Honest opinions, please :)

[SpunkyMummy]

Angelica Lettice ... ... (my pick)
Lettice Thalia ... ...(DH's pick)

Frederik Bertram ... ... (DH's pick)
William Horatio ... ... (my pick)

There was a comic story called 'Lettice Leaf, the Greenest Girl in School' in the 1960s, OP. Perhaps that's what you are thinking of...

You shouldn't need telling not to call your child after a salad vegetable. Only one or two people on MN like it, and these are people that like names like Mabel and Ivy.

Angelica is quite a nice name, I also like Angelique, I even like Angela and know a lovely little girl called that.

I'm unsure as to the pronunciation yet...sorry for being thick.
Do you say it Le-teece...or Leht-iss like lettuce?

I like both Mabel and Ivy but I'm not sold on Lettuce.

Angelica was the brat out of Rug Rats.

LET-iss. Mabel is a lovely name, bounty!

orange rugrats?

Mabel is indeed better than Lettice!

bounty I disagree :). But thank you for commenting.

You're going to pronounce it the same way as the salad vegetable??

Surely Lettice is pronounced 'Leh-TEESE'?

Koala LET-iss, the English pronounciation...

Like lettuce like you'd put in a sandwich...yes or no?

pic I don't put lettuce on my sandwich... But yes, it does sound rather similar.

Oh. I think the leh-TEES pronunciation is pretty, but if you're pronouncing it the same as 'lettuce'...just no.

'Rather similar'? It sound identical, surely?

Then no. Obviously.
You may not call your daughter Lettuce. It is forbidden.

I love Lettice and I really love Bertram

Rugrat Angelica

Leh-TEES? No. I would have vetoed that.

Just popped on to say how much I really love the name Bertram. Fabulous

I agree, Bunty :)

Good job, DH :)!

Both boys names are fine. I agree with pps that unusual/quirky middle names are great.

I like Angelica, too. And Lettice is fine as a mn, but I definitely wouldn't use it as a first name. But my favourite is Ottilie Bluebell!

I think Angelica is more popular in America, and it goes back hundreds of years there eg Angelica Schyler. Lettice, as others point out became Laeticia, but it is also Laetyss as Laetyss Knoylls who was I think Anne Boleyn's niece and a member of the Tudor Court.

I knew an old lady named Lettice and Letty IS cute but Lettice she will be on the register. I read a thing recently - rule of thunmb imagine your cute little baby as a grown up in grown up situations having to introduce themselves

I'm PC Lettice Jones, Lettice Jones MP, Letticee Jones QC and act accordingly.

The talking mice comment cruel but hilarious I'm afraid. Some names as cute and different as they maybe just aren't popular for good reason.

I love William Horatio, I quite liked Angelica Lettice until I saw the pronunciation.

I like :
Angelica Bluebell
Thalia Lettice

Frederick William
William Frederik

Frederik William