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Sibset name to go with Alice

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Bridge9484 · 03/08/2017 18:00

I haven't got any ideas for a baby girls name that goes with sister's name Alice. Help please :)

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Bubblesoup · 07/08/2017 12:53

Zoe
Sara
Hannah
Lucinda
Laura
Emily
Fiona
Julia
Megan (Meg)

Bue · 07/08/2017 03:48

I would agree, mathanxiety. I think most parents gravitate to a certain type or style of name. Maybe they just don't consciously think about it the way baby name aficionados do.

mathanxiety · 07/08/2017 01:08

Most of the families I know have DC names that belong in a certain style. For instance, a family where the kids all have names like Taylor, Skyler, and Piper, and other families where the kids' names are Caroline, Rachel, Anna, David and Michael, or Jonah, Ezekiel and Levi, or Sawyer, Cassidy and Parker.

You wouldn't get a Skyler and a Caroline in the same family.

BikeRunSki · 06/08/2017 15:23

Sibsets and names going together is only a thing on MN.

IRL I know plenty of ordinary brothers and sisters whose combinations of names would never meet MN approval, including my sister and I.

Bue · 06/08/2017 15:18

I thought everyone on the baby name boards would know "sibset" too! The other day I had to explain to my neighbour about sibling names "going together". I was commenting on a really odd sibset of a family we know. She didn't understand that it was a thing! Confused

ChocolateDinosaur · 05/08/2017 21:34

Alice and Esme (Esmeralda from Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Alice and Beth (little women)
Alice and Sophie (BFG)
Alice and Elizabeth/Jane/Mary/Lydia/Kitty (pride and prejudice)

ChocolateDinosaur · 05/08/2017 20:12

protagonist or just character in a book?

canihaveacoffeeplease · 05/08/2017 18:24

We have an Alice and a Sophie. I think Alice and Matilda is lovely too, so is Alice and Rosie xx

NC4now · 05/08/2017 17:07

Not literary but I've just remembered Hester. I think it goes quite nicely with Alice.

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Bridge9484 · 05/08/2017 08:35

Some really nice names on here! I'm liking Beatrice Smile

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mathanxiety · 05/08/2017 06:39

Alice and Clara (there is one in "The Nutcracker", and also in "Heidi")
Alice and Lara (from "Dr Zhivago")
Alice and Laurel (from Yeats poem 'A Prayer for my Daughter' - the line
"O may she live like some green laurel
Rooted in one dear perpetual place"
Alice and Elinor (Elinor Dashwood was a character in "Sense and Sensibility")
Alice and Eliza (Eliza Doolittle, from Shaw's "Pygmalion" aka 'My Fair Lady')
Alice and Estella (Dickens, "Great Expectations")
Alice and Rosalind (Shakespeare, "As You Like It")
Alice and Antonia (Willa Cather, "My Antonia")
Alice and Willa ^^

SnarkOfTheThunderPants · 04/08/2017 16:22

I love Arrrietty. Do wouldn't entertain it as option and we had boys anyway. Sad

ConstanceCraving · 04/08/2017 15:34

Harriet or Eleanor.

MammieBear · 04/08/2017 15:21

Lyra- from the golden compass

bakeitup · 04/08/2017 14:18

Hermione
Florence
Beatrice
Matilda
Poppy
Pippa

Threeandabit · 04/08/2017 14:05

Marilla - Anne of Green Gables
Nancy Drew!

I reckon Wendy though, due to my own childhood wish.

SerfTerf · 04/08/2017 11:44

Very true @daisypond

Can I shout "ARRIETTY" again please? Smile

daisypond · 04/08/2017 11:41

I can't think of any (nominally) children's books that have the weight of Alice. I wouldn't count any Roald Dahl, for example. I'm a fan of the Little House on the Prairie series and Laura is a really nice name, but again it still doesn't have the same resonance, if that's what you're after. The Narnia stories - Susan and Lucy - probably Lucy, because she's more fundamental to the stories, is a possibility, if you're happy with the religious symbolism. Little Women's Jo (Josephine) is the closest I can think of, and that's probably because it's 19th century, too. Otherwise, Jane (Eyre).

SerfTerf · 04/08/2017 11:23

Amy, and indeed any Little House on the Prairie name

Laura would be the obvious one from LHOTP.

BikeRunSki · 04/08/2017 08:32

I am named after Alice in Wonderland too!! None of my siblings have other literary names though.

Literary names -
Emma
Rebecca
Tess
Rachel
Amy, and indeed any Little House on the Prairie name
Estella

Other sisters of Alices i know:
Alice and Lucy
Alice and Emma
Alice and Zoe
Alice and Josie (Josephine)
Alice and Jessica (I know 2 of these combos, albeit 30 years apart!)

I also know of twins called Alicia and Rosita, which is a little flowery for my tastes, but rather nice.

SnarkOfTheThunderPants · 04/08/2017 08:26

Rebecca - Rebecca's world
Lucy or Susan - The chronicles of Narnia.

Crunchymum · 04/08/2017 08:24

I know
Alice and Martha
Alice and Olive
Alice and Amber

Crunchymum · 04/08/2017 08:22

Sibset is a horrific word but 'complimentary / similar type sibling names' I can kind of get on board with.

So if you have an Alice [classic name] calling her sister Tilli-Mai? Would be a bit "unmatchy"

ABCFamily · 04/08/2017 05:55

Wasn't the girl in the BFG called Sophie? Better than Sophie's Choice!

Yes! A much cheerier namesake! Grin

There's also Sophie's World, if the OP has an interest in philosophy.

HotLadybird · 04/08/2017 05:14

Wasn't the girl in the BFG called Sophie? Better than Sophie's Choice!