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Our baby girl needs a name!

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EducationComesFirst · 26/07/2018 12:19

Hi All,

Our beautiful daughter (DC3) is 6 days old today. We need to make a decision on her name. The name should be international, go well with her siblings Elizabeth and Edward (but not starting with E). Names left on our list are:

Alice
Rose
Annabel/Anna
Alexandra

Please share your suggestions and opinions on above.

So Elizabeth, Edward and ...? Thank you xx

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Isawthelight · 26/07/2018 15:47

Anna

BellMcEnd · 26/07/2018 15:43

Alice or Rose

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 15:43

Thinking about it, if I had to pick I one I would pick Alexandra because you have given your other children longer names with lots of nickname options. And Elizabeth and Alexandra are both lovely and regal, as a pp said. But Anna is beautiful, elegant and simple.

RosaMallory · 26/07/2018 15:42

Rosa.

Sugarpiehoneyeye · 26/07/2018 15:42

Rose Alexandra.

LoveInTokyo · 26/07/2018 15:38

I really like all your names. Sorry that doesn’t help!

Anna or Alexandra.

daisypond · 26/07/2018 15:33

Margaret is super, I think. It's a really old name and fits in well with your other DC names.

LeeMiller · 26/07/2018 15:31

Margaret (lots of nn potential), Beatrice, Frances, Josephine, Anne, Victoria, Constance, Matilda, Caroline, Louisa...

MikeUniformMike · 26/07/2018 15:26

Anna or Alice. I like Annabel but not Annabelle.
How about Margaret or Margarita and Susanna?

Deadheadstickeronacadillac · 26/07/2018 15:15

Amelia or Rebecca

ReckItWralf · 26/07/2018 15:14

Alexandra or Alexia.

I really, really can’t stand the name Alice. It’s so wet and prissy.

soupforbrains · 26/07/2018 15:10

also, I think that Rose works really nicely as a middle name with all three of the other names on your list, but also doesn't quite work with Edward and Elizabeth as a first name.

hottub · 26/07/2018 14:59

Anna - no contest. It goes with the others and is lovely.

So nice to see some traditional names on here, nice and "normal" when everyone is usually so bothered about being "unique" - I can't stand all these silly names but that's obviously just me Hmm

daisypond · 26/07/2018 14:55

I really like them all - you can't go wrong with any of them. Rose is lovely as a first name, much better than as a middle name. Anna is timeless. Alice and Alexandra have a simple gravity about them.

MariaMadita · 26/07/2018 14:53

Oops, I actually agree with the pp, Alice and Elizabeth do sound father similar.

Alexandra or Anna would be lovely. Alexandra "goes" better with your other names (if that's something you care about)...

MariaMadita · 26/07/2018 14:49

Anna is beautiful. (And very international.)

I also like Alice and Alexandra. Alexandra is such a regal name.

Original poster
EducationComesFirst · 26/07/2018 14:48

Thank you so much for your responses, so helpful. Keep them coming, will show them to DH too, we must make a decision today xx

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Sophronia · 26/07/2018 14:45

Anna or Alexandra. Alice is a bit too similar in sound to the Eliz of Elizabeth.

soupforbrains · 26/07/2018 13:57

I like Alice, always have,

but have you thought about maybe using Alicia Rose? which I love LOVE LOVE

Rjd13 · 26/07/2018 13:52

Absolutely love Alice with the other names Smile

MadisonAvenue · 26/07/2018 13:46

Anna is lovely, as is Rose - or Rosa.

Alice is overused at the moment.

GahWhatever · 26/07/2018 13:35

Elizabeth and Edward aren't just old fashioned names. They are classic in a way that Rose isn't (though Rose is charming):

Alice
Annabel/Anna Anne
Alexandra
Louise
Susanna
Margaret (I think Meg is charming for a little girl)
Harriet and Henrietta are nice too, with lovely nicknames.

Fivefootoffun · 26/07/2018 13:21

Alice is gorgeous! Many congratulations

Disfordarkchocolate · 26/07/2018 13:20

Alice

LeeMiller · 26/07/2018 13:19

Rose, Alice and Anna are all really lovely. Alice seems the most popular to me, might be wrong though.

Alexandra is nice and perhaps the most similar (if that matters to you) to Elizabeth and Edward in that it's a longer name with several possible diminutives. Realistically, on a day to day basis she'd probably be Ally/Alex/Lexie etc, do you like those?

I find Annabel a bit sloaney, it reminds me of that Mayfair club the royals (used to?) go to.

Similar names to my mind are Charlotte, K/Catherine, Mary, Isabel, Sophie, Rosalind.