Please help me name a sister for Rosalind!

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As you can tell from DD1s name we like old fashioned, feminine, and looking for a longer name as our surname is very short. Pregnant again and need something that goes with Rosalind.

Please suggest away! Oh and please comment on our initial list.

Miranda (my undoubted first choice. DH unconvinced )
Elizabeth
Jemima
Marianne
Felicity
Jessica

I like Miranda, continue the Shakspearian theme. We have a Rowena but tht would be two R's

I like Felicity, also Genevieve.

Rowena is beautiful! Could get confusing if post arrives with just an initial...

On the Shakespeare thing, Helena is nice, Portia is a bit too posh (or is it?)... who else is there?

I love all these names!! I liked traditional and feminine names too - we have Alice, a bit short for you though!

What about.....

Josephine
Marina
Charlotte
Christina
Isobel/Isobella
Mabel (too short?)
Barbara
Catherine
Genevieve

Any good for a start off for you?

Thanks Janie, DH is very keen on Alice actually.. What nicknames/affectionate diminutives does your Alice get called?

I like Genevieve (although friends have used this for their daughter, so need to tread carefully).

Josephine is really lovely - and the rocking heroine of Little Women.

Marina is great too - or Marianna.

Think Josephine is my favourite of these.

Pregnancy tiredness has struck so off to bed but thank you so much for your suggestions and I will check the thread in the morning.

I like Josephine too and I've just thought about my Dh's aunt Jocelyn, I liked it too.

Alice doesn't have a nickname - or not so far anyway!! Not sure what it would be either which was why my Dh liked it, he's not keen on shortening names hence why none of the above worked for us even though I liked them

I loved finding names!! Congratulations by the way!

Surely it should be Celia?

More seriously Josephine is a fabulous name (I have one!) and has the benefit that not only is it good as it stands but if she wants to there are lots of options on shortenings depending on her personality (Jo, Josie, Feenie).

Was going to suggest Elizabeth, so obviously I like that on your list

I think Felicity 'goes' beautifully too.

How about:

Meredith
Claudia
Annabel
Georgina
Clementine
Beatrix
Heidi
Eleanor

I'm nor sure if this might be a snag or a positive thing, but nns for Rosalind and Josephine give you Rosie and Posie.

I was also going to suggest Jocelyn

Ooooh what lovely names!! I love them all, though thought Rosalynd and Elizabeth are difficult to say together- or is that just me?!

Also love Stephanie
Phillippa
Alexandra/dria

You mentioned mail being awkward if you go for Rowena, my sister and I have the same initial and though it's not that important when you're 14 it is a PITA and so with our dc, dh and I have avoided anyone in the house sharing initials, it really annoyed me!!

Juliet for the Shakesperean theme, Genevieve for loveliness,

Or what about cordelia for the Shakesp.

Other Shakespearean names include:
Alice (Henry IV)
Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing)
Cassandra (Troilus & Cressida)
Celia (As You Like It)
Constance (King John)
Cordelia (King Lear)
Diana (All's Well that Ends Well, Pericles)
Emilia (Winter's Tale, Othello)
Helen (Troilus & Cressida, Cymbeline)
Helena (Midsummer Night's Dream, All's Well that Ends Well)
Hermione (Winter's Tale)
Imogen (Cymbeline)
Iris (The Tempest)
Isabella (Measure for Measure)
Jessica (Merchant of Venice)
Julia (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Juliet (Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure)
Juno (The Tempest)
Katharina (Taming of the Shrew)
Luciana (Comedy of Errors)
Margaret (Much Ado About Nothing)
Mariana (All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure)
Marina (Pericles)
Nerissa (Merchant of Venice)
Olivia (Twelfth Night)
Ophelia (Hamlet)
Silvia (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
Ursula (Much Ado About Nothing)
Viola (Twelfth Night)

I quite like Felicity and Jemima.

Or how about

Evangeline
Cornelia
Mariella
Penelope
Marigold

I think Marianne is head and shoulders above the other names on your list.

It's elegant but simple, plus great song by Leonard Cohen.

Marianne is beautiful and my favourite by a mile from your list.

I also like Felicity.

Jemima and Jessica are my least favourite.

Rosalind and...

Mary
Maria (love love love)
Lillian
Lillith
Louisa
Estelle
Frances
Marguerite
Helena
Cassia
Susannah (love
Adelaide
Miriam (love)
Harriet
Sylvia (love)
Celia (love)
Eloise
Lydia
Catherine
Agatha
Virginia (due a comeback, surely? )

Emilia
Caroline
Lara
Katherine

Was going to suggest Constance or Eleanor/a. :)

Victoria? Araminta? Aurelia? (I love Aurelia :)) Susannah? Jessamine? Mirabelle? Octavia?

Verity is also pretty :)

When I saw your thread title I came on to suggest Josephine, one of my all time favourites. I also love Susannah and Louisa. Throwing Eloise into the ring.

Tamsin
Penelope
Cecelia
Laurel
Daphne
Vanessa
Leonora
Gabriella

I love Juliet, Beatrice, Phillipa, Alice, Helena, Sylvia, Miranda and Josephine with Rosalind.

Elfrieda

Whoops, I see that Gav beat me to the punch with Eloise. Turns out I have nothing original to add, but good luck choosing!