I can't use my frontrunner, can you help with a girls shortlist please?

[Tortoiseonthehalfshell]

My front runner is Constance Isolde, but I can't use Constance as a first name for irrelevant but non-negotiable reasons. Isolde Constance doesn't sound as good to my ear. While I adore adore adore Isolde, several of my friends think it looks nice but sounds 'clunky' and for sure she'd have to spend her life explaining/spelling it to people, it's incredibly obscure here in Australia. So I'm inclined to keep it as a second name, but can be persuaded otherwise.

With all that in mind, would you look at this list, which has already been savagely pruned by both my husband and my own long list of picky rules,
and tell me what your favourite combination is? My surname is 4 syllable and starts with an A, if that makes any difference.

Agnes
Anne
Briony
Constance
Felicity
Isolde
Lucy
Tabitha

Thank you!

It's just personal taste. I didn't used to like Agnes but it has grown on me. I don't really see it as old lady but definately do with Constance. Perhap it is influenced by all the 'old grannys' I know of that name!!

Agnes - please NO - unless you buy her a pair of saggy thick brown tights
Anne - boring
Briony - I like the sound of it, but keep looking for another way of spelling it that I like more. I don't like the io
Constance - you can't (no loss :) )
Felicity - the nicest on your list, lots of nice nn's
Isolde - I know you love this, but I don't! He Sold/I Sold jokes - sorry.
Lucy - OK, a little boring
Tabitha - CAT

So Felicity wins hands down

Felicity wins [ours is a Felicity Faith aged 2]

The only one I like from your list is Lucy (not that it matters what I or anyone else likes) but another name I like that sounds a bit like Lucy and keeps the 'virtue' theme of Constance is

Mercy

Felicity is a bit 1950's but that's not a bad thing. My friend's DD is nn Fizzy, which suits her.

Anne is the French version of the older and more classic English Anna. In the 60's the French spelling was often preferred, Julie, Michelle etc.
Tabitha makes me think of Twitchit.
Briony is very pretty, but the boy's name Brian is not so pretty.
Agnes and Constance a bit staid old lady for my taste.
Isolde as a first name may get 'I sold a' used car jokes, but everyone gets teased about something. It's unusual, but not outrageous.
Lucy is nice, but different to all the other names in that it's fairly popular.

Agnes ok and nn aggie quitecute
Anne boring but inoffensive
Briony sweet but sounds too like briney as in sea for my liking
Constance like but not keen on connie
Felicity lovely meaning , sweet dislike nn flick
Isolde sounds too like is older for my taste
Lucy nice but very ordinary
Tabitha love

Briony, Lucy and Felicity are all my cup of tea.

How about Naomi?

I love Felicity - I knew a tomboy Felicity who shortened it to Fizz

Wish I'd thought of it for DD2

Out of your list I like Agnes and Tabitha best. However, Isolde is a lovely name, if you really want it have it - it's not clunky at all.

I'm so confused now.

Felicity Isolde
Felicity Constance
Isolde Constance
Briony Constance
Felicity Agnes

DD1 was much easier than this.

I'm going to go all psychological on you...I think you know that you want Isolde Constance, which is an utterly beautiful name - I think so and so will lots of other people. Go with your gut instinct, then you won't regret it! I speak as someone who wanted a Greta, but got an Emma - beautiful name, suits her, but not what I FELT she was called in those first weeks. Go for it!

Oooh, psychology AND masterful behaviour, I like it. Thanks.

(Sorry, sorry, it's the pregnancy hormones, it does Odd Things to me)

It's #16 in my State. But that doesn't count it out as a second name, I don't think it matters how common a second name is (unless it is Rose).

Now I'm trying to think whether or not I want to avoid A names, because my surname starts with A. Do you think alliterative names sound dodgy?