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What is your absolute favourite girls name?

364 replies

wildpoppy · 19/09/2012 11:16

We're still seeking inspiration. Can you give me your absolute favourite girls name - just one - never min whether it goes with siblings or surname or is too posh or dh doesn't like it. I'd just love to know everyone's favourite. Maybe we'll be inspired.

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KatieScarlett2833 · 19/09/2012 16:24

Laura Isabella

Which is good because..... Wink

blackcurrants · 19/09/2012 16:22

Tamsin.

Love it, love it in all accents (UK family, US home) and love all variants, love "Tam" and "Tammy" too.

Would have used it but... we've had 2 boys!

Melindaaa · 19/09/2012 16:19

Oh and Clara or Lara

Melindaaa · 19/09/2012 16:18

Cecily
Jemima
Harriet
Isadora

IShotJR · 19/09/2012 16:15

Leonie. Always have. I girl i know called Leonie is a Msnetter (i think)

(waves if she is!)

naturalbaby · 19/09/2012 16:15

Jezabel Grin. seriously.

Pos1 · 19/09/2012 16:14

Adelaide - loved it but didn't have the guts to use it........

HazleNutt · 19/09/2012 16:14

Elise
Eloise
Laura (pronounced as la(u)-ra, lot low-rah)

fedupofnamechanging · 19/09/2012 16:13

Evangeline.

Also Carys and Seren

Paintyourbox · 19/09/2012 16:11

Saskia (DDs name)

MyGoldenNotebook · 19/09/2012 16:09

Constance

RuleBritannia · 19/09/2012 15:56

Or called after virtues:

Mercy
Patience
Verity
Faith
Hope
Charity
not Chastity - too much Emmerdale there
Prudence etc

RuleBritannia · 19/09/2012 15:53

I like it when a girl is called after the month in which she was born: Augusta, Septima, April, June, Julia, Nova, Octavia etc.

OBface · 19/09/2012 15:40

Ophelia -dd's name

DisappointedHorse · 19/09/2012 15:38

Frances or Hilary.

IndiaJade · 19/09/2012 15:34

Ex-H wouldn't agree to use my favourite girls names for our DD unfortunately.

They are: Octavia (one of our chickens got this name)
Tess (this name went to the dog)
Tallulah, Tabitha and Anastasia

DD says why didn't we call her Phoebe, it is the most beautiful name in the world?

JustSpiro · 19/09/2012 15:33

Sprouts - that's my DD!

Junebugjr · 19/09/2012 15:32

Violet - named dd this. Loved it.

ilovesprouts · 19/09/2012 15:32

sophie /olivia

GreenShadow · 19/09/2012 15:31

It's changed over the years (as as child always wanted to call a daughter Nicola which I now don't particular like)
But over last few years, always rather liked the milder Puritan type names -
Faith
Hope
Grace

SophySinclair · 19/09/2012 15:30

Madeleine, which DH vetoed as Madeleine McCann was still very much in the news.

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 19/09/2012 15:26

Yolanda

VikingVagine · 19/09/2012 15:24

Hannah

lilibet · 19/09/2012 15:17

Elizabeth

Nn

Liz
Lizzy
Eliza
Beth
Betty
Betsy
Libby
Liza
Lilibet
Queenie

And so many more

And it is ageless

No one ever looks at the name Elizabeth or hears of someone called Elizabeth and thinks "oh yes, child of the sixties/seventies/eighties" (that's why I hate my name - soon as you hear it you know how old I am to a couple of years)

how can you not love it?

GoldandOrangeAnnunziata · 19/09/2012 15:16

Maria/ Mary