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)

Sorrel reminds me of a dense loaf.

Is there a malt loaf thingy in a yellow packet? I can remember seeing it somewhere.

Without sounding like I'm taking the pee... I'd go with Peach. Its very pretty and goes with Plum!!

@PollyShelby, it's Soreen malt loaf that you're thinking of.

This is slightly out there but how about Lark?

It is the name of the baby on the TV programme "Life in Pieces" and when I first heard it I thought it was quite strange but as I watched more I thought it was really pretty!

Could go quite well with your other daughters name :)

Lettice like Lettice Knollys. She was a lady in waiting to Elizabeth I.

How about Cicely?
It’s a plant, but not too obvious, has a Victorian vibe, and v similar to Cecily.
I like all your suggested names. I like Plum as well.

Plum is one of my guilty pleasure names. Love to be brave enough to use it! I think another unusual nature name would be a good choice. I don't love sorrel, it sounds too much like sorrow to my ear. How about

Hebe (another one I'd love to use)
Laurel
Zinnia
Tansy
Aster

Plum and Wren
Plum and Daisy
Plum and Noemi
Plum and Mavis

The opinions you’ve projected here...?!

What about them. I have no issue with unusual, unconventional, foreign choices.

Jeez louise Plum though..plum is an insult around here. I hope you live in a very posh area where everyone is called Apple, peaches, Horatio etc otherwise she is going to be verbally ripped apart at school and in her future and I definitely would tell you what I thought of plum if I knew you in real life. So cruel to the kid but anyway, on one hand, how do you now call the next one a normal name but equally, don't be mean to your next kid as well and please do choose something like Alice. I hope you consider changing plum to Elizabeth and use plum as a middle name if you really insist on it.

Myrtle

@Jj2431 I actually know two other little girls called Plum! It’s not that much of a shock these days to hear names like this. 30 years ago they’d have stood out. There’s a Wolf and a Fox at our baby group. No boys called Oliver funnily enough

How about Damson?

My mum wanted to call me Victoria, but my dad refused on the grounds I would get called plum as a nickname 😂

Mirabelle
Victoria
Myrobalan
Santa Rosa
Greengage...

You didn't seriously name a human being Plum? Poor kid

I like Sorrel and it goes well with Plum. Loveday and Beatrice were on our list for a girl, both would also go well with Plum.

@Leopardprintboots I think Wolf and Fox are horrendous too. Why is everyone trying to be different? It's not even different, it is ridiculous.

Plum is no different to a name like Olive, Jade, Amber, Hazel, Rose etc - a thing that is also a colour. It’s unusual but I don’t think it’s way out at all. A lot nicer than the ghastly Wren that seems to be well liked on here.

Indigo
Ollia
Juno
Juniper

I predicted you’d find Wolf and Fox horrendous @Jj2431 🤣 (In fairness I do too!)... I was more trying to show that Plum wouldn’t stand out in the way it would have done when we were little. I know of two Plum’s both under 8

How about Willa @HazeyJaney

I think Alice would be lovely though. I’d pick that

Plum and Alice ❤️

What about Prune?

I think Ariadne and Daphne are lovely names.

Anywhere multicultural Plum is nothing.

At DD’s school there’s Gurmit, Inderprit, Rashida, Hadya, Mei Chen, Kyung-Wa, Ximena to name but a few.