Old lady names

[quiet-recluse.livejournal.com]

What kind of names do you think of as being 'old lady names?' My list includes:

Nora
Dot
Clara
Gertrude
Prudence
Joy
Mary
Betty
Ruth
Shirley
Olivia

One of my favourite names is Pearl - someone once told me that it was too much of an old lady name, which was interesting to me because I'd never heard it before and didn't associate it with old ladies at all.

Comments

[iljjc.livejournal.com]

I pretty much agree with your list, although I'm starting to really like the name Nora. And I don't think of Olivia as an old lady name since it's popular now. Mary I think of as an anybody-of-any-age-but-more-likely-to-be-older name, lol.

My grandmother's name is Pearl. It's also my mom's best friend's middle name, after her mother.

Hmm... old lady names..
Ida
Joan
Louise
Agatha