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Help please! Harriette or Violetta?

56 replies

88joey88 · 19/10/2021 12:46

Help! We have a 2yr old named Beatrice Rose ‘Bea’ and we are struggling to choose a name for our second daughter due to be born in two weeks time.
Our last name is 3 syllables and ends in tine.

I love
Evangeline
Clementine - but these don’t sit well with our last name.
We also like
Harriette - Hatty
Violetta - Etta
Sylvie
Maeve
Maeva
Kitty
Felicity - Flick

Thoughts please 🙏🏼

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PanicBuyingSprouts · 20/10/2021 08:09

As your family name has 3 syllables, I'd go for Sylvie.

mrsevangelina · 20/10/2021 05:56

@LetHimHaveIt

Yes; I'm going to call my daughter 'Henriet' because 'Henrietta' looks ' try hard' and 'silly' with all those extra letters 🙄
Those are different names. Harriette and Harriet are the same name.
LetHimHaveIt · 20/10/2021 03:53

Yes; I'm going to call my daughter 'Henriet' because 'Henrietta' looks ' try hard' and 'silly' with all those extra letters 🙄

alpinerain · 20/10/2021 03:18

I love the name Beatrice.Smile

Out of Harriette and Violetta, I would choose Harriette but I prefer Sylvie, Maeve & Maeva.

EugeniaGrace · 20/10/2021 00:02

Violetta Maeve (this is lovely, also like Lettie as a nickname)
Violet Maeve
Harriette Evangeline (Evangeline goes well in the middle)
Harriette Evelina
Katherine Felicity (Kitty)
Katherine Florence (Kitty)
Sylvie Maeva
Sylvie Marie

These are my favourites as first names. A few I like only as middle names or reminded me of other middle names. The only one I am not a fan of is Clementine.

stormyweather274 · 19/10/2021 23:47

I meant Sylvia...!!!

stormyweather274 · 19/10/2021 23:46

How about Syliva?

chipsandgin · 19/10/2021 23:42

Harriet (not Harriette as pp’s have said it looks like a spelling mistake and she’d probably not enjoy correcting people every day!).

I really like Etta as a name in itself but using it as a shortening of ‘Violetta’ rather than Henrietta is unusual, but not really in a good way, sorry OP!

Etta and Bea sound lovely together for sisters!

lottiegarbanzo · 19/10/2021 23:41

Harriette - Hatty (Never seen this spelling. Harriet's ok)
Violetta - Etta (I like this, or Violette, also Letty)
Sylvie (lovely)
Maeve (ok)
Maeva (no)
Kitty (lovely but short for Katherine)
Felicity - Flick (yes, nice but maybe Fliss)

How about:
Camille / Camilla
Clarice
Mirabel

BanditoShipman · 19/10/2021 23:39

Harriet or Violet, the extra letters just look really silly and try hard

mrsevangelina · 19/10/2021 23:34

I like Harriet but the Harriette spelling just looks wrong to me, too fussy.

I like Kitty too

BubbleCoffee · 19/10/2021 22:53

Violetta Maeve.

DramaAlpaca · 19/10/2021 22:49

I much prefer Harriet and Violet to OP's spellings.

Otherwise I like Felicity, but not Flick. Felicity goes nicely with Beatrice.

Blubells · 19/10/2021 22:06

Harriet.looks like the masculine form of Harriette.

I like Sylvie best

LetHimHaveIt · 19/10/2021 15:22

@zafferana

Harriet and Violet - both good.

Harriette and Violetta - yuk - I hate it when people add random letters to perfectly good names.

Well, they're not 'random letters', are they? What a strange assertion. They're completely legitimate alternative European spellings of those names: 'Violetta' is the lead character is Verdi's 'La traviata' and is still a popular name in Italy and S. America. 'Harriette' is how the name was spelled in this country until about a hundred years ago.

'Random' would be 'Harrietfguhp' or 'Violetdvkhe' 🙄

Whatwouldnanado · 19/10/2021 15:12

Stick to the conventional spellings otherwise the poor kid will spend her life explaining.
Verity, Lucy, Laura.

zafferana · 19/10/2021 15:10

Harriet and Violet - both good.

Harriette and Violetta - yuk - I hate it when people add random letters to perfectly good names.

LouLion · 19/10/2021 15:07

Evangeline - not keen
Clementine - quite like, but prob not with your surname
Harriette - no, it's Harriet, the other spelling looks odd. It's ok, bit horsey
Violetta - noooo, looks made up. Violet is lovely. Viola is also nice.
Sylvie - Sylvia is beautiful
Maeve - like
Maeva - nope
Kitty - too girly
Felicity - Flick - Felicity is nice, but most nn, e.g. flick, fizz, fliss etc are terrible

Verity, Lucy, Eleanor, Josephine, Florence, Cecilia, Eloise, Imogen?

JudgementalCactus · 19/10/2021 14:03

Either Harriet or Henriette. Harriette looks silly and misspelt.

NannyR · 19/10/2021 13:56

In my head the - ette ending changes the pronunciation of Harriet, making it more like harry-ette , rather than harri-ut, with the u being a schwa sound, like in Helen.

TenThousandSpoons · 19/10/2021 13:51

Is Harriette pronounced differently to Harriet? Harriet is much nicer either way.

I like Etta on its own. Violetta is a bit of a mouthful. Or Violet - goes nicely with Beatrice but I think she’d end up with the nn “Vi”.
Felicity is lovely but not “Flick”.
Love Kitty as a nn for Katherine.

ILoveShula · 19/10/2021 13:50

Harriet or Violet

Namechangedforthethousandthtim · 19/10/2021 13:35

I like Harriet. Harriette looks like a spelling mistake/unnecessarily flouncy and I don't like it at all. Violetta is nice. My favourite is Clementine.

ToddlerMumma · 19/10/2021 13:21

Here was my list for my 2nd - we went with Tallulah!
⁃ Abigail
⁃ Chloe
⁃ Anastasia
⁃ Beatrix - trixy
⁃ Tabitha - Tabs
⁃ Madeleine
⁃ Genevieve
⁃ Isla
⁃ Daisy
⁃ Summer
⁃ Jemima - Mimi
⁃ Elsbeth - Elsie
⁃ Delilah - Ilah
⁃ Esther
⁃ Amelie
⁃ Willow
⁃ Maddison
⁃ Tallulah - Lula

RaoulDufysCat · 19/10/2021 13:21

Harriet and Violet are way nicer than Harriette or Violetta. I also like Felicity from your list.

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