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***URGENT***Name for a feisty /firey girl please.

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justnotsure · 19/02/2008 09:32

Please no chav.

No Blaze,Courtney-May, Minky-Rae etc.

My daughter already does not suit her name it is far to gentle for her even dh agrees (I am amazed by this) but I am flummoxed as to what we could call her instead as we had Nell, Annie, Constance and Dolly on our lists and neither of them fit either.

Any suggestions would be very welcomed, I really want to get the ball rolling sooner rather than later I think we have 5 weeks before we can't change it officially.

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lottiejenkins · 19/02/2008 14:39

How about Dulcie? I love that name!!

nobodysfool · 19/02/2008 14:26

What about Flick(Felicity)?

going by your input lots of ladies on MN seem to like my name-Petra.

fym · 19/02/2008 14:14

I like xanthe - not frilly at all....

DiscoDizzy · 19/02/2008 14:12

What about Rosie?

Thats what we called our feisty firey DD. She's got mad curly hair and a mad personality to go with it. You could always use Lily as the middle name.

AdamAnt · 19/02/2008 14:10

I have to say that having been educated on the origins, I think Lilith is a magnificent name.

princessmel · 19/02/2008 14:04

lexia

princessmel · 19/02/2008 14:02

Agree that Lilith doesn't seem that feisty. Also agree that if you do cahnge the name it should be a slight change. My 2 at 11 months definatly knew their names.

I do know a very strong willed lily btw

I like lexie as it is similar -ish to lily.

Fillyjonk · 19/02/2008 13:46

yes by about 12 months, dd was actually saying her name, iirc.

that would be my only worry

(though I do love lilith and wish I could have persuaded dp to use it...)

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justnotsure · 19/02/2008 13:44

What Bobs? Lulu this poor child is going to be very confused.

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Fillyjonk · 19/02/2008 13:40

at wendy

I translated passages from that stuff as an u/grad and it was always SO funny to have these very ancient, very po-faced professors in at least their 90s correcting us solemly over the correct swear word...

VictorianSqualor · 19/02/2008 13:40

Felicity, the book I'm reading at the moment the woman is called Felicity but they call her Felix.
Also like Eliza (that's the authors name).

WendyWeber · 19/02/2008 13:40

I bet her mother wished she had MN to ask where she'd gone wrong!

Heathcliffscathy · 19/02/2008 13:39

oooo i LOVE lexie.

Fillyjonk · 19/02/2008 13:39

well this one IS feisty

I have to say, iirc xanthe means "yellow" though google thinks it means beautiful maiden

WendyWeber · 19/02/2008 13:38

Oh Filly - how wonderful - she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air.

The times I've wished I could do that! (The flying away part that is, I pronounce Ineffable Names all the time )

VictorianSqualor · 19/02/2008 13:37

Clara or Cleo

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justnotsure · 19/02/2008 13:33

I am liking Xanthe but maybe it's too frilly.

Sigh.

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justnotsure · 19/02/2008 13:32

Sorry, don't like Lilith.

DD answers to everything we actually call her bobs/bops for some strange reason the whole family does. She looks whenever she hears anything.

Thre are some super suggestions to think about making it much harder easier to decide.

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lizziemun · 19/02/2008 13:22

Cataline

I have an Alexandra Grace, we call her Lexie.

I Love it, it was the only name i wanted.

Fillyjonk · 19/02/2008 13:20

no, I agree its not a pretty pretty name

Its the name of a goddess who represented things that annoyed old religious men

eg

"She said, 'I will not lie below,' and he said, 'I will not lie beneath you, but only on top. For you are fit only to be in the bottom position, while I am to be the superior one.' Lilith responded, 'We are equal to each other inasmuch as we were both created from the earth.' But they would not listen to one another. When Lilith saw this, she pronounced the Ineffable Name and flew away into the air."

allgonebellyup · 19/02/2008 13:19

Isis

Now thats dramatic.

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