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Long frilly girls name to go with lysander

97 replies

Dixy30 · 01/12/2013 19:57

Hello
I am new so please be nice!
If you don't like long or fancy names stop reading now!!

My daughter has an unusual frilly girls name like Arabella (don't want this to be google able)and my son is called Lysander.

Pregnant with a girl. Always loved Cassandra - wanted similarly classic/ faux arisocratic/ Shakespearian/ Greek themed name. Then realised the 'sand' sound is exactly like Lysander. Also love Ariadne but too close to daughters name.

Husband likes Genevieve but the 'Jen' nickname isn't very exciting.

Any ideas? Also like perdita but don't love it enough.

Thanks ! Grin

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Witchesbrewandbiscuits · 02/12/2013 11:16

calliope

Summersun1983 · 02/12/2013 08:17

We have an Eloise, to me that's quite girly and feminine :-)

alexpolistigers · 02/12/2013 08:10

My daughter's name is Ariadne.

Names that I also considered:

Ismene (pronounced Is-mee-nee)
Nefeli
Danae (Dan-EYE)

These are perhaps not long and frilly, though!

Then there's:

Cassiopeia
Penelope

And DH suggested:

Alkmene
Cleopatra

Beckamaw · 01/12/2013 23:45

Philomena?

MarjorieChardem · 01/12/2013 23:39

I know a Genevieve called Vie or Vieve for short which is lovely.

SlicedLemon · 01/12/2013 23:35

Araminta
Penelope
Henrietta
Esmerelda
Augustine/a
Veronica
Yolanda
Honoria
Christiana
Alexandria
Jessica
Jemima
Carmelita
Susannah
Angelica
Vanessa
Saphira
Venetia

ChristmasCareeristBitchNigel · 01/12/2013 23:14

Carmilla
Demeter
Ariadne

BlackberryandNettle · 01/12/2013 23:13

Constantina?

MoonlightMerrimentandMistletoe · 01/12/2013 23:13

Maybe it was Moll Flanders' stage name? [tchwink]

CremeEggThief · 01/12/2013 23:12

Mariella?
Rosalinda?
Alexandrina?
Julianna?
Julietta?

MoonlightMerrimentandMistletoe · 01/12/2013 23:12

[tchgrin]

ThanSheSaid · 01/12/2013 23:10

Capucine. It's a French name. Cap-poo-sin

Keep saying it and it might grow on you Grin

TheNunsOfGavarone · 01/12/2013 23:09

Blowzelinda who on earth was called that, some Restoration porn star Grin

Clarinda
Lucinda (probably too close to Lysander!)
Lucilla
Cecilia
Zephyrine
Damaris
Mariana

BlackberryandNettle · 01/12/2013 23:06

You could have genevieve with genie as a nicname or vivi. Alternatives:

Josephine or Persephonie or Seraphina - sephie
Gabriella
Diana
Hermione
Viola

Lurleene · 01/12/2013 22:45

Calliope

MoonlightMerrimentandMistletoe · 01/12/2013 22:45

Amaryllis?

If you really like frilly names do some investigation on Restoration ones - think the best I've come across (admittedly in an 'we only 'ad one coal t'eat between eighteen childer' type way) was Blowzelinda!! [tchgrin]

Oh, and congratulations!

MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 01/12/2013 22:44

Aurelia
Wilhomena

ctrlaltdel · 01/12/2013 22:43

Calantha
Euphemia
Iolanthe
Celestia
Seraphina

poppydaisy · 01/12/2013 22:40

Antonia
Valentina
Florentina
Theodora

Love most names on here!

Iwaswatchingthat · 01/12/2013 22:38

Felicity

capsium · 01/12/2013 22:35

Guinevere

capsium · 01/12/2013 22:33

Catriona
Rosamund
Beatrice
Jemima
Evangeline

Rosencrantz · 01/12/2013 22:24

Zsa Zsa!

As in Zsa Zsa Gabor!

cavell · 01/12/2013 22:17

Alethea?
Leonora?
Juliana?
Anastasia?
Isadora?

Chewbecca · 01/12/2013 21:53

Oh, and how about Angelika?