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

[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

[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.)

[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. =)

[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.

[littlehounddog.livejournal.com]

I like Bernice. :)

[darabelle.livejournal.com]

i love the name cora.

[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 ;)

[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).

[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.

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

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

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Esther.

*love*

[sarahjewel.livejournal.com]

<3 adelaide and eleanor!!!

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

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

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

Same with me!

[omgzits--tam.livejournal.com]

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

[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)

[hitzpink.livejournal.com]

I've really been liking Alice a lot lately.