a sibling for India

[stonygreysoil]

Hi all, trying to do a bit of [hopefully anonymous] sensechecking!

So DD1 is India, and sibling due pretty soon. Current choices for a girl are Freya or Marianne; if a boy Ferdia or Redmond [irish names]

Is Freya too popular? Is Marianne too dull? Is Ferdia too similar to India / too girly? Is Redmond too surname-ey? Thoughts and suggestions welcomed!

I have to say I would read Ferdia as a girls name, probably because it looks like a version of Ferdinand. I've never heard it before.

I love Marianne though, Freya is nice but Marianne is nicer!

The only small India I know has a sister called Tamsin.

Freya is very popular - I know five.

India and Marianne is lovely. Not to girly but still feminine.

Redmond is a fab name.

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I have a relative called Marianne. I think it's a beautiful name that suits through your whole life.

Redmond is great.

Marianne doesn't work for me with India, sorry.

Freya is nice - although maybe overused.

By picking India as your first born's name it does set an expectation that their siblings will not have run of the mill names.

Marianne is lovely (as is Freya but much more popular).

Sorry, not keen on either of your boys names - Ferdia is quite feminine and Redmond just sounds like someone's surname, which I know his a bit of a trend atm but some names just appear to work better than others!

Some "surname" names have been in existence long before the more recent fashion. Redmond is just a great sounding name and I imagine has a longer history.

Marianne is lovely (as is Freya but much more popular).

Sorry, not keen on either of your boys names - Ferdia is quite feminine and Redmond just sounds like someone's surname, which I know his a bit of a trend atm but some names just appear to work better than others!

Sorry for double post. Stupid phone!

Redmond. Would it be shortened to Red? Or not?

Freya, lovely though it is, is a bit meh, co,pared to India. What about Freda?

Thanks all. yes lookinforfocus have put ourselves under a bit of pressure to avoid the second child's name seeming a bit dull by comparison!

Thats the main issue with Marianne, which we otherwise really like and has family connections. Certainly no danger of it becoming too fashionable anytime soon unlike Freya, which we otherwise love.... unfortunately the other Fr names don't seem to work for us..

Any other girl names that come to mind?

As I feared Ferdia may not work so well outside an Irish context... Pity ... Supposing we stuck a d at the end and made it Ferdiad [thats not just random, its an alternate spelling!] how about that?

Redmond is actually around in Ireland for a very long time - Redmond Barry from Barry Lyndon etc. We think we like the idea of Red as a nn, DoItTooJulia, but theres always Mundy..

A couple of other boy name options we've been considering are Hugh [barely a syllable!] Hugo [probably fits well, but might give a strong and incorrectly posh aura about the whole enterprise!] or Theo.. whaty do you think? Generally going for Irish boy names that work on the roadany ideas of other names that might gel well?

Red is a really cool short name.

Ferdinand to get nn Ferdia?

Freya is nice.

Marina nn Marnie?

Love Marianne and Redmond.

Blythe for a girl?

Is there a more Irish version of Tom/Thomas? I think India & Tom work well. I think of India as being fairly posh (India Jane Birley).

Freya is pretty but popular.
Marianne is lovely but seems a different style to India.

Names I could see with India:
Marina
Scarlett
Luna
Delilah
Romilly/ Romy

Not keen on the boy's names tbh.

Fergus
Phelim / Feilim
Oran
Ruari

I like Marianne, also Naomi, and I like Saoirse and Teagan for Irish girls names.

Naomi is lovely - classic but not overused similar to India.

For some reason Astra sprang to mind. Don't know why, it just sounds really nice with India.

Ferdia is my favourite Irish boy's name. I command you to use it.

Fallon is a nice girls name I think would sound nice with India.

At Christmas my PIL receive a round robin from old school friends.

We are always excited to hear what their twin grand-daughters India and Tia have been doing all year.

(The PIL's friends worked for a large tea company and spent many years abroad on tea plantations.)

Sorry should have qualified that with;

I love the name India, here's a funny anecdote...

Also love Marianne.

Have you considered Miriam or Mariam?

thanks for all the help. Ah some of the suggestions bring back happy memories of the marathon discussions up to now.. like how fergus is completely different to ferdia and the worst name ever etc . all those names have been debated to death megrim!

i like romilly and marina , magentasurprise. Scarlett would be very GWTW wouldn't it !?

toastedteacake, we too had a reason for India, but don't like tea that much! . Hashtagwhatever, that is good lateral thought on Fallon, had never occurred to me.

will try squoosh, we have a lot of love for Ferdia too, but its a big bad world out there though, don't want to fall into "boy named sue" territory...

What do people think about Eloise ?