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Creating a middle name

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Mrselder · 30/05/2019 20:04

Hi,

I'm really struggling to come up with a middle name for my daughter (due october) my first daughters middle name is Miley. I chose that because is combined my grandmas name Milly and grandad name Sidney.

I would really like to combine my mums name and MIL name this time but really struggling. Their names are Audrey and Gail.

I like quite unusual names and were swaying towards Faith as a first name so it would need to go with that.

Any suggestions would be fab. TIA

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RezCowgirl · 30/05/2019 20:13

Grey

MimiSunshine · 30/05/2019 20:23

Took me a bit to work out how you got Miley from Milly and Sidney (you just replaced an L for an E in Milly right?

If it’s not so much about creating a name that sounds like a combination of names like Sidly or Milney would have done I’d go for Grey or Reily at a push

PrincessIsAUnicorn · 30/05/2019 20:25

Do you know anyone who is good at anagrams? Maybe that would be the way to go. I was toying with the name Ronah, if I had a girl, it's an anagram of my DN name, Norah, I loved that woman so much, a fighter to the end 💗

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Mrselder · 30/05/2019 21:21

Mil - first three letters of Milly
ey - last two letters of sidney

Miley :)

I've been thinking Liarey pronounced leah-ray. I'd most likely need to double barrel it like Lia-Rey but I'm not sure it goes after Faith.

I got that using the last three letters of each name

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Mrselder · 30/05/2019 21:24

Hanor is another way of using the name Norah x

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Soola · 30/05/2019 21:25

I didn’t bother. None of my children have middle names.

PostNotInHaste · 30/05/2019 21:32

Doing them like an anagram there is:

Lara
Laura
Ada
Lydia
Delia

Isitweekendyet · 30/05/2019 21:33

I think you're going to have to Anagram them.

Aurelia?
Glaury? (Works well with Faith)
Ridley?
Aider?

If you google word generator from letters it produces all the words they make and lots of them are names!

Usuallyinthemiddle · 30/05/2019 21:37

We used my mum's maiden name. Q

vampirethriller · 30/05/2019 21:38

Grey

MistyReturns · 30/05/2019 21:39

Gadriel is kind of an anagram mash-up of the names. Also an angel which would tie in with Faith
Worth noting that gadriel is an angel of war and sometimes painted in a less than savoury light Grin. In other texts is the angel that ensures prayers are safely delivered to heaven.

MistyReturns · 30/05/2019 21:43

Or going backwards Lyra, which is great if you're a musical family.

Mac47 · 30/05/2019 21:49

Are you Sarah Jane? Very corrie....

sirmione16 · 30/05/2019 21:52

I've never heard of this and I LOVE the idea of combining to create a name!! Definitely stealing this for my next Grin sorry I have no helpful input, just complimenting your thought process and beautiful choices of name

Lobsterquadrille2 · 30/05/2019 21:56

Audril
Gaidrey

Furryandpurry · 30/05/2019 22:01

What about Ailey?

Furryandpurry · 30/05/2019 22:02

Last three letters of Gail and last two letters of Audrey.
Faith Ailey sounds pretty.

Bigbopboo · 30/05/2019 22:03

Gaudy

Herland · 30/05/2019 22:05

Grey is lovely.

Carpetburns · 30/05/2019 22:06

Sorry but Lia-Rey is dreadful. There are some much nicer suggestions here.

RyvitaBrevis · 30/05/2019 22:32

Auriol

strawberrypenguin · 30/05/2019 22:44

Reyai - Rey from Audrey and ai from Gail

Eyga

PissOffPeppa · 30/05/2019 22:53

Are you Sarah Jane? Very corrie....

Grin
Commencaal · 30/05/2019 22:55

I don't have a middle name, my kid doesn't. I'm not sure of the point of them

Knackeredmommy · 30/05/2019 22:55

Audil