Middle name issue

[megs7]

Hi there,

we are having our fifth child, our first girl. We are taking forever to choose her name, recently we narrowed it down to:

Matilda
Clementine
Karina (DH's choice, I'm not a fan)

DH wants her named NOW (I can wait) and decided to offer up Matilda Clementine or Clementine Matilda. Sounds fine, but all our other children have mns that start with the letter 'E'. This was not intentional for our first three (DS1 and then twin DSs) but I insisted DS4 have a an 'E' mn.

DH is not a fan of them having the same middle initial, but I think now we have four kids with the same initial, she will be left out.

My compromise is Matilda Eira Clementine. But, he is not keen on her having two mns (and doesn't like Eira and doesn't want an 'E' name anyway)

Help!
Thanks

Matilda Emmeline instead of Clementine?

Rather than feeling left out, might she not feel special instead?
If I were you I'd just forget the E-thing. How long before your due date?

Matilda Clementine is really nice. Not so keen on Matilda Eira Clementine.

Some E middle names for Matilda if you do decide to continue with that:

Matilda Edith
Matilda Evelyn
Matilda Emily
Matilda Esther
Matilda Eve
Matilda Enid
Matilda Eirlys
Matilda Elinor
Matilda Evangeline
Matilda Elin
Matilda Emmeline
Matilda Elspeth
Matilda Esme
Matilda Elaine
Matilda Emer
Matilda Elise
Matilda Elowen
Matilda Eloise
Matilda Emerald
Matilda Estelle
Matilda Eugenie
Matilda Everild

But she is different, she's your first girl after 4 boys.

I'd stay away from the e names.

I would just ditch the E thing - it is restricting you and is really not significant enough to so that. Better to go for a name that you both agree on and like than forcing yourself to obey restrictive rules.

Logged in to say the exact same as guitarosaurus!

Matilda Emmeline we did consider. Unfortunately (haha!) we live in the US (DH is American) and a lot of people here would pronounce that EmmeLYNE rather than EmmeLEEN and to DH it sounds 'downhome', as he calls it.

I am due mid December so I liked the sound of Eira and Clementine as they are Christmassy, but not obviously so, and not Christmassy over here at all. I chose Eira (Eirlys is good too!) as my dad is Welsh and so it would be nice to incorporate a bit of heritage there.

Bree- great mind and all that

Oh dear!

Assuming I agreed to drop the 'E' mn, what sounds better then, Clementine Matilda or Matilda Clementine?

Matilda Clementine sounds better I think.

Definitely Matilda Clementine

Much prefer Clementine Matilda As Ihave never been keen on Matilda.

I do however prefer Karina out of all 3

Matilda Clementine