For sylabble name to go with first 4 DC

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Have name changed for this so I can share my DC's names without outing myself.

Our first four DC are:
Elizabeth (Eliza)
Dorothea (Dora)
Maximilian (Max)
Iolanthe (lo)

If it's a boy we are stuck except maybe Alexander (nn Sacha).

If it's a girl we are considering Felicity (but what nn?), Esmerelda (nn Esme) or Antonia (nn Nina).

You could shorten Ophelia to Lia or Lila.

Was going to say Nathaniel but beaten to it (it's 4 syllables if you really enunciate!)

Leonardo? (nn Leo, obv)
Taliesin (if you're Welsh)

Zachariah
Aloysius (pr. A-loo-ish-us)
Bartholomew (Bar-tol-em-ee)
Cornelius
Emmanuel
Fitzwilliam
Horatio
Indiana
Ignatius
Jeremiah
Montgomery
Montmorency
Nathanael
Trevelyan

Cecelia
Carolina
Cordelia
Lavinia
Euphemia
Gabriella
Georgiana
Henrietta
Julianna
Leanora
Magnolia
Araminta
Ophelia
Penelope

And Geronimo!

Sorry have I missed why it has to be four syllables?

I have a Felicity...I DETEST Fliss and Flick...she is Floss I adore Arabella and wanted it for dd but was vetoed.

Amadeus
Demetrius
Ezekiel
Leonidas
Jedidiah
Nicodemus
Zebediah
Oleander
Zacharias

I make Maximilian 5 syllables....

Well they're not going to rename him now on your say so squashy....

You run the ending '-ian' together to make the sound '-yan', I would say.

Yes we say "Yan"'at the end of Maximilian but of course it can be pronounced as 5 syllables.

I love Aloysius but DH vetoed that for Max. I also like Horatio but DH not convinced. Can anyone think of a good nn for Horatio? DH says "Horra"!

Suburban - it doesn't have to be four syllables but our other children all have four syllable names so it would be nice. If it's a boy I may have to go with three syllables as four is proving difficult but I am still liking Jebediah from tonight's offerings.

And with girls I love Nina. In Russia it's the traditional diminutive of Antonia but would that seem really odd over here?

Euphemia nn Effie is also going on the list.

Evangeline nn Eva/Evie?
Cecelia/Cecilia (nn Cece?) - would go really nicely with your other DC's names.
Hermione nn Hero?

I like Antonia but not sure Nina goes as well with your DC's nicknames, but it's still nice; I like it.

Love Antonia. I would use Nia as a nn though.

However, one of the reasons I didn't choose Antonia for my dd is that I couldn't bear a ddcalled Toni

Not sacha because in the uk sasha is a girls name. I am aware that it's used for boys in Russian but assuming the op is in the uk that's irrelevant

Archimedes is very, very cool (I'd never dare, but it's fabulous).
Sebastian and Zachariah are good.

Would you go for 3 syllables? Ferdinand, Orlando, Lucian, Florian, Benedict?

Not at all keen on Esmeralda, but Felicity and Antonia are good (like Anto or even Ant as a shortening).

Big thumbs up for Cecilia too. Could be shortened to Cece or Cecy (cf Cecy Hall of What Katy Did fame - she was good fun IIRC) and is the patron saint of music.

Cece is lovely

Oh, and I am loving Amadeus, and his generation shouldn't torment him with the Falco earworm (which I now duly have).

cece

You sound as if you'd like Ottilie (pronounced the proper German way with enunciated final e) - Ottie or Tillie would work as shortenings.

Nathaniel

Napoleon

Valentino

Immanuel

Huckleberry

Jeremiah

Bartholomew

Caligula

I'm not keen on the nn Nina if I'm honest but I like Antonia with Nia as a nn.
How about Anastasia? It's a bit like your Maximillian in that its technically five syllables depending how you say it. Nice though.
Gabriella nice too.

I like Zebediah for a boy and think Zeb as a nn is cool. Boys names are much harder!

CeCe is very sweet and I do think it does nicely with Eliza, Dora and Io (I wish I could be differentiated from L in the MN font as Io is definitely not called Lo!).

I'm really caught on Zeb now. I know many people are suggesting Sebastian but O have an irrational aversion to Sebs since my first boyfriend was a Seb. But I suppose Zeb is rather similar and I love that.

Ray could be a nn for Horatio

Lucian is two syllables in Britain!