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does this sound wrong ?

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smilingserenely · 04/12/2010 09:59

after months of disagreement have finally decided to change dd4 birth cert from felicity cecily arabella to arabella felicity cecily .

the history is felicity was dh's only option but i disliked it . cecily was my prefered option . arabella is a compromise .

problem is i really feel felicity cecily even as a middle name doesn't flow properly , is to much of a tongue twister etc .also i think the initials afc could be a problem.

for these reasons i really want to remove cecily as a third middle but struggling to come up with an alternative .would like a name with a positive meaning

our surname begins with w and is 2 syllable .

options include

clara but initials afc again

octavia as she is dc8 but is this to long with the other 2 names and also initials afo

miriam love the meaning wished for child

rose after a close relative who is a rosalind which i don't want to use . the problem is with our surname itsounds like a stage direction . also is rose just a filler.

rosanna as above

gladys after my grandmother but too old fashioned

or should i stick with cecily

opinions gratefully received and any other suggestions

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smilingserenely · 07/12/2010 15:29

third not thirs

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smilingserenely · 07/12/2010 15:28

i think we may just stick with cecily as her thirs name as dh is loathe to change even to cecilia which would be my preference .

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smilingserenely · 07/12/2010 15:26

yes i'm seriously wondering if should i start thinking about names for baby nine if we're lucky enough to conceive again . it took us over a year to finally agree on dd4's name .

a whole new thread needed i think .Smile Wink

funny thing is now i'm not being forced to call her felicity ( friends and relatives still keep referring to her by that name), i've grown to quite like it.

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ShoppingDays · 07/12/2010 14:49

Just read more posts above and you're already thinking about Cecilia :)

ShoppingDays · 07/12/2010 14:47

I agree that Felicity and Cecily within the same name will make it a tonguetwister. How about Cecilia instead?

KERALA1 · 07/12/2010 14:31

Dont think Felicity Cicily works - sounds abit bonkers and like a tongue twister. I really wouldnt tie yourself in knots about this in real life middle names are almost totally irrelevant.

LadyInaManger · 07/12/2010 14:13

lilly13 - OP made it clear that as all her children have 3 names then she would like to continue with this tradition Smile

lilly13 · 06/12/2010 21:43

3 names? are you spanish nobility? if not, i'd drop at least one...

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smilingserenely · 05/12/2010 13:44

between not been

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smilingserenely · 05/12/2010 13:43

it's been grace and cecilia now because if in years to come she should decide to use her 3rd name either would go well with our surname (rose might not) and we would be happy with either grace or cecilia.

grace is probably more down to earth than cecilia and less of a mouthful when tagged on to arabella felicity and the initials afg are better imo than afc

the only advantage to cecilia /cecile is it may be easier to explain why cecily is on the few personalised things she acquired when she was days old .

to add insult to injury dh has now announced he loves the name cecilia having continuously vetoed it over the past year because of the simon and garfunkel song.

not so worried about taking some time to finalise her 3rd name as at last she has a first name.

thanks everyone for your help in mking this decision

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LadyInaManger · 05/12/2010 13:14

Then Arabella Felicity Grace is a beautiful name if you are not sure of Rose! Either name is lovely and goes great with the 1st two names.

Hope you manage to reach a decision soon Smile

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smilingserenely · 05/12/2010 13:08

ladyinamanger grace was her second name .Also had grace not been so popular at the minute it would have been a really strong contender for arabella's first name . it was probably ,after arabella ,the only name dh and i both liked .

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skippingturtle · 05/12/2010 12:42

I'm so glad you feel better, it's a horrible thing to worry about, isn't it? Smile

LadyInaManger · 05/12/2010 12:09

I thought Grace was the name of your beautiful angel or have i got that wrong and it was a middle name for her? If a middle name then Grace could be quite a poignant 3rd name for Arabella!

Hope you didn't mind me posting this!

JiltedJohnsJulie · 05/12/2010 12:01

Cecily is a nice name but agree that perhaps using another name with Felicity may be a good idea. Cecile, Cellia, Grace and Miriam are all lovely.

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smilingserenely · 05/12/2010 09:51

fulladoll she's 9 months today but the felicity or not debate has been going on since this time last year . dh only had ears for one name ie felicity and despite all my protestations he refused to consider anything else .

up here registration is done by 21 days and in the end i gave up ,registered her in tears as he just refused to listen to what i was saYING .he did promise that if i still didn't like it at 6 months we could change it.he then at 6 months renegade on this .i really hoped to grow to love the name as it was her name etc but it just didn't happen . in fact i cringed every name i heard her name or told people her name etc so much so that i always called her little one ,wee one or pet etc

until 2 weeks ago when ds4(3) suddenly started to tell everyone his sister was called arabella with no prompting for me i hasten to add. dh then relented and agreed on the name change.

skipping he quite definitely has had a verbal thumping or two over the past few weeks .like you the relief of changing her name has been huge . a real weight of my shoulders to have a name i can say and feel happy saying and hearing

also considering changing the cecily to cecile or cecilia as may flow/sound better with the other names and may be easier to explain to her at a later date but grace and miriam are also strong contenders.

dh thinks we should leave it as cecily but it just sounds wrong to my ears .

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skippingturtle · 05/12/2010 08:58

Did you give your DH the thump I suggested? GrinWink

Well done for sticking to your guns, I changed my baby's name at three months and the sense of relief was huge. My take on it would be to go just for Arabella to make a fresh start name-wise, but I see your issue with all your other LOs having three names each!

I like Grace!

FullaDoll · 05/12/2010 06:52

I think Arabella Felicity is lovely.

By the way, how old is your child?

nooka · 05/12/2010 06:25

I'd use Miriam. I think it flows better even with the extra syllable.

It seems to have quite unknown/varied origins: www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Miriam.html

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smilingserenely · 04/12/2010 20:54

skipping yes she has been here for nearly 9

months but no matter how hard i tried to

accept dh's choice ie felicity i just didn't

warm to it try as i might.i also felt it wasn't her . probably less to

do with the name itself than feeling i had

not been listened to . i felt i had been

forced to accept a name i didn't love

because of dh's refusal discuss anything

else and it really irked that carrying her

for 9 months seemed to count for nothing

when her name was being chosen .

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smilingserenely · 04/12/2010 20:33

arabella felicity rose or arabella felicity grace .

grace is a name we both like .

i'm swaying towards rose as i really don't think rose west will be an issue for her generation.

also as we've had so much trouble naming her rose seems to fit as "a rose by any name would smell as sweet " .

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skippingturtle · 04/12/2010 20:28

smiling, was it you who posted a while ago whose DH would only accept one name, then came up with a list full of ex girlfriends' names? I hadn't realised your baby was already with us!

strawberrycake · 04/12/2010 18:45

Arabella Felicity May/ Mae?

Rose does sound pretty, maybe her generation won't get the rose west link. Your choice really. Just wanted you to be aware of it, tbh it is the first think I thought of.

LadyInaManger · 04/12/2010 18:40

Ruth is a lovely name and would be a good replacement for Rose but don't throw out Rose just for the Rose West conitations. For a start your surname is Westwood not just West and Rose like you say will only be a third name and rarely said other than Arabella Felicity Rose. Most of my friends DC who have 3 names just say them without their surname added - probably explaining this so bad but go with your gut instinct if you like it.

She will be known as Arabella Westwood for the most part and if anyone asks about middle names she will say Felicity Rose and then if some smart alec makes a connection to Rose West then deal with it when it arises which it probably won't!

Your DD needs a name and fast, bless her and you have chosen a lovely one imo with the above choice Smile

solo · 04/12/2010 18:36

I really think it needs to be a single syllable. My Dd has 3 Christian names and they have 2:3:1 syllables and 2 for our surname.