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No name for DD2; on the verge of calling her Stephen

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PennilynLott · 20/04/2015 10:03

DD1 has the perfect name for us - a choice of good nicknames, well out of the top hundred, family connection.

Here are other names we like. Please someone name her for us. We like quite long names generally, and ideally the nickname/shortening would begin with the same letter as the name itself.

Alexandra - love this but it doesn't go with the surname
Beatrice - current favourite?
Evelyn - literally every second girl is called Evie where we live
Clementine - DH hates it, I love it
Corinne - no nickname?
Leah - makes a comedy pairing with DD1's first name but would love it as a middle name
Juliet - makes a comedy pairing with my first name
Penelope - DH loves it, I don't like Penny

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PomPomPingPong · 25/04/2015 15:22

Sylvestra

50shadesofknackered · 24/04/2015 14:14

I know an Evangeline with nn Angel. I think its a beautiful name and the nn is lovely as well.

hoarseoldfrog · 24/04/2015 14:06

I know a Corinne called coz.
There seems to be 2 different ways to pronounce it? Prefer it pronounced to sound like orange rather than with stress on last syllable

ArcheryAnnie · 24/04/2015 12:23

Thought of this thread when I was listening to a Radio 4 drama series. It was set in 1946, and was about the "incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve..." solving crime.

I'd have loved to call a daughter Steve. It does have that 1940's feel!

PenguinsandtheTantrumofDoom · 23/04/2015 13:25

I don't think that's true. I do know someone it didn't work well for, but I've seen lots of people on here say it did work well.

Any further ahead on a first name OP?

fleurdelacourt · 23/04/2015 13:21

OP - am with takedeux on this, giving 2 sisters different surnames is just going to confuse them. My friend and her husband ended up giving both children her surname. That is an option. But different surnames will confuse them, their friends and their schools IMO.

Takedeux · 21/04/2015 21:42

Has your P considered that everyone will think your older DD is not his, if she has a different name to her sister?

Might that persuade him that a double barrel is the way forward? You can have both names iwithout a hyphen

miserableatwork · 21/04/2015 21:42

Ariana, Aurelia? Margot (maggie for nn)

Mouldypineapple · 21/04/2015 21:42

I have a friend with a Genevieve, they always call her Jenna (Genna I guess!) Always worry about a child learning to spell it though!
I love Josephina and Aurelia.

Incidentally when expecting dd1 I thought she was going to be a boy - called Stephen - but obviously not so we had to rethink! She is Rebecca. I do like the spelling Rebekah too. Lots of nicknames there! I call her Bunny..

LuluJakey1 · 21/04/2015 21:40

Stephanie? Could be Steph, Stephi, Annie.

youngestisapyscho · 21/04/2015 21:37

Georgina... Georgie for short?

auntpetunia · 21/04/2015 21:32

There's an Evangelina near us Her nn Lena which gets away from the Evie problems

ArcheryAnnie · 21/04/2015 21:30

Not helpful, I know, but I quite like Stephen for a girl...

albertcampionscat · 21/04/2015 21:27

Radclyffe?

sethcohen · 21/04/2015 18:51

I'd go with Stephanie too, with Stevie or Stephie for short. DS would have been Stephie (probably not short for anything!).

Sidge · 21/04/2015 16:19

Cassandra?

Romilly?

Jessamy?

OneMagnumisneverenough · 21/04/2015 16:16

I was going to say Jennifer (Jenna)

I like Alexandra - what about Sandra/Xandra - neither used very much at the moment and well due a comeback.

Also love Caroline

Also came across a little Gillian not so long back.

MonstrousRatbag · 21/04/2015 16:05

Of the names you posted, I also like Penelope nn Nell.

With Miriam, the nn could be Mira

Alexia nn Lexie?

Adele

Amalia

Andrea nn Annie or Riri

Esther could be Essie

Dinah

Kira

Timandra nn Tim

Jacinta nn Jack

Caroline is classic. I think Callie is the nicest short form.

(as to nicknames, your DD1 will come up with something really random for the baby and you will all end up using that. In one family I know the toddler older brothers immediately declared their baby sister was Eagle, and she was know as that for a while!).

wheresmyAga · 21/04/2015 15:57

I have a friend whose daughter is called Stevie, so don't discount Stephen Smile

SuburbanRhonda · 21/04/2015 15:52

Sorry to hear about your housing situation, OP Flowers

MythicalChicken · 21/04/2015 15:43

How about Genevieve?

CaptainFabulous · 21/04/2015 15:41

But if you named your DD Esther why wouldn't you call her that? I always think it's weird when people pre-determine nicknames, that's now really how they work!

Right, off home to collect Bear and Pieface. Smile

Allalonenow · 21/04/2015 15:11

How about Corinna?

Lovely classic name and very close to Corinne from your list, Cora would be a good NN.

From your list Leah is my favourite, with Juliette a close second though I'm not keen on Julie as a NN.

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PennilynLott · 21/04/2015 15:02

DH loves Esther / Hettie but we live in london so Hettie would be eh-ee, not sure I could deal with that.

NotSpartacus I like nicknames because it gives the child more options to choose their own name when they're older, and also a high court judge name might not suit a baby.

fleur yes they'll have different surnames. I'm not that keen and would rather double barrel (DD retrospectively so) but DH doesn't want to.

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NotSpartacus · 21/04/2015 14:29

why do you need a nickname?
i don't understand why people don't just name their kids what they want to call them...
(And I agree with prev poster about Nel in particular)

Penelope is v nice.

Other names I like and you might...

Rosalind
Aurelia
Estella /Stella
Margot
Josephine/a