Felicity or Constance....

[blondie72]

We love both of these names (and also Helena).

Any opinions/views?

thank you all for your replies. could I ask if your children/grandchildren like their names? are they conscious of Constance or are they always Connie? Do they get any rude nick names? I'm not surely I can see myself using Constance in a supermarket for example but I think Connie is lovely, although I knw my parents will hate it!! Is it better to choose a name that I can use the full name comfortably? I also quite like Helen ( our surname begins with H) but I am of the generation of lots of Helen's so it seems very 'beige' as my husband puts it and as we have already chosen 2 very popular names (Olivia and benjamin) for Dd And DS we were thinking of being a bit more unusual for no. 3. What do you think?

I like Constance better than Felicity.

Re. Helen - yes, it was very popular in the 70's/80's, but it's not now. It was one of the names on our shortlist if DS had been a girl, and was way down the official ONS name list. I think it ranked something like 620th for girls in 2010. So it would be an unusual name for a girl born now, and I'd not expect you to come across many, if any, Helen's your child's age.

So do you think Helen is better than Constance / Connie? Thanks

constance is lovely,also like helena, what about eleanor?

I like both Constance and Feliciy but if I had to choose between them I think I'd choose Constance. I like Helena as well but prefer the other two.

My Connie is only nearly 2 but I still love it. She's named after a family member so my whole family like it too as it reminds us if her. She's only Constance when she's naughty

I think I'd be torn between Constance and Helen.

Constance , Felicity is a bit frilly for my taste but also a nice name. LIke Helen but not Helena

I prefer Felicity and love its meaning. Read years ago that Felicity Kendal who was born in the Far East has the NN Foo which is Chinese for happiness and prosperity

I love felicity and Helena. I think Helena is my favourite, but I think it's a difficult one for NNs - I don't like Hel, Lenny etc. I like the thought of Constance, but don't like Connie as a NN.