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Baby due in 2 days girl shortlist help please!

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Tolalola · 01/06/2011 12:38

I'm due to be in on Friday to have DC2 and we are really struggling with names. I need to come up with a first and a second name from this lot. Any opinions, please? We're trying for something not completely out there but not overly common, either.

Arabella
Cecilia
Elizabeth
Felicity
Lara
Phoebe
Sophia
Sorrell
Thea
Verity

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bagelmonkey · 01/06/2011 12:50

They are all lovely names. I like Verity Elizabeth. What's the initial of your surname?

smother · 01/06/2011 12:55

You can't go wrong with Elizabeth and it has so many lovely nickname potentials for all ages too. Lizzie, Beth, Liz, Betty...... That's what I'd chose from your list. Also like Thea.

jammiedodger11 · 01/06/2011 13:06

I agree with smother about Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Sorrell is just gorgeous IMO. I really like Lara from your list as well, perhaps with Elizabeth as a middle name.

Thea, Felicity and Verity are not to my liking. The others are ok.

JamieAgain · 01/06/2011 13:10

I love Elizabeth too

And Lara

Sorrell is lovely too

I think, there will be more and more Elizabeths around very soon, though, if that matters

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Tolalola · 01/06/2011 13:27

Oh yes, sorry, meant to say, surname is M M.

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YoureaKITTY · 01/06/2011 13:42

Love all of them but particularly Cecilia and Elizabeth - plenty of nickname potential, suit all ages and personalities, and not too popular right now so they won't date.

speculationisrife · 01/06/2011 13:49

I love Verity and Sorrell as first names, and Verity Elizabeth sounds lovely, as per bagelmonkey's suggestion. Actually, all those names are appealing, I think - nice and traditional without totally buying into the granny-chic thing - although Felicity and Arabella I'm a little less keen on than the others.

fairieswearboots · 01/06/2011 14:32

Lara Felicity :)

PiaFedora · 01/06/2011 14:36

Cecilia is lovely - it's our DD's middle name and if we'd known that DD3 was on the cards we would have kept it with nn Cece Smile

dexifehatz · 01/06/2011 14:55

We have a Felicity Faith aged 2. We call her Fliss/Flissy my dad calls her Filly.It's strange that there seems to be a lot of people considering Felicity at the moment.DD1 [12] chose Felicity as she was reading Malory Towers books when we had DD2! I always had Fenella in mind, but she really suits Felicity.

swash · 01/06/2011 15:40

I love:

Cecilia
Elizabeth
Lara
Phoebe
Sorrell
Verity

eandh · 01/06/2011 15:43

My goddaughter is an Elizabeth but mainly known as Lizzie or binks and I think it's a beautiful name. I know a couple of Verity's think it has become more popular in last few years but beautiful (I have an Ellie (far too common and so wish we had called her something else now!) and a Hattie (opposite problem that we didnt know any other Hattie's but 2 know of 2 babies born this year that have been named Hattie!)

LemoryMane · 01/06/2011 15:44

I love Elizabeth, Phoebe and Thea.

I like Felicity and Cecilia.

The others are all alright, bar Verity which is too twee for my tastes.

exoticfruits · 01/06/2011 15:54

Elizabeth, Phoebe or Verity.

bagelmonkey · 01/06/2011 16:23

I always like to make sure that the initials won't spell anything you might regret!

JamieAgain · 01/06/2011 17:29

Whenever I hear Phoebe I think Feeby, which isn't as nice a proposition, IYSWIM

Hedwig3 · 01/06/2011 18:11

Lara Felicity

unless you swap Cecelia for Cecily, then

Cecily Arabella

suwoo · 01/06/2011 18:15

Love them all. Gorgeous choices, so good luck picking two Wink

joeuseless · 01/06/2011 18:23

Arabella lovely
Cecilia lovely but prefer cecily
Elizabeth like like . bess ,beth are great as nns but dislike the nns liz , lizzie
Felicity love
Lara ok but prefer larissa or clara
Phoebe lovely but quite popular
Sophia ok but again quite popular
Sorrell no too like sorry
Thea ok but prefer theodora or dorothea nn thea
Verity like dh vetoed as it's too similar to ferrety

joeuseless · 01/06/2011 18:26

felicity arabella
arabella cecilia
phoebe elizabeth

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meditrina · 01/06/2011 18:34

Arabella - fine
Cecilia - lovely
Elizabeth - lovely, lots of nns, but on the up for the Diamond Jubilee!
Felicity - OK
Lara - OK
Phoebe - OK
Sophia - OK but very, very popular
Sorrell - fine
Thea - OK, but quite a few around
Verity - not so keen

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pilates · 01/06/2011 20:13

Sophia Elizabeth

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Tolalola · 01/06/2011 20:30

Thanks everyone! So many choices! I'll have to consult the clan again (but not DS, who's 3 and insists that he wants to call the baby James), and will hope that I can get online from the ward over the weeekend.

Exciting!

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