Girls names like these....

[joanney]

Am expecting a little girl and hubby and I can't agree on names. I like traditional type names like Violet, Helena, Juliette, Elizabeth.

He likes Annabelle, which I also like but worry that it will get shortened to Anna, which when teamed with our surname makes her sound like a type of snake.

We have a 2 syllable surname starting with C and ending with er.

Any suggestions for names we might agree on?

[Ineedsomesleep]

Christabel
Caroline
Lucinda
Maeve

Suppose Hannah is a no no too

[PaintingTheFence]

Ivy
Marianne
Louisa
Alice
Gabrielle
Emmeline
Lucy
Elodie
Josephine
Julia
Sophia
Abigail
Lydia
Sarah
Beatrice
Lois

[CuppaTeaJanice]

What about other belle type names?

Arabella
Christabel
Isabelle
Mirabelle
just Belle?

[GladioliBuckets]

I like the alliteration with Christabel and this lady was quite a role model.

Other C/K names
Carrieanne
Clara
Christina
Cerys/Carys
Karenza
Carmen
Carina
Corinne

[proudfoot]

Harriet
Thea
Rebecca
Caroline
Charlotte
Emilia
Amelia
Natalia
Imogen
Genevieve
Eliza
Lill ian
Frances
Delilah
Adeline
Madeline
Phoebe
Katherine
Abigail

[Ineedsomesleep]

GladioliBucket she is quite an inspiring lady isn't she. The name Christabel always brings this lady to my mind.

[valiumSingleton]

I love Juliet Elizabeth and Annabel. I like Elena more than Helena.

If you don't shorten the name, then nobody else will, not 'til secondary school I think, and by then you won't mind! But your children's friends and their parents will call your child what you call your child.

Christabel is beautiful and strong and would sound excellent with a sur name such as Cooper or Carter like you describe. I like alliteration in names. If people occasionally called her Christa that wouldn't be awful would it?!