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How did you chose your baby girl names...?

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DazedEmma · 07/06/2008 10:34

I have recently found out I am having a baby girl!! I am very excited as secretly I hoped for a girl. However, I am finding it SO hard to choose a name! I can't even think of one I like enough, let alone lots to short list!

Mumsnetters of baby girls, can you help? Would love to know how you decided on the names you have chosen and also... what names were on your short list?

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kerryk · 08/06/2008 21:15

my short list was

iona
carys
aime
leah
jude
isla

bluebellwood · 08/06/2008 20:18

Names that I liked but didn't choose:

Louisa
Alice
Victoria
Alexandra

I also loved Serena because of its meaning (serene, calm).

bluenosesaint · 07/06/2008 17:59

I have 3 girls. The names we like at various times but didn't use are:

Sophie/Sophia
Olivia
Isabelle/Isabella
Imogen
Rae
Kate/Katie
Rebecca
Heidi
Molly
Ma deline
Kelly
Nancy
Georgia

Love2bake · 07/06/2008 17:49

I came across a new mum at the doctors this week and she had a little girl called Betsy, I thought it was such a cute name.

hayley2u · 07/06/2008 17:37

i wanted a really girly name and liked the nae lucy, molly, katie,poppy,and erinn xx

CantSleepWontSleep · 07/06/2008 17:33

We find girls' names much easier to shortlist than girls.

How about
Verity
Philippa (Pippa)
Felicity
Dorothy
Veronica
Constance
Natalie
Heidi
Georgina
Cordelia

learningallthetime · 07/06/2008 17:19

I agree completly Dazedemma, We found boys names a lot easier than girls. We picked out a boys first and midddle name quite early on in preganancy but ended up having a girl!

Was going to use my mums middle name (eva) as dd's middle name but couldn't think of a first name so ended up using it as a first name. But I loved the name anyway so it wasn't a hardship.

The day before we went to register her we still hadn't found a middle name. My dh went through the name book and finally found a name he loved; kasia

God help us if we have another girl!

janeite · 07/06/2008 17:04

We really struggled for girls' names too.

Names that we both liked:
Daisy
Naomi
Niamh
Alice
Isobel
Marianne
Miranda
Tess
Juliet

Names that I liked and dp hated:
Harriet
Melody
Scarlett
Posey

Names that dp liked and I hated:
Chloe
Sophie
Paige

Hulababy · 07/06/2008 16:58

We had far more girl choices for DD than for a boy. I still find girl's names easier to chose from.

DD is called Mollie, which really suits her. It is pretty and girly, but also as we know adults with this name we also know it works well for older women and those in business too. We chose the ie ending as the older people we know named Molie use this spelling. The y spelling seems a bit more nickname type.

I love loads of girl's names. If I were having a little girl now I would be umming and ahing over Matilda (Tilly) or Martha.

Vivvy · 07/06/2008 16:02

Vivian, but spelled Vivienne - and never let anyone shorten it!

pagwatch · 07/06/2008 15:52

Mine was easy
DS1 (who was 10 at the time) chose for us !

Comerscroft · 07/06/2008 15:11

No alternative but family names so:

Margaret Jean and Elspeth Joan

chonky · 07/06/2008 14:19

DD is called after my best friend from Uni, and her middle name was my great grandmother's first name.

Both are pretty traditional name - having grown up with a rather bohemian name in the 70s (which ironically is now very popular) I fall shy of 'Guardian reader' type names (I'm a staunch Grauniad reader myself - but there's definitely a certain genre of children names that appear in the weekly Family section ).

colacubes · 07/06/2008 14:16

love Violet a beautiful name, I liked Vivian, but noone else did.

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ninedragons · 07/06/2008 14:04

I wanted Jane, Ursula or Flora. Was resoundingly overruled on all three and too stoned from the epidural to argue.

belgo · 07/06/2008 13:33

Martha

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DazedEmma · 07/06/2008 13:30

Is Violet hideous? I love it but have never seriously considered it as a name... till now!

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amyjade · 07/06/2008 12:00

Our girls are,
Freya
Libby
In our family we also have,
Gracie
Isabelle

My fav girls names at the moment are,
Ava
Ruby
Amelia
Molly

vicsta · 07/06/2008 11:46

I love 'old lady' names too: Maisie, Queenie, Flora, Florence, Eliza, Dora, Blythe, Bridie, Maeve.
All but last 2 vetoed by DP. Keeping Maeve for use as a middle name. I love Bridie, but I work with a lot of Scottish people and apparently its the name of a Pasty up there! Keep looking on here and get yourself a baby name book too. keeps me occupied for hours. Nice thread 'Old codgerly names only' going on with some lovely old fashioned names, have a look.

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DazedEmma · 07/06/2008 11:44

I love Matilda!! I didn't even think of that.

How many Matilda's do we have on here? I am quite precious about it not being overly popular.

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sfxmum · 07/06/2008 11:41

we are a bi lingual family so I wanted a first name which would work in both languages. her middle name is my mothers name, it was always going to be a family name anyway just got precedence because the paternal granny is still living

we like fairly traditional names

Matilda
Rose
Isabel (middle name)
Lucy
Ines

we did have Scarlet and Tallulah on the list at some point

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DazedEmma · 07/06/2008 11:40

I am finding the old lady names very appealing, I quite like Edith.

Keep em coming, I am the worlds most indecisive!

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piratecat · 07/06/2008 11:29

Yes, we wanted soemthing with 3 syllables as our surname had one syllable.

treacletart · 07/06/2008 11:27

I wanted an elegant name that wouldnt be too cutesy or girly on a grown woman. I wanted 2 or more syllables to go with our single syllable surname. I wanted something that went nicely with DS's name (Oliver). And though it's nice to have something fairly unusual I do like proper names you don't have to tell people how to spell. We chose Imogen (Mimi for short).