if i like Florence, what else would i like?

[shelley72]

Long way off giving birth and have no idea if we are having boy or girl, but have started to have a little think about names. I keep coming back to Florence for a girl but don't think dh is keen (though he has had no ideas at all so far). So if I like Florence what else would I like? Generally like quite normal, poss old fashioned not too out there names. Not started on boys names yet!

Beatrice
Lucille
Freya
Verity
Meredith
Samantha
Abigail
Annabel
Isabella
Evelyn
Ruby
Lily
Rose
Eleanor
Charlotte
Emily
Edith

Matilda, Martha, Tabitha, Amelia, Cecelia, Cecily, Elizabeth, Victoria, Clarice, Clarissa, Mirabelle, Hope, Faith, Grace, Constance.

Briony
Flora
Phoebe

Can't resist throwing in Hepzibah for good measure!

Zebedee
Ermintrude
Dylan
and
Brian

Harriet
Elodie
Elizabeth
Genevieve
Beatrice
Charlotte
Emma
Lucy

Rosalie
Beatrix
Cecelia
Margaux
Venetia

Francesca
Margot
Stella
Miriam

Winifred

Iris, Ivy, Matilda, Beatrice?

Zebedee

Strong, beautiful names that don't end in 'a' or ie??

Juliet
Annabel
Eleanor
Elizabeth
Margaret
Christabel
Beatrix
Penelope (ends in ee, but let that one in)
Vivien
Estelle

Girls:
Felicity
Juliet

Boys:
Edward
James
Oliver

Colette
Odette
Jennifer
Giselle

Marianne. 'tis my fave and is in the same vein as Florence, as discussed on another thread!

One Florence in my family tree had sisters called Ruby, Pearl, Clara, Irene and Patricia. The other Florence had sisters called Mabel, Edith, Nelly and Jessie.

my Nana was called Florence. 'tis a lovely name.

Alice
Maud
Enid
rose

Rose
Harriet
Cora
Genevieve
Serena
Jemima
Leonora
Theodora
Nina

thank you for the ideas - zebedee it is then! did take me a while to make the connection

somuchtobits we also have a florence way back who had very similar sibling names - mabel, edith, maud, rose. born late 1800s so names of that time i guess?

we also like alice but it was DH GM name (so same surname) so wouldn't choose for that reason. DD was almost an emilia so like that too. i find it very easy to decide which names i dont like but very difficult to choose names that i do!!!

unebagpipe thanks for the boys suggestions - one of those we love and we already have