Well damn, it's a girl. HELP

[CassandrasCastle]

I have just found out I'm having a girl at my 20 (ish) wk scan. For some reason I had it very firmly in my head that it would be a boy, and had my very favourite name ready, which DP and I both love - handily. (I am being ridiculously over prepared I realise. But I just like names...)
Anyway, girl - lovely news, but I can't do girls names v well :/

This is the shortlist made with DP, we have quite different tastes:

Juliana (poss shortened to Nia. NOT JULIE)
Evangeline (I like long version)
Lilias
Laurel
Iris

Have at me...

Edith
Josephine
Esther
Colette
Daphne
Jane
Violet
Auriel
Molly
Celine
Sadie
Fern
Eleanor
Arianne
Stephanie
Annie
Polly
Meredith
Sally
Heidi
Theodora
Phillipa
Jasmine
Cornelia
Alice
Wendy
Winifred

Edna
Sadie
Pearl
Angela
Mable
Lily

I like Juliana and Iris.

How much will it annoy you if Laurel is heard / changed in autocorrect to Lauren? It would annoy me but you may be more tolerant.

Evangeline is lovely but weirdly popular in my part of north London. The parents are usually quite put out to meet parents of another one too. So if you want a really unique name, this might not be it.

Julianne?
Angelene/Angeline
Ariadne
Flora
Florence
Josephine
Niamh

Do you like Lillia? It sounds more feminine...

I think Lilias sounds feminine enough for me :)

I have a name which OFTEN gets an e at the end instead of the correct a - making it a totally different flipping name. It annoys me a bit, but I can deal with it - and hopefully a little Laurel or Lilias would too...

Lilias or Laurel, Lilias or Laurel...

I love Evangeline

I've just heard someone describe Evangeline as 'slightly porn star' 🤔

I love the name Beatrix and you never really see it anywhere.

We have a Tabitha so if we had another girl they would have been tabby and bee or my tabbycat and bumblebee 😍

(In reality Tabitha goes by Tabitha or Tibs so this is all in my imagination anyway)

Unfortunately when I hear Evangeline I think of the princess and the frog (blame my dd obsession with Disney princess for that one)

Lilias is super. I known an adult one. It’s not cutesy, which is a big plus.

If you like Nia, how about Aniera (pronounced A-nye-ra)? We have an Aniera in the family and call her 'Ny' or 'Nyra'.

EmbarrassingMama, I think you mean Aneira, and that is not the Welsh pronunciation

How about Violet with Vivi as her nickname?

Listening to the radio - a birthday celebration for a 100 year old named Ida - i love that!

Iris

Evangeline can be shorted to lots of things:
Evie
Eve
Eva
Anne
Annie
Ange
Angie
Angeline
Lina

I would also dispute the can’t cobtrol nick names thing. Everyone who know that has used a nickname into adulthood had one imposed by their parents at the outset.

If I had a girl my top name would be:
Evalina
Cecilia
Cybele
Moira
Tabitha
Fern
Isolde
Gwendolyn
Morwhenna

Not forgetting Vage.

Claudia

Efloressa

Evangeline just says vag to me.

Nina
Morven
Seraphina

Kirsty is pretty

Harriet nn Hattie?

I love laurel an Lilias but how about Leila or Lilian ?

Josephina
Aurelia
Harmony