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Girls names - classic but interesting

62 replies

sillysausage999 · 01/02/2023 23:26

Hi everyone, I'm 40 weeks pregnant with first baby (eeek) and we are struggling to make concrete headway on names! It all feels so hypothetical still...

Names on our current shortlist, in no particular order:
Florence, Elsie, Alice, Penelope, Eleanor, Margot, Hazel, Roberta, Iris, Elizabeth, Astrid, Ivy

Please don't say anything negative about them, as they are all genuine contenders! But do you think any of them go together well as first/middle name combos?

AND are there similar names that we might not have thought of? I feel like nothing is massively jumping out at me and so I might not have found "the one"...

Thank you :)

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Sugarfree23 · 01/02/2023 23:59

I like Florence Ivy, ivy works really well as a middle name esp with the longer first names.

Lunabetty · 01/02/2023 23:56

Matilda and Penelope

tobee · 01/02/2023 23:54

Dorothy
Sorrel
Rowan

EnglishRose1320 · 01/02/2023 23:46

What a lovely list of names.

I think Alice and Elizabeth go well as middle names with lots of your suggestions.

Other names I'd add to the list, thinking both first and second name possibles:

Elspeth
Edith
Grace
Clara
Betsy
Charlotte
Eliza
Constance/Connie
Louise
Martha

Whydoitry · 01/02/2023 23:39

Roberta! Haven't met a little Roberta!

Roberta Hazel
Roberta Florence

I actually really like Roberta Jane.

Toomuchinfor · 01/02/2023 23:37

Beatrix
Sylvie
Cecily
Cora
Marianne
Juliette
Imogen
Helena
Marguerite
Iris
Madeleine
Romily
Clara
Rose

ofwarren · 01/02/2023 23:36

All great names
I'd choose Florence Elizabeth

4thonthe4th · 01/02/2023 23:35

I think Florence as a middle name goes with most of the list.
I quite like Ivy Florence.

Snugglemonkey · 01/02/2023 23:34

I think Elizabeth is a Great middle name as it goes with longer first names as well as shorter ones.

Luana1 · 01/02/2023 23:33

From your list I like Margot, Hazel, Iris and Penelope.

Other suggestions: Tabitha, Beatrix, Cordelia, Willow, Seren.

Staffielove23 · 01/02/2023 23:29

iris

LulooLemon · 01/02/2023 23:29

Nice names

Alice Elizabeth

Eleanor Hazel

Also Clara, Sarah, Susannah, Beatrice