Honest feelings about Frances

[rowanasabe]

I'm falling more and more in love with the name Frances for a girl. It's a name that is so unlike my style, and, in fact, I actually used to dislike it very much! What are your honest feelings and perceptions about Frances?

Note: I'm not expecting or TTC anytime soon. This isn't an urgent matter, but I would love to hear what people really think of the name. Thanks!

[spicemama]

I really like Frances. It's classic but uncommon, sophisticated but the nn Frankie is so fun.

[backtomyroots]

I dont mind frances... It was the name of "Baby" on dirty Dancing.. ( my ALL TIME favorite movie!)....

Although I do prefer Francine.. I think Frankie is adorable for a little girl!

[kala_way]

I think of Francie from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

also, in Gilmore Girls

I don't think it's a beautiful name, but I think it's nice, usable and can fit some kids really well.
Hate the nn Fran though!

[emmabobemma]

I know a good Frances, so my feeling about it may be swayed to the positive. I find it such a pleasing mixture of unexpected elegance and gentleness (via the -ces ending) and on the other hand, such no-frills disciplined seriousness. The nickname Frankie, or any nickname for that matter, gives it levity.

[rollo]

My mother was named Margaret Ruth Frances and she disliked it so much she would never own up to it or put it on forms. I don't find it pretty either plain likie edith

[alzora]

So funny...I used to HATE the name Frances, but it has grown on me too! I recommend Googling the name "Frances Slocum" and reading her Wikipedia page. She was a five-year-old girl who was abducted by Native Americans in the 1700s, then discovered by one of her many siblings (all with great names!) when she was an old woman, living in a tribe in the Mid-West. It made me love her name, though the Indians gave her the name Mocanaqua ("muh-KAH-nuh-quaw"...I believe it meant "little bear"). I also like that Frances has the word France in it, and all things French are beautiful.

[southern.maple]

Frances is very prissy and girly, almost too girly. My great-grandmother's middle name was Frances, and she HATED it. I like it for someone else's daughter.

[megmarie]

I have only known one girl Frances and one boy Francis and I must say they have made me not a great fan of the name. So I am most likely bias but I really think there are so many more beautiful names out there!

I must admit though, the nn Fran is growing on me

[ajh]

I love it. I think the nn Franny is so cute!