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Original poster

I've had enough now - Name my baby. I am quite honestly sick and tired of thinking I like something then changing my mind. :0(

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LadyOfTheFlowers · 05/04/2010 18:38

Have 3 boys, this will be my first and only daughter - think this is why it seems so hard to choose the right name.

Names have included:

Eleanor
Lydia
Sophia
Eloise
Alexia/Alexis
Sienna
Verity
Bryony

Latest was Sophia but I have caught wind of this becoming popular and most Sophias getting called Sophie anyway which is a totally different name IMO and I'm not as keen.

Didn't want anything really popular.

Can't have Rose as it bleeds into our surname, as does Eloise actually as a first name.

Surname is 2 syllables beginning with S very similar to Simpson.

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lowrib · 05/04/2010 20:49

Elodie?

EightiesChick · 05/04/2010 20:49

Won't Alexis have the same problem as Eloise in bleeding into your last name?

Not very positive I know, but just thought it might help to at least take one off the shortlist. Agree it might be best just to wait and see what she looks like.

S names would definitely be good, I think, for a girl with an S- last name. Sounds proper old-school glam film star.

lowrib · 05/04/2010 20:49

Other suggestions for Ci-ci

Lucille
Priscilla

Um, I'll have a think of some more ...

Or what about Circe? (pronounced SIR-see - a Roman sorceress)

thinker · 05/04/2010 20:48

Charlotte?

butadream · 05/04/2010 20:42

If you like Sophia what about Sonia / Sonya?

DrivenToDistraction · 05/04/2010 20:41

How about Felicity? It's always been stronly associated with Verity in my mind, hence suggesting it. It happens it lend it's self to Ci-Ci too...

What's the boys name you'd have used?

Surprise · 05/04/2010 20:39

Verity or Lydia. Or Claudia?

lealea77 · 05/04/2010 20:38

I can totally empathise!

Had my 1st DD named from being about 16 weeks pregnant and told I was having a girl. This name stuck in my mind and was the only name I considered.

With dd2 I couldn't find out the sex before the birth and I was convinced she was a boy, and had 2 boys names chosen and ready. For girls I had a list of about 10 names and could not decide.

When DD2 was born I just got to know her for a few hours and seriously a name just popped into my mind. Both her names had been on my list at one time or another,but not together. I just felt those 2 names were 'her'. So don't panic just yet, maybe after the birth something will spring to mind and be perfect.

gibbberish · 05/04/2010 20:37

Just to add Lady, I have been through this FOUR TIMES with girl's names.

Call her Alexia.

You won't regret it. And I will be so jealous.

gibbberish · 05/04/2010 20:35

I am not going to be much help because I like all of your choices.

If a gun was being held to my head though to choose one it would have to be:

aaargh too difficult

would have to be either Elouise or Alexia

Actually, Alexia.

Beautiful name. Please choose it. I would if I could have another dd. Absolutely gorgeous.

JoeyBettany · 05/04/2010 20:34

Celia?

I love this name, unusual, classy and timeless.

MrsRigby · 05/04/2010 20:30

I like Eleanor.

If I have a girl, I might use it. The only thing that puts me off slightly is that my surname is Rigby - I don't like The Beatles.

catinthehat2 · 05/04/2010 20:24

Really wait, it sounds like too much of a struggle now. Forgeddaboudit, take yr mind off it & as Emily says "if you take the pressure off, the name you naturally prefer will keep coming to mind"

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Fliight · 05/04/2010 20:21

I remember struggling with ds2.
One half hour conversation with my mother later and I/we had decided on Walter

it ended up not being the one. But not too far off.

Inspiration will strike, believe me...it will

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LadyOfTheFlowers · 05/04/2010 20:19

I quite liked Sienna, with NN Ci-Ci or the like, but people felt it would date quickly and couldn't see past Miller.

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EmilyStrange · 05/04/2010 20:17

We also struggled and waited till dc was born. The name did not come straight away but it was nice getting to know dc before giving the name. Maybe if you take the pressure off, the name you naturally prefer will keep coming to mind. Why don't you just forget about it for a while.

Or call her a boy's name . Seriously unisex may be the way forward e.g. Toni, Robin, Charlie etc

lifeas3plus1 · 05/04/2010 20:16

Eleanor- Pretty but very popular so I would say no

Lydia Love this name. Deff my favourite.
Sophia- See Eleanor
Eloise- It's ok.
Alexia/Alexis_ Love this but as a NN for Alexandra
Sienna- Lovely
Verity- OK

Bryony- Prefer Briony. Think the spelling Bryony looks awful.

Fliight · 05/04/2010 20:16

Mary.

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LadyOfTheFlowers · 05/04/2010 20:13

Really cat? I do hope so.
This is supposed to be a really happy part - always has been in the past - and it has turned into a nightmare.
Poor DH has given up and says he will take no notice of what I say the name is until we leave the registry office with her birth certificate!

(Possibly, as I never envisaged having a daughter, I am also not 100% believing she is a girl and this is contributing? If she comes out a boy, I know what the name is in a heartbeat and have done since I knew I was preg, as with other 3)

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catinthehat2 · 05/04/2010 19:18

Dare to leave it until she appears?
Then her name will appear at the same time.
If its such a struggle to get the right one now, it might be because it's none of the above.
I'm serious, we went through the same thing as your title. But at birth the name was immediately obvious.

TrowelAndError · 05/04/2010 19:14

Pandora
Eliza
Miranda
Beatrice
Viola/Violet
Primrose
Honeysuckle (inspired by seeing Honeysuckle Weeks in the trailer for Foyle's War)

I'm assuming you like flowery names!

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