Comment on Mildred

• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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  But, it is very much a GREAT GRANDMA sort of name that is super out of date.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.

  source

  • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

    source

    • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My partner’s favorite name is Edith

      source

      • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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!

        source
    • ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

      source

      • VelvetStorm@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨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.

        source

        • -> View More Comments
      • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Women named Agnes should be required by law to marry a man named Abner

        source
  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Technically we know neither OOP’s nor Mildred’s age or generation

    source
• Zidane@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also my great grandmother’s name… Cousin?

  source