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Tristan, Genevieve, and..?

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Raines100 · 03/04/2018 16:30

For a friend. Baby is a girl. She likes Sophia, pronounced 'so-fy-a', but is put off by the obvious pronunciation issue.

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NotAgainYoda · 03/04/2018 16:32

Meredith sprung to mind

DairyisClosed · 03/04/2018 16:32

Isolde
Darcy
Edwina
Ellowen
Georgianna
Jacinta

BikeRunSki · 03/04/2018 16:34

Isolde
Hermione
Henrietta

LastNightsMakeUp · 03/04/2018 16:35

I'm missing the obvious pronunciation issue? That's the only way I know that it's pronounced... and I know 3 baby Sophia's

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Raines100 · 03/04/2018 16:35

Isolde! Grin

OP posts:
BikeRunSki · 03/04/2018 16:35

I promise I hadn’t seen Dairy’s post when I suggested Isolde! Great minds.....

Mumblebucket · 03/04/2018 16:35

Daphne :)

BikeRunSki · 03/04/2018 16:36

Lastnightsmakeup
So Fee Ah
So Phi Ah

Lobsterquadrille2 · 03/04/2018 16:50

Clemency

LastNightsMakeUp · 03/04/2018 16:51

@BikeRunSki Sounds the same in my accent/mind 🤷‍♀️ the only hesitation I would have would be its popularity

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Raines100 · 03/04/2018 16:56

Thanks will pass those on.

@Lastnightsmakeup
It's either FEE to rhyme with bee or FIGH to rhyme with eye.

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Sugarpiehoneyeye · 03/04/2018 16:56

Carmen
Jacqueline
Sapphire

FawnDrench · 03/04/2018 16:56

Dolores
Estella
Gabriella
Cressida

RickOShay · 03/04/2018 17:03

Think Daphne and Isolde are perfect.

Clementine

Emmeline

Ophelia

Fleur

Cecily

Christobel

Valentina

Gisele

LastNightsMakeUp · 03/04/2018 17:03

@Raines100 oh I see! I've only ever known it to be so-fee-a and know a few.

Calatonia · 03/04/2018 17:06

No, no no: please NOT Tristan and Isolde: that's just too corny for words.

It should really be Brunnhilde but you can't saddle a poor babe with that.

the most fitting name with the other two would be something like

Heloise (or Eloise)
or Eleanor
or Helen
(or Antigone if they're determined to be different)

Most recent baby name of a newborn I was told by proud grandparents: Calypso: why do they do it?

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 03/04/2018 17:06

Seraphina. Delphine. Florianne. Vivienne.
Alexandra. Luciana. Juliette. Antoinette.

Dogsrbarking · 03/04/2018 17:44

Raine
Francine
Arabella
Araminta
Viola

IVflytrap · 03/04/2018 17:54

I quite like the So-fye-a pronunciation. It's a shame it's dying out. A name that sounds a bit like it is Sapphire, but I imagine that wouldn't really be up your friend's street, considering their other children's names?

Anais
Rowenna
Cordelia
Josephine
Phoebe
Ianthe
Matilda
Gwendolen

ChocolateCrunch · 03/04/2018 18:03

Evangeline
Rosalie
Clara
Annabel
Violet
Alice

abiirthdaycake · 03/04/2018 18:50

Definitely can't have both Tristan and Isolde! I like Daphne as an option, and Evangeline. A lot of the previous suggestions would work well

Calatonia · 05/04/2018 07:13

@abiirthdaycake : I'm glad someone else can see that Tristan and Isolde in the same family is a bad idea....

Iolanthe

ReversingSnail · 05/04/2018 07:33

Alexandra
Seraphina
Violet
Serena
Louisa
Beatrice
Susannah
Penelope
Xanthe
Georgiana
Cassandra
Isabella

DarkRoomDarren · 05/04/2018 08:08

I don’t think anyone was seriously suggesting Tristan and Isolde Confused. Or were they?

Atticus
Athelstan

Elowen
Henrietta

JollyGiraffe · 05/04/2018 08:12

Martha