what would Oliver's brother or sister be called?

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DC2 is due next year, and DH and I are really struggling with names. We need a fairly classic name that can be pronounced easily by non-native English speakers, and already have a DS (whose name we chose before he was even conceived).

DS is known more as Oli than Oliver, so names like Polly, Molly, Holly etc are out

I like Toby (Tobias) and Emilie, DH is a bit meh about both. Love Matylda too, but DH HATES it. He likes Emma and Amy, which are both names I love but which have connotations (girl called Emma who bullied me at school, old school acquaintance who is utter muppet just called her baby Amy. I do know a very lovely Emma and Amy now, but old associations will not die down!), he also likes Eduard, which I'm a bit meh about.

Any suggestions?! Everyone knows at least one Oliver, so those you know, what are their siblings called?! thanks

Tamsin
Mia
Alice

James
Freddie
Mathew

Lucy
Liberty
Harriet

are the sisters of the Olivers I know.

Choose a name you love. Any name will go with Oliver (being very common) apart from perhaps Olivia .

I know an Oliver who's baby brother is Thomas.

I know loads of Olivers - with all sorts of sibling names ranging from Joshua, Quentin, Sophie to Elizabeth. Choose a name your dh and you like!

I know several Oliver and Sam duos, also Max, Joseph, Thomas, Lucas, Frederick

For girls, Jessica, Saskia, Sophie, Hannah

Any good?

Oliver and Alice here. It was only after that I realised they both start vowel plus 'L'.

We also liked Toby, Alexander, Jonathan, harry for boys
For girls, Ellen, Eleanor, Lucy

James or Emily.

I was think Toby while the thread was loading :)

I think Oliver's sister should be called Chloe, Emily or Sophie.

thank you!! DS was going to be Alice Essie, but I've kind of gone off it now as it was 'his' name had he been born without a winkle

can't use Alexander (or William, or Frederik, or James, or John) as we have them in the family/very close friends. Will present DH with the name Thomas and see what he says (as it's Tomas, pronounced 'Tom-ash' in his language). Also Sophie is good, think it's Sofie or Zofie in his country, both of which are lovely. Ooh, and Lucy, but we do know a lot of Lucy/Lucies. hmm. it's so difficult this time!!

more ideas more than welcome!!

Gracie is the sister of the Oliver I know

I have an Oliver and expecting DC2. We have found out we're having a girl (some of my favourites below) but already had boys names too as follows:

William, Benjamin, Sebastian, Frederick, Henry, George (also think Thomas, Edward, Alexander, Samuel, Nicholas work well).

Emilia/Emily, Annabel/Arabella/Isabella/Annabella (though think there is a shop called Isabella Oliver....), Charlotte, Beatrice (seems to be very "in" at the moment on mumsnet..)

As others have said Oliver is a classic, popular name so not too difficult to find another name that works with it. Personally I would (and am) sticking to a name of a similar vein and not going too faddy/modern/unusual if that makes sense...

Good luck!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dickensian_characters

I know an Oliver (Ollie) with a sister Kimberley (Kim) .

Right - two Olivers known to me have sisters called Laura and Amelia (Millie)

Also, my sister's friend has an Oliver (quite old now though - he's 10) and his sister (as well - all sisters I note with interest....) is called Emily

HTH - good luck!

P.S. Is Beatrice very "in" on Mumsnet recently......I have a Beatrice.....interesting!

I'd say any other top 10 name would go with Oliver.

Sorry wasn't criticizing Beatrice (I love it!) but it seems to pop up a lot on these threads - not sure if it is being used a lot or just one of those names that lots of people like. I hadn't seen it mentioned too much 2+ years ago so thought it was more "in" now. Lovely name and clearly I don't have a problem with popularity!

We also had Peter on our list 2nd time round. Bit more unusual these days but would really suit a small boy.

ooh, Peter, hadn't thought of that! would be Petr though. hmm. I like it.

but have just remembered DH has an uncle Petr, drat. Don't want to use a family name if possible for the 1st name. Middle names will be Christopher or Eliska (pronounced 'El-eesh-ka'; was MIL's name) so sorted on that front, thankfully!!

If we had had more than one then Oliver's sister would have been called Georgia.

I know an Oliver with siblings Matthew and Daisy.

Alice
Daisy
Rebecca
Katie
Molly
Jennifer
Ava
Hannah

Ben
Rowan
Elliot
George
David
Charlie
Tom

We know some Oliver and Sam pairs as well!

Also
Oliver and Rebecca
Oliver and Poppy
Oliver and Robin
Oliver and Matt(hew)
Oliver and Theo

Hadn't realised we knew so many Olivers before this thread.

Harriet
James
Alexander
Jessica
Maisie
William
Joshua
CHarlotte
Hannah
Elizabeth
Victoria
Daniel
Henry(Harry)