Old Lady Names

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

What are your favorite "old lady names"? Names that make people cringe and say "ew, that sounds like an old lady's name!!1!!1!" I'm not talking about Rose, Grace, Claire, Emma, Sophia, etc. Those clearly aren't considered "old lady names" anymore.

I hate when people comment and say a name sounds like an old lady's name... why is that such a bad thing?! Odds are whatever that name is, it has a lot more history than some stupid flimsy name like Kayley or Caiden.

I love the name Hazel and after re-reading Jane Eyre, I'm loving the name Jane. I like Frances, Josephine, and Helena a ton, too. I guess those are my top favorites.

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[confusedanswers.livejournal.com]

My fave "old lady names" are Doris, Jean and Norma. I am fond of Myra, Hazel and Deloris.

[cerise-blue.livejournal.com]

a ton of my favorite names are "old lady names", haha. i love:

adelaide
eleanor
lenore
elise
iris
josephine
louisa
winifred

[sarahjewel.livejournal.com]

<3 adelaide and eleanor!!!

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Helena is my grandmother's name and I like it. Lorraine is my #2 name and though I don't see it as an old lady name, others do.

[turabiannights.livejournal.com]

Eleanor! Everybody thinks Eleanor is an old-lady name, but it's quite popular right now! My real guilty pleasure is Dymphna. Has anyone been named Dymphna in the last two hundred years, honestly?

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

I like Mathilda

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

I do too, but more like Matilda (The book and movie were adorable; got me loving the name).

[screaming--pink.livejournal.com]

Adelaide.

I was going to name my fetus that until I found out it was a boy.

[abandoneddream.livejournal.com]

Mary, Louisa, June, Cora, Pearl, Ruby.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

ooh I adore Mary. I get so angry when people call it an old lady name.

[ghost-dance.livejournal.com]

i agree i hate it when people say "OMG GRANDMA" because in 60 years, names like Madison and Mackenzie are going to be considered "old lady names."

i kind of like Agness or Agnessa.

[kthartline.livejournal.com]

Most of my girls names (huge long list!) are "older" names. Here's what I can think off of the top of my head:

Hazel (LOVE this)
Helena (or just Helen which was my Great-Grandmother's name)
Mary
June (not on my list but it's not bad)
Jane (again, not on my list but not bad)
Meredith (kinda coming back, but it's actually an old name I think)
Josephine (just added that one thanks to a poster above!)
Alice (if I could just get past the Brady Bunch reference I'd like it alot)
Heidi (not too common anymore so I'll include it)
Molly
Theresa (though it's coming back a bit now cuz of Reese as a nickname)
Elizabeth (still popular, but it's also a classic old name)
Marie (more common now as a middle name)
Camilla
Matilda (can't name my kid that cuz my niece is Madeline and goes by Maddie and that's just too close I think.)

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

I've really been liking Alice a lot lately.

[heyitsrebecca.livejournal.com]

My family told me that Ivy was an old lady name. but it's getting increasingly popular...
I love Ivy, Violet, Eleanor, Ellen, Alice, Susan, Kate, and Adeline
They seem a little old lady to me, but also somewhat refreshing. =)

[k-t-bug.livejournal.com]

My name is Katie. One of my dogs is Violet. My fetus is Adeline (mn Louisa). Crazy!

Runner-up for the fetus was Alice.

I agree, "old lady names" are refreshing.

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

lol you say rose, grace, claire, emma, sophia "clearly aren't considered old lady names" like it's a proven fact. according to whom? personally i love the name rose but most of the roses i've known have been older women so i do associate that one with older women, naturally. and same goes with claire. but anyway, i love the name beatrice. i don't know if you would consider that an old lady name, but i do, and i love it.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

I say that those aren't considered old lady names because they are SO popular. Tons of babies are named Claire, Emma, Rose, Grace, and Sophia.

If you made a post saying "Hey, I want to name my baby Emma Rose! WDYT?!" I am certain NO ONE would reply and say it sounded like an old lady name. If you said "Hey, I want to name my baby Beatrice Helen! WDYT?!" I'm sure you'd get loads of those types of comments.

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I like Bernice. :)

[sodivided.livejournal.com]

Hehe I'm 21 and my name's Mary...I get told it's an old lady name a lot. Quite rude, I think! I worked at this place for a day (before quitting, heh) and this guy wouldn't stop going on about how "weird" it was that I was called Mary. Jeez!

Everyone feels bad for children with very unusual names, but it's hard having a name of the "wrong" generation too ;)

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

My best friend is a 21 year old Mary, too. I love her name.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I like Hazel a lot, and I guess I would put Margaret and Maude in that category, but I really like both of them. I plan on using Margaret as a middle name (after my grandmother).

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Esther.

*love*

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Ada, Louisa, Frances, Aggie, Helena, I think that's all I can think of now.

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

Okay, lots of people said these already, but oh well.

Cora
Matilda
Adelaide
Frances
Nora/h
Helen (but my great-aunt is this big *I cringe to use the word* bitch so I could never name my child that)
Adele (my grandma)

[zante.livejournal.com]

I love Winifred.

And partly because its my fiances' nickname for me...

"Sillyhead Winifred!"

*giggles*

[mrsduryee.livejournal.com]

aw cute!

[poespretty.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad this got posted bc I've been obsessed with 'old lady' names lately.

Mary & Margaret are my grandmothers' names & I like them both.

Matilda (I just may name my unborn daughter this but I don't know yet)
Eleanor
Evelyn
Alice
Amelia (I always think this is an old lady name bc it was the name of my grandma's sister... this is what I named my first daughter)
Tess
Iris
Josephine
Violet
Virginia
Tabitha
Eliza
Caroline
Beatrix

I'm on the fence about astrid & adeline today.

[mooie-ziel.livejournal.com]

I heart Lenora & Lenore. Lenora especially since I love Lorna & Nora.

[maelwaedd.livejournal.com]

Hazel and Josephine are fantastic. I've got a friend in her early 20's called Hazel, and while at first I thought 'old lady name' it's really grown on me.

When I was pregnant with my daughter, I wanted to have a nice, old name. She was going to be Alice, except that rhymes with phallus, so she came out Adelaide Deborah (not that Deborah's really *that* old, but it's my mum's name and it seemed to go quite well).

My favourites:

Francine
Alice
Adelaide (obviously)
Eleanor
Millicent
Harriet (my daughter has a friend called Harriet who's about two years old)
Charlotte
Anne
Margery
Beatrice
Annette
Annabel

I'm seriously consiering going *really* old-fashioned and calling this child (if it's a girl) Pyrrha. I've had a few comments that Pyrrha is "so uneek" because it's, well, old enough that people seem to think it's new. I'm not quite sure what to do.

[sleepherealone.livejournal.com]

Odds are whatever that name is, it has a lot more history than some stupid flimsy name like Kayley or Caiden.

Hey, I'm a Kaleigh. :( I like Helen and Mary out of the "old" names.

[lavandersparkle.livejournal.com]

Annabel
Annalise
Anna
Amelia
Aurora
Charlotte
Cordelia
Elizabeth
Elyse
Ivy
Juliet
Lisette
Talia
Violet

[sharleysmom.livejournal.com]

never name her Ivy

[smileygoldfish.livejournal.com]

Agnes! Amelia

And Greta, but that's kind of more a "german name" than an "old lady name" in my opinion

[wake-tonight.livejournal.com]

Alice
Jane
Ivy
Ruby
Hazel