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Pick between these names for me

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 14:46

Hi all, not pregnant yet, trying for a baby now though. Very excited, and DP and I have already decided on a boys name. We'd like to have a girls name planned out too. A bit sad, but each to their own eh?

We like the following:

Isla Jules [G surname]
Zia Jules [G surname]
Brooke Jules [G surname]
Blair Jules [G surname]

What do you think? Or do you have an alternative we might like in the same jist as those names?

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:12

Juliet Faith is lovely. I'll put it to DP.

I appreciate all comments by the way, even the ones saying you hate the names, as I don't want to give baby an awful name.

Keep them coming!! I HAVE to pick before MIL gets there. She tried to name the last baby such a chav name I cried lol (pregnancy hormones).

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SalmonFromTheLiffey · 19/02/2009 16:09

ps, Love Juliet. Juliet Faith would be LOVELY.

SalmonFromTheLiffey · 19/02/2009 16:08

Isla G is going to get Ali G comparisons.

Brooke rhymes with fuck and is nmsaa.
Blair is quite androgenous, don't hate it but don't like it either.
Zia is the best, but I prefer Zoe by about 100 sea miles.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:06

Our very favourite name was Libby, but my sister's just called her baby that so we can't have it.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:05

Oh sorry. I'm pretty sure it's the same as Faith. We've gone off that one again now lol. We're hard work

We like Faith though. But Faith Julie doesn't go.

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toomuchmonthatendofthemoney · 19/02/2009 16:05

Isla or Hope are nice. Don't like the rest.
Juliette is the prettiest form of the middle name i think.

belgo · 19/02/2009 16:03

Can I ask again, how do you pronounce Faethe?

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 15:58

Haha is there a weather girl called that? I shall be having words, thanks for grassing him up lol.

I LOVE Isla, it's my favourite by far, but Dp doesn't like it much at all.I like the combinations people on here are coming up with. I love Isla Juliette. Obviously DP doesn't lol.

You can understand why I am starting this process early. Between him disliking anything I like, and MIL trying to name our children, I need to stamp it out early before the rows start lol.

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Flightattendant27 · 19/02/2009 15:55

Yes Isla Juliette v nice. Names can look better when you put them tgether iyswim.

BonsoirAnna · 19/02/2009 15:54

Julia is pretty, feminine and not much used - basically has lots going for it. Could you not use it as a first name?

Flightattendant27 · 19/02/2009 15:54

Hope and Faith very nice, sorry Faethe (but she will have to spell it for people a lot!!)

I like Jules though.

Kaidi lei looks like your dp fancies that weather girl but doesn't want it to be too obvious

TigerFeet · 19/02/2009 15:54

Isla Juliette is lovely imo

TigerFeet · 19/02/2009 15:53

I think Julia is pretty, or Juliet(te) - could you go for one of those?

Flightattendant27 · 19/02/2009 15:52

Zia is the name of a pushchair I think? Do you have a special reason for liking it?

I don't like Isla, there are hundreds at the moment so that puts me off also that awful sailing woman from the 70s!

Brooke is Ok but doesn't sound so good with Jules
Blair - no.

Zia is the nicest but as I said pushchair connotations.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 15:51

DP's just said he prefers Julie to Jules

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 15:48

Well my mum's Julie but she gets called Jules. I wanted to have her name in there as I always said I would because she's fantastic. Julie doesn't seem to fit as a middle name, so I guess that's out? So I thought Jules? No? How else can I fit it in? Not as a first name by the way.

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BonsoirAnna · 19/02/2009 15:44

Brooke, Blair and Jules are all very unfeminine names.

Isla is the most feminine of the names you have chosen.

Zia means "aunt".

belgo · 19/02/2009 15:44

how do you pronounce Faethe?

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 15:43

Faethe is Gaelic. I like gaelic names. It means Honor and Friend.

Tiger- very good point! I see what you mean.

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TigerFeet · 19/02/2009 15:26

Isla is lovely

I think that if you are going for a single syllable middle name then it scans better with a multi syllable first name.

So Isla or Zia from your list, but I prefer Isla

belgo · 19/02/2009 15:23

Faethe? Do you mean Faith?

noddyholder · 19/02/2009 15:22

isla or hope

littlelyn · 19/02/2009 15:22

Isla is the best of pretty weak crop (imo - sorry). PLEASE don't call your DD Blair or Brooke - YUK! Jules instantly conjures up a picture of the immensely annoying wife of Jamie Oliver.

rachels103 · 19/02/2009 15:22

Isla

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 15:21

Oh and Hope

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