Cecile, Cecily, Tabitha or Tess?

[betsybo]

Can I have your votes please? I am a lunatic with a nearly 4 week old baby girl without a name. We just can't seem to make a decision and it's starting to induce panic in me and the relatives. I'm sure this is something that I can blame motherhood for, I never used to be this indecisive.

[clippityclop]

Tabitha's lovely. Tess v. nice, don't like the others. Good luck!

[DramaAlpaca]

I like Cecily & Tess, but not the others I had a cat called Tabitha

[southlondongirlie]

I love Tabitha!

[IHeartKingThistle]

Those were all on my list! They are all lovely but of course you know that. Do you really not have a gut feeling? I'd almost convinced myself to go with dhs favourite, which I really liked, then he turned up at the hospital on day 2 and said he wanted to go with a different one. The rush of excitement and relief when hesaid it made me realise it was the one I'd really wanted all along.

It wasn't one of yours though or I could be a lot more helpful!

[betsybo]

I do have a favourite, tabitha, but dh worries about the cat thing and that doesn't help with my indecisiveness.. His fave is Tess. Perhaps we should go with Cecily for neutral territory. I never thought it would be this hard to pick, we were so sure with ds!

[birdofthenorth]

Tess. Brilliantly simple and gorgeous. Like Tabitha too.

[sleepingbeautiful]

I don't like Tabitha (witchy/catty), but I like the other 3. Also how about Cecilia to bring the neutral territory name more towards Tabitha?

[Nospringflower]

Tabitha or Tess

[bugsybill]

I love Tabitha (cat association doesn't bother me at all) and Tess is lovely too.

Toss a coin?

Decide on a middle name and see which sounds the best with your surname.

Good luck :)

[MissTweed]

Tabitha!!

It was top of our list if we had a girl (cicily was also on our list)

[Witt]

All very lovely but I think Cecily is the nicest.

[Elquota]

1. Cecile
   
2. Tess
   
3. Cecily
   
4. Tabitha
   

How about Cecilia?

[sandberry]

Tabitha or Cecile
Cecily and Tess are current middle class trendy, they'll date.
Tabitha isn't catty, it's Biblical, like most of the current popular names.

[katydid02]

Cecily or Tee, Cecile is too pretentious and Tabitha is a cat's name :)
Good luck deciding.

[katydid02]

Tess not Tee...stupid keyboard!

[youarewinning]

My cousins DD is called Tabitha - it's a lovely name.
To me it' also a strong name as this girl was a 23 weeker and is now nearly 3

[hugoagogo]

They all sound like cat names to me. Sorry.

[polkadotsrock]

I think I like Cecily best. Is there anything else you can go on- one that goes best with surname or initials... Just trying to think of a way for you to decide, it must be horrible by this point!!

[betsybo]

It's really horrible. I feel totally incompetent to make the decision now, and it definitely isn't any fun just stressful. Why didn't we decide beforehand?! Hmmmm.....her sibling is Jude so that should be a factor I guess.

[TallulahBetty]

None of them, sorry. Agree with them sounding like cats' names

[hugoagogo]

Oh it must be horrible I really do feel for you.

DH and I just went through the baby names book and made a short list of 10 or so and then compared notes, luckily we had both chosen one name the same and that's the one we went with.

Good luck.

[DramaAlpaca]

Tess would be lovely with Jude. They are both short, neat, slightly unusual but not completely out-there names.

I don't think there's anything cat-like about Tess.

I know siblings called Tess & Luke, which is a similar combination & is also lovely.

As long as you don't mind the Thomas Hardy connection (and there's no reason why you should) I think they would be perfect together.

Please come back & let us know what you decide!

[Haribojoe]

Love Tess (but may be slightly biased as that is DD name) also really like Tabitha, I suggested it for DD but her brothers weren't keen.

[hugoagogo]

Tess and Jude?

People will think you are a rabid Thomas Hardy fans.

[IHeartKingThistle]

Yep there is the Hardy thing to think of!