Also my great grandmother’s name… Cousin?
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NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 months agoThat’s my great grandma’s name. I think it’s pretty nice. Lol.
Zidane@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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NegativeInf@lemmy.world 3 months agoThat’s my great grandma’s name. I think it’s pretty nice. Lol.
Also my great grandmother’s name… Cousin?
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh sure, I bet your Great Grandma is a lovely person and I have nothing against her or her name.
But, it is very much a GREAT GRANDMA sort of name that is super out of date. I would be exactly as critical as a parent naming their child Mildred.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 months ago
This generational. I’ve seen a number of names I thought of as grandma names come back into fashion. People who are young enough not to have experienced grandmas with those names pick them. Gertrude is a grandma name to me, BTW, not a great-grandma name. I actually had a grandma named Gertrude. Welcome to old.
Infynis@midwest.social 3 months ago
My partner’s favorite name is Edith
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Edith Cranwinkle, chair person of the art crawl! Maybe you’re not such a horrible, greasy, perverted, shabby, two - bit, filthy, disgusting pig, Bob!
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I low-key hope Agnes doesn’t come back… that’s my middle name… can’t stand it. I know it was my great grandmothers name, but I never met the woman… and it just feels… harsh. (Probs because I only heard it when I was in trouble, or when people were making fun of me)
Plus side, my mom got talked out of naming me “Elsbeth”, which is a very very defunct precursor to Elizabeth (which she didn’t like)… Since frozen with Elsa, that probably would have been ok, but it didn’t come out until I was in my checks release very late 20s, by which point the damage would have been done.
But hey I can’t complain too much on the naming lottery… my sister has a fully 100% boys name. Her middle name is a French version of Patrick.
VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I wish my middle name Shay (its the name i go by)would come back or be a thing for men. I’ve only ever met 2 other people in my age range with it, and both were women, and the one person outside of my age range was an old old old woman. I dislike my first name to such a large extent that I choose to go by Shay.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Women named Agnes should be required by law to marry a man named Abner
lugal@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Technically we know neither OOP’s nor Mildred’s age or generation