Rose, Florence or Raphaela as a sister for Elodie?

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I’m almost 35 weeks now with our second daughter and have cut down our list to the following as a little sister for Elodie (who was born at 38 weeks)!

Rose Willow
Florence Willow
Raphaela Willow

Willow is an honour name for my Dad (William). I should also mention I’ve had a lot of issues with name regret over Elodie’s name (the pronunciation) 😕.

Other front runners from our list that we’ve removed to try and settle on one name were:

Allegra
Persephone
Claudia

Would be great to know which you prefer, which you think works best with Elodie, and what connotations the different names have for you?

Thank you so, so much - I’m a bit confused and would love to settle on a name soon if at all possible, any advice very gratefully received.

It’s funny because I just don’t feel 100% sure about Florence...people seem to love it but somehow it seems a tiny bit frumpy to me somehow and I feel like I wouldn’t love it as my own name - I’d personally feel more comfortable if I was called Rose or Claudia but maybe that doesn’t matter as I’m from a different naming generation...

She does like her name. She is at a school where there are literally about 16 girls called Grace in her year. They even have pictures like "a group of Graces" in the yearbook, there are so many. So she is definitely glad she never has to deal with an uber popular name.

She gets lots of compliments from people, male and female of all ages.

(Our second dds middle name is Grace! )

I would go with Rose, timeless and beautiful.
Elodie and Rose, they go well together.

I love Allegra Willow.
Raphaela is too long and I don't like Raff.
Rose is nice. Florence is ok but will get shortened.
Claudia is ok but Claudine is nicer.
Persephone will be Percy.

I love Florence and now have a GD by that name. I wanted it for my DD but everyone hated it.

I think either Florence or Rose xx

Don't use Florence... It's MINE I tell you MINE.... okay my mum's and one of dts but miiiiiiiine 😁 helpful not.

Rose Willow is too botanical, Florence Willow is nice (but still rather ‘plant-y’), Raphaela Willow is adorable.

And I honestly love Claudia Willow.

How about Willa instead of Willow? Not what you asked.

Florence gets my vote.

Or Penelope?

Raphaela is both stunning and awesome.