Can we name our daughter Grace, or is our surname stopping us?

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Our daughter arrived yesterday - a Halloween baby we absolutely love the name Grace.

Our surname is Samuels-Grey (yes, we know it sounds like 'Samuel's grey')... We can't have a Grace Samuels-Grey, can we?

Ivy Samuels-Grey sounds much better. Great name!

And congratulations!

Gracie Samuels-Grey sounds better but I like the name Grace and don't think you should be put off because of your surname. I know a Karen Caron and a Joan Jones and also a William Williams and a friend of my mums is called Ann Kerr. If you love the name, use it. Don't settle for something you're not as fond about of. Congratulations xx

I think it goes very well together! Congratulations!

I love lil miss GSG! Go for it, congratulations

Do you have to be called Samuels-Grey? I would think about changing that!

I think Samuels-Grey is a lovely surname. Sounds very Bloomsbury Group.

I think it sounds brilliant - love the surname too. Very glamorous!

Fresta - rude! well, we preferred it to Grey-Samuels... Because it sounds better with our names!

I think it's a wonderful name - would look brilliant on the spine of a book (when she's a best selling author) or on the headed letter paper (when she is the CEO of a multinational corporation)

I like it

I thought you were going to say your surname was Brothers or something.

Grace Grey-Samuels def wouldn't work.

Ivy S-G sounds lovely. Grace as a middle name?

Love it - don't think there's anything wrong with it!

It works for me. Very nice indeed. Congratulations.

I actually think it's quite nice and I agree with Chicky

Oh oh Ivy!! Ivy Samuels-Grey is fabulous!

Grace sounds better than ivy to me!

Since you've mentioned Ivy, OP, I think it's also very pretty and a bit less clunky/mouthful than Grace.

As she was born on Halloween you could try Eve? (All Hallows Eve)

Grace is a lovely name, but I don't think it works with your surname. The Grace and Grey sound too similar when said aloud, I think (I thought it was ok until I actually said it out loud to myself).

Ivy Samuels-Greyis gorgeous though!

I like it. Grace is a beautiful, yet simple name which I think works really well as your surname is fairly long.

We were going to have Autumn as a middle name, but it all sounds very clunky obviously not with Ivy!

Thanks for the suggestions

We liked Scarlett... Can you imagine Scarlett Grace Samuels-Grey

Congratulations!! Both names sound fab to me.

I'd snuggle up to her and call her Grace and Ivy in turn to see which one she seems more like . That's how dd1 got her name. And for dd2 it excluded the name we had chosen because it simply didn't seem to fit her .

It sounds fine, but Grace is a very hard name to live up to if you are not graceful.

Cross post.. I can imagine Scarlet Grace Samuels-Grey. Has quite a ring to it

Oh, I love Scarlett (I'll admit to not actually being a fan of the name Grace). And I think Scarlett Samuels-Grey trips of the tongue better than Grace Samuels-Grey.