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Going to have DD5!

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FiveGirliesArgh · 05/01/2011 21:06

Just found out that I am going to have a fifth DD and feeling a bit lost about names...

I was certain I was going to have a DS and we had decided on Clement Sherlock Nathaniel with Clem as a nn.... (I am into literature in a big way so couldn't resist slipping Sherlock in there somewhere)

Our DDs are called Louisa Sian Mathilde, Emmeline Cerys Isolde, Julia Estella Adele and Beatrix Evangeline Grace.

Please come up with some suggestions because I can't think of any other names I like!

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ShowOfHands · 06/01/2011 17:06

Oh I love all of them.

Aphra Isadora Constance.

or

Aphra Clemency Nelle
Grin

Willa's beautiful too. Having Rosa and Marie side by side doesn't work as it sounds like 'Rosemarie'.

Checkmate · 06/01/2011 16:59

Clemency is gorgeous.

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FiveGirliesArgh · 06/01/2011 16:55

Wow! Thank you all for all your responses!

Me and DH have spoken and think we have it cut down to 4 possibilities:

Aphra Frances Elizabeth
Willa Constance Magdalena
Clemency Rosa Marie
Isadora Genevieve Nelle

What do you all think?

BTW DozyDoll Louisa is 10, Emmeline is 8, Julia is 6 and Beatrix is 3

It is going to be very exciting to have 5 DDs, I feel very Mrs Bennet like!

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mathanxiety · 06/01/2011 16:32

Louisa Sian Mathilde
Emmeline Cerys Isolde
Julia Estella Adele
Beatrix Evangeline Grace

  • What gorgeous names and congratulations on your 5th DD. I have 4 and it's never a dull moment.

Clara Magdalena Araminta
(Clara Schumann, Anna Magdalena Bach, Harriet Tubman nee Araminta)

Mary Zora Angharad
(Mary Wollstonecraft, Zora Neale Hurston, Angharad, mother of Geraldis Cambrensis)

Willa Frances Charlotte
(Willa Cather, Frances Buss, suffragist and promoter of rigorous education for girls, Charlotte Bronte)

I love Aphra though.

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 06/01/2011 16:14

Elizabeth (Garrett Anderson/Fry/Gaskell/Barrett Browning)

Sojourner (Truth) - maybe best for a middle name :)

Virginia (Woolf)

Dorothy (Dodie Smith)

Mary (Wollstonecraft)

NewImprovedJollster · 06/01/2011 16:10

Clemency
Hope
Rosanna

badkitty · 06/01/2011 15:58

For literary names, Elinor or Marianne would go nicely with your girls' names.

Love all their names by the way and love your idea of Sherlock as a middle name - may have to nick that if we are having DS2!

saffy85 · 06/01/2011 15:12

I was going to suggest Rosa (as in Parks) looks like others beat me to it!

Florence as Nightingale?

Marie (Curie)?

DozyDoll · 06/01/2011 11:21

Congratulations! Wonderful news. Has anyone suggested Meredith? I would have Meredith or Evelyn if ever I were to become pregnant again with a DD. Hope pregnancy goes well. Out of interest how old are your other girls if don't mind sharing that?

mamaloco · 06/01/2011 11:05

Charlotte?

Aims80 · 06/01/2011 11:02

Also if you like literary names then Viola and Cressida are also on my list.

Aims80 · 06/01/2011 11:00

Wilhelmina would go nicely with that lot! :)

beachyhead · 06/01/2011 09:13

Claudia or Kezia perhaps...

Rhubarbgarden · 06/01/2011 08:35

I knew a Welsh girl called Nerina and always thought it was a beautiful name.

Janoschi · 06/01/2011 01:11

Looks like Rosa then! Grin

Meglet · 06/01/2011 00:13

X-posted with janoschi. (Didn't read whole thread).

Meglet · 06/01/2011 00:09

Rosa after Rosa Parks. I meant to use it as one of DD's middle names but forgot.

TheSecondComing · 05/01/2011 23:52

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ProfessorLaytonIsMyLoveSlave · 05/01/2011 23:33

Tabitha
Cecily
Cordelia
Constance
Cecilia

(stuck on 'C' names now...)

Eleanor
Charlotte
Antoinette
Amelia
Harriet
Isadora
Athena

Janoschi · 05/01/2011 23:20

Rosa after Rosa Parks, the girl on the bus who triggered the civil rights marches? Also Rosa Luxemburg, the German political activist?

Harper Lee's first name is actually Nelle, which is also rather pretty....

Edith after Edith (E.) Nesbit, the writer and political activist?

cloudydays · 05/01/2011 22:34

I just want to note how lovely it is that you named your first child after Louisa May Alcott and went on to have a house full of little women :) That is fantastic, but now you'll have the March sisters beaten by one.

JuneBugJr · 05/01/2011 22:15

Ffion
Mari
Lowri
Ellery
Genevieve
Estella
Eira
Eirlys
Arianna
Haf
Rhiannon
Rhysian
Bronwen

your dd's names are lovely btw

MrsvWoolf · 05/01/2011 22:00

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Spidermama · 05/01/2011 21:51

Five girls? Wow! Congratulations. No wonder you are running out of girls names by now. Grin

I like Stella, Billie, Ariel and Aphra is lovely too.

ilovemydogandMrObama · 05/01/2011 21:50

anais?