Advice: what would Giles' mother be named?

[dragonyphoenix]

Anyone have a good name for Giles' mother. I have Faith's PoV and she thinks of Giles as, well, Giles. It's sort of odd, in that context, referring to his mother as Mrs. Giles.

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[devo79.livejournal.com]

Amelia
Bertha
Frances
Nellie
Mildred

You can find more here:
http://www.baby2see.com/names/1890s.html

I know she wasn't born in the 1890's but that should provide you with some nice old fashioned names :)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I actually have an aunt Mildred. I have to assume she never liked her name. ;-)

Hmmm, I'd go with my grandpa's sister's name but I think Avis would make people think of the car rental place.

[devo79.livejournal.com]

Avis is the Danish word for newspaper :)

I really think Giles' mother would have an old fashioned but sweet name like Nelly unless she's a mean bitch then she'd have one of those names that sound like a sharp command.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Given the English class system, I'm not sure Nelly sounds highfalutin enough. I do mean for her to be fairly nice though.

[gillo]

Nelly would definitely have been a working class man then. Unless it was an affectionate diminutive for Helen or Eleanor.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

[devo79.livejournal.com]

Euphemia

I can see Faith rolling her eyes at a name like that :)

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

You didn't just make that up? That's a real name?

[devo79.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah :)

http://nameberry.com/babyname/Euphemia


She was a Christian martyr:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemia

[devo79.livejournal.com]

Faith could shorten it to Effie.
Giles would hate that.

[dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com]

That is too delightful. And it's worse than either of the aunts name, which is wonderful.