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Totally stuck for girls names - overthinking this ??

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MrsPretoria · 15/07/2014 11:07

Our DS has an unusual but 'old fashioned' but strong name. We love it, family loves it and it totally suits him. But I am not stuck on theme names, so girls name doesn't need to also be old-fashioned but I do like Unusual-Classic. Both DH and I have got unusual names. Mine so much so it has never featured on any MN list, ever!

No names that end with 'ee' (as DS's name is a **y and two names ending with Y or an ee sound make me think of a pair of small lap dogs Blush )

Names that that have made it as far as a being considered are :

Pepper
Cressida
Willow

  1. Cressida was extremely popular with both of us as a name for DS if he has been a DD when he was born 5 years ago but less so now as now there is Cressida Bonas (my objection)
  1. There is a very unattractive car called a Cressida - albeit not in production anymore and not in our main country of residence (DH's objection)

Would these things matter to you ? I have visions of Harry marrying Cressida Bonas and there being a wave of little Cress's..

Pepper is pretty unusual (odd to some I am sure) but is a family name further back. Both previous Pepper's were very successful women.

I like Willow but only a bit, but it sounds a bit.. hippy and although we are a quirky, kind of international kind of family, we are not at all bohemian really! And, although both of us are very tall, slender isn't really a family trait, we are more 'Oak' or 'Plane' Grin and Willow, to my mind creates a tall, slender image.. Is that just me ? Am I just preggo-hormone mad and overthinking everything ?

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CheerfulYank · 17/07/2014 18:17

Legion some are. Cassandra, etc. But others definitely not! :)

Stokey · 17/07/2014 15:57

I love Saskia

What about Sabrina?

Clara/Tara/Lara?

Melissa?

Xanthe?

Audrey?

Legionofboom · 17/07/2014 10:17

I've heard it pronounced Cress-i-da or Cress-ee-da CheerfulYank

Are many of the Shakespearean names well known in the States? I know of an Imogen who gets all sorts of unusual variations on her name in the US Grin

CheerfulYank · 17/07/2014 07:41

How do you pronounce Cressida? We don't have it in the States really.

Is it like CRESS-i-da or some odd Cre-see-da thing?

crashbandicoot · 17/07/2014 04:43

sorry if this is rude but is pepper a name?

What about Pippa?
or Philomena (mena for short)?

Guin1 · 17/07/2014 04:19

Elowen
Morwenna
Kerensa

CruCru · 16/07/2014 22:27

Callisto
Claudia (I have one - pronounced Claw-dia)
Marianne
Julia
Helena
Hannah
Miriam
Elizabeth
Eleanor

somuchtosortout · 16/07/2014 22:09

Op I really hope you will come back and tell us what name you picked!

Kantha · 16/07/2014 20:03

Karenza

Karina

Selina

weatherall · 16/07/2014 19:58

Saskias great. Convince dh!

ashesandfire · 16/07/2014 19:21

Pepper is a bit like a pet's name to me, sorry :/ I like Cressida a lot actually, and your objections wouldn't bother me tbh. I LOVE Willow, but I have often thought the same as you - what if she turned out to be short and/or curvy an/or clumsy... somehow it wouldn't work! I love pp's suggestion of Cosima.

seashellgreen81 · 16/07/2014 15:46

Pepita
Azalea
Eulalia
Dahlia
Euphemia

It sounds like you still like Cressida though - i wouldn't let Cressida Bonas put you off...

seashellgreen81 · 16/07/2014 03:24

Eulalia - 'yoo-lay-lea'
Euphemia
Rowenna
Azalea
Dahlia

justhayley · 16/07/2014 01:56

Love Willow & Cressida can't imagine anyone but peppa pig being called pepper

BelleOfTheBorstal · 16/07/2014 00:37

Calypso

Viola

Marguerite

Hebe

Iownafourinchporsche · 16/07/2014 00:24

Cecily Cecile Clara Cora eclair (joke)
Electra clementine Delphine

jenni2503 · 16/07/2014 00:06

Cara or Eva

rowna · 15/07/2014 23:58

I throw in:

Allora
Seren

I knew a Cressida once who was called "Cressi" and it really reminds me of a Meg and Mog book.

Corabell · 15/07/2014 23:47

Araminta

Arabella

Lavinia

Odette

ThinkIveBeenHacked · 15/07/2014 23:36

Ember
Juno
Constance
Petra
Aoife
Fabienne
Imogen

fanjodisfunction · 15/07/2014 19:25

Love cressida and saskia.

allegra
ophelia
thora
henna
camille
karenza
astrid
lotta

somuchtosortout · 15/07/2014 19:16

Federica

somuchtosortout · 15/07/2014 19:15

Tessa

Coral

Agatha

Maeve

Mabel

TortoiseUpATreeAgain · 15/07/2014 19:13

Vivian
Isadora
Astrid
Juliet / Juliette
Thaïs
Thea
Salome (possibly with an acute accent if you are going for the French version)
Helena

Sundaedelight · 15/07/2014 19:07

Collette

Cressida (YES)

Christina

Christabel