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5 names, which 1 would you go for?

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QueenMoon · 25/10/2016 15:20

Bonnie
Dottie
Mattie
Harrie
Maddie

These will be the names on the BC.

We have a Hollie.

Thanks!

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NipSlipper · 25/10/2016 16:24

I like Bonnie.

The rest feel like nicknames (Maddie=Madeleine, Dottie = Dorothy, Mattie = Matilda)

Harrie is awful.

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Floralnomad · 25/10/2016 16:26

Bonnie is the only one that is a proper name but it's hideous for a person , OK for dogs and ponies . Can you not find another proper name even if you change to an 'ie' spelling like
Daisie
Carlie
Kylie

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clary · 25/10/2016 16:26

Mattie sounds like a boy, really sorry.

I like the name Bonnie but I am not sure Hollie and Bonnie sound great together... if that matters?

Harrie really sounds like a boy.

Maddie is nice, I know kids called just Maddie, doesn't really raise any eyebrows. Tha's prob the best bet :)

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PragmaticWench · 25/10/2016 16:26

Carrie?

I'd use something with a full name on the birth certificate though, as these are all nicknames, apart from Bonnie.

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Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:27

I'm not keen on any of them TBH, sorry!

I know a couple of people called Holly, and one called Hollie. Their sisters are called Megan, Amy, Georgina and Laura.

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KoalaDownUnder · 25/10/2016 16:27

Ooh, Carrie is nice!

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AndNowItsSeven · 25/10/2016 16:28

I guess Maddie, any reason why Holly was spelt incorrectly?

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Vixxfacee · 25/10/2016 16:28

Marnie

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Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:28

Cassie?

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Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:29

Amie?

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Paddingtonthebear · 25/10/2016 16:31

Hollie is a known way of spelling the name, I know someone else in their thirties with the same spelling.

Also know of a male Holley!

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 25/10/2016 16:41

Maddie

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DavidPuddy · 25/10/2016 16:58

I really, really like Mattie. I would be inclined to give a more grown up name, though, because your child will not be a child forever. Hollie is a grown up name as well as prettie (couldn't resist). If you don't like Matilda how about Mathilde?

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DavidPuddy · 25/10/2016 17:01

Or, if you really like the ie ending, how about Marie?

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BellaVida · 25/10/2016 17:17

Like Bonnie and Maddie- know some personally.

If the ending needs to rhyme with Hollie, what about:
Maisie
Cassie
Sadie

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BendydickCuminsnatch · 25/10/2016 17:29

Definitely Bonnie. Lovely standalone name where the others sound like there should be a longer version. Also Hollie & Harrie = sickly sweet. Also, as a Harry myself, I can't get my head around that spelling!

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Marcipex · 25/10/2016 17:41

There's a Hollie in one of the Noel Streatfeild books, written in the late 30s or early 40s. It's not that new a spelling.

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cheesymac · 25/10/2016 17:42

Bonnie

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Aducknotallama · 25/10/2016 17:46

None of them sorry

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ShmooBooMoo · 25/10/2016 17:54

None of those, sorry.
When is baby due? If she's a Christmas baby, Noelle would be quite nice Smile
Or Rowan? Nice for a girl Smile

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ShmooBooMoo · 25/10/2016 17:59

Sylvie is pretty too. Means 'of the forest', I think.
I only know of three Bonnies (the Langford, Tyler and the other half of Clyde): the first two very irritating, the last is a criminal.

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Sugarpiehoneyeye · 25/10/2016 18:31

Maddie.

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ageingrunner · 25/10/2016 18:37

Marnie's nice, as a pp has said

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alltouchedout · 25/10/2016 18:39

Maddie or Mattie, if I had to choose.

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