Active discussions

Help protect children from gaming harms.

Take our survey

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Baby names

Find baby name inspiration and advice on the Mumsnet Baby Names forum.

Original poster

Plum’s sister!

263 replies

HazeyJaney · 17/11/2019 19:23

Help please! We chose a very unusual name for our first daughter (Plum Elizabeth) and now we’re stuck on what to name her sister. Our current list feels a bit pedestrian in comparison, does it matter?

We like:

Alice
Flora
Gaia
Cecily
Beatrix
Sylvie
Merryn
Iris (actually, I’ve always loved Isis, but it’s obviously unusable now)

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Set a reminder
17caterpillars1mouse · 17/11/2019 21:17

I really like Gaia, it looks beautiful but simplistic and is a gorgeous unusual but heard of name. It really is lovely and I've never met one

Tinty · 17/11/2019 21:16

Astrid
Quintina or
Seranee

KnickerBockerAndrew · 17/11/2019 21:15

Agree with PP who says you have to give your next child an equally unusual name- My parents gave one of us a weird name and the other a normal name and it is kind of indicative of the way they felt about/treated us. I still think about it now...

PollyShelby · 17/11/2019 21:14

Tuppence or Constance

HaveIgoneMad · 17/11/2019 21:10

I do like the name sorrel though:)

HaveIgoneMad · 17/11/2019 21:07

My eldest daughter has a very common but very lovely name, my youngest has a very, very unusual but equally lovely in my opinion name. I don't think it matters too much and the names still flow pretty well when said together.

RickOShay · 17/11/2019 20:48

Meriel is lovely I think.

FizzyGreenWater · 17/11/2019 20:46

Who was the person who was desperate to name her DD Persimmon but the DH said no?

elliejjtiny · 17/11/2019 20:46

I remember reading a book about 2 sisters called Nancy and Plum (I think plum was short for pamela).

Bowerbird5 · 17/11/2019 20:44

I know a little girl called Beatrix. The girls all wear lovely long Laura Ashley type dresses and have long hair and alice bands. Beatrix's hair is slightly wavy too. They are such a lovely family. They have moved so we rarely see them now.

Have you seen the story Little Plum? I had it as a child and loved that book. My sisters had it so I don't know where it is now. If you don't have it do try and get a copy for her.

Sorrel sounds good. Willow? Eilidh, Freya, Kenzie?

hopelesssuitcase · 17/11/2019 20:43

You need to give your next child a similarly weird name so that the sibling rivalry doesn't go stratospheric. You might as well have called her pudding.

Sexnotgender · 17/11/2019 20:40

What about Wren? I met a lovely little Wren at baby group.

Peachbubble · 17/11/2019 20:38

Posy
Luna
Betsy
Cleo
Opal
Nell

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 17/11/2019 20:31

I don’t like the sound of Beatrix but I love the vibe of it. I picture a little girl with blond curly hair. Her mum dresses her in frilly dresses etc, but She’s a tomboy at heart who is always getting into mischief.
I also love Cecily. To me it has the same vibe as Beatrix.
I adore Iris. I don’t know why you say it’s unusual. Not that it is a risky name, but
No disrespect if you have used a plum you can’t be that concerned about risky names.

Other ideas
Clover.. Zofia. Albany. Saturn. Bracken. Sunny. Harbour. Tyra. Trudy. Tansy. Farrah.
Star. Nova. Alphina. Apollonia. Rainbow. Fallon. Suki.

mamaoffourdc · 17/11/2019 20:19

Kitty
Birdie
June
Xx

fairydustandpixies · 17/11/2019 20:14

Pudding?!

Bluewavescrashing · 17/11/2019 20:12

Sorrel and Plum sound fab together. Pretty and unusual

mintcorneto · 17/11/2019 20:10

I love the name Tess and think it would sound lovely with Plum

Yetanotherwinter · 17/11/2019 20:09

My dog’s middle name is Elizabeth.

QueenoftheDay · 17/11/2019 20:05

Plum Grin that cannot be real

NoFun21 · 17/11/2019 20:05

Each Peach Pear

Original poster
HazeyJaney · 17/11/2019 20:04

Ooh I really like Sorrel actually! And Tess, good suggestions!

OP posts:
Winterdaysarehere · 17/11/2019 20:02

Pineapple...
And if you sell your house she can be at all the viewings..
Grin

Shadow1234 · 17/11/2019 20:00

Love the name Merryn

ViSovari · 17/11/2019 19:59

Sorrel