Baby no name!

[strawberrylaces88]

Help me name my baby. She arrived last night, fully expecting a little baby boy Ted so a bit thrown at having to name a girl.

Thoughts:

Daisy (this was number one throughout pregnancy but just not sure if it's right now she's here)
Joni
Juno
Nancy

Short seems to be good. There's an L in the middle of our surname so anything with an L in the middle/end of the first name ends up a bit lalala.

DH would like if there was a literary or musical reference. I like flower names (but not the obvious Lily, Rose etc).

Why were you fully expecting a boy? Did they get it wrong at the scan?

I only like Juno from your girls list.

Congratulations by the way!

congratulations!

what about:
Greta
Zinnia (a type of flower)
Posie
jasmine

I like Joni.

Only like Daisy.

Primrose

Daisy - a bit bovine
Joni - I’ve an irrational hatred of soppy cissy Joni Mitchell and her caterwauling so that’s a no from me.
Juno - ok
Nancy - slang for an effeminate man.

Hello congrats op

Robyn
Marin
Taryn
Lenorah
Elodie
Anya
Valentina
Frida
Norah
Marnie
Camille

Thea? Could still call her Teddy if you were planning to use that as a nickname for Ted? Could choose Dorothea if DH wanted literary connection.

I love Daisy. Nancy is ok but don't love it. Not sure about Joni and Juno they aren't my taste at all

I love Juno, and also like Daisy.

Flora
Iris
Violet
Tessa

Iris has musical connections and is a pretty but fairly uncommon floral name :)

Teddy? Nice and stylish and fine for a girl and in line with your original name.

I like Nancy out of your choices.

Musical References

Candence
Odette
Aria
Annie

Literary

Gosh where to start.

Jane (Eyre)
Cathy (Wuthering)
Arietty ( Borrowers)
Scarlett (Gone with the wind)
Katy (what katy did)
Pelagia (Captain correli)

Lyra - from the Dark Materials?

Theadora,
and call her Ted, Teddy, Thea, or Dora.

Nancy. Which has literary connections to Swallows and Amazons and also Nancy Mitford.

Juno is lovely.
Love PPs suggestion of Thea - gorgeous name and she could get Teddy as a nickname.
I prefer the spelling Joanie to Joni but it's a pretty name.

Literary/musical
Dorothy/Dorothea (Wizard of Oz?Wordsworth/Middlemarch and you get to use Teddie still)
Etta (James)
Lyra as PP said, is lovely
Juliet
Portia
Rosalind
Beatrice (all Shakespeare)
Scout
Flora (Cold Comfort Farm and also sounds floral)
Cassandra (I capture the castle heroine)

Flower names
Iris
Jasmine
Marguerite
Sorrel
Hazel
Poppy

Heidi

Or Violet

Stevie (Nicks)
Dusty (Springfield)
Etta (James)

Congratulations 🎊
Love nancy
Eliza (my fair lady/pygmalion)
Josephine (little women, could also have Beth, Amy, Meg)

Floral
Willow
Blossom
Flora
Fleur
Violet
Poppy
Holly

Oh and Hazel and Fern

Nancy is brilliant & Juno is very cool
Dahlia is an underused pretty flower name
Rosalind is part flower but also Shakespearean

Marigold.

I don't like Daisy (too bovine and v common here) or Juno but I do like Nancy and Joni

On a floral/ nature theme I like
Calla
Tansy
Laurel

Other short names

Tess(of the d'urbevilles)
Meg (little women)
Aphra (behn- writer)
Aria
Lyra
Viola