I have the naming misfortune of being born in the early 60’s and growing up with girls named Debbie, Lynn, Susan, Melissa, Missy, Cindy, Paula, Suzie, Tina, Laurie, Kelly, and Heidi. I mean no offense when I say that to me this era was a vast wasteland of names.
I work with varying ages of women but a super-abundance of them are named Linda, Carol, Mary, Janet, Jenny, Danielle, Kathy, Nancy, Patty, and JoAnne.
I love my friends deeply, but they all have names of this era/type.
Even my relatives too.
So I do have this fantasy of meeting a bunch of new to me people who are named lovely names.
Here is my fantasy friend list. Do you have one and if so, please share!
My Top Seven:
A flowery name such as Azalea, Forsythia, Gardenia, Zinnia, or Marigold
A grande dame name such as Agatha, Leonora, Theodora, Lavinia, or Tallulah
A merry, cheery name like Polly, Mamie, Birdie, Bonnie, or Dolly
A wild-sounding name like Ghislaine, Zephirine, Zamora, Xanthe, or Zoe
An old-fahioned and nostalgic name like Mabel, Anne, Flora, Dorothy, or Marian
An Anglophile’s dream name like Harriet, Jemima, Faustina, Ianthe, or Primrose
Eluned! I want a friend named Eluned. Maybe I should advertise?
Personally, I prefer many of the names you grew up with to the names you listed. Yes, they were popular, but in about 40 years, someone will be posting this very thing with her friends’ names being [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Ella[/name_f], [name_f]Isabel[/name_f], and [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]. I like names like [name_f]Susan[/name_f] and [name_f]Melissa[/name_f] (though I’d never personally use them myself) while names like [name_f]Agatha[/name_f], [name_f]Birdie[/name_f], and [name_f]Tallulah[/name_f] come across harsh and unattractive to me (and very old-ladyish).
So, if I was choosing names for my best friends, they would be more in-line with the names your best friends had. LOL. My best friends throughout school were Jennifers, Heathers, Emilys, and [name_m]Robins[/name_m].
I probably was born too late and in the wrong country – or maybe just in the wrong country. I love the names they use in [name_f]England[/name_f] and [name_f]Scotland[/name_f] etc.
Funny too in that I don’t like [name_f]Emma[/name_f], [name_f]Ella[/name_f], [name_f]Isabel[/name_f], or [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] either b/c I teach too many of them…
I’m actually quite happy with the names of my best friends! Seems most of my female best friends throughout my life have had pretty darn cool names. They are:
[name_f]Melody[/name_f]
[name_f]April[/name_f]
[name_f]Grace[/name_f]
[name_f]Lorelei[/name_f]
[name_f]Zandra[/name_f]
[name_f]Holly[/name_f]
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ana[/name_f] [name_f]Teresa[/name_f]
[name_f]Amelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Victoria[/name_f]
[name_f]Amira[/name_f]
Normita
[name_f]Sarah[/name_f]
