Charlotte, Verity or Emme?

[halfdoneharris]

I'm due next month and struggling to decide which girls name I would prefer for our potential DD (not sure if boy or girl yet - but boy names are sorted).

Whilst I love Charlotte and would use the nickname Lottie (which is my grandmother's middle name) my only concerned is that it is quite popular at the moment.

My DH loves the name Verity, and I like it too but I quite like names with easy nicknames.

We both like Emme but have had comments that it doesn't sound like a full proper name.

What do you think?

Oh I love the name Verity.

I've only met 1 in RL, and she is fab. (It's not me btw! )

Verity is one of my favourite girl's names- would have used it for eldest DC (18) if he'd been a girl. It's so lovely it doesn't need a nn in my opinion.

Like Charlotte and Lottie - timeless, lovely.

Emme is nice but perhaps better as a short form of Emmeline.

My Verity is chuntering to me about dinosaur stickers :)

She has lots of silly nicknames, mostly not related to her name!

Ooh Rhinestone what are her nicknames? I was thinking Etti and Vita may be quite cute?

I like Verity best of those. Great suggestion of Emmeline with Emme for short, from Emphaticmaybe. Not so keen on Charlotte/Lottie.

I know a Verity and she's AMAZING.

Verity Charlotte = bootaful

Oh please go with Verity, I love it (and Felicity) but am not allowed as DP vetoed...

Nicknames could be -
Vi
Vita
Vera
Ettie
Etta
Eri (like airy)
Rita
Ty
True (since verity means truth in Latin but probably a bit 'out there'!)

Verity is so pretty. Could be shortened to Vee.

Oh, I love those nicknames for Verity!

I am mentally adding Verity onto my name list now.
(For the child I haven't started TTC yet.)

I'd chose Charlotte, but Verity is nice too. I see what you mean about Emme seeming short for something else. x

DS was 2.5 when his sister was born and could only manage Ettie for her name. Was quite cute. :)

Oddly we sometimes lengthen her name, she is often Verity Terity for some reason. Plus the usual embarrassing stuff like Toots, Curly Girl etc... But she's 3.5 and is very keen on announcing her full name to people.

One of our DD's is an Emme and I absolutely love it - we would never call her 'Emmeline' so didn't see the point of having that as her 'official' name IYSWIM.

We did it with one of our other daughters and do slightly regret it - she's an Indiana, but is always always called Indy, so in a way we just wish that we'd had her named 'Indy' so that she wouldn't have to keep correcting people.

How would you pronounce Emme - Emmeh or Emmy? I would use Emmeline or Emily on her birth certificate.

I also like Charlotte, but am not a fan of Verity, sorry.

Verity reminds me of ferrits and ferrity faces...

verity love it

I wanted Verity for one of mine but DH vetoed so it didn't make the final cut. LOVELY name and much underused IMO. V (Vee if you want a word!) as a nickname, works well.

DC3 was going to be Verity but he was a boy!

Other names we liked;

Anna
Esme
Thea
Althea
Una
Helena

I like Emme - how do you say it? Em - me?

Emme sounds like it is Emmie and short for something.

We have an Esme but she often gets called Emmy (Emme) - a longer name like Esmeralda or Emmeline would not have suited her/us. She gets both names interchangeably, probably her 'official' name a bit more. Just a suggestion!

Charlotte or Verity

Emme will be mispelled and mispronounced as Emma

Love Verity but I'm related to one so we can never use it!

Verity is really pretty, I like Lottie, but not Charlie.

The only Emmy I know is really Emily.

I like Emme. There was a celeb name thread a while ago and Emme and Max who are JLos kids had quite a few of us liking the names. It might get confused with Emma but not that likely. My name is confused with a very similar name. It does annoy me but I get over it.

I know a gorgeous Verity who is known as Vivi - super cute! I love Emme too. Charlotte is a popular name, of course, though I don't know many (any?) babies with the name, more older children (I'm a teacher) and of those I have encountered only a very few Lotties.
All lovely choices - good luck deciding!

I like Verity the best, though I think it has the possibility to become popular...not as much as Charlotte, however. Verity nn Vivi is adorable! :)

Emme is also v nice, but I agree it should be short for Emmeline or Esmerelda.