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Cecily

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pgwithnumber3 · 19/09/2008 09:04

What do you think? Cece for short?

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seeker · 19/09/2008 11:28

Cecily is lovely.

My Grace is 12 - nearly 13. She's at a Secondary school with 1400 girls and only 3 Graces. There are 8 among the nearly 200 girls at ds's primary!

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pgwithnumber3 · 19/09/2008 11:23

EachPeach, exactly - Grace has been number 1 for the past 2 years - my Grace is 6, it was around number 25 in the charts when we chose it so weren't expecting it to fly up quite so fast. I do love it though, such a classic name, you can see why is it so popular.

That is why we want something a bit more unusual, DD2 is Maya (after my nana, she was Marguerite and Maya is a shortening of it) and love the fact that I don't hear it all the time but no doubt it will get more popular.

Love Cece spelled Cecy mrswoolf! Good ideas are coming my way.

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EachPeachPearMum · 19/09/2008 11:17

Hmm- Romilly is lovely too!
We know a Cece.... but it is short for Syenna [sic]

Erm isn't Grace the most popular girl's name from last year? It is gorgeous though.

luvaduck · 19/09/2008 11:02

love it
a friend has a year old dd called cecilia and shes gorgeous
she's ceci for short

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FairLadyRantALot · 19/09/2008 10:54

lovely name and Cece is really cute, too

mazzystar · 19/09/2008 10:53

very nice
I know a baby Celia which is also lovely

thumbwitch · 19/09/2008 10:51

always liked it since my teens - but DH doesn't so off our list for any future DDs

dinny · 19/09/2008 10:49

love it

I am thinking of Cecily or Romilly

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pgwithnumber3 · 19/09/2008 10:44

Lapin, I knew you weren't being serious, I was reminiscing on my name choosing habits for DD1!

Elastic, you don't seem happy with Leah! How come? Nothing wrong with it and sounds nice with Cecily. Another question, how do people react to her name, is it or or !?

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CuppaTeaJanice · 19/09/2008 10:39

This is what we called our bump, every other day (we didn't know the sex), with Cecil on the other days. When ds was born, dp had come to like the name Cecil. I vetoed that as I hadn't given birth to an old gardener!!

Cece is a beautiful name.

Aitch · 19/09/2008 10:38

lol lapin, there you go causing offence again...

Elasticwoman · 19/09/2008 10:29

My Cecily's middle name is Leah (not my choice!). Remember Rachel and Leah were sisters in the Old Testament.

Cies · 19/09/2008 10:26

I like it. It works from babyhood to adulthood.

You can imagine "Prime Minister Cecily Johnson".

castille · 19/09/2008 10:24

I know a Cecily - from a lovely, lovely family. She's a dreamy thing, gorgeous girl. Love the name.

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pgwithnumber3 · 19/09/2008 10:19

Bethan Mary is lovely, what middle name do you have for Cecily?

littlelapin, when we chose Grace I did ponder over it and rang my Dad one day and said that I was thinking of calling the unborn Grace, Gracia instead. He laughed his arse off! Said it doesn't work when you are from Merseyside...

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pgwithnumber3 · 19/09/2008 10:17

Not fussed on Cecilia, I can't stop singing that Simon & Garfunkel song whenever I say the name Even though I like the song!

It is so bloody hard this name game. I want to find something which is traditional and classic but not common - I have a Grace, which was not so common 7 years ago when we said we wanted to use it. But now, when I hear another Grace I want to spit.

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EachPeachPearMum · 19/09/2008 10:15

It's a lovely name- we were going with Cecily Margot, but it's going to be a boy!

Elasticwoman · 19/09/2008 10:14

pgwith3 - dd1 is Bethan Mary. Bethan was her father's choice (hence I got my own way with Cecily, when he was a bit doubtful about it). Mary was after Mary Wollstonecraft, the first feminist. NOT the Virgin Mary. It fits in well with the nursery rhyme Bethan Mary, quite contrary ...

Elasticwoman · 19/09/2008 10:12

That's why I chose Cecily over Cecilia, Littlelapin, even though I was thinking of the patron saint of music. But recently my Cecily said I should have called her Cecilia because it is an international name, ie the same in many European languages.

Depends whether you want a name that will travel.

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pgwithnumber3 · 19/09/2008 10:02

I don't think it is pretentious but hey, I can be pretentious if I want! I it a medieval name derived from Cecilia but one of the reasons I love it is that is also a form of Shelia which is my Mum's name!

Elasticwoman, do you mind telling me what your DD1's name is as well, would be interested to see if we have similar taste.

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Aitch · 19/09/2008 10:01

it's not pretentious. it's just classic. wasns't there a cecily in the imporance of being earnest? cardew? she was hilarious.