Vintage baby girl names

[Cluelessmamma]

Hi, this is my first MN post
I would love some advice/ ideas for name of dd2 due next year. Hubby has basically removed himself from the equation as we could literally not agree on one name for our first daughter which caused so much stress that he has now said whatever I want he will go along with (hence I need someone else to bounce ideas off!). I love vintage/old lady names and especially ones that have been in my family.. so this is my list.. and our first daughter is called Beatrice (Bea) so I would obvs like it to 'go' together..

Stella Violet (which would give her same initials as me)
Iris Cecily
Mable Florence
Violet Hope
Cecily Hope
Cosima Iris

Any other ideas? thoughts?
Thanks

Oh I adore the name Primrose, how gorgeous!

Another with a Cecily, so naturally I'm biased! We've had lots of compliments, a few 'that's unusual' and even 'I've never heard that name before'. Other names on our short list were Kitty and Isadora which are both suitably vintage. I liked Violet buts it's become very popular so we chose the Greek version of it for her middle name (totally outed myself!).

Love primrose & Adeline, Mabel is ok
Nancy is lovely as is Audrey or Evangeline

Really hate Cosima sorry

Not keen on Cecily either I'm afraid - Never ever heard of it and seems made up

Flora
Florence
Eliza

Audrey

Seems made up!? Yes, what with Richard the third's mother being called Cecily 600 years ago it's clearly a modern,made up name.

I have a N ancy, a F lora and a N ell. I wish I had used Ivy.

Marigold and Verity.
Although the Verity I know is a rugby player.

Mabel is the more usual spelling...

All of these are good.

Evangeline, Gwendolen might be other options you want to add.

Cecily is both a flower (Sweet Cecily) and a female form of Cecil.

It can be pronounced [sis uh lay] or [ses uh lay].

Obviously Cecilia is (in origins) the same name. Which dates back thousands of years.

Violet. And also Pearl! Love.

I love Stella, Cecily and Cosima. Hope is a lovely middle name and would go well with all three imo.
I would avoid giving a second daughter your initials unless the first also has some significant link to you in her name. This sort of thing causes fisticuffs among small girls.

Alternative suggestions:
Elfrieda or Frieda
Agatha
Alice
Aphra
Antonia
Louisa
Tess
Juliet
Dinah
Tamsin
Rosalie
Delphine
Rowena
Helena
Matilda
Theodora

Thanks for all the great suggestions!

That's an interesting point Jeeperdoo, I haven't thought of it like that but now you mention it I think I am attracted to names which don't have the classic 'ah' or 'ee' endings .. I'd love to know which names are on your list in this catagory.

I think I like Mabel or Cecily best with Bea, but I love all of those names and I think they all go well really. Stella is fab.
We have a Margot and looking at Cecelia if we have any more girls. Also on our list; Nancy, Edie, Jemima... and most of your names!
I like that Cecelia is the goddess of music as we're a musical family.

Dora
Maureen
Marjorie
Violet
Mabel
Edith
Vera
Emily
Dulcie
Dorothy
Pamela
Rosina
Edna
Alice
Florence
Eileen
Marigold
Joy
Joyce
Patricia
Winifred
Beverly
Muriel
Adeline
Augusta
Barbara
Harriet
Marian
Mary
Betty
Ethel
Lillian
Celia
Veronica

Viola
Genevieve
Reva

I like the name Iris but it does make me think of eyes (as well as sounding like any eye). Not especially keen on the others but I do like florence and Cecily (florence is quite popular though these days i think). Other names which I think go with Beatrice are Clemency, Jemima, Tabitha, Clementine, Florence, Ada

@Cluelessmamma I love vintage names! I think Dolly is such a cute name as well as Heidi ( my 3 year old daughters name🤣) x

Stella Violet is beautiful, other suggestions ;
Ida Mimosa
Miriam Rose
Blanche Tulip

Beatrice & Annabel
Beatrice & Caroline
Beatrice & Cecile
Beatrice & Clara
Beatrice & Felicity
Beatrice & Hazel
Beatrice & Josephine
Beatrice & Juliet
Beatrice & Lydia
Beatrice & Mary
Beatrice & Phoebe

Nancy!

Love Cosima - it’s beautiful and unusual but not too out there.

Love Violet too - goes very well with Beatrice as they are classic Edwardian names, but it’s getting very (too?) popular.

Hate Mabel - other than the old lady associations it’s a very unstylish, dowdy name.

I would go with Cosima Violet personally - stunning.

Stella Violet - love Stella, but I don't like Violet at all (small invasive weed)
Iris Cecily - nice
Mable Florence - no. Mabel is the more usual spelling, and I don't like that either -dowdy. Florence is nice.
Violet Hope - no, but Hope is nice. Together it sounds like "violent hope"
Cecily Hope - lovely
Cosima Iris - lovely

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