Cecily

[pgwithnumber3]

What do you think? Cece for short?

[sneekpeeks]

Thats gorgeous x

[Spink]

This is on our shortlist too.. so obviously I think it is gorgeous.
Cee, cecly, cec, cece..

[Botbot]

I like.

[Anna8888]

Pretentious.

[EffiePerine]

I like it a lot .

[Hadassah]

Nice name.

[cupsoftea]

Lovely

[Elasticwoman]

My dd2 is Cecily. Pretentious, moi? It's a good old fashioned English name, pretending to nothing.

[EffiePerine]

Why is it pretentious? Lettice maybe...

[Aitch]

it's not pretentious. it's just classic. wasns't there a cecily in the imporance of being earnest? cardew? she was hilarious.

[pgwithnumber3]

I don't think it is pretentious but hey, I can be pretentious if I want! I it a medieval name derived from Cecilia but one of the reasons I love it is that is also a form of Shelia which is my Mum's name!

Elasticwoman, do you mind telling me what your DD1's name is as well, would be interested to see if we have similar taste.

[Elasticwoman]

That's why I chose Cecily over Cecilia, Littlelapin, even though I was thinking of the patron saint of music. But recently my Cecily said I should have called her Cecilia because it is an international name, ie the same in many European languages.

Depends whether you want a name that will travel.

[Elasticwoman]

pgwith3 - dd1 is Bethan Mary. Bethan was her father's choice (hence I got my own way with Cecily, when he was a bit doubtful about it). Mary was after Mary Wollstonecraft, the first feminist. NOT the Virgin Mary. It fits in well with the nursery rhyme Bethan Mary, quite contrary ...

[EachPeachPearMum]

It's a lovely name- we were going with Cecily Margot, but it's going to be a boy!

[pgwithnumber3]

Not fussed on Cecilia, I can't stop singing that Simon & Garfunkel song whenever I say the name Even though I like the song!

It is so bloody hard this name game. I want to find something which is traditional and classic but not common - I have a Grace, which was not so common 7 years ago when we said we wanted to use it. But now, when I hear another Grace I want to spit.

[pgwithnumber3]

Bethan Mary is lovely, what middle name do you have for Cecily?

littlelapin, when we chose Grace I did ponder over it and rang my Dad one day and said that I was thinking of calling the unborn Grace, Gracia instead. He laughed his arse off! Said it doesn't work when you are from Merseyside...

[castille]

I know a Cecily - from a lovely, lovely family. She's a dreamy thing, gorgeous girl. Love the name.

[Cies]

I like it. It works from babyhood to adulthood.

You can imagine "Prime Minister Cecily Johnson".

[Elasticwoman]

My Cecily's middle name is Leah (not my choice!). Remember Rachel and Leah were sisters in the Old Testament.

[Aitch]

lol lapin, there you go causing offence again...

[CuppaTeaJanice]

This is what we called our bump, every other day (we didn't know the sex), with Cecil on the other days. When ds was born, dp had come to like the name Cecil. I vetoed that as I hadn't given birth to an old gardener!!

Cece is a beautiful name.