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To ask for help with baby name

57 replies

Beenalongday · 05/03/2019 23:05

I’m due a dd2 soon and I’m getting stupidly stressed about a name, I know it’s silly and I am trying to relax about it but for some strange reason it’s keeping me awake at nights. Dd1 was named after someone very close to me so there was never any debate to her name so nothing this time seems to feel right. And I can’t help thinking not being able to name her somehow reflects on my feelings for this baby although I know it’s stupid

Can anyone make suggestions of feminine an unusual names as I really can’t even think anymore

OP posts:
CruCru · 05/03/2019 23:10

Hello

Here are some names I really like:

Eleanor
Rosalind
Marianne
Julia
Elizabeth

They’re well known enough for people to have heard of them but aren’t particularly common.

BusySnipingOnCallOfDuty · 05/03/2019 23:12

Do you need middle names too?
Does the name need to somehow go with DD1s name?
What about surname clashes?

Sydney
Freya
Charley
Nausicaa
Penny
Yvette
Sunnie
Berry
Cherry
Loretta
Lorelei (wanted to use this one)
Jaime

BusySnipingOnCallOfDuty · 05/03/2019 23:12

Rosalind is lovely

onalongsabbatical · 05/03/2019 23:14

And a few from me

Juliette
Felicity
Miriam
Alice
Daphne
Elissa

I'm sure you'll get there OP! Smile

FiddleFaddleDingDong · 05/03/2019 23:16

She doesn't need to be named immediately. And a name might occur to you as soon as you see her. Or a name might occur to you a week after she's arrived.

Leeds2 · 05/03/2019 23:16

Esther
Penelope/Penny
Margot
Marguerite
Julia
Saskia

Petalflowers · 05/03/2019 23:17

Rowena
Alexandrina (Queen Victoria’s actual name)
Cassandra
Serephina
Rosamund
Elspeth
Dulcie
Esme
Faye
Bette
Kathleen

Outnotdown · 05/03/2019 23:18

I love the name Hazel, it's meaning is to do with feminine power.

I also like Edel, Orla, Maggie, and Helen

Iltavilli · 05/03/2019 23:18

Keith

user1473878824 · 05/03/2019 23:19

I reckon you should wait until you meet her if you have nothing certain or nothing at all lined up.

MsMustDoBetter · 05/03/2019 23:20

Faye
Cordelia
Marnie
Sylvie
Janie
Annie

Beeziekn33ze · 05/03/2019 23:21

Allegra
Arla
Rosalind
Miranda

LadyGAgain · 05/03/2019 23:24

Rosalie
Alice
Evangeline
Thea

SweetButaPsycho · 05/03/2019 23:28

Isadora
Primrose
Eloise
Theodora
Cecilia
Claudia
Adeline
Delilah
Ophelia
Penelope
Scarlett
Tulip
Paisley

Booboostwo · 05/03/2019 23:31

I like

Willow
Megan
Ariadne
Phoebe
Sofia

Any luck?

Brainfogmcfogface · 05/03/2019 23:47

My Dd2 was born on Wednesday and up until and after her birth she didn’t have a name, then a name I previously dismissed was mentioned and it just suited her so much I’ve gone with it, still figuring out middle name but I’m in love with her name now, and yet had completely rejected it on first hearing. Keep a list going and take the pressure off and wait until she is here is my advice :)

Quietrebel · 05/03/2019 23:54

Love this but I found it stressful to find one for my DDs. A few more below:

Evie
Louisa
Elise
Laeticia
Joanna
Natalie
Alexandra
Isabella

AlliKaneErikson · 06/03/2019 00:06

Have a look on the Baby Names board for lots of similar threads and good suggestions.
I like Lara, Elise, Eloise, Annelise and

AlliKaneErikson · 06/03/2019 00:07

Oops- Maëlys

PomBearWithAnOFRS · 06/03/2019 00:56

My name has been mentioned on here Grin and it's the name I chose for myself - I hate my birth name so I changed it in my early 30s.
That said, I like Miranda, Eleanor, Bryony too.
Not one of my (5) children ended up being called what I originally planned, once they were born they just "looked like" someone else iykwim.

Sunkist12 · 06/03/2019 06:49

Georgia-may
Hope
Darcy
Birdie

Sunkist12 · 06/03/2019 06:50

Belle

maddiemookins16mum · 06/03/2019 06:58

If I had had another daughter I would have gone for
Elizabeth
Eleanor
Ruth
and possibly Hannah.

WFTisgoingoninmyhead · 06/03/2019 07:01

Florence
Isla
Corrine
Freya
Felicity

IrisApfelRocks · 06/03/2019 07:04

Freya
Iris
Ophelia
Emmeline

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