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If you're giving your dd a generic, same-as-everyone-else name like Isabella, you need a more unusual middle name. Maude is nice.

Isabella is not a generic name - no names are generic as even the most popular represent a tiny proportion of the total, and it is a gorgeous, classic, pretty, timeless name Love lots of the options you have on here. I think the simple one-syllable ones like Kate, Clare and Jane work well

Isabella Rae

Jane or Joan

I'm ever so slightly bemused by the idea that people need the names Grace, Rose or May/Mae suggested to them when asking for middle name recs. They're so well and truly the 00s/10s default middle-name option, that surely - surely! - they go without saying now. I'm just gently ribbing, not being mean, promise.

There are lots of lovely one-syllable names that would do.

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