Sadie, Violet or Enmeline

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Only 6 weeks of but enjoying obsessing about names already! What do you think of my current faves for girls? Do your worst!

Do you mean Emmeline (which I think is awesome BTW)?

I like Emmeline best.

(When I read the thread title too fast I saw Sadist, Violent, but I sometimes read things wrong..)

Yes MrsT meant Emmeline, typed too fast, sorry!

Twins Sadist and Violent would be brilliant math!

I quite like all of them but in this order: Emmeline, Violet, Sadie

Cool. Emmeline is great but remember to have the leen/line debate. If you go line it will be easy to say but not IMO correct. If you go leen, more correct but you will spend time saying, "Emmeline not Emily". Also, I know someone who shortens it to Emmy, which I love too.

Agree Sadist and Violent would be fantastic twins.

Others currently in the mix too are Juliet and Tabitha, though DH needs persuading on the latter! Any thoughts?

Don't like Tabitha or Juliet but love the first 3 names. Although I love Emmeline I would have to veto it as would get fed up correcting people all the time.

Yes, it's the inevitable constant confusion with Emily that puts me off Emmeline.

We both alos like Magda, which is a bit leftfield, any thoughts? Maggie or Mags could make cute nicknames?

Esme is another frontrunner (I prefer the Es-mee pronunciation)

Violet by a mile! This is what the little girl I am halfway through carrying right now would have been called if he wasnt a little boy!...

Beautiful classic yet pretty and not common too! :)

I like Violet the best. It's pretty and fun.

Sadie is cool, but because I see Sad, I always think the name is a bit 'drab' somehow.

Emmeline should be fierce, with Pankhurst and everything, but instead I think it's rather sugary sickly sweet.

Violet gets my vote

Emmeline and Violet are gorge! Dont like Sadie

Sadist and Violent are also my first impressions when I see those names :o
Emmeline I find a bit twee, plus there is the inevitable confusion with Emily.
Juliet I am not wild about, but I do like Julia.
Tabitha always makes me think of a cat.
Esme, is there one in Twilight? Tis a bit faddy to my mind anyway.
Magda I like, or Magdalene.

In order or preference

Emmeline
Violet
Juliet
Sadie
Tabitha

Emmeline is nicest by far.

Sadie is sweet but needs a full name.

Juliet is nice.

Not keen on Violet or Tabitha.

Great names!In order my faves would be esme, violet, sadie and then emmeline

I also like Esme (because of my namesake's books). Emmeline is by far the best, though.

Really love Juliet and Violet. Also think Emmeline is very nice too.

I'm from Belfast and Sadie is kind of like a chav-y granny name here (so sorry if anyone's granny is called Sadie btw, i actually think it's a pretty name!), so much so that there used to be this terrible 'character' on a local radio show called Sadie on Downtown Radio with a really screechy voice. And then there's the Kevin & Sadie romance books, also set in Belfast. In short, Sadie is a pretty name but will forever be a chavvy granny name to me, sorry!

And - for any Jilly Cooper fans out there - doesn't Ruper Campbell Black have a daughter called Tabitha?

Of your first suggestions, in order, I prefer Violet (by a million miles), then Emmeline (bit too frilly for me though there's a great namesake in Emmeline Pankhurst) then trailing a long way behind Sadie.

However I LOVE both Juliet and Tabitha - especially Tabitha, I have one! My DH vetoed it first time around but he came to love it and when DD2 was born he was happy to go with it. I don't know why people have a problem with it having feline connotations, for me that's part of what makes it such a fab name. We have had loads of compliments on her name since she arrived but it does seem to be a love it/hate it one.

Best wishes

Violet -quite a few about now
Juliet - like
Emmeline - like but you'd spend your life correcting prononciation
Sadie - isn't it a dogs name??!!
Tabitha - dont like, pretentious.

Love Esme

Actually Tabitha is a nice name and Biblical. But ruined by Beatrix Potter. I suppose it was the suggestion of tabby = cat that made her hit on it.

The problem with Emmeline is that she would be constantly confronted with people going "oh, Emmeline Pankhurst".

I love Magda. Also Greta.

DD is never confronted by people thinking of Emmeline Pankhurst. Most people are pretty ignorant of history, MN excluded. Only a couple of people realised she had a namesake.

And would it be a bad thing if people went "oh, Emmeline Pankhurst"? Not as good a role model as Sylvia, but not so bad! People have occasionally asked if my daughter is named for Rosa Luxemburg - it wasn't in our minds at the time, but we've taken to saying 'yes'!