Name for the little Snowdrop!

[MrsJonSnow]

Regular here with a name change as I'm mentioning my real surname.

So we're having another little northern bastard (GOT reference ) and we've just discovered she'll be a little girl! We had boys names all sewn up but we're floundering a bit with girl's names.

So we need something that goes with the surname Snow (no place names to avoid sounding like a weather report and anything that sounds yellow should be avoided. Summer is also out.)

We prefer classic names and names that aren't too flowery. I'm not big on most of the granny names that are so popular at the moment either. Something that can be taken seriously if she wants to become a surgeon or judge but not too harsh or heavy.

Names currently in consideration are:
Rachel
Elizabeth
Felicity
Harriet
I also love Charlotte, but am concerned that Charlie Snow sounds like Cocaine Cocaine. Could I avoid this by going for Lottie as a nn right from the start or is it just asking for trouble?

Suggestions and comments requested please!

[CaulkheadUpNorth]

Was Rachel snow a character in Pollyanna?
How about:
Lucy
Maja
Kate
Annie
Abigail
Beth/an/y

[CaulkheadUpNorth]

Georgina
Jasmine
Amy

[scaevola]

Lottie Snow does sound a bit like a blizzard! Or you could go the whole hog and call her Khione (a minor Greek goddess of snow)?

I think Elizabeth and Harriet are lovely.

Some others to consider: Georgina, Alexandra, Marianne, Eleanor, Tabitha?

[MrsJonSnow]

OMG you're right! Lottie Snow is a blizzard!

[moxon]

Harriet sounds perfect with Snow!

[AryaOfHouseSnark]

I love Harriet or Felicity.

[moxon]

OMG you're right! Lottie Snow is a blizzard!

A very small blizzard. Maybe in the Hebrides. 'Thar be just a lottie snow owtside, we kin still go fishin'. Contrast with 'Me, but thar be a lotta snow owtside; best go to the pub today!'

[Hakluyt]

Elizabeth Snow is lovely- and all the abbreviations go well too.

Harriet Snow is fab too.

[BarryGoosey]

Elizabeth Snow is fab! Sounds like the name of a literary heroine. Rachel Snow is also really nice.

[moxon]

Barry I think it sounds like a heroine because it reminds you of Elizabeth Swann perhaps? Pirates of the Caribbean?

[MrsJonSnow]

Haha - I love it! We could have a blizzard or a literary heroine!

It is one of those surnames that really seems to impact on some first names somehow. I regularly get told that my name sounds like a new character in Cluedo! DS1 gets told he sounds like a rockstar and DS2's name ends up sounding like a historical character or a character from Outlander.

Am I playing it too safe with the girl's names? Should I push the envelope a little?

I love Georgina, but there already is one in the family and I love Alexandra, but DS's middle name is Alexander and he got all huffy when it was mentioned.

Moxon Carlotta was one of the names we had a good laugh about as it sounded like an over excited snow-report…"We've had a car lot'a snow overnight!"

Other names I love but have had to pass on due to other family members getting first include Francesca and Sybilla (Billy).


Keep 'em coming ladies!

[Alyx80]

Matilda?

[MrsJonSnow]

I love Matilda, but my niece is Tilly, so I think that might be a bit to similar unfortunately.

What do you think of Miranda?

[meditrina]

Miranda is lovely!

I was going to suggest Galantha (as a feminised version of Galanthus Nivalis) but that's probably too flowery!

[MrsJonSnow]

Galantha is a very unflowery sounding flower name, but I have to say I think it's stepping a little to far into the Game of Thrones territory!
If I ever write a fantasy novel though…!

[Hakluyt]

Snow is certainly a heroine's last name. Like an amateur detective in an old fashioned novel.

[Hakluyt]

and I wrote that before I read the Cluedo post!

[baskingseals]

Love Harriet and Miranda.
What about

Helena

Marianne

Honor

Diana

Emmeline

Juliet

[Only1scoop]

Charlie Snow....noooo

The other names are all beautiful....

Congratulations

[Only1scoop]

Oh and....

Marion

Annabelle

Josephine

[Only1scoop]

Strike last one off Jo snow

Sorry Op I'm off ....

[baskingseals]

Margot is also lovely, and elegant, while being a bit different.

[MrsJonSnow]

I've always loved Josephine but the Jo Snow thing put me off. If we preempted the problem by calling her Josie, do you think we could avoid the issue or do you think it's inevitable?

[MrsJonSnow]

Ooh and Margot is delish! Maggie for short?

[baskingseals]

definitely. I also like Marguerite.
NNs are tricky. I have an Alexandra and it was only when she started High school that she was called Alex. I have never called her Alex, but she does have another nn that I use all the time. I do think with longer names you do have to think of NNs, because inevitably they will be used.
I like Maggie though, but I am not so keen on Alex. Oh that great god retrospect