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Please order my name preferences

113 replies

Floam6 · 05/12/2025 10:18

Hi all, apologies for a final name post but our daughter is here and a few days old and we have agreed to choose her name this weekend as we don’t have the same favourite. I’m not interested in any other names but please could you rank my list below from favourite to least favourite:

Phoebe
Clara
Sophie
Beatrice
Poppy

Thank you!

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Haworth1 · 07/12/2025 22:31
  1. Poppy
  2. Sophie
  3. Phoebe
  4. Clara

I can’t even bring myself to rank Beatrice in 5th. It should be 1,005th at best.

DayOfSummer · 07/12/2025 22:14

Personally I think choosing a name based on nicknames you like is risky. I think nicknames form naturally and can’t be forced. I love the nickname Bee for Phoebe (and Beatrice) but in reality nobody ever uses that nickname for my Phoebe. I have asked her if she’d like people to call her Bee and she says she likes it but she’d be afraid people would think it’s short for Beatrice, which she doesn’t like at all. If we shorten her name at all we tend to call her “Phee” but mostly she’s Phoebe. At school she mostly gets called Pheeb, Pheebs or Pheebsey (all of which she hates!) So my advice is choose the full name you prefer.

moneyadviceplease · 07/12/2025 21:45

Beatrice just reminds me of Beetroot and I don’t like it

Moreteaandchocolate · 07/12/2025 16:53

Floam6 · 07/12/2025 00:39

Thanks so much all. I’m team Phoebe (Bea/Bee for short) and he prefers Beatrice with the same nickname. Both go with our surname but I just feel like Phoebe is less formal and more fun and softer somehow.

I’m team Phoebe! I agree that it feels softer and friendlier than Beatrice, which I find quite formal / stuffy sounding.

usedtobeaylis · 07/12/2025 12:46

Clara
Beatrice
Sophie
Phoebe
Poppy

Br0kenarm · 07/12/2025 12:44

Congratulations @Floam6 . I think theyre all lovely names. My dd is a clara (clar-a ) but is 9 years old. I do think its a more popular name now but still not super popular.
How are you and your dh going to make the decision between Beatrice and phoebe? The only thing for me is princess Beatrice puts me off 🤣

SpeedwellBlue · 07/12/2025 12:40

Poppy
Sophie
Clara
Beatrice
Phoebe

LolaBumble · 07/12/2025 12:38

Congratulations 🫶 Love this list!

Poppy
Phoebe
Sophie
Beatrice
Clara

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Floam6 · 07/12/2025 00:39

Thanks so much all. I’m team Phoebe (Bea/Bee for short) and he prefers Beatrice with the same nickname. Both go with our surname but I just feel like Phoebe is less formal and more fun and softer somehow.

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Blueleaf837 · 06/12/2025 18:03

Phoebe
Beatrice
Clara
Sophie
Poppy

OneWildNightWithJBJ · 06/12/2025 17:32

Clara (we nearly used this)
Sophie
Poppy
Beatrice
Phoebe

ScruffMuffin · 06/12/2025 15:48

1 Sophie
2 Poppy
3 Phoebe
4 Clara
5 Beatrice

They are all lovely though.

Hazelmaybe · 06/12/2025 11:43

The order you typed them in!

Mumofgirls2017 · 06/12/2025 08:00

Clara
phoebe
sophie
poppy
beatrice

replay2025 · 06/12/2025 06:32

Sophie
Poppy
Clara
Beatrice
Phoebe

georgiaw · 06/12/2025 06:09

Clara
sophie
Beatrice
poppy
phoebe

littlemissalwaystired · 06/12/2025 05:22
  1. Beatrice
  2. Clara
  3. Sophie
  4. Phoebe
  5. Poppy
Sparklesandspandexgallore · 06/12/2025 05:13

Phoebe
Poppy
Sophie
Clara
Beatrice

All really nice names.

ACynicalDad · 06/12/2025 05:10

You read some awful lists on here but they’re all nice names, I’m not a big fan of Poppy though. Feels like there’s a type of family that often use it, not saying all…

CobraChicken · 06/12/2025 05:05

GoldenRosebee · 05/12/2025 10:38

Beatrice
Phoebe
Sophie
Poppy
Clara

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^ This 🙂

Eenameenadeeka · 06/12/2025 04:35

Clara
Beatrice
Sophie
Phoebe
Poppy

falalalalaaaaaaaa · 06/12/2025 03:31
  1. Sophie
  2. Clara
  3. Phoebe
  4. Poppy
  5. Beatrice

Congratulations!

Itwasallyellow2 · 06/12/2025 03:26

Phoebe
Clara
Sophie
Beatrice
Poppy

BCKMA · 06/12/2025 02:50

Phoebe by a mile with Clara in second.

mathanxiety · 06/12/2025 01:43

I'd keep them in the order you posted them.

I'd move Poppy way down below the others though.