Martha, Charlotte, Leonie Alexandria......

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Please help me choose

Martha Leonie (pronounced Lay-oh-Nee)
Charlotte Anne
Alexandria Charlotte
Leonie Charlotte

or names with a similar 'feel'.

Leonie is very pretty and slightly unusual.
Alexandria - quite nice, but prefer Alexandra, which is lovely. The 'i' seems superfluous.
Charlotte is lovely, but there are loads of them around!
Martha is OK but a bit plain.

I love Charlotte Anne

or Leonie Charlotte

Also love Martha but I think a different middle

Martha Rose ?
Martha Pearl?
Martha Clare?

Alexandria Charlotte

Like Martha as a first name best.
Not sure about middle name though - Martha Anne seems to flow best but could be seen as a bit 'plain'.

Charlotte is pretty - but popular
Alexandria Im not keen on
Leonie seems a bit more 'common' to me

Martha just seems so downtrodden to me. It's not awful or anything. It's dowdy.

Martha is number 1 on my girls list.

Charlotte is lovely

All the alexandrias I know are very beautiful and very nice.

I know a few leonies and dislike all of them.

Martha

Love Alexandra but not Alexandria

Martha Leonie has lovely poetic metre but Leonie is too pretty to hide. There's a great Georgette Heyer character called Leonie, a feisty lass.

Is Leonie nn for Leonora?

I absolutely love Leonora.

Charlotte Anne or Leonora Anne

A bit obscure but Charlotte Anne can sound or read as 'charlatan'.

I like all your names. Charlotte has been very popular for quite a while now so maybe better as a middle name?

Leonora is fab - Leonie is v common in my part of the world.

Alexandria is very nice, though not keen on the nickname Lexi which might be inevitable at school.

Charlotte I think is dull and Martha cool.

I'd go for Martha Leonora.

I think the best things to do is as follows:

#1 find really huge graveyard, bigger the better
#2 discount everything with a 19xx date- perhaps if you are hardcore discount everything with a 18xx date. Separates the serious from the dead..
#3 take a note of all names prior to the times set out in #2 , gender specific

This will doubtless achieve two quite splendid things!

a) a wonderfully old name for a baby, your guarantor so to speak has been there by default a period of 1 or more centuries

b) a revival of ye olde wayes

..... I was lazy. I called my first - "mumm rah, the ever living"

In what part of the world is Leonie that popular?

There's a lovely song called Charlotte Anne by Julian Cope. Have a squizz on YouTube.

Leonie charlotte

They are all lovely - you have great taste. Favourite combination is Leonie Charlotte

Martha and Charlotte good, Alexandra also good - I don't like the superfluous 'i' either.

Leonie's not bad but for all you say 'pronounced Lay-on-ee' most people will say it 'Lee-oh-nee' so you/your DD will need to keep correcting them.

Leonie Charlotte

Leonie Charlotte. I love it and I love saying it, it is pretty and feminine and sounds soft and gentle.

Leonie Charlotte. Leonie Charlotte. Leonie Charlotte.

It looks beautiful in calligraphy as well.

Sorted. Thanks everyone.

Am biased - DD is an Alexandria. Though hyaline, I really don't like Lexi, we shorten her name to Alex but I live in fear that she or her friends will adopt Lexi one day. Oh well...

I know you've decided but I so rarely see Alexandria on here I just wanted to chip in .

Nelly

I love Alexandria as well but Alexandria Leonie or Alexandria Charlotte doesn't 'flow' to my ears.

Don't want to 'out' you but does your dd have a middle name because I think Alexandria needs a one syllable middle name like Grace or Fern etc...

Was going to vote for Leonie Charlotte - lovely choice imo.

She has two middle names - a two syllable and a one syllable. That in itself will almost out me but I won't say in any more detail . It does flow but it is admittedly a mouthful! I think it depends on your surname too.

But Leonie is a really lovely name.

Alexandria Charlotte.