Sister for Sophia

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I am looking for something that sounds good with Sophia, but I'm not sure that my current favourite names do. Would love to hear your opinions!

Julia - can I have 2 "ia" names?
Audrey
Beth - i think I'm going off this one!

Any other suggestions?

I think 2 ia names are fine, others will disagree with me though! I'm not keen on Julia personally though, but a perfectly alright name, prefer Julianne. I like Audrey, classic and beautiful

My suggestions
Claudia
Olivia
Catherine
Isla
Elsa
Ava

Sophia is quite a wistful, elegant, romantic name to me. How about:

Rosalie
Eliza
Romilly
Grace
Natalia
Auralie

Julia - like, and it's underused. I think two "ia" names sound fine, but if you prefer different endings how about Juliet?
Audrey - not so keen
Beth - nice, and also like Bethany

How about Sophia and....

Lydia
Emily
Clarissa
Ruby
Rebecca
Xanthe
Georgina
Emma

Lis - Elsa was on my list too but dh not so keen. I still really like it tho. Catherine is a lovely, classic name, but I think there'll be loads of Catherines and Kates in the next year.

Plonker - I like Aurelie, but is it maybe a bit pretentious?

Georgia is another that I like, but, again, I'm a bit apprehensive about 2 names ending in 'ia'. However, Georgia is more of a "juh" sound than a real "ia" sounds like Sophia. So maybe they're not bad together?

Instant - Juliet is a good substitute for Julia, and I really like it, but not sure we cold pull it off - can't explain any better than that...it makes me a bit nervous

Aurelie is nice, and I like Aurelia too. If you're not sure of those, how about Amelia?

Beatrice
Phoebe
Xanthe
Miriam
Martha

Another -ia name is fine. I know sisters Sophia and Olivia.

However, the first one that came to mind was Imogen.

Aurelia is pretty too. Aurelie can end up being pronounced "Orally" - all sorts of problems with that one :(

I have 3dds, a Sophia but spelt the other way, Olivia and Anna. It was mentioned on MN before that it was "frowned upon" to have names all ending in A, couldn't care less . Julia and Juliet were also on our short list, when we picked Anna.

These are great suggestions. I love Phoebe but had ruled it out as I thought the repetitive "ph" sound with Sophia was too much. We also tend to shorten Sophia to "Phia" and I could very much foresee a Phia and Phoebs situation!!

I agree about Aurelie running the risk of being pronounced like orally. Otherwise, a lovely name.

Good to hear that there's not such a problem with having 2 -ia names. wiggles, i have always sort of been in that camp of not having more than one name ending in an -a sound or an -ie sound. Now I seem to be changing my mind!

So...now thinking:
Julia
Audrey
Beth
Georgia
Juliet

Any more thoughts?