Old Lady Names

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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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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.