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Looking for a sibling name to work with Edith

90 replies

HollyB33 · 15/08/2024 10:41

Who knew it would be so hard to find a name to fit with our daughters: Edith Isla! We quite like older/slightly unique names but any help would be appreciated please!

For girls so far we have: Aubrey, Alba, Wren, Esme, Freya, Nell, Elodie.

For boys: Axel, Otto, Albie, Atticus, Barnaby

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Joolsin · 15/08/2024 22:06

For what it's worth, op, I consider Edith to be an early 20th Century name and none of those on your lists are equivalent. How about:

Edith and Mary
Edith and Nancy
Edith and Sybil

Edith and Robert
Edith and Douglas
Edith and William

BatsInSpring · 15/08/2024 21:59

EducatingArti · 15/08/2024 13:18

Aubrey is traditionally a boy's name

I think it's firmly neutral now though. Aubrey Plaza is the only famous Aubrey I know and the only IRL Aubrey I've met is a little girl.

Moreteaandchocolate · 15/08/2024 21:59

I love Edith and Nell!

Dorothy
Ada
Beatrice
Martha
Mabel
Olive
Margot
Eliza
Winnie (Winifred)
Vera
Ida
Sylvie
Hazel
Miriam
Pearl

Boys
George
Alfred
Robert
Stanley
Reggie
Frank
Wilfred
Ralph
Victor
Archie
Arnold / Arnie
Charles

Twistybranch · 15/08/2024 18:19

Edith & Percey (Boy)

Edith & Araminta (called Minty) (girl)

Growsomeballswoman · 15/08/2024 18:19

James or Daphne

Illgotothefootofourstairs · 15/08/2024 18:16

Edith and Norman
Edith and Stanley

Edith and Mabel
Edith and Doris

BFMUM1 · 15/08/2024 18:16

Tobias

Mumofgirls2017 · 15/08/2024 18:13

I think Albie/ Barnaby and Nell go best

archie
freddie
ralph
leonard
wilfred
vincent
rudy
arthur
reggie

polly
maggie
martha
harriet
clara
mabel
sadie

ValsCupcakes · 15/08/2024 15:20

BoleynMemories13 · 15/08/2024 11:05

A lot of your choices actually seem quite modern. I think Nell and Barnaby go the best, although personally I would find a longer version to shorten to Nell. Helena is my favourite but Eleanor or Penelope would also work. Albie works well with Edith too, but only with Albert as a full name.

I would imagine Edith to have a sibling called something like Iris, Nancy, Nora, Martha, Clara, Stanley, George, Henry, Arthur, Alfred etc.

Edited

My great grandparents were Edith and Albert!

Edith's siblings were Norman, Agnes, Harriet, Gertrude (Trudy), Harold and George.

Normallynumb · 15/08/2024 15:17

Evelyn
Joy or Joyce
Dorothy
Nancy
Ellen
Sarah( my GM)

Jack
Thomas
Frank

Grateeggspectations · 15/08/2024 15:05

Myrtle or Joan
Michael or Peter

Theoldwoman · 15/08/2024 15:00

I love Freya. Nothing from your boys sorry.

Suggestions:

Edith Isla and:

Rosemary
Frances
Lucille
Ursula
Phoebe
Hazel
Heidi

Francis
Peter
Andrew
Laurence
Jeremy
Christian
Beauden

KimKardashiansLostEarring · 15/08/2024 14:25

Wow your choices seem to mainly be a totally different style to Edith if you ask me. The Ediths I know have siblings called Wilfred, Albert, Daphne and Clementine.

50shadedofmagnolia · 15/08/2024 14:24

I love Ailsa for a girl and Barnaby for a boy

DoreenonTill8 · 15/08/2024 14:22

Margo
Agnes

David
Stuart
Robert
Phillip

Hobbesmanc · 15/08/2024 14:14

Love those medieval feeling names.

Adela. Emma. Audrey. Eleanor. Maude Katherine.

Edmund. Theodore. Henry. Hugo. Wilfred. Arthur. Robert

urbanbuddha · 15/08/2024 14:09

@mibbelucieachwell

Virtue is fabulous!

urbanbuddha · 15/08/2024 14:07

I like Esmé and Nell, also Frances (nn Frankie) and Rose.

Jack
Edward (Ted)
Alfred (Freddy)
Arthur

Mammyloveswine · 15/08/2024 13:56

Oh and Wilfred!

Mammyloveswine · 15/08/2024 13:55

These names spring to mind:

Sylvia
Ruth
Rosemary
Evelyn
Violet
Ivy
Audrey
Eliza
Elsie

George
Bertie (Albert)
Edward ( but Eddie as a nn too close to Edith)
Theodore
Francis
Vincent (Vince not vinny as nn)

MerryMarys · 15/08/2024 13:40

Edith & Clara

Edith & Quentin

Icannoteven · 15/08/2024 13:22

Don’t use another name beginning with E. Having siblings with the same initial is an absolute ball ache! The amount of appointment reminders/ music lesson invoices/ letters and so on addressed to ‘Miss E. Whatever’ gives me the absolute rage.

I spend my life shouting things like ‘BUT WHICH ONE needs the eye test????’ ‘WHICH ONE injured their head at asc and needs monitoring?’
Grrrr

EducatingArti · 15/08/2024 13:18

Aubrey is traditionally a boy's name

HelenWheels · 15/08/2024 13:12

also
celia

Lacdulancelot · 15/08/2024 13:11

Louisa
Nancy
Constance
Maud

Siegfried
George
Wilfred
Benjamin

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