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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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JellyTotCat · 19/10/2021 13:18

I like Violet and Harriet. Kitty short for Catherine

Dahliadelight · 19/10/2021 13:13

Henrietta. Hennie/Hettie/Etta

KrispyKale · 19/10/2021 13:11

Harriet.

Notgotanyidea · 19/10/2021 13:11

Evangeline very House of Elliot I like Ginny as a nn

NannyR · 19/10/2021 13:10

I like Harriet and Kitty, I would go for a "proper" name like Kathryn or Caitlin and call them kitty as a pet name. I don't like the extra -te on Harriet at all.

finallychangedmyusername · 19/10/2021 13:06

I like Harriet but not Harriette (not a spelling I recognise). Prefer Violet to Violetta which feels too frilly.

Of your choices, I really like Felicity and Sylvie.

I'd avoid Maeve and Maeva as these seem to be gaining in popularity. Evangeline would fast become an Eva or Evie and there's so many of those already. Kitty is nice, but only as a nickname for Katherine/Katharine/Catherine.