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Pretty but not too popular girl's names

26 replies

cashmere · 20/05/2012 19:53

Hi

What are your thoughts on the following names:-
Alannah
Meredith
Rosalie
Seraphina

Thanks!

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MarianForrester · 20/05/2012 19:56

I like Meredith. Lovely.

Like Rosalie too, but not so much with my Scottish accent.

sugarspiceandallthingsnice324 · 20/05/2012 20:19

I like Alannah and Seraphina

StrawberryMojito · 20/05/2012 20:20

I like Rosalie and Alannah.

TheGravyTrain · 20/05/2012 20:26

Seraphina and Rosalie are lovely Smile

neverquitesure · 20/05/2012 20:27

Meredith is really lovely

BenderBendingRodriguez · 20/05/2012 20:29

Meredith and Rosalie were both on my list :) DH vetoed Hmm

Seraphina is gorgeous too. Not keen on Alannah.

emsyj · 20/05/2012 20:38

Seraphina (spelled Serafina) was on our list, and will be on it again if we have another DD. I know a Rosalie who is really lovely (she's my age tho, not a baby) and so I really like that name too. A good friend of mine has an Alanna who is a beautiful and sunny little girl.

So the only one I don't like is Meredith - isn't it the name of a bitchy girl in a dreadful American teen soap or something?? Confused It's also the surname of a really horrid family who live near my mum. They are really nasty people so it has bad connotations for me.

Lunarlyte · 20/05/2012 21:16

Love Seraphina (LOVE the angelic connotation) but don't like Meredith. I'm a big fan of the US version of The Office and there is a character named Meredith on there who is a bit of an ... old slapper! Also associate it with bitchy American girls.

SilkStalkings · 20/05/2012 21:58

Don't like Alannah, not as classy as the others.

invicta · 20/05/2012 22:02

Love Rosalie.

MuddyDogs · 20/05/2012 22:05

Felicity
Vanessa
Julia
Lydia

PercyFilth · 21/05/2012 12:49

Here's a few I've come across in parish registers/family trees. Just names that you don't come across every day - they won't all be to everyone's taste.

Anish
Selina
Tryphena
Tryphosa
Persis
Marjorie
Christobel
Etheldra
Priscilla
Dorcas
Elvira
Darnigo

BlueChampagne · 21/05/2012 13:05

Love Meredith! Also Tamsin, Meryl, Rhiannon and Corinna.

cashmere · 21/05/2012 19:51

Thanks glad they're generally liked. I quite like Lydia, Selina and Corinna (though prob prefer Karina) from suggestions.

Think will go for Meredith or Rosalie if we have a girl though : )
Boy prob Rowan or Louis!

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TinkerMaloo · 21/05/2012 20:00

Rosalie is lovely and I fancied it for my bump (hes a boy though so thats out!) Though it in my mind it always set off the thin lizzie song and that might have annoyed me after a while...

EliasRose · 21/05/2012 20:02

Rosalie.

Also love Corrina! Bob Dylan fan you see....

MoonHare · 21/05/2012 20:04

Meredith is lovely. Not keen on the others.

BeaWheesht · 21/05/2012 20:21

Meredith is nice.

Had you been asking for suggestions I'd have said Alice.

Ihatepeas · 21/05/2012 23:13

Met a baby Meredith the other day! Very nice!

Pasiphae · 22/05/2012 12:44

Out of all of them I like Seraphina the most, although Seraphine is even better IMO.
The one I really dislike is Alannah. I see and hear Alan too much in that name. And I have association with an utterly horrid person named this.

5madthings · 22/05/2012 12:56

really LOVE Meredith, that is what we thought about calling our dd, she is Merryn, which we are often told is a very pretty name and its not popular either :)

also like Rosalie on your list, dp liked that but i wasnt too sure, but its grown on me :)

doughnutty · 22/05/2012 12:58

Meredith was on my list but dh vetoed.
I have a Natalie instead. Not weird but not common either.

QuickLookBusy · 22/05/2012 13:08

Meredith

Lannie33 · 23/05/2012 15:26

i like rosalie or alannah the most not keen on meredith. i know a baby named Marin, which is cute too.

sammyleh · 23/05/2012 16:07

Rosalie is my favourite, and also one of my names if we have a girl too :)

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