Please help with our naming dilemma - urgent!

[newcastlecoal]

Hi, I posted some time ago under a different name (lost log-in details) about the problems we are having choosing a name for DC due to our comedy surname. Our name is a noun and is something footballers kick! Well, we are no further on as many of the girl's names we like seem to be problematic with our surname (boys named sorted). I really want to sort this out in my head as don't want to end up on the last minute saddling poor DD with a name that sounds ludicrous with our last name.

Our shortlist is as follows:

Beatrice
Molly
Lily
Edie
Jessica
Hannah

I guess my favourite is Beatrice and am finding it hard not to imagine DD as this but obviously it would sound silly with our surname if shortened to Bea. I also like Edie. Please could you give me your thoughts on all the names above with our surname as I want to make sure I've not missed anything glaringly obvious! Ah, to be called Smith .... Thanks

Hannah with your surname could sound like Hannibal as in Lecter. All others lovely.

I think short surnames of one syllable go well with 2 syllable first names (think Zoe and Jonny )
I have a 1 syllable surname and DD's are Eva and Ruby

Edie = Edible
I see your problem

Jessica sounds best. Edie would be called edible I think.

Lovely names though. I too like Beatrice from you list. It's not terrible with your surname but others will go better.

I think you need a polysyllabic first name (probably at least two syllables even in NN form), and something that is a very established as a name.

I'd choose Jessica from your list.

Agree, polysyllabic would work better eg. Susannah, Madeleine

I think you need to make sure that the short version of the name also works with your surname so I think that rules out Beatrice. I like Jessica best from your list, and agree that 3 syllables or more works best with a one-syllable surname.

Definitely don't call her Hannah - Hannibul Lecter
Edie - Edible
Bea - Bea xxxx just sounds silly

Jessica is your best option I think.

fashion is right - Susannah is lovely.

A noun that footballers kick? HOW CAN WE CRACK THIS CODE?

No to Hannah and Beatrice. Hannah Ball? Really!? Have you seen the Silence of the Lambs? That film is awesome, but no, don't name your daughter after a man who kills and eats people.

Bea Ball is also going to get her made fun of.

The others are fine, go with one of those.

I would choose Jessica from your list too.

I think Beatrice is OK with your surname. Cool initials too.

I agree that you need an 'established' name. Elizabeth, Margret,

I agree - the longer name the better in this instance!

From your list I like Jessica the best. I initially thought Hannah, until I read the other posts!

Thanks so far for your feedback and suggestions! I hadn't cottoned on to the Hannah/ Hannibal thing so am glad I posted. That's the problem, every time we come up with a new suggestion, someone else sees something that means we can't use it.

Just out of curiosity and to keep our options as broad as possible, how do the following sound with our surname, and which do you prefer? This is difficult!

Emily
Cassie
Millie
Jasmine
Alice

My maternal grandmother was a Beatrice - known as BB because her surname began with B.

Emily and Alice are both nice. Jasmine works well too. Not really keen on Cassie or Millie.

Use your maiden surname instead?

I'm a proud noun-that-footballers-kick (well, not that proud as I've now taken husband's name!) but my first name is on your last list and I love it! Never had any teasing (well, very very little) about surname. All those names sound lovely to me. May not be a problem but consider initials on clothes etc if you choose Alice or Alison etc. My parents always told me they wanted to call me charity...

You need a long first name I think

Jessica works well
Jasmine good
Cassandra better than Cassie with your surname

Maybe
Dorothy
Elizabeth
Violet
Amelia

Something with a few syllabels

Beatrice, Edie, Hanna - No as others have said!

Molly, Lily - too many l's I think, it all runs into one name.

Jessica - 'OK' with your surname

Emily - better than Molly & Lilly
Cassie
Millie - not keen
Jasmine - no Jas 'your surname' sounds silly
Alice - OK

I like Cassie best :)

It's tricky isn't it - I think you should have made your DH take your name on - unless it was something even worse!!

Nothing starting with A!

And a May Ball is an event to go to.

Elizabeth?

Consider yourself fortunate that it's only one of the things that footballers kick and not the plural. :o

Jessica is the best of your choices so far imo.

My great aunt had a childhood friend of 70 years duration called Billy with the plural version of this surname. She also knew his mother who said if Billy had been a girl she would have called him Norma, after her own mother, and got most offended if anyone laughed.

sorry, the friendship was of 70 years duration, not the friend!

Either the DCs have your surname, or embrace it: Francesca Olivia Ottilie Thea or Rosalind Ursula Genevieve Beatrice Yvonne?