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Sister for Chester?

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Lou98x · 10/05/2025 12:28

Just that really! We are after a girl name to go with big brother Chester.

I’m not a fan of really girly names like flower names etc, or the popular, older names like Margot, Florence, Elsie (Old lady names as DH says!), we can’t have anything ending in the a sound (Olivia, Ava, etc.), purely because of our accent! Our surname also counts out anything beginning with L.

Any ideas!?

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48mumof6 · 13/05/2025 00:51

Beatrix
Margaret
Ottilie
Clementine
Arabella

hideawayforever · 12/05/2025 19:05

Sue

Readytohealnow · 12/05/2025 14:57

Bailiwitch · 10/05/2025 12:58

(That’s mean. Paris is actually a name.)

Wouldn’t be my choice but I worked with a Paris once and loved her name. She was so glamorous and it really suited her.

user1492757084 · 12/05/2025 14:54

Chester and sister ..

Bridget
Kirsten
Sally
Nadine
Rowena
Natalie
Mieke
Rachel
Kate
Autumn
Lindsey

Hazelmaybe · 12/05/2025 14:10

Brooke
Alice

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Lou98x · 12/05/2025 08:29

Thank you for all of your suggestions - I did spot a few I liked, and actually laughed at some of the sarcastic ones!

DS is actually named after his GG Grandfather (although interestingly, he wasn’t born in the UK so the figures might not apply here), so yes technically he has an old man name, I’m just not into old lady names! 😂

Thanks everyone!

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BootballJoy · 11/05/2025 18:09

mathanxiety · 10/05/2025 23:17

@BootballJoy
Chester is a name from the 1880s to 1920s. It's the epitome of Old Man names. You could not pick a more Old Man name if you tried.

It goes with Clyde, Clive, Stanley, Ernest, Herbert, Norris, Cecil, Cyril, and Hubert.

I can only find that it was popular in the US around that time? I have never known an old man Chester and I am well into my middle age-hood!

Just done some googling - relatively low births in the UK - 77 births throughout the 1880s if this site is accurate? Happy to be corrected!
https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2017/11/name-of-the-week-chester.html

I thought it was more following the surname trend like Spencer etc.

mummysmagicmedicine · 11/05/2025 15:44

No ending in A, no L, no flowery no old lady.

Chester and…
Annalise
Alice
Avery
Amelie
Bethany
Chloe
Cleo
Daisy
Daphne
Delphine
Esme
Elle
Elin
Evie
Felicity
Georgie
Harper
Ivy
Indigo
Jasmine
Marley
Maisie
Madeleine
Maeve
Navy
O
Penelope
Rosie
Rose
Ruby
Shiloh
Violet
Willow
Zoe

Knowsley · 11/05/2025 11:21

@sinisterdextersinisterdexter , Hawarden?

Knowsley · 11/05/2025 11:19

@MrsAvocet , I've already suggested it. Are you from that area too?

EmpressaurusKitty · 11/05/2025 10:53

BunnyRuddington · 11/05/2025 07:26

I thought that the OP had said no names ending in a? Smile

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Also none beginning with L.

MrsAvocet · 11/05/2025 10:51

Dee

totk · 11/05/2025 10:11

I know a Chester with a sister called Anwen.

Debtfreeme · 11/05/2025 10:08

Got to be drawers

Knowsley · 11/05/2025 10:02

@AubernFable , Chester is a picturesque and touristy city and nothing like Bradford, Slough, Luton, Croydon or Grimsby.

Sarah Palin has a daughter called Bristol.

BunnyRuddington · 11/05/2025 08:31

WombatCowgirl · 11/05/2025 08:27

Doesn't Chester end in an A sound? Maybe not in a west country accent but to me it rhymes with the name Nesta.

We very much pronounce their er sound at the end. Like all things baby names though, it can be entirely regional Smile

WombatCowgirl · 11/05/2025 08:27

Doesn't Chester end in an A sound? Maybe not in a west country accent but to me it rhymes with the name Nesta.

timoteigirl · 11/05/2025 07:33

Chester and Audrey
Chester and Frances
Chester and Marlene
Chester and Verity
Chester and Carol
Chester and Violet
Chester and Rosanne

BunnyRuddington · 11/05/2025 07:26

uncomfortablydumb60 · 11/05/2025 01:25

Chester and
Cora
Rosa
Alice
Louisa

I thought that the OP had said no names ending in a? Smile

uncomfortablydumb60 · 11/05/2025 01:25

Chester and
Cora
Rosa
Alice
Louisa

monktasmic · 10/05/2025 23:48

I think one syllable- eve. Grace. Rose. May. Faith. Kate. Bea (Beatrice?)

CrystalSingerFan · 10/05/2025 23:33

I've RTFT and I'm in! (Unless I missed it.)

Win (Winifred if you want...)

CrystalSingerFan · 10/05/2025 23:31

MrsMoastyToasty · 10/05/2025 17:32

Draws. Drawls if you're in/near Bristol.

Beat me to it.

mathanxiety · 10/05/2025 23:24

PansyPottering · 10/05/2025 17:21

You can’t move for Chesters at the moment.

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Correct.

But they are part of the fashion for old lady and old man names. These are names that were unheard of from the 1940s to the 2010s but were popular in the last decade or two of the 19th century and up to about the 1940s. They are the names of current generations' grand parents, great grandparents, and g-g- grandparents.

Old Man names go with old lady names, like:
Mabel
Florence
Matilda
Amelia
Beatrice
Nora
Vera
Cora
Ivy
and many, many more.

Names like Scarlett, Zara, Mila, Sienna, etc, while popular these days, were unheard of back when 90+ year old Chesters and Stanleys and Arthurs were schoolboys. They are modern names.

mathanxiety · 10/05/2025 23:17

@BootballJoy
Chester is a name from the 1880s to 1920s. It's the epitome of Old Man names. You could not pick a more Old Man name if you tried.

It goes with Clyde, Clive, Stanley, Ernest, Herbert, Norris, Cecil, Cyril, and Hubert.