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5 names, which 1 would you go for?

80 replies

QueenMoon · 25/10/2016 15:20

Bonnie
Dottie
Mattie
Harrie
Maddie

These will be the names on the BC.

We have a Hollie.

Thanks!

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SorenaJ · 25/10/2016 20:37

Maddie. What about Hattie?

BeastofCraggyIsland · 25/10/2016 19:50

Maddie is the only one that sounds like a name for a person (rather than a puppy). Bonnie and Harrie are particularly bad and sound really twee with Hollie (which is really nice, as it's a full name and not a cutesy nickname). I would second the suggestions to give her a 'full' name on her BC. She's going to be an adult a lot longer than a baby or a toddler; names that sound cutesy on a 2 year old often aren't so great when you're 22, 32 etc.

Foxtato · 25/10/2016 19:00

If you really have to I say go with Maddie, the others don't sound good as names and especially not with Hollie.

I like pp suggestions of Marnie, Maisie

booellesmum · 25/10/2016 18:44

Maddie

NoCapes · 25/10/2016 18:43

I know a little girl called Harrie - truly awful

Really though op you're naming a person, not just a baby - I'd really rethink your list of "names"

alltouchedout · 25/10/2016 18:39

Maddie or Mattie, if I had to choose.

ageingrunner · 25/10/2016 18:37

Marnie's nice, as a pp has said

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 25/10/2016 18:31

Maddie.

ShmooBooMoo · 25/10/2016 17:59

Sylvie is pretty too. Means 'of the forest', I think.
I only know of three Bonnies (the Langford, Tyler and the other half of Clyde): the first two very irritating, the last is a criminal.

ShmooBooMoo · 25/10/2016 17:54

None of those, sorry.
When is baby due? If she's a Christmas baby, Noelle would be quite nice Smile
Or Rowan? Nice for a girl Smile

Aducknotallama · 25/10/2016 17:46

None of them sorry

cheesymac · 25/10/2016 17:42

Bonnie

Marcipex · 25/10/2016 17:41

There's a Hollie in one of the Noel Streatfeild books, written in the late 30s or early 40s. It's not that new a spelling.

BendydickCuminsnatch · 25/10/2016 17:29

Definitely Bonnie. Lovely standalone name where the others sound like there should be a longer version. Also Hollie & Harrie = sickly sweet. Also, as a Harry myself, I can't get my head around that spelling!

BellaVida · 25/10/2016 17:17

Like Bonnie and Maddie- know some personally.

If the ending needs to rhyme with Hollie, what about:
Maisie
Cassie
Sadie

DavidPuddy · 25/10/2016 17:01

Or, if you really like the ie ending, how about Marie?

DavidPuddy · 25/10/2016 16:58

I really, really like Mattie. I would be inclined to give a more grown up name, though, because your child will not be a child forever. Hollie is a grown up name as well as prettie (couldn't resist). If you don't like Matilda how about Mathilde?

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 25/10/2016 16:41

Maddie

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Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:31

Hollie is a known way of spelling the name, I know someone else in their thirties with the same spelling.

Also know of a male Holley!

Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:29

Amie?

Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:28

Cassie?

Vixxfacee · 25/10/2016 16:28

Marnie

AndNowItsSeven · 25/10/2016 16:28

I guess Maddie, any reason why Holly was spelt incorrectly?

KoalaDownUnder · 25/10/2016 16:27

Ooh, Carrie is nice!

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