Shortlists for impending DD3

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Hello!

DH and I have narrowed it down to 4 names. DD3 will be joining siblings Basil, Charis and Mirabel.

Middle name will be Pearl or Alba.

Briar
Claudia
Hero
Vivian/Vivienne

I like Vivienne best, then Claudia. Briar and Hero are not my cup of tea and don't seem to fit so well with the siblings either (especially Basil and Briar!)

I like Vivien spelled this way, Vivien Pearl would be lovely.

Thank you so far! Love Vivian and all its spellings - very undecided so far.

Is it silly that I think Vivienne Westwood is a twerp and she is putting me off an otherwise gorgeous name?

I think Hero goes best with the other names.
But I don't really like Hero Alba or Hero Pearl at all.
I like Hero Vivienne!

Vivienne Alba Would be my second choice then Claudia Pearl.
I don't like Briar.

I've outed myself anyway, so I might as well give some more context. DC's are Basil Edmund, Charis Allegra, and Mirabel Blythe.

Vivienne is my favourite, followed by Claudia.

I don't like Hero or Briar at all.

Middle names are fab aswell!

Love Vivienne, I believe Vivian is the male spelling?

Briar and Basil don't work together IMO

There are all sorts of spelling used as a girls name - this is so confusing!

nameberry.com/search/girls_names/V

Oh Hero by far! It definitely goes the best with your other DCs' names and fits the right 'vibe'. Vivian also fits with the 20s/30s feel of the names, but I don't like it quite as much - and it will inevitably get shortened to "Viv", which I hate - sorry! ("Viv" puts me in mind of elderly Mancunian ladies - I'm a Northerner ;) )

Mirabel is such a gorgeous name. I must put it on my next list...

Oh and I also agree on Hero Vivienne. Lovely!

Haha, I am Mancunian! Not lived there for a very long time, but still very very Manc at heart!

Vivienne Pearl

I think Hero Alba is a fabulous name, streets head of Vivienne.

Briar. I think it goes best with the others.

Hero. I just couldn't use that, it's far too 'out there' for me. I think it would attract a lot of bullying.

Briar Pearl.

Hero isn't any more out there than my other kids' names!

Your children sound as though they should be in a 1930's kids' adventure story!

I think Claudia is my favourite but Briar fits in more with the vibe you've already got going.

Thank you squoosh! That is an absolute compliment to me!

DH is gutted our 4th and final child is a girl, as he has wanted to use Leonidas for years. I am relieved!

Claudia is my favourite. i adore the middle name Pearl too!

i agree with PP however that Briar and Basil don't seem to go together in my opinion.

Hero is very 'cool', i don't agree with the bullying comment, it's one of those names i would love to know someone who used it, but wouldn't be ballsy enough to use it myself!!

Vivienne Pearl

Fab names!

If it's any help I teach a Hira, a similar sound to Hero?

Love Claudia Pearl by the way!

DH has thrown Coral into the mix this morning, which my sleep deprived brain is loving. Maybe a middle name?

I like Briar. And Coral.

I am still not closer to narrowing it down

Vivienne or Claudia

Great names btw!

I don't like Coral.

Maybe because it makes me think of the Walking Dead threads on here though, and the boy Carl/Coral.