Names like Ella-May

[Alltheflowers]

If anyone's not sick of me asking yet, please can I have more ideas! I still can't find a girls name I love and am due in December. I really like Lucia still but I don't love it. I don't like classic names at all, so nothing like Elizabeth. I do like:

Cutesy pretty names
Ones that are not very common (outside of top 100)

Someone told me they have a little call called Ella-May today and I thought that fitted my criteria, but it's still not quite right. Please can you suggest some similar ish names you think I might like?

Thank you :)

Ippsy-Dipsy-Mae

Thanks everyone. I like Tilly, Bibi, Camille, Edie, Xanthe and Maisie. Prob Edie is my fav of those. Not sure i love any of them though, but maybe liking is enough?

The problem with all the 'cutsey names at the moment is that they will all date badly to an era, whether they're top 100 or not. It's the 'ee' sound on the end that will date them, sorry. The only one mentioned on the thread so far that grabs me Heidi, fit the 'cutsey' sound for a baby and little girl, but is also quite strong name for a grown woman. Which lets face it, Ella-May, Poppy-May, Daisy-May and the like are certainly not. The other one that you've mentioned which I find truly gorgeous is Camille - beautiful name, beautiful.

I haven't read all, but some of my favs:

Hattie
Evie
Eva
Mabel
Iris
Scarlet
Annie
Tilly

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Daisy, Daisy, Daisy - repeat as necessary

How about Honey or Cleo?

That's my dd name so no insults please! She is 10 now and there aren't any other Ella's in her school. It's a lovely name for a gorgeous girl

Oh I hadn't realised that all my favourites so far end in an 'ee' sound. Although my name does and it's definitely not cutesy. I do like Heidi as well. I know a Honey so that's ruled out (and believe it or not is possibly too cutesy even for me!).

I quite like Mabel, or is that an old lady name?

I have a dear friend whose DD1 is Poppy and her DD2 is known by everyone, including at school, as Lulu but her birth cert name is Lucinda

That's really interesting as if we did go with Lucia we were thinking of Lulu for short :)

I think Lucia still in top 5 but now Heidi, Edie and Tilly are up there too, so thanks everyone for all your ideas.

I know of a new baby called Elsie - Elsie-May?

Also know of an Elspeth, shortened to Ella, and an Ava-Skye.

I hope you are only asking so that you can avoid (hopeful??) Hyphenated names really are not good.

Ella is nice on its own. May is soooo common as middle name dont do it!