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Aaargh! Please help us find a name! <pulls hair out>

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Marcheline · 13/02/2013 21:26

DD2 is due on less than a week, and we don't have a name. We must have gone through every name in existence but are totally uninspired.

DD1 is called Aurelia.

Middle names will be Caroline Penelope.

We quite like Isabella but dont feel as though it's 'the one' like Aurelia was. May end up settling with it if we can't find anythig else, but that feels wrong.

I've had two other threads in baby names already and there were lots of great suggestions, but nothing that stuck. I don't are about a name being popular or different, just want to find the right one!

Other 'quite like' names are Claudia, Francesca, Harriet and Natalia. I don't feel like any of them are right.

Please help me!

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Marcheline · 13/02/2013 22:20

Eliza is very nice as well, I'll add it to the list.

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catladycourtney1 · 13/02/2013 22:19

Another for Seraphina :) she could call herself Fin for short.

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Marcheline · 13/02/2013 22:18

I love liberty but our surname ends in a y so it's out, unfortunately. DH liked it as well :(

I really love violet but someone said 'you only have to add one letter and you have violent' which completely ruined it for me.

Peony is just gorgeous, but again ends in a y. Something similar would be lovely. I toyed with lavender but thought it a bit too 'out there'

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NotInMyDay · 13/02/2013 22:16

Cora is my new secret love name. It's not the sort of name that I'd normally go for but it's beautiful. That and Audra.

NotInMyDay · 13/02/2013 22:15

Tatiana / Tatyana
Angelica
Lavinia

lucywiltshire · 13/02/2013 22:14

Cecilia
Theodora (nn Thea or Dora)
Senara
Tatiana
Florence
Coralie
Cora
Liberty
Eliza
Flora
Clover
Peony

LOVE this kind of name, so feminine and pretty yet sophisticated at the same time!

HotPinkWeaselWearingLederhosen · 13/02/2013 22:14

Helena?

NaturalBlondeYeahRight · 13/02/2013 22:13

Verity, felicity, cordelia, saskia, Saxon

SanityClause · 13/02/2013 22:12

Sylvia

NowPlayingZone · 13/02/2013 22:09

I'll add: Ottilie, Delphine, Lorelei, Emmeline, mariella, valentina & Dolores

CheckpointCharlie · 13/02/2013 22:09

YY Violet is so so lovely.

Viviennemary · 13/02/2013 22:07

I quite like Natalia. Venetia is very nice too and unusual. I love Pandora but don't know any. Also Iris, Violet, Rosalie.

CaseyShraeger · 13/02/2013 22:06

ZolaBuddleia, I bet I know the same family. There can't, surely, be too many Aurelia/Venetia sibling combos? My DD1 is friends with Aurelia!

kelou75 · 13/02/2013 22:03

I know a whole lot of babies named isabelle\ isabella what about;
Tabitha, Beatrice, Elodie, Claudia, Jemima, Celeste, Camille, Angelica, Agatha, Arabella, Polly, Martha, Sabella, Florianne and Harriet.

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Marcheline · 13/02/2013 22:02

I was friends with a girl at school called Jessamy, don't think I could use it because it is so inextricably 'her'

Really lovely name though.

DHs are no fun.

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CheckpointCharlie · 13/02/2013 22:02

Ha ha! Minty for short! Very Enid Blyton.

Ooh Grin have I found the one?!?!

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Marcheline · 13/02/2013 22:00

Ooh Tabitha! I'd forgotten how much I love that (does it matter that I had a cat called Tabitha?)

I suggested Araminta and DH thought I was joking...

Venetia seems a bit 'serious' for me, I really like Vivian but know a truly awful girl with that name so couldn't use it.

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Aethelfleda · 13/02/2013 22:00

Jessamy?

(I loved that name but DH was having none of it...)

amck5700 · 13/02/2013 22:00

Leonora?
Evelyn
Arrabella
Ariadne

nilbyname · 13/02/2013 21:55

Vivian?

ZolaBuddleia · 13/02/2013 21:53

I knew an Aurelia whose sister was called Venetia. Love Seraphina.

Delphine?

CheckpointCharlie · 13/02/2013 21:51

Tabitha? One last one!

CheckpointCharlie · 13/02/2013 21:51

Araminta, Seren, Angelica, Asha or Ash, Matilda.
Run out of ideas now!

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Marcheline · 13/02/2013 21:48

I have been toying with Seraphina, I'll suggest it to DH. Love evangeline but he doesn't, I also really like Talia.

Paloma is gorgeous, but again he doesn't like.

Thank you so much for the suggestions, yes I am getting a bit fed up now :)

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farmersdaugther · 13/02/2013 21:40

Evangeline
Anais
Isadora
Josephine
Honor
Marina
Paloma
Rosalie
Iolanthe
Violetta

Any good?