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Daisy Alice - do your worst!

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siluria · 24/02/2013 20:44

15 weeks pregnant with DC2 - yay Grin

For a girl, we are beginning to settle on Daisy Alice as a possible name.

For a boy, we're dithering between Arthur Clive and Alfred (Fred) Clive (Clive non-negotiable: important family connection).

Surname begins with B. Opinions? (All welcome - want to hear good and bad!)

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partyatthepalace · 07/02/2021 19:38

Love Arthur and Alfred

Find Daisy very drippy, it’s such an insignificant little flower. Like Alice though.

Few other thoughts - Flora, Iris, Jasmine, Honor, Felicity, Amelia, Clara, Phoebe, Emma, Edith

buntingandstarcharts · 07/02/2021 14:30

@ftmum94 lovely! we are thinking either Daisy Ella or Ella Daisy?

ftmum94 · 07/02/2021 14:24

Lovely! We are considering Daisy Amelie at the moment for our first if it’s a girl!

buntingandstarcharts · 07/02/2021 14:22

zonbie thread but desp to know what she went for to somehow help with ny own indecisiveness on ootential daisy with brother called arthur🙈

Chilldonaldchill · 07/02/2021 14:17

Oops zombie thread!

Chilldonaldchill · 07/02/2021 14:16

Daisy Alice is lovely.
I prefer Arthur to Alfred, mainly because I know loads of Alfies.

buntingandstarcharts · 07/02/2021 14:02

I know this is a super old thread but OP what did you go for? I stumbled across your thread researching opinions on the name Daisy!We have a little Arthur and are expecting a girl. We have either Daisy Ella or Ella Daisy - a bit like your alice/daisy conundrum. interested on what you went for x

raisah · 02/03/2013 08:28

Both girls names are lovely but I think Alice has the edge as it ages well. Daisy sounds like just a girls name rather than one that can be used for an adult later on.

I also like Alicia which is quite classy & grown up.

WorkingtoohardMama · 01/03/2013 09:56

siluria exactly!

FelicityWasCold · 01/03/2013 09:42

I love Arthur- and Art is a very cool nickname

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siluria · 01/03/2013 09:39

I like Arthur James and it would work well as my dad's middle name is James. But Clive is the only certainty, and it's for an important family-connection-type reason.

Alice Elizabeth is cool :)

workingtoohard, Lily Grace is lovely and it's so nice when your DD's name makes you smile :) It doesn't matter about popularity if it does that - my DD's first name is quite popular, though her middle name isn't, and I love it so much that I don't care how many people have that name.

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Jessepinkman · 01/03/2013 01:22

I would say Alice Elizabeth or Arthur James.

But I'm really cool.

Viviennemary · 01/03/2013 01:12

I quite like the name Daisy and Alice is fine too. But not sure they are good together. But maybe that's just me. Not so keen on Alfred. Prefer Arthur.

GW297 · 01/03/2013 01:05

I like Daisy Alice.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 28/02/2013 18:48

Lovely. I have both within my dds' name combinations!

WorkingtoohardMama · 28/02/2013 10:39

siluria we called her lily grace - lily is a family name and grace was the name of the midwife who delivered her; unfortunately in the last 3 years both names have become ridiculously popular, which occasionally makes me wish that we'd stuck with daisy Alice, but her name does suit her completely, and despite the popularity I still love hearing it and think its a beautiful name.

Good luck with you little one!

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siluria · 26/02/2013 10:04

I think what we might do is go either with Alice Daisy or Daisy Alice depending on what she looks like when she's born :) Pleased that nothing disastrous or unexpected has been turned up on this thread though (I totally get what people are saying about the cutesy thing, but find I'm not bothered about it when people say it, so that's a good sign I think :) - she might turn out to be a total tomboy Daisy or a feisty Alice, which would be cool - and I had a quick online search and found a lot of surgeons/lawyers/academics/journalists called Daisy so not worried it'll be a hindrance).

Interesting Alfred seems to be better liked on here than Arthur. DH's argument is the same as the one you guys have used - i.e. Alfred is more versatile and more easily reducible to a nickname. I just love Arthur. Again, we may just keep both in play and see what he looks like when he's born.

Thanks for all the feedback of all kinds - much appreciated :)

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sw11mumofone · 25/02/2013 21:49

I think Alfred is better than Arthur. There are less around (Arthur seems to be surging in popularity around here) and more nn's to choose from.

Don't like Daisy Alice at all I'm sorry. Both names are way to cutesy and twee for me. And together make each other worse. But that's just my opinion.

Sashapineapple · 25/02/2013 21:42

I would also put them the other way round Alice Daisy. Daisy is too cutsey for a first name imo.

I'm not really a fan of the old peoples names but Arthur and Alfred are very inoffensive and ok.

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siluria · 25/02/2013 21:12

Aw, what did you name her instead?

Maybe that will be the same for us! Once we'd chosen DD's name after her 20 week scan we never deviated again.

Am so convinced this one's a girl.

I know people are kinder once you say you've more or less chosen a name, but I'm surprised at the responses on here. I was expecting way more people saying it's too popular/too cutesy/too litte-girly (all of which I do slightly worry about ...). Pleased, obviously, that there are people out there who like it!

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WorkingtoohardMama · 25/02/2013 14:32

Daisy Alice was our name for dd, but she just didn't look like a daisy! I sometimes feel a bit sad that I haven't got a daisy Alice, I think it's a beautiful name

Indith · 25/02/2013 11:12

Oooops yes, had ds2 been a girl, he is a boy.

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siluria · 25/02/2013 10:55

He he :)

Was slightly surprised you were going to name your son Miriam Alice, but thought 'each to their own' - then re-read and realised what you meant!

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Indith · 25/02/2013 10:13

Well my dd is known as Daisy (full name Margaret) and had ds2 been a boy he would have been Miriam Alice so I like both Daisy and Alice :). Ds2 however was a boy and is called Arthur Grin.

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siluria · 25/02/2013 10:10

Oh yes, the radios and the fish. Neither too worrisome, I don't think :)

Surname has two syllables.

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