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Opinions on girls names

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doughnuts154 · 29/06/2022 14:58

Hi everyone!

Still quite unclear on girls names, and are a bit stuck. We’re just playing around with different options, as i can’t seem to decide whether I like a lot of them or not! These are some of the ones we’ve come up with so far, so if you could say your favourites and least favourites that would be great:
Lois
Daisy
James
Blaire
Rory (as a nn, but need a long name to use)
Sunday (seems to be used by lots of celebrities so don’t want to use, but anything similar would be great)

One thing that we’re struggling on is that we want a name that will sound good on a baby and on an adult. Any suggestions that fit the names above would also be great.

Thank you!

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emmathedilemma · 29/06/2022 16:43

Lois and Daisy are ok, I could just about live with Sunday, Blaire is awful and James / Rory are great names if you're a boy.

CP2701 · 29/06/2022 16:30

I have a daughter called Brodie, it's a good gender neutral name 😊

IsThePopeCatholic · 29/06/2022 16:05

Lois is a fab name.

halfsiesonapotnoodle · 29/06/2022 15:15

Lois is the nicest and the only one I like. Not Rory, it's awful with the roar sound and people who can't pronounce Rs. Aurora is just like woar woar woar to me, so not attractive. Daisy is very overused.

miltonj · 29/06/2022 15:09

Daisy is lovely. Please not James for the love of god!
Gender neutral names that work properly for girls could be:
Ellis
Sammy (samaya)
Alex
Frankie
Taylor

toastofthetown · 29/06/2022 15:04

Lois - quite nice, inoffensive.
Daisy - twee and very popular.
James - I HATE this as a girls name. Painfully trendy, I feel like the boys names for a girl trend comes from a place of sexism, and without wanting to sound trite, but if you wouldn’t call your son Susan, why would you call your daughter James.
Blaire - ‘bleh’ comes to mind. In the UK I think Tony Blair is still a significant enough public figure that I’d avoid Blair(e).
Rory - fine as a nickname. Standard full names are Lorelei and Aurora, of which I prefer Aurora.
Sunday - I actually like Sunday, and don’t find it unusable, though it would pair it with a more traditional middle name. Sunny is a sweet nickname.

Potatomashed · 29/06/2022 15:02

Omg I love Rory for a girl! We nearly gave it to our DD. We ended up not going with it because we didn’t want to give her a life of explaining she was female. Lois has similar cool vibes but is female. Have you thought of other neutral names like Ellis?

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