agatha

[lisbethsw]

ok...for some weird reason NO ONE seems to be calling their baby girls this, and i love it - it's also really one of my only girl options now (6 months). i don't want to use a popular name but i'm worried there's a v obvious reason why agatha isn't a popular option....

be honest - what are your thoughts????

[specialsmasher]

I like it. Aggie is great, too.

[WorzselMummage]

Oh i love it. I said to DF the other day how pretty it was after wtaching something about Agatha Christie and he looked at me like I was suggestng Gurtrude !

It is lovely, I like Aggie too. Very classy.

I think it is a name due for a comeback though.

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absolutely lovely, really gorgeous, I would have loved an Agatha but my dh vetoed it

[DrivenToDistraction]

Agatha is an excellent name. Beautiful. I hope you choose it

I'd have loved it for a DD but I had to use it for one of our cats instead. It's pretty much unpronounceable in the language they speak were I live...

[BitOfFun]

I had a brilliant Great Auntie Aggie.

She used to spike her husband's tea with valium.

[lisbethsw]

oh thank god! yes, i love agatha christie, and it's such a beautiful name - i also like agnes, a family name, but people seem more divided on it. our agnes was a great beauty (appearentl), but i really don't cary those genes

[lisbethsw]

apparently....

[lisbethsw]

well that aunt agatha sounds amazing, if this bump is a girl i only hope she is as clever as your aunt

if it's a boy...i hate thinking of b's names, too dull. going to use one of the family surnames i think, meh.

(i know i should care more...)

[BessieBoots]

I'm not so sure. Wasn't that the name of the headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda?

[lisbethsw]

noooooooo!!!! but then i don't love cutesy children...so perhaps if potential-she grew up to be a mean headmistress i'd secretly be rather smug

[lisbethsw]

what about a middle name for agatha? i rather like it on its own...

and what can it be shortened to? apart from aggy?

[DramaInPyjamas]

Miss Agatha Trunchbull.

[MrFibble]

love it.

[Hassled]

Great Aunt Agatha in the Jeeves and Wooster stories ate broken glass for breakfast. There are some good strong Agathas out there - DS3 might have been an Agatha.

[lisbethsw]

love the idea of this little punk being a grumpy old lady

[llareggub]

I love it. It has gravitas. Top name.

[Crapweasel]

I love it.

Agatha Christine?

[lisbethsw]

oh haha! i love it

[JackiePaper]

love it love it love it. I wanted to call dd this but dh wouldn't let me

[bunnymother]

Oh dear, I think its awful - harsh sounding and reminds me of frumpy old ladies. But clearly I am in the minority!

[lisbethsw]

i think grumpy old lady names are the next big thing though

i mean, there are an awful lot of pretty (and genuinely lovely) girl names out there, but we have run out of them. there can only be so many flower-based names (i too have one)

OR 1950s names will come back - barbara, susan, jane, janet (secretly LOVE janet, will never be allowed it).... i mean, you mum's friends' names.

we've had victoriana/edwardian, some flapper names (pearl etc), so surely these have to come up at some point?

[lisbethsw]

you know what, i might try and sneak janet onto the birth cert.

[WorzselMummage]

I wish someone would spike my tea with Vallium !

[Clary]

I like Agatha.

A friend had it as their name but then had a boy.

I also like Agnes (for DS2 - doh!) and no-one is using that either. (reads on) oh I see you liek that too lisbeth - great minds eh!

I have posted this before but a (former) colleague, on hearing it was a name we favoured for DS2, said "Good thing he was a boy then!"

I forbore to make rude remarks about her choice of names because I'm nice really.

[DastardlyandSmugly]

I love Agatha - it's absolutely gorgeous. And Agatha Christie was wonderful - 70 books over 6 decades, what a fab person to share a name with.