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Opinions on our girls names shortlist please

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JClarke7 · 06/12/2016 13:04

DD1 is due in early February and we've whittled our name shortlist down to the following but chronic indecision has now set in and I feel like I'm going name-blind! Please help!

Middle name would likely be either Emily or Christina (both family names).

Margot
Edith (nn Edie)
Ava
Daisy
Hazel
Lily

Thanks :)!

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DramaAlpaca · 06/12/2016 21:04

Hazel is the only one I really like from your list, and I love both middle names.

Daisy is too cutesy for my taste
Margot & Edith are too old lady for me, and I find Margot very harsh
Ava & Lily are nice enough, but they are everywhere.

BingThing · 06/12/2016 20:49

I love Edie. I know an Edie Rae (middle name) which is pretty. I really like Margot too.

reindeerbitesback · 06/12/2016 20:27

Just read that you like Edie but OH isn't sure if Edith, I know an Elodie who gets Edie (early 30s). What about Edina? I also know of a baby Edie (stand alone name).

Katkin14 · 06/12/2016 20:20

All lovely names. Think Hazel is fine for a fair child. Prefer Hazel, Edith and Margot. I like the others, but they're a bit over done now. From someone with a name that every fifth woman my age has I wish my parents had gone with something a bit more unusual.

Timefor2 · 06/12/2016 20:12

Nice names but less keen on Margot and Edith

buttercup54321 · 06/12/2016 20:01

Lily is nice. Prefer Emily to all of them. Margot too similar to Maggot.

PosiePaRumPaPaPumParker · 06/12/2016 19:59

I only like Margot. The others are okay but very common.

goose1964 · 06/12/2016 19:58

Only like Hazel, but love both middle names

MikeUniformMike · 06/12/2016 19:56

Margot. Prefer Christina to Emily. Ava, Daisy and Lily are pretty but too popular and I hate Lil. Edie is pretty, Edith not. Hazel makes me think of Watership Down.

MollyHuaCha · 06/12/2016 19:49

My favorites from your list are Edith (Edie) and Margot.

I know an adult Margot and she has the inevitable two issues with this name: people writing Margo, and People pronouncing Margot as Margotte. Despite this, I still think it's a really pretty name. Enjoy choosing.

user1472334322 · 06/12/2016 19:43

That's what I was trying to do! Congrats, op Flowers

user1472334322 · 06/12/2016 19:42

Well that didn't work!Flowers

user1472334322 · 06/12/2016 19:41

Hazel was the name of a close friend of mine. She was blonde, so I don't think her hair colour will matter. I love it and daisy from your list. I also like edith, but prefer edie. Congrats! [Flowers]

reindeerbitesback · 06/12/2016 19:32

I love Daisy, I feel it's had a lull in popularity lately (not sure what the official figures show) and is seemingly underrated.

Hazel and Ava are gorgeous.

Margot is my first choice for my baby if it is a girl. I have adored the name for all of my life, it's truly beautiful. OH still needs convincing, though.

Edith is stunning. I've also been considering this.

The only one I'm not particularly keen on is Lily, but mainly as I named all my stuffed animals Lily as a child so find it quite a juvenile name.

We have very similar taste, OP!

junebirthdaygirl · 06/12/2016 17:47

Edith is a beautiful name in itself. Margot is OK. I like Hazel. It's pretty unusual. Others are just everywhere these days although they are nice names.

Jooni · 06/12/2016 17:22

I like Margot best.

Hazel is also lovely. I like Daisy and Ava too but they're much less interesting than those two.

Not keen on Edith/Edie and especially Lily.

Largemelons · 06/12/2016 17:03

You have three of my daughters names on your list and Margot is on my shortlist for this one if it's a girl!
Fwiw Ava mines 6 and there's another one in hervyear but they're the only ones in the whole school.
Daisy (5) - 3 in the whole school she's the only one in her year
Lily - mine is a teenager but I only know of 2 in the primary school.
Even popular names are rarely THAT ubiquitous. If you like them then use them!

EverySongbirdSays · 06/12/2016 16:50

I don't think Daisy ages well. I don't think it works well with either middle name.

Every other little girl I know of right now is called Ava, Eve/Evie/Eva or Amelia/Amelie

Lily I'm not a fan of, which leaves :

  1. Margot
  2. Hazel you hardly EVER hear Hazel
  3. Edie (which I love but is very similar to Evie)
  1. Margot
JustSpeakSense · 06/12/2016 16:41

Ava and daisy

Pemba · 06/12/2016 16:39

Daisy is nice. So are Lily and Ava, but there are so many little girls with these names currently, she would probably be one of several at school.

I really love your middle names Emily and Christina. Any chance of swapping them around and using them for first names?

SorenaJ · 06/12/2016 16:31

Love Lily and Hazel

Dontrocktheboat · 06/12/2016 14:54

I think Hazel is fine with blonde hair. (Things that are not would be names like Ebony!)

Dontrocktheboat · 06/12/2016 14:52

Lily, Ava and Daisy are ridiculously popular, especially the first two.

I like Hazel and Edith best from your choices. Not keen on Margot.

IAmALionTamer · 06/12/2016 14:48

Ava and Margot for me

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JClarke7 · 06/12/2016 14:48

Thanks for all your messages! It's so nice to hear some outsider opinions after we were beginning to lose the will...

I must admit that we were a little concerned that Lily, Daisy and Ava were very popular but I do love the name Daisy in particular, while Ava is probably top of DH's list.

Margot - this has been a front-runner all the way through the pregnancy (with the middle name Emily) but we seem to have got cold feet for some reason. I think perhaps because people seem to either love or hate it, and a few family members haven't seemed too keen. It's great to see that it's a popular choice on here though!

Edith - we both love Edie but DH isn't sure on Edith and I wasn't sure on Edie as a stand alone name...

Hazel - I love the name, my concern here is that both DH and I are very fair and I'm not sure that Hazel on a blonde-haired girl would suit? This might just be my over-thinking again though tbh!

Thanks again all - please do keep the opinions or alternative suggestions coming :)
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