Cassidy for a girl....

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So I'm 20 weeks now and although we don't know for sure the sex of this LO something is telling me that it is going to be a girl (also we have the boys names already sorted!).
We have a short list of three at the moment to go with a surname beginning with a Cr. Please be honest and let me know what you think....
Cassidy
Cordelia
Harriet
If you can think of any others along the same lines is love to know! Thank you!

Love Cassidy, it's on our own list. We also considering Aurora, Flora and Aurelia.

Harriet is cool (is DD's name) and so is Cordelia - Cassidy - in the name of god do not saddle a poor female child with that monica!

Awful.

Sorry.

But in my defence I am old enough to think of David Cassidy

I love Cassidy and for personal reasons have earmarked it as a middle name for a boy or girl if we have another LO. It is beautiful

It's a surname. Sorry, but it is.
Harriet is nice.

Why madamec?

Cassidy - Natalie Cassidy of Eastenders fame
Cordelia - umm, a bit posh for me
Harriet - like this best, nice, old-fashioned but a bit quirky, and it goes best with your surname too!

Really dont like Cassidy, sorry.
Cordelia just makes me think King Lear which I studied at school.
Harriet is ok.

How about Octavia, Scarlett, Saffron, Coraline, Alexandria, Georgiana?

Cassidy is grim, sorry. HOwever, I have a Cassie whose full name is Catherine (we didn't like Cassandra) - like this?

Surname IMO

Harriet much nicer

Surname to the whole generation who remember The Partridge Family, so I think the assumption of a massive David crush is still be common. Are you ok with that?

I just think of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid! Cassie for Cassandra is lovely and I do like Cordelia (since the character in Buffy, bizzarely, not for her so much as it brought the name to my attention). There are lots of other lovely 'C' names and Harriet is nice too.

Love Harriet or Cordelia.

No to Cassidy. Just no. Harsh sounding name.

Butch Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy
David Cassidy
Natalie Cassidy

It's a no from me as well.

I love Harriet and quite like Cordelia. Cassie is nice as well.

Really don't like Cassidy, just doesn't sound like a proper name to me. However, Harriet is lovely and Cordelia is OK. How about Cassandra, or indeed just Cassie?

I quite like Cassidy, and Cassie is a nice nickname. I guess it is a bit surname-ish though.

Cordelia is lovely, I think this is my favourite. Not keen on Harriet, it sounds very old-fashioned and middle-aged to me.

Is Cassidy really a first name?

I really like Cassidy, and Cordelia my like inspired by American/Canadian tv programmes though! Just through hearing them used regularly.

Sorry, Cassidy is terrible. I really don't like the American trend for using surnames as first names. Harriet is a beautiful name though in my opinion.

Yep, Harriet is lovely. Cassidy is awful.

I have a Cassie. I was mortified when a playgroup lady misheard me and called her Cassidy for an entire session.

It's the whole american trend for surnames as first names. Bad enough for boys (Hudson, Jackson, Hunter) but truly awful for girls (Harper, Madison, Mackenzie)

Cheap, tacky and trailer trashy.

Cassidy is awful. Cowboy-surname-slash-trailer-park-chic, to me.

Cordelia is gorgeously gorge. Nicknames: Cora, Delia, Coco, Lia... lots of choice for her, if she wants to try out a different identity when she becomes a teen :) but the full name is lovely enough that she could become PM/marry into royalty/get a damehood and it would sound natural with any title.

(Whereas Princess Cassidy sounds like a My Little Pony. Dame Cassidy sounds like a wild west madam. The Honourable Cassidy Smith sounds like a sheriff who got too big for his boots. Etc.)

Harriet is just as good, but Cordelia is lovelier to my ear.

I know a little girl with this name but it's spelled Casidhe, took me ages to work out it was spelled phonetically and wasnt some obscure irish name.

I think it will date v quickly Harriet is a lot more timeless.