Plum’s sister!

[HazeyJaney]

Help please! We chose a very unusual name for our first daughter (Plum Elizabeth) and now we’re stuck on what to name her sister. Our current list feels a bit pedestrian in comparison, does it matter?

We like:

Alice
Flora
Gaia
Cecily
Beatrix
Sylvie
Merryn
Iris (actually, I’ve always loved Isis, but it’s obviously unusable now)

Posy
Luna
Betsy
Cleo
Opal
Nell

What about Wren? I met a lovely little Wren at baby group.

You need to give your next child a similarly weird name so that the sibling rivalry doesn't go stratospheric. You might as well have called her pudding.

I know a little girl called Beatrix. The girls all wear lovely long Laura Ashley type dresses and have long hair and alice bands. Beatrix's hair is slightly wavy too. They are such a lovely family. They have moved so we rarely see them now.

Have you seen the story Little Plum? I had it as a child and loved that book. My sisters had it so I don't know where it is now. If you don't have it do try and get a copy for her.

Sorrel sounds good. Willow? Eilidh, Freya, Kenzie?

I remember reading a book about 2 sisters called Nancy and Plum (I think plum was short for pamela).

Who was the person who was desperate to name her DD Persimmon but the DH said no?

Meriel is lovely I think.

My eldest daughter has a very common but very lovely name, my youngest has a very, very unusual but equally lovely in my opinion name. I don't think it matters too much and the names still flow pretty well when said together.

I do like the name sorrel though:)

Tuppence or Constance

Agree with PP who says you have to give your next child an equally unusual name- My parents gave one of us a weird name and the other a normal name and it is kind of indicative of the way they felt about/treated us. I still think about it now...

Astrid
Quintina or
Seranee

I really like Gaia, it looks beautiful but simplistic and is a gorgeous unusual but heard of name. It really is lovely and I've never met one

I second Posy! Plum and Posy sounds great.

Plum?

Sorrel really does have the same kind of vibe.

Star? Pomona, Hero, Ambrosia, Calypso?

Apple blossom.

Queen Annes Lace?

Sorrel is lovely.

Sugar
Honey

Honor.

Of your list I like Iris. Prefer Cecilia and Beatrice to Cecily and Beatrix.

Olive
Apple
Hazel
Sorrel
Joy
Isolde
Tulah
Enela
Mercy

Perdita, NN Perdy.

Plum and Perdy

Plum Charlotte