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A sister for Emmeline...

55 replies

Nimmop · 05/12/2023 23:13

Hi, we have a boys name picked out but not a girls.

We loved the name Emmeline so much, and she has such a great namesake that we are struggling to feel too enthusiastic about any.

Josephine (after Butler) a possibility but concerned about both children having -een endings
Also open to Rosalind, but don't like Roz as a nickname
Husband doesn't like Millicent or Constance
Lydia doesn't work with surname
Elizabeth feels too popular, as does Charlotte and Matilda
Rosa, Anna, and Harriet don't feel like they 'go' with Emmeline
We liked Persephone but felt it was a bit too out there

Looking for suggestions! Helpful if they are a female pioneer, book protagonist etc!

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KirstenBlest · 07/12/2023 16:15

Aphra

mathanxiety · 07/12/2023 14:52

Rowena
Charis
Eirene (eye-ray-nay) - means 'peace'
Althea
Artemis

Pinkl · 07/12/2023 05:19

Ariella
Juniper
Genevieve
odette
Grace

mathanxiety · 07/12/2023 04:43

Simone
Edith
Leonora
Juliet
Beatrix
Gabrielle
Caroline
Francesca
Antonia
Clara
Araminta
Cecelia
Adelaide
Alicia
Susannah
Annabel

Smallonesaremorejuicy · 07/12/2023 02:55

Christina is beautiful

Babla · 07/12/2023 01:16

Christina 🩷

Pozz · 07/12/2023 01:05

Seraphina
Florence
Meredith
Eliza
Carlotta
Felicity
Clementine
Samantha

Piratepirate · 07/12/2023 00:56

Marceline

Daisybuttercup12345 · 07/12/2023 00:34

Florence
Amelia
Penelope
Deborah
Charlotte
Annabelle
Arabella
Lucy
Francesca
Freya
Hannah
Rosemary
Georgina
Harriet
Matilda
Sarah Jayne
Caroline
Colette
Tanya

Carouselfish · 07/12/2023 00:12

Emmeline and Xenia
Emmeline and Anais
Emmeline and Darcey

(artist, author and dancer)

Watchthedoormat · 07/12/2023 00:09

Emmeline and Octavia

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 07/12/2023 00:04

I like Rosalind, and you could always encourage Ros(i)e for short if you don't like Ros.

How about Alice (Alice Hawkins, another well-known suffragette)? I like Florence too.

E. Nesbit was a very progressive thinker and her actual name was Edith, but you might not want to use the same initial twice.

tortoiseshellcats · 07/12/2023 00:04

Cassandra
Adelaide
Victoria
Alice
Samantha
Annabel
Alexandra
Katrina
Helena
Marietta
Phoebe

NotFastButFurious · 06/12/2023 18:56

Emmeline and Pandora

Twazique · 06/12/2023 18:51

I don't think Elizabeth is that popular?

Henrietta
Dorothea
Theodora
Theodosia
Antonia

NotFastButFurious · 06/12/2023 18:50

Emmeline and Joan
Emmeline and Edith
Emmeline and Clara
Emmeline and Florence
Emmeline and Victoria
Emmeline and Nora
Emmeline and Katherine nn Kitty
Emmeline and Alice

SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 06/12/2023 18:17

Sylvia Pankhurst's first name was Estelle - I love both of those names.

Then there was Adela Pankhurst.

Helen Pankhurst

Annie Besant

Mary Wollstonecraft

Anne Brontë

Jane Austen

Virginia Wolf

KCSIE · 06/12/2023 14:23

Audrey
Coralie
Cora
Aurelia
Savannah
Adeline
Clementine
Florence
Ottilie
Xanthe
Sylvie
Sylvia
Margo
Martha
Natalia / Nataliya
Ivy
Eden
Edith
Sybil
Nora
Bea / Beatrice
Autumn
Willow

Alohapotato · 06/12/2023 14:22

Eleanor
Elaine
Elizabeth
Madeleine

Theproofofthepudding · 06/12/2023 14:21

Jessamy

Alohapotato · 06/12/2023 14:20

Eloise
Elodie
Elise
Emily
Elena
Esther
Enola

uncomfortablydumb53 · 06/12/2023 14:18

Claudia
Jemima
Jessica
Martha

Doublebiscuit77 · 06/12/2023 14:08

Or Leonora after the writer/artist Leonora Carrington?

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 06/12/2023 14:03

Mary (Seacole)
Florence (Nightingale)
Amy (Johnson)
Amelia (Earhart)
Marie (Curie)
Frida (Kahlo)
Anne (Frank)
Ada (Lovelace)
Jane (Goodall)
Katherine (Johnson)
Rachel (Carson)
Helen (Sharman)
Dorothea (Lang)

Doublebiscuit77 · 06/12/2023 13:56

If I'd had a daughter the name would have been Freya, after the Victorian explorer/writer Freya Stark. That's super popular these days though which you may not like. (Other similar writer/explorers were Gertrude Bell and Isabella Bird.) I also liked Marianne, after the botanical artist Marianne North.