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Edith or Sylvie

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SilverBirdie · 25/03/2013 20:50

We've been set on Edith for a while bit I'm wavering the more I hear people grumble about it. Not that we've told anyone we like it but they know we like old names and have been guessing/passing comments on what they consider awful Sad
Sylvie we also love but it's very close to my DM's name and our sons name is a variation of DF's name so I don't know if that's a bit silly although unintentional.

Any thoughts.......?

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AndWhenYouGetThere · 03/04/2013 23:43

I'll suggest

Elsa/Elsie
Mabel
Hazel
Audrey
Ada
Norah
Lilian
May
Jemima
Ivy
Laurel
Rosemary
Gwendoline
Dorothy
Margaret
Flora

Dixiebell · 03/04/2013 22:31

Hi Silver!!

Like both your names. I have two friends though with an Edie and an Edith respectively. So I think I'd lean towards Sylvie, more unusual and v pretty. For Granny chic, we would have gone with Betty for a girl, but as you know it's boys all the way for us so far !

FingersCrossedLegsNot · 31/03/2013 00:20

Sylvie is lovely but Sylvia would be super adorable!

FiveGoMadInDorset · 30/03/2013 20:26

DD is an Edith, she is beautiful, strong willed, determined.

LynetteScavo · 30/03/2013 20:24

Edith.

Please, I beg you. It's soooo much nicer than Sylvie.

delilah88 · 30/03/2013 20:23

I will list some I can think of:
Blanche (!)
Blythe (?)
Greta
Olga
Vivien
Mary
Maud (?)
Dorothy (awesome)
Agnes
Imogen
Beatrice
Laura

otherwise....
Bridget
Cassia

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SilverBirdie · 30/03/2013 20:18

I like your thinking delilah and hadn't realised that about Sylvie in France...... Mmmmmm
We have a good friend with an Olivia and my sister is also pregnant with that on her top three so wont be using that or a variation, although very nice.
My middle name is Helen! Dh isn't keen for us to have H names as in our area of Yorkshire they are not always pronounced Sad
Not mad on Ruth but think I do need to compile a list of granny chic names Smile
I wonder if someone's already started a thread on this to make life a bit easier.... Find it hard to find names' lists out of top 100

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delilah88 · 30/03/2013 19:50

Hello! I have already commented but feel motivated by this threat as we did, at one point, consider one of these names. They're both very classy and sort of daring being as they are so grannyish. FWIW a French friend told me that Sylvie is like Lynn or Carol in France, so also grannyish but in a different way. I reckon you can think up a better, third alternative! This is how it starts, with the daring vintage names and hopefully you find something with the same level of vim and surprise but less obviously trendy.
I like Mummynotmum's suggestion of Livia but how about just Liv -- Julianne Moore's daughter is called this, it's a Scandinavian name.
Agatha is nice, and European.
How about Claudia? Or Helena. Or even just plain Helen. Now that's classy.
Oo, oo -- Tess, or Ruth.

Mummynotmum · 30/03/2013 18:58

Ivy? Livvy? Livia?

CPtart · 30/03/2013 18:54

Edith. There are far far too many ie ending names at the minute.

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SilverBirdie · 30/03/2013 18:28

Bumping as so far the reactions are pretty much 50/50 Grin

Other suggestions welcome Flowers

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yawningbear · 28/03/2013 15:05

Sylvie by far.

TiredFeet · 28/03/2013 13:55

I really really like both names. I knew a lovely, feisty, pretty, kind Edith growing up and I think it is a very pretty name. Ignore what other people think!

CruCru · 28/03/2013 10:41

I think Edith is amazing - like Edith Piaf.

specialknickers · 27/03/2013 21:59

Love both. Edith is already having a revival though - I know 3 Edith / Edies under the age of four... Only know one Sylvie though.

delilah88 · 27/03/2013 21:59

Edith is kind of hideous but also gorgeous on the right girl. I say go for it!

Oscarandelliesmum · 27/03/2013 21:57

Stopped in my browsing tracks by how lovely both names are!
Go for either, dh says he likes Edith best

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SilverBirdie · 27/03/2013 21:35

Thanks everyone... We won't get to birth day with just one name as feel its important to have a choice hence me feeling the need to extend our list from just Edith. I'm really surprised and pleased that it's pretty much a 50/50 split as so, so many people I've spoken to seem almost aghast that we'd consider Edith. I find that really Sad as think it's a beautiful name Smile

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purpleloosestrife · 27/03/2013 21:04

I think both are gorgeous. Both were "on my list " Wait and see what you think when she's born?

whyno · 27/03/2013 20:57

Sylvie is totally beautiful.

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SilverBirdie · 26/03/2013 22:53

Sylvia is my DM's name so don't want to copy it totally..... Sylvie I could do though Grin

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simplesusan · 26/03/2013 22:05

I really like Edith and think it is due a revival.

Rather than Sylvie how about Sylvia? I love this name.

Fwiw both Edith and Sylvia are family names so I am biased.

Exhaustipated · 26/03/2013 18:50

Love both actually, maybe see which suits her better?

Sirenetta · 26/03/2013 13:54

I am an Edith, aged 32 - born when absolutely no one would think of calling their baby Edith (except my wacky parents- lol). My experience of being an adult Edith is great - there's only ever me in the Starbucks queue! No seriously, people often remark "nice name", and it's slightly different without being impossible to spell or out in left field. People from non English speaking countries never know what I'm saying though - I usually get a puzzled look followed by "Eda?" - in other languages Edith is with a shorter e so sometimes I have to try that. Certainly it's not child abuse to call your daughter Edith .

siluria · 26/03/2013 09:34

Edith is my DD's middle name and we wish we had saved it for a first name for DD2 (I find out today if this baby is a DD or a DS!). I think it is an absolutely beautiful name. I know a toddler named Edith, too, and she is gorgeous and really suits her name.

In the abstract, I can sort of see why people don't like it. But when it's actually on your child, I think it's one of those names that a child will make gorgeous, IYKWIM. I reckon everybody will love it by the time she's 6 months old and think it's funky and cute and lovely. If you like it, don't worry what other people think, and just go for it. There are plenty of people who will think it's really lovely x

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