I need 2 names for a feisty girl!

[misfitmum]

Hi, I'm 28 weeks pregnant and just found out we're having a girl and would really like a name that is strong and feisty - she never stops moving and trying to kick her way out of my tummy and has already caused a few dramas :)

I would like a first and middle name that are quite feisty...nothing too traditional or too popular.

TIA

[BalloonSlayer]

You don't know she's going to be Feisty.

(My Mum used to snigger about a man at her work called Garth. We used to get the Daily Mirror at the time and Garth was the eponymous hero of a comic strip, with incredible muscles and heroism etc. The one she worked with was about seven stone dripping wet. But perhaps he kicked a lot in the womb.)

[BehindLockNumberNine]

Loving Freya!!

But agree with BalloonSlayer - you don't know she is going to be Feisty!!

My pregancy with Ds was quite eventful - he caused some scares along the way. He also never stopped kicking, sat the wrong way, caused me all sorts of grief. Labour with him was a nightmare. He was upside down and back to front and determined not go come out.

He is the most placid laid back boy you could wish to meet.

By contrast, pregnancy and birth with Dd were so easy. She kicked but not excessively. Not a worry, everything lovely, a relatively fast and very straightforward labour.

She is one stroppy, headstrong and forceful little madam!

[IslaValargeone]

Well of course she doesn't know she's going to be feisty, but it's as good a reason as any other random name choosing method. Don't piddle on her bonfire ladies.

[FoofffyShmoofffer]

My DD wriggled and kicked and punched har way through my pregnancy. I would wake up not knowing whether the bump would be front or back!

Now 2.6 she IS downright fiesty.

[BalloonSlayer]

You are quite right, Isla. Sorry, OP.

TBH if she isn't feisty and has a "feisty" name she'll be OK anyway.

For girls it's more a problem if they're called Pixie and grow up to be 6'2" with size 10 feet.

I was at school with a prominently unattractive girl* who had a beautiful, romantic, incredibly unusual Christian name, the sort that a Disney heroine would have. (This was 35 years ago when most schoolgirls were called Susan and Pauline and the most beautiful girl in our school was called Janice.) I felt quite sorry for her. She shortened it to something plain. Hopefully she blossomed later.

*Sorry, but she was. As was I, but I didn't have a glamorous name.

[MamaVoo]

Tess

[IslaValargeone]

That's the thing BalloonSlayer, there has to be an element of hope and wishful thinking in name choosing, so that kids can have something to aspire to, although I can't argue with your point about Pixie.
But call your kid Susan, meh.......

[Janoschi]

We're looking at similar feisty names for our soon-to-be-born DD. As with the OP's baby, ours has kicked and punched her way through the past weeks causing no end of emergency scans and drama.

The names we've considered are:

Henrietta (Henry for short)
Truda (Trudy for short)
Peterina (Pete for short)
Samuela (Sammy for short)
Rita
Sonia
Carlotta (Charlie for short)
Tippi
Judy
Margo / Peggy
Nancy

No idea if this helps you! We're still floating around from one idea to the next and we've only got 8 weeks left....

[fluffygal]

Zanna.

[thinkingkindly]

Morgan
Zara
Alex (Alexandra)
Carlotta
Ruth
Erin
Zoe
Bea (Beatrice)
Gretchen
Gwen

[COCKadoodledooo]

"IslaValargeone Tue 15-Mar-11 16:56:33

Really? my judgement is obviously clouded by only knowing Sarahs who are wishy washy."

Do I know you then?



My contribution to the list is Deborah.

[COCKadoodledooo]

Janoschi Samuela and Peterina both sound like 'we wanted a boy' to me!

[DesertOrchid]

Nancy, definitely! Also Natasha, Kerry, Edith.

[mathanxiety]

Calista
Theodosia
Aphra
Zipporah
Cleo
Greta
Frida
Zelda

[growing3rdbump]

We have a feisty Nyah. This time we're hoping for a more gentile daughter, so thinking if naming her Esme!!! Other names I like are Naomi and Sasha.

[mathanxiety]

Audrey
Eliza
Paloma
Philippa

[mollycuddles]

My Kirsty is pretty feisty. And k is a good hard sound that goes against wishy washy ness

[Bubbaluv]

Ramona - thinking Ramona Quimby books which are brilliant.
Clara.

[PepsiPopcorn]

Any inspiration from strong women through history, women writers, influential women of the present day?

Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks
Florence Nightingale
Mary Wollstonecraft
Cleopatra
Queen Victoria
Indira Ghandi
Joan of Arc
Marie Curie
Naomi Wolf
Christina Rossetti

[Underachieving]

Sarah isn't a feisty name, it's another from mythology (the Bible if you want to get technical) in the stories Sarah's role is pretty much to be miserable for longer than we would even consider to be a lifespan today (during which time she was called Sarai) and then for the God to cause her to have a son, who her husband (hearing voices at the time) then almost murdered on the say so of a burning bush. Not wishing to offend the Christians who of course believe this mythology, but to th rest of us it's a story and not an especially good one.

[WinkyWinkola]

Tabitha

Zara

Alexandra

Philippa

Clementine

[Underachieving]

Nancy is good (think Astor) and another one from mythology is Dianna or Artemis (basically the same character in geographically neighbouring mythologies) who was an hunter but also cultured and sophisticated and generally let men get on with it and lived her own life.

[Imps7]

I like your name-choosing method! It will be a nice story for your DD when she's bigger! My mum and dad names me after the road that the gasworks was on - not very inspiring really!

What about the following:

Zillah
Saskia
Esther
Neve

?

Sorry, not much help really.

Good luck - hope you find something you love!

[Imps7]

Ooooh Ramona is a great name! It's the name of the girl who plays Karen in Outnumbered - if she's not a feisty little one I don't know who is!