If you had a long awaited baby girl, against all the odds, what would you call her?

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Hypothetical day dreaming thread as currently awaiting some potentially nasty test results for baby so looking for a welcome distraction to help keep calm/positive and think about other things.

We don't know the sex yet, but if a girl what could you call her that would be a special, but non tacky, name? Something that has a special meaning or other? It's been a very long road to get to this point and she would be our only child.

Am thinking Hallelujah is a bit much...? (Although you could shorten it to Lu/Lou or Halle for everyday?!) We really like this but it has not been well received by others.

Hope was another thought I had, but wondered is it a bit plain? Would it cause too much confusion in conversation every time someone used the word hope? I generally like traditional names e.g. Beatrice, Amelia, Harriet and etc

Not a fan of Joy or Faith either (sorry, hope not to offend anyone)

As you don't know the sex yet do you have a boys name in mind?
Hope everything's ok with your baby

Joy

I've always loved it.

Hope and Joy are both lovely.

We have Hope as one of our long awaited daughter's names. She has a quirky first name. we also didn't want to use Joy or Faith (one of those is my middle name) but we loved Hope as it's so symbolic of what we went through, as in we never gave up the hope of having her.

*middle names that should have read. She has two middle names

Iris? Goddess of the rainbow something beautiful after a lot of rain.

Everything crossed for you.

Not sure if it's relatable to you but I like this one: Halia [halia] as a girls' name is pronounced ha-LEE-ah. It is of Hawaiian origin, and the meaning of Halia is "remembrance of a loved one". I hope all goes well for you.

Marnie - 'rejoice'

Seren it's Means star

It's a beautiful name and the 2 little girls I know with it are pretty, tiny delicate little things

Miranda means admirable and wonderful. It's my favourite (and hence DD's) girl's name.

Lucy or Lucia - means 'Light'
I met a Lucy-Grace today which I really like.

I called mine Ellen

I love Seren too! Like the Welsh connection too as dd used to live there.

I love hallelujah! I'm also a fan of blessing, godspower, miracle, praisethelord, and godsgift. Godspower is more often a boys name but it works in this situation I think x

I called mine Harriet!
I do like all of your names though :)

Jessica Alba named her daughter Honor. I had never heard of it as a name before and i think it's very pretty and feminine, also not very common.

You must have heard of Honor Blackman, the actress.

I've always liked Lucy (and all of its diminutives/variations) because it means "light".

I'm a Joy (by name - not by nature) and I hate it. I think it's an old lady name, and having resting bitch face people always think it's hilarious to to ask why I'm not Joyful or something equally irritating.

I love the name Luna and really like the name Seren suggested above.

I know someone who had an IVF baby girl, and called her Ivy 'middle name beginning with F)'.

We called ours Cleo ... "to praise or acclaim "

She's wonderful!

Eliana - My God has answered.

My friend called her much awaited ds Victoire.

Dd of course.

I met a baby Talia recently - it means "precious dew from God/heaven"