Old lady names are fashionable again

I'd like to see 'Joan' make a comeback, but Mommie Dearest ruined that name forever.

Wtf is this thread? A Mumfrau Central outpost?

Get back to us when Mabel makes it into the top 10.

I find the seventh one hard to believe. Has anyone met an Evelyn under 95?

What about Millicent?

Rooting for Mildred.

I, actually, like all of those names.

Yes. They are nice, but you wouldn’t have seen them frequently in newborns in the last 80 years.

R4 My cousin Evelyn is in her early 30s

I'm hoping "The Gilded Age" makes some of these great old names popular again: Agnes, Ada, Bertha, Gladys, Marion, Peggy...

I would also love to see a return of the Greek nymph names that were so popular in the 1920s and 30s: Doris, Phyllis, Mavis, Cloris.

Veda

all nice sounding names. Bertha is harsh sounding and cannot be salvaged

I suspect the name Mia will begin losing its appeal thanks to that HBO documentary mini series.

R4 yes. but they don't go by the entire name Evelyn -- they call themselves Evie, and there are lots of them at my niece's school.

I like the name Elena. My friend has an old lady first name and then tells me her middle name is Elena. So pretty!

Names like Viola are pretty.

Names like Ethel, Gertrude, Gladys, Agnes, Margaret, and Ruth are not.

Assy

Muhammud and Fatima are are fashionable in London, England.

Elena is the best.

I like Ava the best.

Why did the names Lana and Hedy never catch on? And Ava only recently has become popular. Rita was fairly common in the late 40s/early 50s. As was Audrey. And god knows there were tons of Kims.

Mabel actually is making a big comeback, at least for little dogs.

I don't think we'll ever again see a lot of baby Joans, Bettys (or Bettes), Carols, or Barbaras. I have heard of a few new Graces.

Florence is popular in the UK.

I have NOTHING to do with children!

I hope this leads to a rise in vintage baby fashion. Dressing up little kids is adorable.

[quote] I suspect the name Mia will begin losing its appeal thanks to that HBO documentary mini series.

MIA IS BITCH.

[quote] vintage baby fashion. Dressing up little kids is adorable

I love dress-ups.

OP doesn’t know people with kids in the last 25 years.

Next 60’s cheerleader names will come back: Stacy, Kelly, Kim, Lisa , Cindy, Donna.

And Tiffany.

Also those 60s girl next door names - and peak boomer girls names like Linda, Susan, Cathy, Brenda and Patty are all grandma names now. It’ll be another generation before they get revisited.

Jennifer, Nicole, Ashley and Amanda are the new “mom” names and will probably never be popular baby names again in my lifetime. I suspect Tiffany will be the 1980s version of Bertha and never come back.

What about Britney? And Jada?

I want to hang with a Blanche and a Myrtle

Elena!!! Right? Gorgeous!! Herr first name is something that an old lady from the 40's would be named.

Its such a pretty name. She is around 44 I think!

Gladys

Artsy former coworker named her two daughters (born in the last five years) Hazel and Evelyn.

Had one niece name her kid Stella . Had another one name her kid Violet. I don’t care what they name them

I know a Mavis who is about 30 years old. I think it's a cool name.

Florence is a popular name now

Olivia has been the new Jennifer for almost 20 years. I know so many Olivias and they're all bitches. Come to think of it? so were all the Jennifers

The OP asked for names which have become fashionable. Citing your solitary niece's name doesn't make a fashion.

Anyway, I bet this thread is strictly for frauen.

I hope Betty Lou makes a comeback!

Ruth is a sturdy biblical name, seems too mature for a child?

Is Kaitlyn (in all its orthographic iterations) finally played out?

[quote] I suspect the name Mia will begin losing its appeal thanks to that HBO documentary mini series.

Enough with the name Mia, already. How many girls can be named Mia?

Genevieve

My mother is a Ruth who was born in the fifties, and she says her named was old fashioned even back then. That being said, I think it’s a beautiful and “Ruthie” or “Rue” (capitalizing on the millennial love of all things Golden Girls) could be youthful nicknames.

My niece Evelyn is six.

My daughters called Eva, her best friend is called Mabel (both are seven)

"... baby Joans, Bettys (or Bettes), Carols, or Barbaras. I have heard of a few new Graces."

Because everyone knows one in their 90s and they're old bitches. But give it time; everything goes around comes around

Zelda, Minnie, Ida, Sylvia, Frieda, Bernice, Edna, Esther, Bessie.

Eunice, Beulah, Hattie, Opal, Henrietta, Thelma, Clara, Matilda, Winifred

Eunice, Beulah, Winifred, harsh sounding. All the other names are cute.

I have tons of students will all those names except 6, 9, and 10.

So many of my aunts had old-lady names: Edith, Erma, Elaine, Lucille, Lydia, Celeste, Edna, Corinne, Ethel. They're all dead now, though (born 1900-30).

"Florence' and "Hedwig" will be my tipping points.

Then it will be numerics or a return to Jennifer.

I think Caitlyn Jenner ruined the name Caitlyn.

Fiona

What about boys' names? What are some old-fashioned male names? Bartholomew? Bertram? Hugo?

Ghislaine.

top 20 male names for 2021

Liam

Noah

Oliver

Elijah

William

James

Benjamin

Lucas

Henry

Alexander

Mason

Michael

Ethan

Daniel

Jacob

Logan

Jackson

Levi

Sebastian

Mateo

I've always liked Gillian. Can't understand why it's never been popular.

Gwendolene!!

I have all those boy names except Benjamin and Mateo. Lots of Jackson, Ethan, Noah and Logan.

Obedience is an old girls name that is never making a comeback!

William and Henry are the only acceptable names from the boys’ list.

Roger

[quote] "I'd like to see 'Joan' make a comeback, but Mommie Dearest ruined that name forever."

Jokes aside, I've always loved the name "Joan".

[quote] "Get back to us when Mabel makes it into the top 10."

Or "Bertha", "Ethel", or "Eunice".

Clitola is a sweet old name

I had a great aunt named Cunnilinga, the name died wit her I fear

Hyacinth, Daisy, Rose, and Violet!

My mother is 78 and her best friends names when she was young were Betty, Arlene, and Adeline. I bet none of those will make a comeback.

My grandmother's name as Gladys. She hated it

Robert is no longer nicknamed Bob. It's always Rob, though occasionally Bobby or Robbie.

William is no longer nicknamed Bill. It's always Will, though occasionally Billy. Never Willy.

Richard is no longer nicknamed Dick. It's always Rich, and occasionally Richie.

I know more than one David who prefers to be called Dave.

lol

[quote] They are nice, but you wouldn’t have seen them frequently in newborns in the last 80 years.

Which is why they've come back into vogue, because few people want to name a baby any of the popular names from the 60s and 70s (Michelle, Lori), 80's (Kayla, April, Tiffany) or any of the overused names of more recent times. Those names now seem fresh.

Myrtle

Lavinia

Charmaine

Vivian

Shirley

Ernestine

Geraldine

Trixie

R74 I CACKLED at that one

R75. But nothing similar applies to boys’ names. Really none of the top ten boys’ names would have been typical 80 or 100 years ago.

R58. In America at least, those wouldn’t be the equivalent old man names. Harold, Walter, Clyde, and Charles would be more typical.

I could see Patience making a comeback, but not Prudence.

Nix on the Dorcas.

I had aunts named Velma,Edith,Agnes, and Myrtle. I always picture these names with Gibson Girl girl hair and high lace collars.

Meant to include (not that anyone cares):

James is no longer nicknamed Jim or Jimmy though occasionally Jamie. But all of the Jameses I know want to be called James.

Nicknames seem less popular in general.

I had a great aunt named Dorothy, but she went by “Dot”. You sure as hell don’t hear that name anymore.

I’m curious if old lady names are generally the same in the UK as in the US.

R85: I've worked with 2 Dorothies, including one Dottie (she was the one who was kindof old). My cousin whom we're not supposed to know is a lesbian was in a long relationship with a Dottie. That Dottie has long been thought to be bi but it was surprising when she actually married a man.

Agnes probably will never stage a comeback. My mother, an Agnes herself, hated the name.

Agnes peaked and can never be any better than this.

Henrietta. Ugly name, made even worse by The New Zoo Review.

My grandma and her sister born in the 1920s were Phoebe and Hazel, names which are popular again 100 years later.

I hate to ask but has the name Donald made a comeback in some of the shittier locations in the USA? God, I hope not. Reagan was a saint to a lot of people not that long ago, but I don’t think there was a boom in baby boys with the old-fashioned name Ronald.

My mother’s name is Thelma, when that’s popular I’ll believe this trend.

My cousin named her daughter Hattie.

Not Henrietta— Hattie.

I am not a fan of nicknames as proper names.

About the years ago, I had a freshman named Bertha. Pretty young black woman. Maybe it was a family name, but what a pity.

Old lady names are classy. I can't stand when girls have boys names or derivatives of boys names. If I had a daughter (yeah right lol) I would give her a traditional old lady name!

My friends named their baby Maude eleven years ago. About five years ago, I met a baby named Agnes.

R95 Those are old hag names!

Eunice? That's a person named Eunice?

Felix? That really your name? Felix?

Hattie is a cute name

I don't understand the urge to name your kid exactly what everybody else is naming their kid.

R92, but they're sooooo cutesy! Particularly when you can insult an old lady by using her nickname for naming your second meal ticket.

Yeah when old lady names come to mind I think Gertrude, not olivia or emma.

No one is naming their kid what they THINK anyone else is naming their kid, r99. That's what always fascinates me: the popularity of names sneaking up on people when they've already decided on a name.

I had a college acquaintance named Laura (late 80s) who told me that her parents gave her that name thinking it would be uncommon. I thought up names for my kids long before I had any, and no one I knew -- of any age -- had those names. By the time I actually had a kid, all the names I had picked were common as dirt, and I had to go back and re-think everything (it didn't help much, as my daughter's name is shared by at least four girls she knows).

That said, Emma is a name that will always sound stuffy and old-fashioned to me, no matter how many toddlers are running around with that name. Same with Maisie, Gladys, Myrtle, Elsa etc.

Or for boys: Harold, Walter, Herman, Oswald...

Walter, Herman(n), Oswald are German boys names who are rarely used even in German-speaking countries today.

Oswald in particular sounds pretty daft to a German-speaking person.

Tell me when Gertrude comes back and then I'll know you're serious.

This list ain't shit without the addition of "Clara" and "Pearl"

What about Louise?

Of course none of you miserable fuckwits would think to mention MY name.

What about "Cora?"

A neighbor named a daughter Cora. I asked if it was a family name. "No, I've just always liked that name."

I thought "Ohhhhh, OK ...."

Muriel is pretty cool. (Nooooo, I'm not trying to suck up, so stfu, bitches.) From Wikipedia:

[quote] The name is of Goidelic origin and was originally spelled as Muirgheal (muir "sea", gheal "bright") in Irish and Muireall in Scottish Gaelic. Various versions have long been evident in Breton, Irish, and Scottish Gaelic languages.

Anybody in here with an Wikipedia contributor account? Please add our dearest DL Muriel to the "List of fictional characters with the given name" section.

Fictional, that bitch will cut you in the real world.

R4, I know a 7 year old Evelyn.

My 8-year old niece has two acquaintances named “Eleanor”.

To me, the most old lady names are Nancy and Barbara.

My niece’s middle name is Louise.

Hopefully Donald, the name and the person, will never make a comeback.

R115, ahem ...

Oh, you're right. It's the 610th most popular boys' name in the US. lol

Many of these names are coming back into vogue because kids are being named after grandparents who recently died.

So Sophia likely had a grandmother or great-grandmother named Sophia or Sophie or even a great-aunt, and that is who she is named after.

Interesting too--as has been noted on here before--that names often make their way down the social class chain--names that are popular with the upper middle classes in 2022 will have mass popularity by 2030

I have a great-niece named Vivian. Never thought that name would re-appear.

Myrtle, Gertrude, Mildred, Bertha sound harsh to me. I don’t believe they will ever be popular again.

I’ve always thought Leanore or Leorna would be a pretty name for a girl but turns out they aren’t actually names.

Here's a reason why Bertha will very likely not have a comeback:

I know a baby Dashiell I’d slap the shit out of if he weren’t a baby.

How about Judy...that one doesn't seem too bad.

No Enid?

Lucille?

I like the basic names coming back. I'm sick of the cutesy, trying to be cool and unique names. They seem juvenile...and are more ridiculous when the kid becomes an adult.

I have a friend named Enola, not after the (Gay) airplane, but the Italian seaside village. When I first met her I knew the name mainly from a local town that was a palindrome for Alone, which the town was supposed to be opposite of, a welcoming community. Regardless, I don’t see it ever becoming a popular name.

My Spanish teacher in 8th grade her name was Victoria- THAT is an old fashioned name.

I've always loved the names Helen, Helena and Elena. These names seem to be more common among my East European friends than in Western Europe.

The Biblical names like Sarah, Ruth or Miriam leave me cold. They conjure up unpleasant images.

I also like Joanne/Joanna, Florentyna, Sabina and Bernadette.

Old lady names have been back for 30 years. As have old man names.

These old names have been around for centuries, even thousands of years.....for good reason.

Those names ARE NOT old lady names. Here are some REAL old lady names"

Bernice, Agnes, Elsie, Agatha, Edith, Muriel, Greta, Harriet <-----Terse, Stoic, God fearing, Morally Strict 😖🤢🤮

Helen is a polack name.

In my grandmother's generation everyone was named Helen or Margaret, with the occasional Mary, Olga, and Ann thrown in. They were mainly Hungarian.

Both my paternal aunt and maternal grandmother were Helens. Both born in the 20s and Germans.

I like Katniss, Lark and Arya. Jaylan and Karter are good, too.

A lot of this is due to America's ever-increasing Hispanic population.

(Don't mean no shade to Mexicans. It's just that they're into all these Catholic-esque names.)

Erna

Isabella, Ava, Olivia, Emily/Emma, Sophia, and Charlotte are anything but old lady names. They've been the go-to wannabee Euro-aristo set names for 20 years.

They replaced with faux Greenwich/Buckingamshire "classic" the frilly Melissas Marissas Jennifers Tiffanys. Caitlyn in all the absurd spellings dreamt of, seems to have survived that era.

Its really a Jane Austen craze, not an old lady craze. Interestingly, Elizabeth and Victoria and Katherine and Anne, the four-legged stool of classic girls' names linked inextricably with royalty, seem to be absent. Along with Jane, itself.

The real old lady names, like Dorothy, Dora, Edith, Sylvia, Edna, Agatha, Gladys, Mary, Sarah, Delores, are pre-WWII. They're the great-grandmother names. Only Sarah seemed to carry over on both sides of the Pond. In Britain, the case is slightly different for names like Mary and Sylvia, the latter still carrying an aura of horsey bawdy aristas.

Now, the grandmother names, and presumably grandmothers are old ladies, are the types that became popular in 1950s, Mary Debbie Linda Janet Susan Patricia Kathleen, and, of course, the now dreaded Karen, another victim of the latest casual brand of acceptable misogyny with a "redeeming" veneer of class contempt. Elizabeth did well in that era, too, as it leant itself to "cute" nicknames like the very popular Beth.

Flower names were almost all on the UK side of the Pond until about ten years ago, when Violet started making its appearance in Ametica. I'm waiting for Marigold, the name of the little daughter Churchill lost at three, to dawn.

If it sounds classic, English, aristocratic, horsey, these days it will fly.

But most of us will be dead before those bland, boring, 1950s Sandra Dee names return.

I grew up with a bunch of Marys. Now I just know you ladies.

Susans seemed everywhere in the late 60s, where did they all go?

R12 All names cycle around again. It will be back in ten years. If Agatha and Gertrude have returned, Bertha cannot be far behind.

I once met a lovely girl from Ivory Coast named “Berthe”. Pronounced “Bairt”.

I think it’s a nicer version of “Bertha” (pronounced that way it sounds like an insult).

R83, cuz you’re GAY

Beatrice is such a nicer name when said in the Italian.

Abigail is a nice name...Abby, for short.

I wonder if Uta will ever take off

I was about to post that after 140 posts NO ONE has mentioned Mary but then r140 did. That was probably the most popular girl's name for centuries until the 1960s or so. Also hugely popular in the past: Mary Ann and Marianne, all but gone now for baby girls

I've also noticed that most every Elizabeth, a centuries old name, was usually nicknamed Betty, Betsy, Beth or Liz. But somewhere, maybe in the 1980s, parents didn't encourage any nickname and simply called their daughter Elizabeth.

Is Rose making a comeback? Or Rosemary, Roseanne, Rosalie?

I know 3 Evelyns, a few Olivias, and 2 Adelines. All under 3 years old. I don’t think most of these names went out of fashion, they’re just not as common as Leah and Liam.

My name's super fashionable, bitches - they even wrote an entire saga about me and my antics.

[quote] Ez wuohs in Burgonden ein vil edel magedîn, daz in allen landen niht schoeners mohte sîn, Kriemhild geheizen. si wart ein schoene wîp. dar umbe muosen degene vil verliesen den lîp.

There grew up in Burgundy a most noble maiden. No one in all the lands could be fairer. She was called Kriemhild—she grew to be a beautiful woman. For her sake many knights were to lose their lives.

I consider "old lady names" to be names of my grandmothers' generation (they were born in 1915 and 1919).

So names like Helen, Mildred, Frances, Dorothy, Evelyn, Virginia, Florence, Ethel, etc.

I don't see many of those names making a comeback.

r150 are you a Medievalist?

Posts are inevitably becoming very repetitive now.

To me these names are more classic than old lady.

The former ebb and flow, but continue through the centuries, never incredibly trendy but also not shunned..

The latter are very trendy for a generation, and when that generation becomes old, the names themselves are irrevocably linked to being old, and fall out of use.

Think Dorothy, Shirley, Irene, Dick, and Harry. Those are old people names that at one time were a hot trend. But you don't see those names in say, classic literature and nobody names their babies those names now.

Did people start naming their daughters Madonna when she became big? And if not, why didn’t they?

I had a neighbor named Etta when growing up. I don't know of any other Ettas....other than Etta James. Unsual name.

R152, no, but I'm from a German-speaking country and the story about Kriemhild, Siegfried et al is pretty much known here since it's often read in German classes. I also had to read bits of it in Old German back at school which was quite fun.

r158 Liep âne leit mac niht sîn (Love without sorrow cannot be)

Brunhilde doesn't seem poised for a comeback, nor other classics of German literature.

Nicknames are much less common than in the past and it seems as though that crosses social class lines. Those awful dual names common in the south like Mary Sue seem, thankfully gone, along with the ones once popular with Catholics like Mary Pat, or Mary Elizabeth which seemed more awkward than trashy, although they at least often helped you sort through generations of Marys.

Historically important names also seem to have vanished. Hugh has disappeared although it's the name of an important figure in one of the larger Irish clans. Felix has vanished, too. Perhaps that cat cartoon was part of the problem. Ditto Casper.

Under der linden an der heide, dâ unser zweier bette was, dâ muget ir vinden schône beide gebrochen bluomen unde gras. vor dem walde in einem tal, tandaradei, schône sanc diu nahtegal.

(Under the lime tree On the heather, Where we had shared a place of rest, Still you may find there, Lovely together, Flowers crushed and grass down-pressed. Beside the forest in the vale, Tándaradéi, Sweetly sang the nightingale.)

I love my name- it's old fashioned, but doesn't sound it. 99% of the time, I've been the only one that I know of in my generation, (I get oh, my grandmother/aunt has the same name) but now this newest generation has taken to it- it's 22nd on that list now.

Probably a quarter of Jewish guys my age (37) are named Zach, though that names seems to have rapidly fallen out of favor.

Interesting to look at the breakdown by state: California has a somewhat different top 10 than the rest of country. Mateo, Sebastian, Julian and Elijah are in their boys Top 10, Camila and Luna in their girls top 10.

Similarly, Paisley seems to be a uniquely Southern name. It is in the top 20 in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and other Southern states, but does not even make Top 100 in California, Connecticut, New York or New Jersey

Where are the Almas? Did the bitter former Mrs. Mahler leave a bad taste in people mouths and keep them from naming their daughters that name?

Luna? They’re naming children after a ladies energy bar?

Temperance (Tempe) will never be in the top 30 or 40, but it is now not unheard of.

Are all the old German names beyond revival. Kunigunde? Waltraud? Is anything nationalistic unacceptable these days?

r167 I once had a co-worker whose father was named Ethelbert.

I think they were from Appalachia.

[Quote]Luna? They’re naming children after a ladies energy bar?

Luna and Mabel are cute names for dogs. Not so sure about a human. I heard Luna is quite popular in Italy.

When will mid-20th-century names make a comeback? Timmy, Tommy, Debbie, Nancy etc

Vivian, of course.

r161 I love Walther's Alterslied:

Owê, war sint verswunden alliu mîniu jâr! / ist mir mîn leben getroumet, oder ist ez wâr? / daz ich ie wânde, daz iht wære, was daz iht? / dar nâch hân ich geslâfen und enweiz es niht. / nû bin ich erwachet und ist mir unbekant, / daz mir hie vor was kündic als mîn ander hant. / liute unde lant, danne ich von kinde bin gezogen, / die sint mir worden frœmde, reht als ob ez sî gelogen. / die mîne gespilen wâren, die sint træge unt alt. / bereitet ist daz velt, verhouwen ist der walt. / wan daz daz wazzer fliuzet als ez wîlent flôz, / für wâr, ich wânde, mîn ungelücke wurde grôz. / mich grüezet maniger trâge, der mich bekande ê wol, / diu welt ist allenthalben ungenaden vol. / als ich gedenke an manigen wunneclîchen tac, / die mir sint enphallen als in daz mer ein slac: / iemer mêre ouwê!

Where have they gone to, all the years I’ve had? Has life been just a dream, or was it real? What I believed was there, did it exist? Perhaps I was asleep, and couldn’t tell. And now that I’m awake, things known as closely as my own right hand, I do not recognize. The people and the places that as a boy I knew have all grown strange to me, as if they were not true. The children that I played with once are old and slow; the fields are burned, the forests have been felled. Did not the river flow where it has always flowed, the sadness that I feel could not be borne. Many who knew me well now greet me distantly; a lack of understanding plagues the whole, wide world. Often I remember so many joyous days that now have vanished traceless, like ripples on the sea for evermore.

R163: Josh, Seth and Jeremy (not all of them Jewish) also seem to have vanished after a generation of being unavoidable. Still, the Jewish tradition of using honored dead people's names but updating them a bit (Sam or Shlomo becomes Seth) seems preferable to the endless repetition common among Gentiles or the hooker-izing with weird spellings.

R156 Diana didn't catch on either, despite the wild popularity of the princess.

R173 Jason would be in that group.

I'm so glad Jennifer is no longer popular. Growing up in the 80s that name was everywhere and there were probably hundreds of Jennifer's in my high school and later college.

I have a friend who works in an elementary school….Felix and Casper are making a comeback r160.

I named my daughter Jane (and yes we called her "Baby Jane" when she was a baby.) She hated it when she was small, but now in college she loves it.

Jane is a good name.

My friend’s two year old is Elisabeth, but called Elsie. I think the “Elsie” is a mistake, but I’d never say anything.

[quote] I have NOTHING to do with children!

That’s not what the police are saying.

I only have known one old lady with this name and I really like it. Original as all get out:

Clytee.

However, I presume her mother had never heard of Greek mythology.

R164 - I had an aunt from Texas named Almalee.

My niece's middle name is Emiline, no idea where they got that from.

Bruce, Scott, Ian, Glenn, Steven and Stephen, Howard (and ugh, Howie), Jay, Larry, David, Richard, Mark, Matthew, Daniel, Ira, Louis and Lewis, Guy, George and Edward were all the most popular boys' names when I was a child in the 1950s.

I think Scott, Glenn, Stephen, Jay, Matthew and Daniel are very popular names for baby boys.

It’s been like this for years and it’s white and probably Asian doing this.

I have no idea why someone would name their daughters Sophie, the kids are probably in a classroom full of them.

My niece has a very unusual name. Another kid in her grade has a different name, but its nickname is close to my niece’s name. Even though there are 4 classrooms per grade, they seem to put kids with the same (weird) name in the same class. They also did it with two girls named “Avery.” Makes no sense.

My mother’s name was Patricia, she was “Patty” to family. That name has definitely fallen out of favor.

Her father was named Dawn, because he was born in early January, 1900, the dawning of a new century. Poor guy, lol.

I have an acquaintance named “Heather Dawn,” which has to be the most GenX name ever.

It's cyclical, with some sprinkling of new names every few years.

Would you prefer we go back to Tiffany, Dakota, and/or Jaden immediately?

Sophie, blanch, rose, dorothy

Adolfa, Aniceta, Aparecida, Apolonia, Asunción, Bartola, Bernarda, Brígida, Candelaria, Caridad, Casilda, Cayetana, Celedonia, Consolación, Covadonga, Divina, Dorotea, Eleuteria, Emeteria, Encarnación, Epifanía, Eufemia, Eulalia, Eusebia, Eustaquia, Fidela, Fuenciscla, Fulgencia, Genoveva, Gertrudis, Gumersinda, Ildefonsa, Isidora, Jacinta, Jesusa, Leoncia, Milagros, Patrocinio, Perpetua, Petra, Piedad, Presentación, Purificación, Remedios, Robustiana, Romualda, Sagrario, Saturnina, Sebastiana, Simplicia, Sisebuta, Socorro, Sufragio, Teodora, Timotea, Tomasa, Trinidad, Virtudes, Visitación

How is it pronounced, R181?

"Clit-ee"?

R191 made some of these names up.

R187 Yeah there’s no more Patty, Linda, and Debbie’s. They’re all old now.

I was named after my father and it became a girl’s name in the 80’s because of Lindsay Wagner so I was tortured by it as a kid. So brutal I changed it. There’s more old men with that name than old women.

Tracey Ullman's daughter is named Mabel.

Evelyn seems like a popular name with younger latinas too.

Evelina, por favor, r196.

Wolfgang...there you go...

R198, bitch please, you could at least get it right ...

Oh please..^^

My neighbors named their kids Alfons, Rupert and Agathe.

LOVE the name Rupert!

Rupert Graves, Rupert Everett, Rupert Grint, Rupert Penry-Jones

Livia, Sabina, Vespasia, Flavia, Marcella, Claudia, Julia, Calpurnia, Cornelia, Marcia, Octavia, Aurelia, Fulvia, Antonia, Servilia, Pompeia, Poppaea, Pomponia, Valeria, Milonia, Atia, Scribonia, Domitia, Faustina, Aemilia, Caecilia, Paccia, Lucilla, Annia, Pulcheria, Marina

I like Aurelia

R202 Rupert Murdoch

Aninai/Anina, Aprthni, Apunei, Arzna, Arnthia, Avlia, Caia, Culni, Cursi, Cusua, Fasthi, Hasthi, Hercnai, Kanuta, Larthi/Larthia, Lethi/Lethia, Matun, Metli, Racuthu, Ramtha, Ranthu, Ravunthu, Satlnei, Sela, Semni, Sethri/Sethria, Tanchuil, Tanaquil, Tarchia, Teituri, Thesathei, Tiscusnai, Veli/Vela, Velchina, Venela, Vesi, Vipi

Olivia, Emma, Sophia, Isabella have all been popular since 1990s. They are as common as Karen, Barbara, Cathy & Patty were to boomers.

R195 Of course it is.

There was a Mexican girl in my grade school named Blanca. We always made fun of her name, but I don't really know why - it just sounded very funny to us.

Funny enough R173, there is a whole generation of high-school aged Jewish kids named Max, Sam, Jack, Sadie, Sophie and Miriam.

No idea what popular names we're seeing for kids being born in 2022, but in another 10-20 years or so, we're likely to see a whole bunch of Jeffs, Steves, Debbies and Stacis

r192 -- "Kligh-T"

I spend decades of my life teaching you bitches the 1001 uses for household vinegar and not one of you names a child after me? Fuck you -- you'll have to get red wine stains off the carpet on your own!

Martha Stewart supplanted you decades ago, dear.

R209, What's so funny about Blanca? This girl in my school was named Blanca Nieves. Now that's funny.

I'm curious how several of you are so familiar with the names and nicknames of children in your "niece's" school.

I’d definitely name a daughter Veda.

“From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture, and this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls… You think just because you've made a little money, you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't. Because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing. With this money, I can get away from every rotten, stinking thing that makes me think of this place or you!”

Wasn't Veda the name of the little girl in My Girl?

Evelyn is old school but it's a nice sounding name

You’ve clearly never had a sister with a kid, r215. They never shut up about this stuff.

I like Aurelia, too R204

R219, I'm laughing now as I think you and i had this exact exchange here a few years ago.

R160 One of Queen Margrethe's grandson, is named Felix.

But I'm guessing he's an outlier, like Oskar.

R203 Actually, Claudia had a nice run in the 1980s.

And you'll find quite a few Marcelas with one "l" in the Latino community.

My sister and her neighbor both had daughters named Sophia. They became pregnant again around the same time. It turned out both were expecting girls. My sister had chosen the name Ruby. The neighbor was outraged because that's the name she wanted! She told my sister they couldn't possibly have two Sophia's and two Ruby's next door to each other.

Why didn't the name Aphrodite ever take off?

Thalia?

Persephone?

Eurydice?

Juno?

Athena?

Artemis?

Hestia?

I don't even know any girls of Greek origin with those names.

“Aurelia” reminds me of alveola

Evelyn was a man’s name.

I'll take old fashioned names over Jaxon, Jaylen, Caden, all the -leighs and all the other awful names coming out lately. The Facebook group "That name is a tragedeigh" is an indictment of modern parenting.

[quote] Felix has vanished, too.

Felix is making a comeback. A friend of mine just named her baby Felix, certain that he would be unique, but a few other infant or toddler Felixes soon emerged. I work in a university and have encountered a couple of college-aged Felixes, so the trend is well under way.

Aurélia will sadly be teased as areola.

It's a shame about Karen. I've always thought it a pretty name. Maybe because you hear "care" in it? And it looks nice written out.

I know people who named their daughter Josephine ten years ago. I hated it then but now it makes sense.

How so, R232?

I think it started when the “Mad About You” couple named their baby Mabel.

Or when I named my daughter Annie Maude.

I have a friend from Argentina, where it seems that every other girl is named "María Something." María Elena, María Ana, etc. She does not have a second name, so we call her "María Nada."

My daughter's name is Sophia. My in-laws are not native speakers of English, and I have a ton of friends who speak little English; "Sophia" is pronounceable in most languages.

On a recent visit to Greece, I met several Aphrodites. R225. But no Hestias.

What about Jean? Jeanne? Gene?

Will it make a comeback in any form??

Marie-Agnès

Marie-Claire

Marie-Claude

Marie-Georges

Marie-France

Marie-Françoise

Marie-Louise

Marie-Madeleine

Marie-Odile

Marie-Sophie

Marie-Thérèse

Oui!

Marie Claire has lived on as a magazine, n’est-ce pas?

I forgot the very popular Nancy that was so favoured in the 1940s-1950s. The Nancy Drew mystery series for girls probably helped. Ditto the Sue Barton nurse series for Susan.

To the poster who mentioned the varied Rose-combo names, those have held up here in Britain, especially Rosemary (cf. Model Rosemary Huntington Whitely) and Rose on it's own (cf. Rose Astor).

Diana is also far more popular in the UK. It is one of those names, like Kate/Katherine/Catherine, and Elizabeth, that don't dominate lists but endure here.

Classy but understated, feminine but not frilly, traditional but not fusty, in Britain, at least, these three never really go out of fsvour.

That goes for Charlotte, too.

Kate's sister's full name is Phillipa Charlotte.

And Diana's two sisters are Jane and Sarah.

^R139

Felix seems to be a common name for dogs, especially Boxers and Frenchies.

I like the sibilant names: Serena, Sabine, Sabrina, Lucien. And for some reason, Nicholas, Alexander, Tristan.

Let's make a push for classy names like Sophonisba, Semiramis, Clorinda, Artemisia, and Thaïs.

Rupert Sheldrake.

R225, Juno isn't Greek but Roman -- perhaps even not Roman in its true origin, but Etruscan.

There was an Etruscan goddess called Uni. Note the similarity in sound (Juno -- Uni; Etruscan didn't have the vowel o, btw).

Juno is a great name for a large female dog.

Like Elizabeth, girls with the names Katherine/Catherine or Kathleen/Cathleen rarely seem to be called Kathy or Cathy any more. The preference is for the full name, not the nickname.

How 'bout these from Latin?

Urethra and Chlamydia

There was a time when Catholics gave their boys terrifying names like “Sixtus” and “Severin”.

Berenice, Dorcas, Ermengarde, Zenobia, Zuleika, Atossa.

I'm shocked that HERMIONE hasn't made a comeback and no one here has mentioned it yet!

Viola, Rosalind, Ariel, Bianca, Desdemona, Cressida, Celia, Cordelia, Portia, Perdita, Titania, Imogen, Hippolyta, Miranda, Ophelia, Hermione, Goneril, Beatrice, Hermia, Hero, Paulina, Reagan, Juliet, Emilia, Adriana, the Dark Lady

R254 The Fortune Queen of New Orleans?

My mom's name was Clara so I'm glad to see it making a comeback.

The last time I saw a woman named Fern was at a diner.

R256 Mine never got come on her back!

What about TAMMY, hugely popular back in the 1950s?

Also, WENDY and HEIDI??

I just met a girl named Blue Jean.

Wendy isn’t that old, J.M. Barrie basically invented it as a girl’s name for Peter Pan.

R259 My mother was almost named Gwendolyn by her drunken mother. She probably would've gone by Wendy or Lynn.

Luckily, her sober father changed the form and named her instead after his first wife, Susan.

What about GWYNETH? And BLYTHE?

"That Gwyneth Paltrow is a fuckin' cunt! I know her mother, who's a dear friend, but the daughter is a stuck-up, arrogant little TWAT!"

When Adele and Estelle were on the charts back in 2008 or so I thought it marked the return of the old lady names.

R254 Dear Bill, do not despair:

Cressida Bonas

Princess Beatrice

Miranda Richardson

Cordelia Flyte

Portia Mason

Cordelia, yes! But r266, why didn't Goneril ever take off? I have met a Regan or 2 born in the 1960s though.

Because it sounds like gonorrhea. Regan was popular in the 80s.

Estella, Pip

Little Dorrit?

Stella Stevens? Was she the one who showed vadge in "The Poseidon Adventure?"

I'm elated R266. I might add Imogen Stubbs and Imogen Poots. I am waiting for a Desdemona.

With good cheer,

Will S.

My mum's name is Ingrid, what about that one? Used in the US or pretty much unknown?

Back where I live, that name used to be the hot shit in the late 50s and throughout the 60s. It's still regarded as a typically royal name in Norway (the future Queen of Norway's name is Ingrid Alexandra).

R273 It's not unheard of in America, but still old-timey and rare.

What old African names are fashionable again?

Helen is just as old as these once again popular names but it's nowhere these days.

Helen might return when Eleanor/Ellie has worn out it's welcome.

I can’t wait for someone to name their kid Maude!

Names that never go out of style:

Catherine/Katherine

Elizabeth

Sarah

Rachel

Julia

Caroline

Rebecca

Laura

Anna

Sarah is such a boring name.

Maude has been a popular girls' name for at least 10 years. I don't care for it but there it is.....

Sarah is boring but it's been consistently used since Biblical times.

[quote]Maude has been a popular girls' name for at least 10 years. I don't care for it but there it is.....

Huh? I have yet to meet someone with a kid named Maude. In fact, I don’t know anyone named Maude.

My friends have a cat named Maude.

She’s kinda bitchy.

Penelope is back but not Penny.

Majora

[quote] Eastern Star meeting

OP, I love you for this.

As a DeMolay I went to events where an Eastern Star or two would show up, and I swear every one of those old bitches were named Opal, Erma, or Myrtle.

3 friends have had girl babies in the past 18 months. The first names: Doris, Ada, Norah. All families are English or Anglo-Canadian.

Kitty

Gnathaena.

Aquanetta

Persephone

Billie

R287. Growing up I was always interested to read the obituary of the oldest people in the local paper. They were invariably woman and three quarters were members of the order of the Eastern Star. That was in the 80s and before the internet. It seemed so mysterious, exotic and cult-like. I don’t think I’ve seen an obituary of a member since the 80s

R281 Lord Frederick Windsor and his actress wife Sophie Winkelman named their baby daughter Maud. It has history in the royal family.

Alexis and Alexia enjoyed some traction in the 1980a-1990s.

I notice Alexandra doesn't stick around as one might have thought.

We left out of the frilly trend the dreaded Arianna and Allegra.

I'm waiting for Francesca to pop up.

And pushing for Anastasia to make an appearance. It's a gorgeous name.

Etheline, Madeline

Speranza, Radegund, Lidwina.

I know two Holly-Anns that were born around 1990.

Madeline has been popular again for 25+ years

Klothilde

Sarah is a boring name, but I like the nickname Sally.

I know a couple who named their daughter Sally because of the lyrics of Oasis' "Don't Look Back In Anger" ("And sooooooo Sally can wait, she knows it's too late ...")

No prizes for guessing what their baby son's name is.

Cunt

[quote] I'll take old fashioned names over Jaxon, Jaylen, Caden, all the -leighs and all the other awful names coming out lately. The Facebook group "That name is a tragedeigh" is an indictment of modern parenting.

HISSS!!!!

HISSSSS!!!!!

Those names are the the sole property of white trash. They are every bit a class marker as a giant tattoo on the collarbone or one of those Macklemore/Peaky Blinders haircut.

The white equivalent of Sh'Aquanita

R303, no.

Let me know when Edna cracks the Top 20.

I know two women named Wendy, both born in the 60s. You don't hear that name very often.

I knew a total drip named Wendy. It seems like a dumb perdón name to me. Sorry Wendy Williams!

I knew a girl named Wendy once.

And then she died.

Who wants to be named after a fast food joint? Not many Arby’s out there either.

Today it would be spelled Wyndeigh

As I said upthread, WENDY, HEIDI and TAMMY were all big names in the 1950s (the references are obvious) but went out of favor quickly. HAYLEY in the 1960s.

But nobody named their daughter ANNETTE.

Margaret is like Elizabeth and Katherine, no longer referred to by its many nicknames: Marge, Margie, Maggie, Meg. Peg, Peggy

Well, maybe the occasional Meg, though I don't think Margaret and/or Meg are popular current baby names.

Is "Mary" becoming less than common or is it just me?

I dunno.

I met a "Maybelle" a while back. Lovely young adult lady. The spelling of her name is precious to me.

When I was a child in the 1950s there were several classmates with the names Melanie, Melody and even a Merrily. Also a a lot of Joyce and Joy. And Robin and Robyn.

But the most popular names of that era were definitely Barbara (Barb), Deborah (Deb or Debbie), Sandra (Sandy), Susan (Sue) and Linda (and lots of Lynnes).

My brother-in-law’s best friend in elementary school was named Alpacino Gray. He was always in trouble apparently

Candida

Ima. As in Ima Hogg. And the three sisters of National Enquirer fame, Ima, Beena and Ura. The Hogg sisters.

Deirdre was another popular ugly name for 1950s babies. I guess the nickname Didi or Deedee was tolerable.

And Gail and Gale and Dale were very popular then, too, none of which are likely to ever make a comeback.

Oh, and a lot of Janet and Janis and Janice and a few Jeanettes left over from the previous decade.

And Lois! How could I forget Lois?!

JOSEPHINE has recently made a comeback because of Jo in Little Women.

Maezelle, Ruth and Loralee. My childhood babysitters.

Can you imagine anyone now naming their baby boy ROGER, RONALD, GERALD, ARTHUR, MELVIN, MARVIN, SEYMOUR, LEONARD, FRED, LOUIS, GARY, RANDOLPH or even RANDY though they were once very popular common names?

Constance

Gretchen

Arthur and Louis are back.

I went to high school with a devout Jehovah’s Witness named….drum roll….Shermonica…..and her brother was named Sherman.

This really kind of sucks. My nephew, who is gay and is really a great guy recently met another young man at a college party. Nephew thought the guy was handsome, interesting and seemed like a genuinely decent person. But the guy's name was Mildred. My poor nephew couldn't get over that. People need to think twice before they give their children old-lady names.

R314 Is her last name Maybelline, maybe?

R322 Not Arthur and Louis. Both are hugely popular in Britain amongst the upper classes, aristocracy, and royalty.

Minnehaha.

Lady Sarah Chatto's gorgeous hunk of a son is named Arthur. Earl Spencer's only son and heir is named Louis. Pippa Middleton named her son Arthur. William's heir is named George Alexander Louis. Charles is named Charles Philip Arthur George. William's full name is William Arthur Philip Louis.

Dowdy Margaret may sound, but her son named his daughter Margarita in her honour.

Somehow, Margarita Lynley doesn't sound dowdy.

Alice is also popular in the upper classes in Britain and has history in the royal family. But not I think in America.

Arthur and Louis may be very popular among the English royals but not here in America.

Maise

My mom’s name was Viola. I have always thought it was a nice name, but I don’t see it becoming hugely popular.

Male names from my Ancestry family tree. Mostly Pennsylvania German Baptist names.

Penrose Valentine Levi Royal Christian Horatio Israel Kossuth Absolom Kent Ira Ezra Tobias Abel Oliver Romanus Wilbur Archibald Salome

Arthur has definitely made its way up the charts in the past five years.

^in the US

Leona

[quote] My cousin named her daughter Hattie. Not Henrietta— Hattie. I am not a fan of nicknames as proper names.

That’s what Peter Krause named his daughter.

Hilary

My cousin named her baby Romy and a colleague just named her baby Haley. Haley seems to be quite popular, but I haven't seen it on any lists.

A relative named her kid Shelby and I don't like this name at all. Is it old fashioned? Shelby is such an ugly name for a young girl and I've no idea how they came up with that name.

Shelby became popular in the 90s because of Steel Magnolias.

Are the traditionally male names (in Britain) like Ashley, Evelyn and Lindsay almost exclusively women's names in America?

R329, his name is Louis ARTHUR Charles.

[quote] My cousin named her baby Romy

Is your cousin Boris Johnson, R341?

If so, please tell him to fuck off.

Muriel's an oldie but a goodie. Remind's me of Courage the Cowardly Dog.

[Quote]Is your cousin Boris Johnson, [R341]?

BoJo named his kid Romy? Hard to keep track with him. Doesn't he have like 10 kids from 5 different women?

R347, I think it's seven (or eight?). Possible abortions not included,obviously.

R343. In my experience, yes.

Enid

Seems to be more Lewis (ses?- how do you pluralize that?) than Louis here in Amercia.

Louis and Lewis are difficult names because their diminutives Louie and Lewie are rather distasteful.

R332 - Yes, I know. I made that clear in the earlier post on these two names. I simply added examples in the second one.

My grandmother was named Modean.

Don’t see that coming back!

Mona

A friend named their baby Cora Jane. I think it is pretty.

I love the name Jane, but I guess it’s still too “plain” for parents now—unless they make it a double name like r356’s friend. I know young girls named Eliza Jane and Sarah Jane. I’m not a big fan of double names.

I knew a kid named Mary Claire and I still like that. Claire is a popular name now.

OP is so out of touch. These names have been popular since the 90s. It’s nothing new. That’s why you have so many Millennials with those names. Reese named her daughter Ava, Lori named her daughter Olivia, Julia named her niece Emma, Rachel named her daughter Emma.

Yes. But it is only now that the majority of the names in the list are old fashioned

When has Ava ever been considered an old lady's name??

Well in 1990 for example it was even in the top 200. Pretty out of fashion.

The name Ava, like Lana, may have been out of fashion for decades but never because it was associated with old ladies like Edna, Hortense and Bertha.

The name was popularized in the United States by socialite Ava Lowle Willing (1868–1958), who married John Jacob Astor IV, and their daughter, socialite and heiress Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902–1956).

Ava Gardner (1922–1990) signed a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and gained Hollywood stardom with her performance in The Killers (1946). She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses during the 1950s to 1970s and is the ultimate reason for the given name's continued popularity.[2]

The name Ida makes me think of a Midwestern farmer's wife who's big and sturdy.

Aaron Rodgers is an old lady. Let's hope that name stays unpopular.

Pussy-wig

Another trend that thankfully has gone is the unisex/surname trend: Ashley, Brooke, Spencer, Harper, Riley, Madison . . .

^*I left put of the group above the name Morgan.

As it happens, it's the only such name I'm fond of and would have used for a son if I'd has one.

Not least in homage to the antihero of the 1960s film, which I adored.

Ava Lavinia

Brett, Brooke, Paris

Equally good for men and women.

Now that formerly men's names like Ashley, Alexis, and Ariel have been mostly appropriated for girls, how long will it be before other men's names—Elmer, Horace, Ebeneezer—go the same way?

Any theories on the fascination DLers, the vast majority of whom are childless, have with names?

Half the posts in this poll are either "when I was in elementary school in 1955, there were a lot of boys named Robert and girls named Susan" or "My niece's daughter just named her baby Hazel"

What gives?

Names are a reliable class marker, and DLers are obsessed with social class.

Seems like whenever I read a British novel by a British writer which has an older American male character, he is named Cyrus. I’ve never met anyone with that name.

r375 it's crazy. They have some weird fantasy version of what "upper class" is.

Estee

Avon

Merle Norman

Waltraude, Euphemia, Ildico.

R374, people here are fascinated with history and weird names, that is all.

But these threads deal with neither history nor weird names R382

I just find it fascinating following the trends of popular names. And I'm still surprised that names like Cary, Lana, Marlon and Ava...and Clark (to a lesser extent) never had much impact on baby names when those stars were at their height. They're all beautiful names, IMHO. Did parents think their kids might have trouble living up to those names?

This is Old Lady Names, not Odd Lady Names.

Cover Girl

There are names that probably have vanished because they were awkward without their diminutives: Frederick used to be Freddie and in a later generation was Rick. Now it seems no more. Frederick sounds like someone's great grandfather. Margaret is much the same--a matronly name that was formerly softened by as Peggy and even Margie (with soft or hard g). Less arch names like Deborah or Elizabeth have gone the same way.

Many serviceable names came and went: Eric is much less common than during the Boomer and GenX years. Mary, Janet, Paul, Scott. and Kevin.

A few names with diminutives have stuck around: Peter, Timothy, Thomas and Steven, but less common than in the past.

Bruce probably died out because of it's gay connotation and I'll bet Chad vanished for the same reason.

And yet here you are, R377.

Why don't you go cunt off back to DCUM?

They get VERY VERY triggered when you call them out on it too R377

Scatman Crothers

Aunt Jamima (renamed Pearl Milling Company)

Ethel

Bertha

Ailsa

Eileen

Doreen

Gertrude

Hortense

My Zoomer Male cousins recently both got girlfriends (whom I have not met), I’m told named Cath & Maureen. These girls are at the most age 25, probably younger tbh. To me, the names they have connote an elderly woman.

Saralinda, Mercy, Aurora.

So I guess Wanda, Earline, Ima and Lurline aren't coming back?

Emerald

Yes, R343, along with Courtney.

R343 ‘Ashley’ to me is a really fruity name.

When my Chinese mother and her family came to America in the late 50's, they tried to get English names that sounded like their Chinese names: Pearl, Lillian, Jean, and Eugenia (my grandmother). My middle name is my grandmother's and I have always hated it- it's sounds too much like "vagina".

[quote] My middle name is my grandmother's and I have always hated it

Me too, but I hate it because I don’t like my NPD grandmother. She insisted that three of her granddaughters took her first name as the same middle name, and I have never liked it (it’s a typical prim old-fashioned blah name).

This year, my milestone birthday gift to myself is changing it. Don’t even care what I’m changing to so long as I get rid of it at last, though I do have a cool shortlist of obscure ancient names that better reflect my ancestral background and the kind of person into whom I want to evolve (Mary! me idec).

No comeback for Vashti?

I know a child named Una.

Let me guess r402 – – an only child?

There really was a wealthy philanthropist from Texas named Ima Hogg. But contrary to a popular urban legend, she did not have a sister named Ura.

^on a genealogical show, Gwyneth Paltrow and one of her paternal cousins giggles about an ancestor called “Ida Hyman”.

Ermatrude

I did have an ancient relation called Annastina which I thought was pretty.

R405 She wasn't giggling because of a name. Her jade egg was tickling her twat.

Wanda is just a shit name

I had a classmate named "Wanda Ball".

I have an Aunt Wanda - she's a mess.

I had a classmate named Amy May. We always said her middle name should be Yam.

Aunt Vagina

I had two great aunts named Wanda and Daisy.

I've met a few Basset Hounds named Daisy. And a cat named Petunia.

My great aunts, all born in the 1900s-1910s - Doris, Lillian, Mary, Barbara, Millicent, Vivian, and Margaret.

My grandmother’s name was Elsie

My grandmothers names were Della and Anna Belle.

My great aunts were named Anastasia, Estelle, Maude x2, Thelma, and Virginia. The others were known by nicknames like Sadie and Birdie and I never learned their real names.

Prudence and Hortense have to be the ugliest female names ever.

Not Enid?

My grandmother went by her more sophisticated middle name which was Nadine. Her first name was Ruby.

Jorinda.

Posy

What's WRONG with Muriel Puce?!

Ha ha [R23] I had an aunt Posy. Loved her, she lived to be 99.

Ella (as in Aunt Eller in "Oklahoma")

Madge Ciccone

My friend had an "Aunt Love".

Other than Amelia it never would have occoured to me that those names are “old lady names” they have never gone out of style. Never met a “Harper” of any age though.