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Everley and...

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BabyGirlNumber2 · 14/12/2020 22:36

Name changed for this as obviously outing.

We have just found out that baby 2 is a girl! We already have a 2 year old DD called Everley. She has two middle names and our surname is double barrelled. Would quite like a name that fits well with this but I would prefer to avoid other “ee” names so not eg Everley and Darcey. I quite like names ending with an “uh” eg Anna. However I’m conscious that Everley is fairly unusual and we partly picked it because we didn’t want her to have a really popular name (both me and my DH were known as “Emma S” or “Adam J” etc at school and hated it). Therefore it would be a bit weird to have a very popular name for DD2, feels like we need to have something else unusual to match. There are a few names that I like that fit the brief:

Vita
Winter
Ada
Frieda
Fritha

However my husband doesn’t like any of them. It feels like any slightly unusual name that I suggest he says is ‘too weird’ so maybe him liking Everley was a bit random (it was number 800+ in the baby name list ranked by popularity the year she was born!) and he actually prefers much more traditional names. I think he’d be happy with something more popular like Freya or Ava despite what he’s said before about wanting an unusual name but I wouldn’t really. I want them both to have a slightly unusual name. Any ideas? We’d also give 2 middle names, I don’t mind these being more popular as Everley’s are too.

Ps. I know Everley is a bit of a marmite name on MN, please no negative comments about her name, we have already named her! Thank you.

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fantasmasgoria1 · 15/12/2020 00:11

I really like vita! Someone suggested Melissa but I don't think Everley will go with it and imho it's a wishy washy name. Ramona is also nice.

meow1989 · 15/12/2020 00:07

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TiniestFluffiestBunny · 14/12/2020 23:58

Iris?

I felt the same way as you about popularity when pregnant with DS2 - DS1 has a name with less than 50 born every year (is a name not yet due a resurgence in popularity but i suspect will be back properly in a decade or two) for a long time, and it felt strange to contemplate naming DS2 anything drastically more popular. We didn't choose a name before he was here, but the main contenders were similar in feel and popularity.

Then he was born, and he just suited a top 100 name that we hadn't discussed before he was here. Funny how these things work out.

LouiseTrees · 14/12/2020 23:51

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Buttercup54321 · 14/12/2020 23:51

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Stitchyfingers · 14/12/2020 23:48

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naturalyoghurtmuncher · 14/12/2020 23:47

@BabyGirlNumber2

Oooh I like Thea! And *@YoniAndGuy* Ramona is awesome but has already been vetoed by DH for being too weird apparently.
Ask him how is Ramona weirder than Everley?
clpsmum · 14/12/2020 23:47

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Twobrews · 14/12/2020 23:44

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ImproviseAdaptOvercome · 14/12/2020 23:40

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ILoveYourLittleHat · 14/12/2020 23:40

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BabyGirlNumber2 · 14/12/2020 23:40

@TheQueensGambit ISIS! Lol good point, I think I have only suggested one or two really odd ones though. He normally laughs at ones that are pretty normal but he is completely out of touch with baby name trends (like a lot of men I suppose!), our friends recently had a girl called Ottilie (which I love!) and he was like “what?! Never heard of it.” I think he basically only knows names that famous people have or people our age.

Randomly when we were discussing boys names (before we knew she was a girl) I suggested Atlas, I was half joking as I thought he’d say it was ridiculous but he loved it?! So I really don’t get his rules maybe I should just keep suggesting “weird” names until he likes ones?!

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