Linnet or Blythe?

[saturnvista]

Or something else? To go with Imogen.

No, not universally pronounced 'it', Gerund. It is not certain that it is related to the bird. More likely it has more than one origin, one being Welsh.

Don't like linnet. Blythe is nice.

I also love Verity.

Darcy?

It sound like innit

Teasing potential I think. Horrible name

Darcy does sound in the same vein as these names. Good suggestion!

If I hadn't read this thread I would pronounce linnit wrong. I thought it was same as lynette.

Thanks got the pronunciation clarification, badtime. I don't think for a minute they anyone would confuse linnet with lint, but that's what the sound of that name reminds me of. Just like others have said it makes them think of limpet. To my ears, it just isn't a nice sound. Each to their own though.

OP, how about
Anya
Clarissa
Cora
Esme
Harriet
Inez
Ishbel
Juniper
Lilah
Manon
Polly
Seren
Violet
Wren

What about the Welsh 'Eluned' - Eh-LINN-et?

Another similar name is Linden.

I have to say I don't like Linnet. It's kind of dowdy. Actually I find Blythe quite dowdy too.

Linnet also reminds me of the old music hall song:

^my old man
said follow the van
and don't dilly dally
on the way
Off went the cart
with the home packed in it
I walked behind
with me old cock linnet
And I dillied, I dallied
and I dallied and I dillied
I lost the van
and don't know
where to roam
Oh, I stopped on the way
to have the
old half-quartern
and I can't find my way home^

Saw your post about losing baby's twin... Why not both.... Linnet Blythe if you still really like and want to use them?

Or something completely different so you don't choose between them?

Maybe something with just 2 syllables to go with Imogen...?

I love Linnet. Dh vetoed it (and Linden, for a boy).

What about Cecily?

putthehamster Thanks for that suggestion. We have to honour my mum and papa with the second/third names. pandasrock The second names will be Anna Cecily actually!! I do love Cecily. Linden is nice.

Hubbie has just announced he likes Kate best. Where did that come from?! But it doesn't go with our surname so probably a flash in the pan.

Wren is lovely and so is Rowan.

I like Linnet. But the only one I have ever come across in real life I contacted by phone and asked for her by name - only to be corrected by the pronunciation as if it were Lynette!

I love Blythe. To me, Linnet sounds a bit like 'innit'! But it's unusual and could grow on me...!

Lindis is pretty and doesn't sound like sanpro.

I was going to say, if you're doing small bird, Wren is nicer than Linnet. Linnet looks lovely written down but is somehow clunky to say.

Not keen on Blythe, can't quite put my finger on why.

I think that the only names that "go" with Imogen (if that's a consideration) are Felicity & Verity.

Cecily is lovely.

why not have that?

I love the name Linnet, but then I'm biased, lol

Not keen on Linnet but I love Blythe Gwyneth Paltrow's mum is called Blythe.