Sibling for Persephone!

[Persephoneplus1]

We don't know if it's a boy or girl but we could do with some inspiration for names! This is what I've got on my list so far (although DH doesn't like lots of them....) - any thoughts on these or other potential names??

Girl:
Ariadne
Beatrice
Cecelia
Eliza
Gretel
Heidi
Liesl
Mariella
Michaela

Boy:
Ewan
Felix
Gregory
Patrick
Sebastian
Theodore

Beatrice is the only one from your girls lust that I like and Felix or Theodore fom your boys list! Persephone is such a wow name you don't want a sibling to feel that they have a blah name compared to it!

I think they're all a bit plain in comparison. Ianthe? Artemis? Anastasia? Yolanda?

You could stick with the greek mythology theme i guess?
Calliope, cassandra, electra (!), artemis, hero
Hector, um struggling a bit with boys names that aren't too obviously "heroic"!

Martha, Hester, Fabian or Raphael?

btw I like Eliza and Theodore

I like Clara for a girl and Benedict for a boy.

Antigone

Costas

Persephone? Really?

Ptolemy nn Tolly :)

just out of interest what DO you call Persephone for short?
sephi? persy?

Thanks all!

Yes, really dementedma.

goralka she's got lots of nn so far - Sephy, Persey, Poppy, Penny - different friends/family have their own nn.

I think Ariadne would go v well with Persephone.

Girl:
Ariadne - quite like it and one of the best matches with Persephone
Beatrice - not keen and it doesn't have the 'wow' factor of Persphone
Cecelia - quite like it
Eliza - quite like it, think you need a longer name though
Gretel - not keen and it's a mismatch imo
Heidi - quite like it but ditto to Gretel re mismatch
Liesl - dislike it
Mariella - not keen but it goes well with Persephone
Michaela - like it but total mismatch with Persephone

Boy:
Ewan - not keen
Felix - love it. Think you might need a longer, fancier name though
Gregory - not keen
Patrick - love it. How do you feel about alliteration?
Sebastian - like it. Good match
Theodore - it's ok. Good match

From other suggestions I think Electra is wonderful (if a bit bizarre!) and also love Cassandra. Antigone, Calliope, Fabian and Benedict would all go very well with Persephone imo. Ptolemy is, I think, too similar.

How about:
Araminta, Cassandra, Delilah, Elisaveta, Evangeline, Emmeline, Francesca, Georgiana, Gabriella, Henrietta, Julianna, Lavinia, Miranda, Natalia, Octavia, Ophelia, Rosalind, Rosamund, Tabitha, Veronica, Vanessa, Valentina, Xaria.

Frederick, Josiah, Maximillian, Montgomery, Nathaniel, Nicholas, Timothy, Xavier, Zachariah, Zebediah

i love Athene, and i think it would be lovely with Peresphone. from your list i like Eliza and Liesl. i also like Annaliese.

boys - love Sebastion and Theodore. also love manic's suggestion of Xavier.

I love Persephone! I think Valentina, Antonia, Antigone, Beatrice and Ariadne for girls and Sebastian (although don't like Seb/Basty), Montgomery, Benedict, Thaddeus, Fabian, Quentin and Tristan would go really well!

Are you a Sound of Music fan perchance?

I like Mariella and Theo(dore) best from your lists.

Agree that most of your suggestions are a bit plain compared to Persephone (which I love, by the way, but would never be daring enough to use!). Like Eliza and Cecilia from your girls' list, but feel Eliza's too different in style and Cecilia and Persephone are a bit of a mouthful together because of all the 's' sounds.

Felix and Theodore are nice choices, but again I don't think they really 'go'. Reckon you need something a but more dramatic!

How about:

Athena, Atalanta, Estella, Mirabelle, Clio, Xanthe, Cassia, Tabitha, Thalia, Alethea, Cordelia, Delilah, Isadora

Atticus, Cassian, Raphael, Benedict, Xavier

Benedict would be nice. How about Iolanthe for a girl? I love this name, but DH wasn't having any of it

What about Daphne, Sylvia or Xanthe?
Or maybe Cassia?

I used to know sibs Pandora and Philomena, strikes me they fit well with Persephone .

My DD's name (Ariadne) is on your list, so of course I think that's the best choice!

From your boys list I think Gregory is lovely, and it's not a name that's overused, so it should fit nicely with Persephone

Just to add, I like the meaning of Ariadne too

Oh Persephone and Ariadne are just GORGEOUS together - go for that!

If you have a boy, I agree that you should go with something a bit more exciting. Orion or Atticus or Hercules or Odysseus or something else that's wild and amazing and fabulous.

Boys:
Rafferty
Quillan
Jolyon
Montague
Clancy

Girls:
Mirabel
Peggotty
Dieudonne
Rumer
Xanthe