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I need 2 names for a feisty girl!

79 replies

misfitmum · 15/03/2011 15:11

Hi, I'm 28 weeks pregnant and just found out we're having a girl and would really like a name that is strong and feisty - she never stops moving and trying to kick her way out of my tummy and has already caused a few dramas :)

I would like a first and middle name that are quite feisty...nothing too traditional or too popular.

TIA

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Artichokes · 15/03/2011 21:40

Nina
Hester
Maggie

CharlieBoo · 15/03/2011 21:30

Erin
Scarlett
Ruby
Maxine
Claudia
Verity
Charity
Anne

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misfitmum · 15/03/2011 21:29

Grin @ Imps7 re the Gasworks!!

Thanks everybody for your inspiring contributions!! I didn't think I'd get so many replies :)

Oooh I really love some of your suggestions...particularly Saskia, Sasha, Natasha, Lola, Zara, Neve and Nancy...does anybody have any suggestions of middle names that go with these?

We have a DS with an Irish first name similar to 'Keegan' (don't want to out myself Wink ) and middle name similar to 'Ty' who is actually pretty laid back but at the same time very strong willed if that makes sense? was also active in the pregnancy, but not nearly as dramatic as this one/causing as many problems! Haha!

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StayFrosty · 15/03/2011 21:16

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Imps7 · 15/03/2011 21:15

Ooooh Ramona is a great name! It's the name of the girl who plays Karen in Outnumbered - if she's not a feisty little one I don't know who is!

Imps7 · 15/03/2011 21:13

I like your name-choosing method! It will be a nice story for your DD when she's bigger! My mum and dad names me after the road that the gasworks was on - not very inspiring really!

What about the following:

Zillah
Saskia
Esther
Neve

?

Sorry, not much help really.

Good luck - hope you find something you love!

Underachieving · 15/03/2011 21:12

Nancy is good (think Astor) and another one from mythology is Dianna or Artemis (basically the same character in geographically neighbouring mythologies) who was an hunter but also cultured and sophisticated and generally let men get on with it and lived her own life.

WinkyWinkola · 15/03/2011 21:07

Tabitha

Zara

Alexandra

Philippa

Clementine

Underachieving · 15/03/2011 21:06

Sarah isn't a feisty name, it's another from mythology (the Bible if you want to get technical) in the stories Sarah's role is pretty much to be miserable for longer than we would even consider to be a lifespan today (during which time she was called Sarai) and then for the God to cause her to have a son, who her husband (hearing voices at the time) then almost murdered on the say so of a burning bush. Not wishing to offend the Christians who of course believe this mythology, but to th rest of us it's a story and not an especially good one.

PepsiPopcorn · 15/03/2011 21:05

Any inspiration from strong women through history, women writers, influential women of the present day?

Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Florence Nightingale
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cleopatra
Queen Victoria
Indira Ghandi
Joan of Arc
Marie Curie
Naomi Wolf
Christina Rossetti

Bubbaluv · 15/03/2011 21:01

Ramona - thinking Ramona Quimby books which are brilliant.
Clara.

mollycuddles · 15/03/2011 20:59

My Kirsty is pretty feisty. And k is a good hard sound that goes against wishy washy ness

mathanxiety · 15/03/2011 20:56

Audrey
Eliza
Paloma
Philippa

growing3rdbump · 15/03/2011 20:52

We have a feisty Nyah. This time we're hoping for a more gentile daughter, so thinking if naming her Esme!!! Other names I like are Naomi and Sasha.

mathanxiety · 15/03/2011 20:51

Calista
Theodosia
Aphra
Zipporah
Cleo
Greta
Frida
Zelda

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DesertOrchid · 15/03/2011 18:43

Nancy, definitely! Also Natasha, Kerry, Edith.

COCKadoodledooo · 15/03/2011 18:39

Janoschi Samuela and Peterina both sound like 'we wanted a boy' to me!

COCKadoodledooo · 15/03/2011 18:38

"IslaValargeone Tue 15-Mar-11 16:56:33

Really? my judgement is obviously clouded by only knowing Sarahs who are wishy washy."

Do I know you then? Wink

My contribution to the list is Deborah.

thinkingkindly · 15/03/2011 18:33

Morgan
Zara
Alex (Alexandra)
Carlotta
Ruth
Erin
Zoe
Bea (Beatrice)
Gretchen
Gwen

fluffygal · 15/03/2011 18:24

Zanna.

Janoschi · 15/03/2011 18:07

We're looking at similar feisty names for our soon-to-be-born DD. As with the OP's baby, ours has kicked and punched her way through the past weeks causing no end of emergency scans and drama.

The names we've considered are:

Henrietta (Henry for short)
Truda (Trudy for short)
Peterina (Pete for short)
Samuela (Sammy for short)
Rita
Sonia
Carlotta (Charlie for short)
Tippi
Judy
Margo / Peggy
Nancy

No idea if this helps you! We're still floating around from one idea to the next and we've only got 8 weeks left....

IslaValargeone · 15/03/2011 17:42

That's the thing BalloonSlayer, there has to be an element of hope and wishful thinking in name choosing, so that kids can have something to aspire to, although I can't argue with your point about Pixie.
But call your kid Susan, meh....... Wink

MamaVoo · 15/03/2011 17:38

Tess

BalloonSlayer · 15/03/2011 17:35

You are quite right, Isla. Sorry, OP.

TBH if she isn't feisty and has a "feisty" name she'll be OK anyway.

For girls it's more a problem if they're called Pixie and grow up to be 6'2" with size 10 feet.

I was at school with a prominently unattractive girl* who had a beautiful, romantic, incredibly unusual Christian name, the sort that a Disney heroine would have. (This was 35 years ago when most schoolgirls were called Susan and Pauline and the most beautiful girl in our school was called Janice.) I felt quite sorry for her. She shortened it to something plain. Hopefully she blossomed later.

*Sorry, but she was. As was I, but I didn't have a glamorous name.