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Name for our baby girl

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Bossbabynx5 · 21/07/2019 13:50

The ones we like are lola , marnie ,ruby, Gracie , Ella , alisia (said like al-lis-iya not al-eesh-a) sophia , Britney , dolcie, and Lauren. Which is the best and worst out of them as we can't agree and she's due September?? Thanks thought or anything would be a help or any suggestions and middle names to? Smile

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AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet · 25/07/2019 19:10

I know it's not to everyone's taste, hear me out... 😬

Sapphire is the birthstone for September. Idea for a middle name?

I think Ruby is July.

My son was born in September. It's a great month to have a baby Smile

I named another one of my daughters 'Rose' as her middle name.
That's also frowned upon and considered common on here 🙈 But I think it's beautiful after any name

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 18:00

What do yous think is a good middle name for gracie ?

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 17:59

Not keen, Lila's alright but don't like them together. Think it's to much sorry like to prancy fancy😕

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AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet · 25/07/2019 17:47

What about Lila-Grace? Kate Moss' daughter

I think it's beautiful Shock

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 17:23

And christabel ?! Wth lmao never heard that, then again there was a girl in my High School called rainbow.

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 17:19

@OhTheRoses yeah u are old enough to be my nanna then! Lol I LOVE cheryl probs not for a first name tho was planning on maybe using that as her middle name aswell as louise but that could be double barreled. Your daughters about my age haha! Yeah I remember in my primary school there was a Lucy in my year and a Hannah actually a few Hannah's by the time I was in high school, and an antonia a few years above me, aswell as a Rosie , and francesca older than me and one much younger who was my friends sister I quite like that acctually, but they just got called fran. My class was like mostly Jessicas, Chloes,Courtneys,Sophies,Leah's , Melissa, Erin, Emily, Emma, Beth/bethan/bethany, Billie, McKenna, Ellie , Jodie, Charlotte, Rebecca that was soo popular there was like 4 to name a few that girls names I can remember that were popular

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 17:05

My aunties acctually told me she wanted ella for her oldest daughter (9 now) but wasn't allowed to call her it by her baby daddy! so she ending up being Hannah.

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 17:02

@OhTheRoses yeah but a girl I know called her baby lily and she was only born end of last year so it would be like I was copying her a little bit. and I'm not sure about sophia now. Marnie and ella defenitely tho!

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OhTheRoses · 25/07/2019 12:51

Ha ha bossbaby. I probably am just old enough to be your grandma then. I think the short list should be:

Sophia
Lily
Marnie
Ella

My class 60s: Susan, Angela, Jane, Fiona, Amanda, Helen, Beverly, Lynne, Cheryl, Sally, Lizzie, Heather, Claire, Debbie, Julia, Alison.

DD's early 00's: Imogen, Rosie, Francesca, Antonia, Alice, Hannah, Elizabeth, Maddie, Edith, Christabel, Louisa, Matilda, Phoebe, Lucy

Interesting how trends change.

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 11:45

@FrancisCrawford my mams middle name is marie well actually it's double barrelled so her name then -marie but she doesn't use it or anything! She doesn't even like it and neither do I it's so dated and 70s (when she was born) plus met a marie I didn't like much but again she was in her 40s haha.

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RockyChoccyRoad · 25/07/2019 08:54

@Bossbabynx5 to be honest I hated Bella and was v glad when people stopped using it! I know a couple of Sophia’s and neither get shortened to Sophie

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 08:52

@OhTheRoses not keen on tessa at all it reminds me off some girl who lives on a farm in texas who's dads a farmer.

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 08:51

@orangeblosssom fire? rain? I like lily tho.

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Bossbabynx5 · 25/07/2019 08:33

@ArtichokeAardvark I like that song tho ahah didn't know what it was about tho 😂

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orangeblosssom · 25/07/2019 06:32

Fire
Lily
Rain

OhTheRoses · 25/07/2019 05:20

What about Tessa?

ArtichokeAardvark · 24/07/2019 23:01

Not a huge fan of any of your names but Sophia or Gracie are the best of them.

Please don't call your child Lola - forget Copacabana, there's a famous song by The Kinks about a transvestite called Lola getting a boy drunk and taking his virginity...

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 22:14

@BowiesJumper no it's not a misspelling, is it ment to be dulcie I dunno? Not sure don't u say it like dolcie tho anyways? it's to confusing alreadyConfused

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 22:08

Funny thing is I've liked the name ruby since I was about 12Smile

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 22:06

@RockyChoccyRoad oo no I hate bella! Do u like that bella or anything like that? That's so popular now and I hate ellie to why would anyone call there kid that!? ellie was the ex bestfriend (who turned out to be a massive sly bitch) and I'm not keen on eloise used to know one and she was like in her 30 I knew her kids well on of them and nieces etc so just reminds me of her. I think it sounds like air-louise which is just weird lol. Think there was a girl in my primary school called it to she was much younger than me tho ,I don't hate elle as much but not a fan it just reminds me of that elle woods from that big film legally blonde haha.

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 21:51

@BowiesJumper noo I don't like grace for some reason!! However gracie I love maybe thinking it's also abit weird and childish for a grown adult? A girl I know(family friend) but not well so it's fine to copy a little bit called her 2 daughters alicia(but said like al-is-iya) and grace officially like on her passport birth certificate etc but they just call her gracie most of the time.

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 21:46

Anyone know any sophia get called sophie for short? cos that's what's putting me off the similarly cos I hate hate hate that name!! Only known one I liked hah.

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 21:43

I was thinking about lola guys and although I love I thought it was abit childish and just sort of inappropriate for when she's a grown women? Am I right or not.

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 21:41

@AlwaysOnAbloodyDiet yeah it is! and I will do! Think she should have a name for when she's born tho she can't just be called baby for days or weeks really can she or 42 days after she's born which is how long u have to decide, doesn't seem right. I've never known an ella ever! It does kinda remind me of that Rihanna song tho a long time ago if u know the one I mean ahah, and layla thanks for the suggestion but I'm not keen think I've known one and she was a bratty little girl! and what would I call her for short lay? just not for me for some reason lol

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Bossbabynx5 · 24/07/2019 21:31

@Icklepup omg hahah I hate maisie! I used to known this crazy physco girl called maisie acctually think u spelled her name like maisey and we used to call her crazy maisey lmao😂! So dont fancy giving birth to 'crazy maisie' laughing just thinking about her ahaha and known 2 including her and tbh it's just known as abit of a sketty chavy name where I'm from didn't like the other one either.

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