Help with Girl names!

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Registered: 03-14-2004
Help with Girl names!
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Sun, 03-14-2004 - 10:12pm

Help with Girl names!



  • Lucille nn Lucy
  • Edith nn Edie
  • Evelyn
  • Miren
  • Greta
  • Eliza
  • Anna
  • Comment on these names especially if you really dislike any of them!
  • I want honest opinions.


You will be able to change your vote.


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Registered: 02-27-2004
Sun, 03-14-2004 - 10:34pm
Looks like you are going after the classic 50's movie star names. I like the name Evelyn with the nn of Evie (sp?). IMO the names are very grown up and need a girly nn for when she is younger.
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Registered: 01-06-2004
Mon, 03-15-2004 - 10:14am
I like Anna, and I love Greta as a nn for Margaret
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Registered: 08-20-2001
Mon, 03-15-2004 - 10:21am
I voted for Lucille, even though Lucinda is a little more my style. But I just think the name Lucille is nice and different and not over-used.

I don't really like Edith-- I can'd get Mrs. Bunker and that high pitched nasal voice out of my mind. don't get me wrong, she's endearing, but a little dippy.

Evelyn--my mother has a college friend with this name. Very strong and interesting woman--did lots of traveling, used to model...got pregnant at 18 and moved to OK w/her her BF, who she put through grad school by being a go-go dancer...conflicting images are in my mind when I think of this name: warm and highly intelligent, yet also a bit loose and VERY sexual.

Miren--I just don't like it, looks a bit like "mirror" to me, and I prefer Maren.

Greta-- this is kind of cute.

Eliza: I can take it or leave it.

Anna--prefer as a middle name, but if you love it, go for it.

Best ofluck!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 03-15-2004 - 11:57am
I really really (I mean really lol) dislike Lucille and Edith. To me they are old lady names with no charm at all. I do like Lucy.

I don't think Greta is very attractive. Miren I don't know how to pronounce. If it is MY ren I really dislike it.

Anna Eliza and Evelyn are old fashioned but they are also soft and pretty.

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Registered: 11-03-2003
Mon, 03-15-2004 - 2:36pm
Lucille nn Lucy - I LOVE Lucy (no pun intended), but don't like Lucille or Lucinda.

Edith nn Edie - I hate Edith - reminds me too of Edith Bunker - eek.

Evelyn - LOVE this! and the nn's of Eve or Evie.

Miren - Don't like this, sounds like a surname because of the actress Helen Mirren. An alternative might be Meredith??

Greta - Don't like this. Brings to mind a crotchety old woman with a zillion cats. Prefer Maggie as a nn for Margaret.

Eliza - LOVE this. beautiful.

Anna - Okay for me. a bit common.

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Registered: 11-04-2003
Mon, 03-15-2004 - 4:20pm
I voted for Lucille nn Lucy too, because I adore Lucy. Just remembered a girl I went to grammar school with (eons ago!) was named Luciana.. which is something I've rarely seen since grammar school. I suppose it would fit right in with all the other "ana" or "anna" names yet it can keep the Lucy nn! (and it could be spelled Lucianna too!)

JMHO, of course ;)

Devin


edited for spelling *sigh* :)


Edited 3/16/2004 2:02 pm ET ET by momtokat

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Registered: 08-01-2003
Tue, 03-16-2004 - 12:30pm
a lot of the traditional names that people have been using lately, like Anna, Emma, Ella, Olivia, Elizabeth, etc. have been around for years, so yes they're old fashioned, but you still hear them.

You definitey don't hear Edith anymore. And if you like Lucy, just name her that - Lucille is really really outdated. Evelyn, also is very outdated. Greta too.

I'm not into traditional or old-fashioned names at all, so it's hard for me to vote on this one. Miren - I've never heard that at all, but it certainly isn't very feminine sounding, too much like the man's name Myron.

Eliza is OK. Anna is certainly old-fashioned, but not out-dated, hope you understand the difference of what I mean.



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Registered: 11-02-2003
Tue, 03-16-2004 - 12:56pm
I voted for Anna. Its my all time favorite name, but funnily enough Eliza is second. I love both of these names! As for Greta, I think it might make a nice nn for Margaret, but its not a favorite. My little sister is Margaretta, and she goes by Maggie. Miren looks made up, Evelyn is old lady, plus its unisex, which I don't like at all, Edith is just unattractive, and Edie makes me think of the ice cream. Lucille is nmsAA and Lucy is so.. I don't know.. Euro chic or so it seems to me, but I don't like the name AT ALL. It has nothing to it. Plus it sounds whiney.

Well, those were my honest opinions.

Caroline

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 03-17-2004 - 11:46am

Well, OF COURSE, I'm going to vote for Greta (check out my DD's name)!!

becky, max and greta
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Registered: 09-04-2003
Wed, 03-17-2004 - 12:09pm
I voted for Lucille because I love the name Lucy. Not so crazy about Lucille, but Lucy is great!