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Autumnal girls names

81 replies

EmberElftree · 16/10/2015 22:43

I'm 40+6 and haven't decided on a girls name yet. I'm trying to find names which capture the magic of autumn. My own birthday is in October and I remember walking home from school in the leaves, smelling bonfires and having that frisson of excitement about toffee apples and Halloween. I like unusual, gothic, Victoriana, romantic names but can't find the right name which encapsulates all of the above. My current name is Violetta which ties in loosely with an aunt of dh also but all suggestions are welcome.

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scatterthenuns · 17/10/2015 16:36

OP - are you me?

This is the first bn thread I've come across in which someone has put into words by girls' name taste! I've been finding it so hard to articulate!

So many of these names have gone on my list.

afghanda · 17/10/2015 16:34

Bracken always gives me an autumnal kind of feeling when I hear it, but I guess bracken isn't exclusively autumnal.

EmberElftree · 17/10/2015 16:31

Yeah scoop it's really growing on me, very lotr!

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merrymouse · 17/10/2015 15:08

Breast schmest - I used to know a Bronwyn from Oz who worked for a company in a non English speaking country and they always got confused and called her 'browning', which is a bit like gravy browning, and we all start to think about gravy in the autumn as the weather gets colder!

So much less responsibility when you are naming somebody else's child! Grin

Only1scoop · 17/10/2015 13:47

Elowen is a beautiful name Op.

EmberElftree · 17/10/2015 12:53

Thanks all had the following on my long list

Violetta
Ottavia
Rowenna
Scarlett
Tabitha
Aurelia
Willow

Will add elowen thanks sophronia - I like oriana but dh says it sounds like areola .

I'm still searching for something I haven't heard before that leaps out at me... Still, baby may be a boy in which case we're sorted for a name!

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MrsLeighHalfpenny · 17/10/2015 12:03

It means "white breast". So YABU to associate it with autumn!
HTH Wink

SpendSpendSpend · 17/10/2015 12:02

Holly
Robyn
Autumn
Amber
Breeze

Sophronia · 17/10/2015 11:56

Juniper
Saffron
Opal (birthstone of October)
Willow
Cedar
Ceres (Goddess of the harvest)
Laurel
Jora (apparently means "autumn rain" in Hebrew)
Sorrel
Topaz (birthstone of November)
Golda/Goldie
Maple
Nina (means "fire" in the Quechua language)
Elowen (elm tree)
Annona (means grain harvest)
Linden
Sapphire (birthstone of September)
Oriana (golden)

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 16/10/2015 23:57

Hazel
Amber
Autumn.
Sienna

InkleWinkle · 16/10/2015 23:19

Hazel is a lovely name!

EmberElftree · 16/10/2015 23:10

Ha merry mouse makes me think of neighbours!

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Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 23:09

Indeed Ott though Wink

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 23:08

The harvest goddess though Op Wink

EmberElftree · 16/10/2015 23:06

Love Aurelia and sorrel I like but sounds too much like sorrow. Persephone too ott!

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Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 23:05

Bracken Grin

merrymouse · 16/10/2015 23:04

It's autumny because lose n and y and it is brown - or maybe that is just me...

Boredofthinkingofnewnames · 16/10/2015 23:04

Erm, autumn?!

Chillywhippet · 16/10/2015 23:01

Sorrel

Only1scoop · 16/10/2015 22:58

Aurelia
Persephone

EmberElftree · 16/10/2015 22:58

Love Tabitha also like Ottavia, rowenna, dh likes Scarlett but it's so popular and Celeste which I like but too ssssss.

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NaturalBlondeYeahRight · 16/10/2015 22:56

Dad was due on rememberence Sunday and was going to be a poppy. Love Autumn, Bramble, Laurel and Robyn.

Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:54

Stoats I suppose.

MrsLeighHalfpenny · 16/10/2015 22:53

Why Bronwen?

Darkbehindthecurtain · 16/10/2015 22:52

Ember or Amber, I would say.