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Long frilly girls name to go with lysander

97 replies

Dixy30 · 01/12/2013 19:57

Hello
I am new so please be nice!
If you don't like long or fancy names stop reading now!!

My daughter has an unusual frilly girls name like Arabella (don't want this to be google able)and my son is called Lysander.

Pregnant with a girl. Always loved Cassandra - wanted similarly classic/ faux arisocratic/ Shakespearian/ Greek themed name. Then realised the 'sand' sound is exactly like Lysander. Also love Ariadne but too close to daughters name.

Husband likes Genevieve but the 'Jen' nickname isn't very exciting.

Any ideas? Also like perdita but don't love it enough.

Thanks ! Grin

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capsium · 01/12/2013 22:33

Catriona
Rosamund
Beatrice
Jemima
Evangeline

capsium · 01/12/2013 22:35

Guinevere

Iwaswatchingthat · 01/12/2013 22:38

Felicity

poppydaisy · 01/12/2013 22:40

Antonia
Valentina
Florentina
Theodora

Love most names on here!

ctrlaltdel · 01/12/2013 22:43

Calantha
Euphemia
Iolanthe
Celestia
Seraphina

MortifiedAnyFuckerAdams · 01/12/2013 22:44

Aurelia
Wilhomena

MoonlightMerrimentandMistletoe · 01/12/2013 22:45

Amaryllis?

If you really like frilly names do some investigation on Restoration ones - think the best I've come across (admittedly in an 'we only 'ad one coal t'eat between eighteen childer' type way) was Blowzelinda!! [tchgrin]

Oh, and congratulations!

Lurleene · 01/12/2013 22:45

Calliope

BlackberryandNettle · 01/12/2013 23:06

You could have genevieve with genie as a nicname or vivi. Alternatives:

Josephine or Persephonie or Seraphina - sephie
Gabriella
Diana
Hermione
Viola

TheNunsOfGavarone · 01/12/2013 23:09

Blowzelinda who on earth was called that, some Restoration porn star Grin

Clarinda
Lucinda (probably too close to Lysander!)
Lucilla
Cecilia
Zephyrine
Damaris
Mariana

ThanSheSaid · 01/12/2013 23:10

Capucine. It's a French name. Cap-poo-sin

Keep saying it and it might grow on you Grin

MoonlightMerrimentandMistletoe · 01/12/2013 23:12

[tchgrin]

CremeEggThief · 01/12/2013 23:12

Mariella?
Rosalinda?
Alexandrina?
Julianna?
Julietta?

MoonlightMerrimentandMistletoe · 01/12/2013 23:13

Maybe it was Moll Flanders' stage name? [tchwink]

BlackberryandNettle · 01/12/2013 23:13

Constantina?

ChristmasCareeristBitchNigel · 01/12/2013 23:14

Carmilla
Demeter
Ariadne

SlicedLemon · 01/12/2013 23:35

Araminta
Penelope
Henrietta
Esmerelda
Augustine/a
Veronica
Yolanda
Honoria
Christiana
Alexandria
Jessica
Jemima
Carmelita
Susannah
Angelica
Vanessa
Saphira
Venetia

MarjorieChardem · 01/12/2013 23:39

I know a Genevieve called Vie or Vieve for short which is lovely.

Beckamaw · 01/12/2013 23:45

Philomena?

alexpolistigers · 02/12/2013 08:10

My daughter's name is Ariadne.

Names that I also considered:

Ismene (pronounced Is-mee-nee)
Nefeli
Danae (Dan-EYE)

These are perhaps not long and frilly, though!

Then there's:

Cassiopeia
Penelope

And DH suggested:

Alkmene
Cleopatra

Summersun1983 · 02/12/2013 08:17

We have an Eloise, to me that's quite girly and feminine :-)

Witchesbrewandbiscuits · 02/12/2013 11:16

calliope

gingee · 02/12/2013 11:24

Hero - could double barrel to make frillier
Valentina
Dimitria or Dimitriana
Adara
Alexandria
Atalanta or Atlanta
Montserrat
Assisi
Athena
Constantina
Xanthe
Layna
Emerald
Serendipity or just Seren
Sapphire
Cicely
Madalena
Inaya
Calliope
Calypso
Rosaria
Levisa
Vivienne
Catalina
Dulcima or Dulcina
Luciana
Viola
Cordelia
Lavinia
Rosalinda
Eleonora
Oceania
Tabitha
Callista
Castalia
Cosima
Cyrena

Spaghettinetti · 02/12/2013 14:45

I love the name Lysander- great choice!

Here are my suggestions:

Eurydice
Eurynome
Thetis
Iphigenia
Electra
Jocasta
Evantheia
Pasiphae
Penelope
Persephone
Thallia
Theodora
Konstantina
Anastasia
Chrysophenia
Artemis
Cassiopeia
Marilia
Delaphine
Isodora
Circe

telsa · 02/12/2013 15:08

I think Priscilla is the frilliest name there is. Or Felicity. But if you are talking poshwise, my faves are Hepzibah and Cosima.