and George. I always think it sounds like a team of grandfathers !

I always smile when my DGC talk about their friend Albert.
I can't help saying"the lion ate Albert" but they haven't a clue about what I mean.

A class of 5 year olds I taught recently included Gladys, Wilfred and Ernie. I felt like I was teaching my aunts and uncles?

And Aiobheann? (Ave een)
I thought Catriona wasn't difficult (cat ree na) so why is it so often pronounced cat rone a?
And if it sounds like Kayleigh why spell it Callie?

It's pronounced Queeva (Kweevah) annsixty
It's an Irish name

DD has spent her whole life with people not being able to pronounce her name - or in some cases tell what sex she was When she collected her PhD I did notice that the gentleman announcing the names not only pronounced hers correctly, but was able to read out the title of her thesis correctly (which was more than I could do!)

How do you pronounce that last one Jalima?

It is only people who see the written name who will get it wrong. Anyone she is introduced to or are told her name will know how to pronounce it.
I think it is a pretty name.

Spell it Layna, or Laina; it is no good expecting people to be familiar with foreign pronunciations.
Why not? We are more globalised nowadays!

^ I like the fact that Zara and her brother have chosen pretty modern names for their children rather than the traditional ones favoured by some of the other Royals :Savannah, Isla and Mia.^
They like to be different at Gatcombe

Zara is rather an unconventional name and perhaps the first one in the Royal Family?

I'm not very keen, but this is not my DGC!
I prefer Helena

but then she could get called 'Hels'

What about Siobhan, Niamh, Padraig,
or Caoimhe?

What about Siobhan, Niamh, Padraig, ecetcetc?

Elena/Helena- same difference!