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Help! Are these girls names nice- or poncy beyond belief?

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messydrawers · 14/05/2010 18:02

Clementine
Cordelia
Augusta
Allegra

Any thoughts?

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messydrawers · 14/05/2010 19:35

Yes! Sea connection good as dh is "king of the sea". Not literally, just meaning of name. Hope that doesn't mean he'll kill little Cordelia after a falling out over the family farm. Ok, he wants to know what you think of Evangeline (having originally banned me from posting names on MN)

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seashore · 14/05/2010 19:33

Clemetine and Allegra are the weak ones there, the others are fantastic, but then dd is named very similar to one of them. Not pouncy at all, just proper names. MW in hospital couldn't stop saying my dd name because she liked it som much!

My favourite from your list is Augusta.

dizzydixies · 14/05/2010 19:33

I love this Anne of Green Gables - Cordelia

dizzydixies · 14/05/2010 19:29

noooooooooooooooooooooooo cordelia is a lovely name - did you not see my daughter of the sea/latin meaning heart post above???

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messydrawers · 14/05/2010 19:26

Also all these characters come to a sticky end apart from Augusta- oh dear, I must have morbid taste in babies names...

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dizzydixies · 14/05/2010 19:15

messy - Cordelia has loads of options, not just Delia

Coco
Cordie
DeeDee
Dilly

all rather sweet in my completelybiased opinion

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messydrawers · 14/05/2010 19:14

Thanks ZZZ! G Can now strike Clementine having seen that scary bloke by the campfire.

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messydrawers · 14/05/2010 19:12

Thanks for all the points of view! I agree, it's the nick names you have to watch out for- not keen on Gussie though DH is (why?) or Delia for obv. reasons. We like poncy names but I fear mockery (for me or little Gus!)

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ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 19:12

enrich your life

something a bit annoying about that song, or is it just the voice?

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 19:09

I'm working on Clementine, I'll come round in the end

Just keep hearing that "oh my darling..." "gone forever" "dreadful sorry Clementine" Can't remember all the lyrics though. Does she get buried in a mine?

alfiemama · 14/05/2010 19:08

I quite like Cordelia

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 19:07

I call my dd all names under the sun - chubby cheeks, boss, totally made up words

she has starting telling me off about it now though and keeps saying I have to use her real name. It's become such a habit though, hard to break it now

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 19:05

heck he's strict

dizzydixies · 14/05/2010 19:04

oh and I know my nn's are a bit on the stretching it side but they're my kids and I can call them pinky, perky and thumper if I want to

dizzydixies · 14/05/2010 19:03

ZZZen - I wanted to have Clementine known as Tiny when she was wee and Cleo when she was a bit older but DH maintained he wouldn't have any daughter of his named after a fruit!!

I tried for Coco as a nn for cordelia but that fell on the 'not a hope in hell' pile as well

Francagoestohollywood · 14/05/2010 19:02

Augusta could easily be one of Bertie Wooster's fierce aunts.

However, I quite like it.

Clementine is my fav, even if it's on the frilly side for me.

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 19:01

Cordelia is growing on me

just not Clementine yet. Still seeing a little old lady rocking on a porch somewhere in America

sungirltan · 14/05/2010 18:57

i like allegra

herladyshiplovesedward · 14/05/2010 18:57

my sister in law is called cordelia.. she is very nice and not at all poncey, and often goes by the name of dee

Northernlurker · 14/05/2010 18:56

Marie-Louise?

I've just added up my syllables and I can muster 8 - was 9 before I got married to dh-short-name

To add insult to no injury - my first name was as rare as hen's teeth in the mid 70s - not any more. A shortened version is v popular which means I frequently jump in supermarkets on hearing the name my close friends and family use bellowed in my ear by an enraged parent...

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 18:54

actually some of the names on OP's list go well together as first and middle name (not double-barreled)

dizzydixies · 14/05/2010 18:52

ah now you went too far, I don't have a double barrelled surname - although I suppose after only 5.5yrs of marriage its not too late to suggest it

you're not too far off with the first name lol

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 18:51

Cordelia-Augusta

that might work

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 18:50

Marie-Esperance Augusta Victoria Ridgeway-Smythe

ZZZenAgain · 14/05/2010 18:50

Marie-Esperance?

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