Ellen, Merryn, Iris, Thea - what else?

[Laquila]

Just that really! Any suggestions appreciated.

[lillipad21]

Iris is just gorgeous! Not so keen on the others, although they are pretty! I love floral names- Dahlia, Ivy and Ianthe are so pretty and dont feel like they're particularly overused! Hope this helps

[cosmicglittergirl]

Sending you my old name list as I have an Iris and like all your other names.
Grace
Constance
Iris
Eloise
Imogen
Phoebe
Beatrice
Elspeth
Elodie
Edith

Verity
Freya
Agnes
Una
Thora
Tabitha
Sybil

[Laquila]

I love Dahlia! Would most people pronounce it DAR-lia or DAY-lia?

[faintlyoptimistic]

Rowan, Violet, Sorrel?

[lillipad21]

Id pronounce it Day-lia

[Laquila]

Love your list, Cosmic - thank you! Grace likely to be middle name (it's very much a family name). I love Phoebe (also another family name actually) and Beatrice, also Beatrix. Sybil I'm not too keen on but I do like Cecily.

I do like Rowan, but unsure whether I prefer it for a boy or girl. We've had that problem with several names! (Auden, Corin)

[Laquila]

TeaPlease - I know it's very similar to Merryn, but Mirren makes me think of Scottish football! (Is there a team called St Mirren?)

[Jemimapuddleduk]

I have an Iris. The other names we liked were:
Constance
Violet
Joy
Rosa/Rosamund/Rosalind/rosanna
Beatrix

[faintlyoptimistic]

Girl - start of Rowan rhymes with cow
Boy - start of Rowan rhymes with toe

...although outside of Scotland that difference may be a pain in the arse to explain!

[Sootgremlin]

Came on to suggest Mirren, I know a lovely one!

Erin, Eleanor, Seren, Helen I think is lovely and underused at the moment.

Ianthe, Iona, Athene

[Sophronia]

Robyn
Erin
Harriet
Ivy

I like Ellen, it's very underused.

[weebarra]

Yes, there is a football team called St Mirren. They're not very good though, so many non Scots won't have heard of them!

[PeppermintPasty]

Merryn is the Cornish name for the Goddess of the sea. I know all about this name so trust me .

[MamaLazarou]

Miri?

[coilpanic]

Love Ellen, what about Della or Sylvie?

[Mrsfrumble]

Iris and Thea were on our list for DD. Also included were
Miriam
Aphra
Imogen
Martha
Audrey
Isolde
Naomi

[Paddingtonthebear]

I know of an adult Dahlia, pronounced DARlia. I like Thea and Erin but I think they are pretty popular at the moment, I know a couple of each of those. How about Lana, Elen/Elin, Rosa, Elise, Corinne, Jodie, Leah, Helena. Some of those are nicely underused and some a bit more popular.

[Sootgremlin]

Corinne is lovely

[sweetpeame]

I adore Ellen. It's classic and wont date and it's also very underused now if that's a consideration. I like Iris also. Not keen on Merryn, it sounds American to me and Thea is really ugly, always reminds me of the word thigh.

[JakeyBurd]

Laquila & TeaPleaseLouise

You're half right with Mirren! St. Mirren the football team is named after the patron saint of Paisley, although he was actually male. It was occasionally spelled Mirin which has sometimes been used for boys, but the spelling Mirren has historically been used for girls (even though St. Mirren was a man). The name comes from the Gaelic Meadhran.

It is not connected at all with the Irish/mediaeval Gaelic name Muirenn - you are perhaps thinking of the Scots name Murron, which is derived from Muireann, the modern Gaelic equivalent of Muirenn.

(Muireann is pronounced Moor-yan, unlike its Irish counterpart which is MWI-ren).

Hope you followed that!