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Original poster

The struggle for a girls name that is also a familiar word continues.....

170 replies

Thankyouandgoodnight · 17/05/2008 20:06

Please can you help!!

e.g. things like.....(and don't worry about whether or not you like them as names or not):

Olive
Meadow
Ember
Sage
Autumn

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ElizabethBeresford · 18/05/2008 18:24

Some lovely suggestions and some ones too.

I love Berry, Clover, Skye, Meadow, Leaf (as a mn) summer, Amber (like the sound of Ember but an ember is dying, so that meaning is bad for me0)

Melody sounds like a stuck up cow but it's a lovely name. The one I knew thought the queen was rough round the edges, but Melody is still a lovely sound with a good meaning.

Clio is a Goddess not a car, as I'm sure Lollipop Mum knows!

I love Clio! Gorgeous.

barnstaple · 18/05/2008 15:59

I always fancied Umbrella but dh wouldn't let me

lollipopmother · 18/05/2008 15:22

Cleo - as in Renault Cleo.

lollipopmother · 18/05/2008 15:19

Harmony
Mercedes
Paris
Savanna
Faith
Charity

norkmaiden · 18/05/2008 15:17

Clover
Rowan

MargaretMountford · 18/05/2008 14:36

Patience

diplodocus · 18/05/2008 14:25

Epiphany (knew a Rwandan girl called it)

jeanjeannie · 18/05/2008 14:14

Heath
Misty
posy
blythe
Hope
marina
ocean (e) for French i think
skye
amber
tuppence
tiger
bonnie

We know of a girl called ...'cushion'...

LaDiDaDi · 18/05/2008 12:40

I like Damson. What about Plum? Sort of similar.

Ebony
Willow
Blossom

Firepile · 18/05/2008 11:40

Treacletart - the Angela Carter heroine was called Fevvers, in Nights at the Circus. And very brilliant she was too...

MrsBadger · 18/05/2008 11:21

Glory?

CantSleepWontSleep · 18/05/2008 10:31

Damson is too much like jam, rather than too much like Tamsin.

Do you not like anything that has been suggested?

treacletart · 18/05/2008 09:38

Feather is nice - think I remember an Angela Carter heroine being called Feather

cece · 18/05/2008 09:36

anyone said

Liberty

yet?

You do know that jasper means wasp in the west country don't you?

MargaretMountford · 18/05/2008 09:33

Lazylou - their parents must be Captain Scarlet fans !

MargaretMountford · 18/05/2008 09:32

Honor is lovely - there's a sweet girl at ds's school called that

Lazylou · 18/05/2008 09:31

I have come across a Chance, Melody and Rhapsody through work

Original poster
Thankyouandgoodnight · 18/05/2008 09:24

I possibly had a brainwave in the night....

...Damson...... what do you think of that? Too much like Tamsin?

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Vivace · 18/05/2008 00:06

Clementine
Dawn
Summer
Tree
Star
Lettice (!)
Silver
Posy

BEAUTlFUL · 18/05/2008 00:03

"Ever" is nice, but might make people think your name is really "Heather" and you're just common.

1dilemma · 18/05/2008 00:02

Yes

we had a girl at school called that poor thing

Seashell71 · 17/05/2008 23:58

1dilemma, you do know that candida is thrush, don't you?

1dilemma · 17/05/2008 23:48

Sorry
Candida is lovely
really

charliecat · 17/05/2008 23:46

well my names on this list! its never normally on any

1dilemma · 17/05/2008 23:44

Candida
Melena

Don't choose them