Something a bit like Phaedra

[Underachieving]

Phaedra (pronounced fay-drah) is such a pretty girls name, I really have fallen in love with the sound of it, but there is no way I'm going to be able to use it. For one it's too close to one of my childrens names and there is no way round it and for another the Phaedra from mythology isn't an association you would want following you around.

Alternatives please? What sounds a bit like Phaedra? Especially if it doesn't start with an F sound.

lol, that reminds me of my friend from school who laughed at my dc1's name and said sniggering 'how conservative'. She wanted to call her children Phaedra and Ismene. I said to her 'good luck to you finding a man who'll agree to those'.

So perhaps you might like Ismene!

hth

ps, do you mean in the same vein as Phaedra or sounds like??

Do you like Clodagh? Frieda? Zelda?

Minerva
Perdita

I love Phaedra and Ismene. Maybe Valium's old friend and I could get it together and call our children the names no man would touch :o

(although I think I've married a man who would use those names)

I know a really great woman called Phaedra.

Sorry, can't think of names like Phaedra really.

VS: I originally meant sounds like, but hey, if you can think of ones in the same vein too then feel free to post them.

Belgo I love Minerva too, but as my darling step son pointed out, it's a character in Harry Potter. Seems everyone under 20 knows this too. Bugger.

Elfrieda
Freya

Pasiphae, Aricia, Oenone, Panope?

Penelope, Merope, Calliope, Artemis, Hestia, Lyssa, Hero?

Philippa, Felicity, Fabiola, Faye, Fernanda, Fenella, Fiammetta, Phoebe, Phyllis, Phyllida, Philomena, Venetia, Vanessa, Veronica, Verena?

Ailbe? That's pronounced Alva

Aoife (Eee-faa)

Freya

Faye

Oops, it's Ailbhe, sorry!

Freya sounds like Phaedra, ish.

On the myth Greek front, how about Selene (SEH-luh-nee), or Dione (DIE-uh-nee)... Also Ilione.

My best suggestion would be Ariadne though, as that has a similar feel.

If you're going for Greek tragedy, what about Iphigeneia, Clytemnestra, Electra or Andromache?

I love Artemis, it's been on all 4 of the previous suggestions lists (2 DD's, 2 MC's). I just can't help thinking of hard-to-miss with a London accent when I hear it. Can you call a girl that's virtually guaranteed by genetics to be over 6ft hard-to-miss? Would anyone but me notice? We are nowhere near London.

Ariadne have been on the lists before too but not made the final cut. I must get round to looking up the mythology.

Electra is fab, but I was trying to avoid tragic stories. Which is part of why Phaedra when I looked it up was out.

Thalia was another one I liked, it was what I expected to call the latest baby but one look at her ruled that right out, she needed a very literal name, she was clearly a scamp.

And there's two more awesome names in that list, but one is the one I've used already and another perilously close to is a middle name I've used. So if you didn't get a mention that might be why!

It's hard this. After having already used 8 girls names and 2 boys names it gets hard to come up with a good one, so many have been previously discarded.

It'll be so much easier if I have a boy, the boys names are nigh on set in stone.

I love that name - I have a Phoebe (is that your dd's name?) and think that Phoebe and Phaedra go together really well. but my dh wouldn't allow it!

Have you read the Percy Jackson books? (The source of most children's knowledge of Greek myths at the moment). There's a Thalia in them (a new 21stC demi-god, not a muse) who is "cool" when not a tree and wouldn't be amiss on a scamp).

Artemis is a fantastic name, and 'hard-to-miss' has never occurred to me. I think Ariadne is wonderful too.

Also, there's Athena, Selene, Amphitrite (perhaps not), Calliste, Demeter, Persephone, Alethea?

I have a boy cousin called Artemis. If you were open to tragic stories love the name Antigone but it was a sad tale.

What about Theodora.