Greta, Juno or Fleur?

[JanuaryJuniper]

Which would you prefer as a sister to Eli and Aphra?

Not pregnant yet but not doing anything to stop it happening (bar still breastfeeding) so thought it would be fun to start letting myself dream about a third!

[MamaLazarou]

'Fleur' sounds like someone being sick.

[ipsofactocollapso]

Juno - it's gorgeous

[DressMeHeadToFootInTommy]

sean o'casey is what I think of!

[DressMeHeadToFootInTommy]

I hate the name fleur. It just doesn't work in English in my humble opinion. If you're french and you livein france then, je ne sais pas. But if you live in an english speaking country Fleur is horrible.

Greta I find attractive rather than pretty. But I like that. It's strong.

Juno I love with the OP's names. They are all unusual names, but not crazy and they are different but work well together too.

[SycamoreMum]

Thats one of the (many) names of my next daughter; Fleur Pippin

Juno is cute too.

[BeautifulStars93]

I love Juno and think it goes great.

[KleineDracheKokosnuss]

Love greta. Considered it for my own...still might if I have another.

Juno just makes me think of that fil, and fleur makes me think 'fleur de lys'

[nooka]

I think both Fleur and Greta are quite unattractive sounding names. I prefer Juno and think it would work quite well with your other children's names although they are very old testament while Juno is a Roman goddess.

[Rhubarbgarden]

Fleur. Love Fleur.

[mrschatty]

I love Juno! I'm really thinking of this as a name for a girl as I've started to go off my original girls choice!

[JanuaryJuniper]

DressMeHead I agree with you re having a contrasting ending, that would be the ideal and it would be one of the reservations with Greta!

[DressMeHeadToFootInTommy]

I was going to say Greta, but with Aphra I think Juno would contrast better. Not be matchy. It'd be different and unusual in a different way.

I think two names ending in 'a' would take away from the unusualness of the choices.

[TempsPerdu]

Love Greta but not sure how well it goes with Eli and Aphra - Juno (even though it's a bit faddy) fits much better for me. Really dislike Fleur - sounds too much like 'bleurgh' and feels a little stuck up. Rumer could grow on me...

[fionadal]

Juno- or even Juniper nn June?

I much prefer Flora to Fleur

Don't really like Greta

Aphra is a great name!

[JanuaryJuniper]

Yay a vote for Rumer....I'm afraid of doing a thread on Rumer as it will probably get slated. It's actually my favourite!

[Oly4]

Rumer is hands down the best name from this bunch, love it

[JanuaryJuniper]

Possibly a spy love this

I also love the name Rumer but I think it may be a bit difficult to live with!

[squoosh]

Greta is great. Grown up, 1940's glam. Possibly a spy.

[Chchchchanging]

Greta

[CruCru]

Greta.

[Smugnogplease]

Love great, not keen on others

[Slavetominidictator]

Prefer Fleur but I think Juno goes best with your other names and it's a gorgeous name too.

[JanuaryJuniper]

I do like the previous suggestion of Juniper but would prefer two or one syllable names!

[JanuaryJuniper]

Wow lots of comments and lots to mull over. It took over three years to conceive Aphra so it's possible that I will have plenty of time to consider names for another dc.....however it took all that time to come up with the name Aphra.

For the poster who was asking Aphra is pronounced Af rah, it is a place name in the bible in the book of Micah and means either dust or young deer, was brought into use as a name by the Puritans and as another poster mentioned Aphra Behn is a famous wearer of the name and a great feminist role model being the first professional female writer!

I'm open to suggestions on other names, if any if you have ideas

[SunnyBaudelaire]

damn so much for that theory then.....