Sorrel - name for a little girl? Your thoughts

[gemlouise123]

What do you think to Sorrel as a little girls name?

My family are all set on her being called Ruby but I just feel that isn't 100% right.

So she could be Sorrel Ruby T(our surname begins with a T)
Sorrel Bea T
Ruby Sorrel T
Bea Sorrel T

How could Sorrel be shorten?

I also like the following names:

Coco
Sage
Wren
Willow
Elmer
Winnie (grandmas name)

Your thoughts would be welcomed

36 weeks today!

Hate sorrel.

Like ruby, willow and don't mind bea as a shortened version of Beatrice but not bea on it's own

Sorrel and Wren are both nice I don't like Ruby

I much prefer Sorrel to Ruby (which is very popular - I know about six!). Its also, IMO, classier than Ruby.

The other names:

Coco - as a nickname or a 'proper name'? Reminds me of Coco Pops.
Sage - Not keen
Wren - A bit 'out there'
Willow - Sarah Palin has a Willow ...
Elmer - the elephant?
Winnie - Nice, but a bit dated

I know a Sorrel. She's about 13. Sister called Poppy. I think it's lovely.

Ruby has been done to death ( at least around here - blame Franz Ferdinand and that song)

Sage - makes me think of Sly Stallone's son who died very young.

How about Saffron if you like plant based names?

I love Sorrel -- I've wanted to use it ever since I read Noel Streatfeild's Curtain Up as a child. But DH wasn't keen, so the DDs went un-Sorreled.

There are loads of little Rubies around.

I love Wren! I don't think it sounds like a 'pets name'

Sorrel reminds me of bras ^

I love Sorrel, really pretty and interesting.

Much better than Ruby.

I love it! Couldn't see DH going for it though....

I don't think it goes with Ruby as a middle name though, too many R's in a row although sadly Ruby Sorrel does work better!

I know a lovely Sorrel, she's in her late twenties, every time I hear her name out loud I think how great it is. Fab choice!

sorrel makes me think of foraging for mushrooms, but not a bad thing! an interesting nature name!

love Wren so much though. in my top 5.

Sorrel Bea is beautiful!

Also love Rowan ....Winnie is great too!

It was on my list (another Noel Streatfeild fan). I'd go with Sorrel Beatrice personally, but just because I don't like diminutives as names.

I like Rowan too (that'll be the Antonia Forest fangirl in me!) .

I had a friend called Sorrel in college, hadn't heard of the name before then I think its a lovely name :)

I think Sorrel Bea dosent flow as nicely as with a lounger name.

Sorrel Beatrice for eg.

Sorrel is nicer than Ruby, I'm not normally one for unusual names, but it's nice. There is also Sorella?

Don't like it, sorry! Reminds me of bread, is there little brown sticky loaves called sorrel?

Sorrell is lovely.

And Soren.

Which is the one that sounds more like malt loaf Soreen.

Except is doesn't, any more than people mix up Tom with Tomato.

Sorrel is pretty, but sounds rather like sorrow, so that would put me off a bit.

On the herb/spice theme... what about:

Dittany (I love this as a name)
Anise
Cicely
Juniper
Lavender

Sage and Elmer are definitely male names to me.

~sorrel is like squirrel

I like Winnie though!

Sorrel reminds me of bras

I'd forgotten all about Elmer the Elephant! My 2yo DD will be

If you like Winnnie, what about Nancy?

Sorrel sounds a bit like a name I would give to a rabbit or a guinea pig, sorry.

Rowan or Hazel

I like Sorrel, but wouldn't pick the others.
Have you thought about Saffron? I like that

Sorry I don't like. I know a Sorrel and every time I hear it it sounds like she's called Sorrow!