No name for DD2; on the verge of calling her Stephen

[PennilynLott]

DD1 has the perfect name for us - a choice of good nicknames, well out of the top hundred, family connection.

Here are other names we like. Please someone name her for us. We like quite long names generally, and ideally the nickname/shortening would begin with the same letter as the name itself.

Alexandra - love this but it doesn't go with the surname
Beatrice - current favourite?
Evelyn - literally every second girl is called Evie where we live
Clementine - DH hates it, I love it
Corinne - no nickname?
Leah - makes a comedy pairing with DD1's first name but would love it as a middle name
Juliet - makes a comedy pairing with my first name
Penelope - DH loves it, I don't like Penny

Cassandra?

Romilly?

Jessamy?

I'd go with Stephanie too, with Stevie or Stephie for short. DS would have been Stephie (probably not short for anything!).

Radclyffe?

Not helpful, I know, but I quite like Stephen for a girl...

There's an Evangelina near us Her nn Lena which gets away from the Evie problems

Georgina... Georgie for short?

Stephanie? Could be Steph, Stephi, Annie.

I have a friend with a Genevieve, they always call her Jenna (Genna I guess!) Always worry about a child learning to spell it though!
I love Josephina and Aurelia.

Incidentally when expecting dd1 I thought she was going to be a boy - called Stephen - but obviously not so we had to rethink! She is Rebecca. I do like the spelling Rebekah too. Lots of nicknames there! I call her Bunny..

Ariana, Aurelia? Margot (maggie for nn)

Has your P considered that everyone will think your older DD is not his, if she has a different name to her sister?

Might that persuade him that a double barrel is the way forward? You can have both names iwithout a hyphen

OP - am with takedeux on this, giving 2 sisters different surnames is just going to confuse them. My friend and her husband ended up giving both children her surname. That is an option. But different surnames will confuse them, their friends and their schools IMO.

I don't think that's true. I do know someone it didn't work well for, but I've seen lots of people on here say it did work well.

Any further ahead on a first name OP?

Thought of this thread when I was listening to a Radio 4 drama series. It was set in 1946, and was about the "incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve..." solving crime.

I'd have loved to call a daughter Steve. It does have that 1940's feel!

I know a Corinne called coz.
There seems to be 2 different ways to pronounce it? Prefer it pronounced to sound like orange rather than with stress on last syllable

I know an Evangeline with nn Angel. I think its a beautiful name and the nn is lovely as well.

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