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Elizabeth, Felicity or Harriet?

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Livelifelove85 · 14/04/2018 19:59

Please help!!! We are so desperate, currently 35 weeks and need help!!

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Littlemum2be86 · 16/04/2018 06:47

All lovely names but Elizabeth is my favourite. Love all the shortenings and there are so many to choose from! Harriet is my least favourite but you can’t go wrong with any of them really.

manicinsomniac · 16/04/2018 01:42

Love Felicity

I like Harriet and Elizabeth but I'm not keen on any of the nicknames which would probably be inevitable with Elizabeth.

stellinaa · 16/04/2018 01:04

Favourite would be Harriet (especially with nn. Harry). Elizabeth is a nice classic name also.

cttontail · 15/04/2018 23:07

All lovely. What do you like about them? What do they conjure up for you? What would you like your daughter's name to give her?

chezmk1988 · 15/04/2018 22:31

Elizabeth all day long

Raines100 · 15/04/2018 21:14

Love Felicity; Elizabeth would be a close second. There's nothing redeeming about Harriet.

red1hen · 15/04/2018 20:15

Harriet for me! Followed by Felicity then Elizabeth

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 15/04/2018 19:52

Love them all. I'd probably choose Harriet in your shoes.

MikeUniformMike · 15/04/2018 19:52

Elizabeth. Choose the short version though. I like most of them (not Elsie, Bess, or Betty), and just saying it as Lizbeth is fine.

Fabulouslyrich · 15/04/2018 19:30

Love Felicity ( Fliss) and Elizabeth ( Ellie, Eliza, Libby). I find Harriet ugly and unfeminine.

ThunderR0ad78 · 15/04/2018 18:57

Elizabeth - Harriet and Felicity are way too posh!

SleightOfMind · 14/04/2018 22:19

Crisps Grin

Chocolatecake12 · 14/04/2018 22:18

Harriet has been my favourite girls name since I was pregnant 16 years ago. I had a ds so couldn’t use it and a second ds followed 5 years later. I’ll never use Harriet myself now but still love it years later.
So from your list Harriet followed by felicity. I’m not keen on Elizabeth.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 14/04/2018 22:15

To be (brutally) honest, they’re all frumpy and po-faced rather than beautiful and classic.

BunnyEars1 · 14/04/2018 22:13

Elizabeth by a country mile

Sophronia · 14/04/2018 21:42

Harriet

ChocolateCrunch · 14/04/2018 21:40

Harriet, with Felicity a close second. Not keen on Elizabeth, sorry.

MadMaryBoddington · 14/04/2018 21:36

Harriet. I also like Felicity. Not Elizabeth - so frumpy.

Passmethecrisps · 14/04/2018 21:33

Posh girl. Not pish girl. A pish girl would have different connotations I think.

Passmethecrisps · 14/04/2018 21:32

I may be a tad biased about one of those names having a little one of my own. It is extremely unusual where we are and it is clear that not everyone likes it with its pish girl connotations. However, mostly we get compliments.

Harriet was also on our shortlist.

I would leave your list as it is actually. When my baby was born we had two names and could not decide. At 6am when the tea lady trundled in and asked her name I blurted one out. I then had to text my husband to say she had a name!

The only issue with the one we chose was I was so sleep deprived that I called her facility for about two weeks

MollyHuaCha · 14/04/2018 21:25

Felicity.

SleightOfMind · 14/04/2018 21:15

I’ve got an Elizabeth, one of my loveliest school friends was a Felicity, nn Puss (feline) and Harriet the Spy is a great bk Wink

Lovely names, wait and meet your tiny DD and pick the one that suits her best.

SoftSheen · 14/04/2018 21:06

Harriet, though all three are good.

SheldonandPenny · 14/04/2018 21:04

Felicity. Only.

ilovepixie · 14/04/2018 21:03

Felicity love the nick name Flick too.