Name decided - to MIL's disgust.

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So our daughter finally arrived 10 days late in the car park outside the hospital! Thank you to everyone on here who helped us to choose her name, which we love. She will be Sylvie and registered as Sylvia. We just ran it by my MIL who hates it and was very rude about the whole thing. Mainly because she had already decided we were calling her Martha and has been banging on about it for months. Trouble is we don't like it!
Now we need a middle name to go with Sylvia so we can officially announce her name and drive it home to MIL that she's not getting her way. Any help with this? Nothing too popular please and also we think one syllable names work best with Sylvia. Xx

Joy is a gorgeous middle name to go with Sylvia. Love the spelling Sylvie over Sylvia but I also knew a girl called Sylvie and she was lovely. Whereas my great auntie sylvia is a nutter.

Although I logged on to recommend Tarmac as a middle name, due to the place of her delivery .

Your MIL is clearly nuts and hopefully it will all die down soon. Just make sure you contact everyone personally, even distant relatives to make sure they know her reall name.

I love the name you have chosen. Congratulations!

I like Sylvia Jean.

Who Is Silvia?

Who is Silvia? what is she,
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admirèd be.

Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness.
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness,
And, being helped, inhabits there.

Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.

Something Shakespearean?

Or Sylvia Grace sounds quite woodland nymph (always liked Sylvian )

'Whereas my great auntie sylvia is a nutter.'

I don't know why but that made me snort

Why not register her with the name you are going to use? Sylvie is a lovely name!

I adore Sylvia/Sylvie, congratulations!

The name really works with some of the combos already suggested, especially Mae, Grace, and Wren IMO. Would also like to put forward: Lynne, Pearl, and Dawn, and maybe Jo/Joy/Joyce, depending upon surname.

MIL will get used to whatever name you pick, she'll have to; she has already had her turn after all. And still, if she's desperate to name someone/thing Martha, she's perfectly free to get (more?) cats/fish/(insert pet here).

My DD has Joy as amiddle name, good name and makes a change from often used Grace/May.

If you are calling her Sylvie then why not register her as that. Can just see it being irritating for your DD when Sylvie is as 'proper' a name as Sylvia. Both are pretty names.

Since Sylvie means "of the woods" how about something pastoral such as Sylvia Laurel or Sylvia Rowan?

The heaven such grace did lend her

Sylvia Grace is my vote.

Sylvia Fern?

Rose
Anne

Sylvia Rose is lovely. Or Sylvia Jane?

I'm glad your mil didn't get her way bits ridiculous how some people can be!

Sylvie or Sylvia Roseanna?
Congrats!

Haha xpost with Rivertam, I promise I didn't see your post and just stick your suggestions together!!

Sylvia Lucille
I have a Lucille very rare....

Sylvie Faye came to mind.
What is with these people who actually tell people a different version of the name chosen? What the actual?

I agree with gleekster. Why register your dd's name as Sylvia when she'll be known as Sylvie?

Sylvie is a beautiful name and I'd choose another name that could be hyphenated with it, eg Sylvie-Rose, Sylvie-Jane, Sylvie-Beth, Sylvie-Marissa, Sylvie-Marianna, Sylvie-Eloise, Sylvie-Francoise and so forth, to give dd more choice about what she wants to be called when she grows up and to provide the option of adding a third as the 'middle' name as, for me, 3 is the optimum number of Christian names for one dc.

You could always go for an "out there" middle name, and then appear to come back from that to a more "mainstream" name as a concession to MIL - propose Sylvia Egg or something... Or you could say that as MIL hates Sylvia so much, you're considering swapping to the middle name and calling her Egg Sylvia? Watch her backtrack...

I definitely wouldn't hyphenate. Hyphenated names are too fussy.

I also like Pearl and Fearne, which have been suggested. It's such a pretty name that it will still sound lovely whatever you team it with.

you don't have to give her a middle name.

Give her Sylvia as a middle name too. In caps.

Sylvia SYLVIA Smith. Just to get the message home to granny.

I love Sylvia Jean, Sylvie Jean sounds lovely and reminds me of Jean Louise (Scout Finch).
I also liked the suggestions of,
Sylvia Joy
Sylvia Frances

Goddessofsmallthings and Gleekstar - perhaps because they consider Sylvie to be cute for a little girl, want to give her a grown up name if as an adult, she's not really a "cutsy name" sort of woman.

Sylvia is a very strong name - it makes me think of the sort woman of who knows how to tie a silk scarf at her neck without looking like an air hostess. For an adult woman, it's a fabulous name, but a bit much for a toddler, so great to have a cute name for now.