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BabyGirlNumber2 · 14/12/2020 22:36

Name changed for this as obviously outing.

We have just found out that baby 2 is a girl! We already have a 2 year old DD called Everley. She has two middle names and our surname is double barrelled. Would quite like a name that fits well with this but I would prefer to avoid other “ee” names so not eg Everley and Darcey. I quite like names ending with an “uh” eg Anna. However I’m conscious that Everley is fairly unusual and we partly picked it because we didn’t want her to have a really popular name (both me and my DH were known as “Emma S” or “Adam J” etc at school and hated it). Therefore it would be a bit weird to have a very popular name for DD2, feels like we need to have something else unusual to match. There are a few names that I like that fit the brief:

Vita
Winter
Ada
Frieda
Fritha

However my husband doesn’t like any of them. It feels like any slightly unusual name that I suggest he says is ‘too weird’ so maybe him liking Everley was a bit random (it was number 800+ in the baby name list ranked by popularity the year she was born!) and he actually prefers much more traditional names. I think he’d be happy with something more popular like Freya or Ava despite what he’s said before about wanting an unusual name but I wouldn’t really. I want them both to have a slightly unusual name. Any ideas? We’d also give 2 middle names, I don’t mind these being more popular as Everley’s are too.

Ps. I know Everley is a bit of a marmite name on MN, please no negative comments about her name, we have already named her! Thank you.

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birdseedpie · 15/12/2020 02:19

Kezia

BadTattoosAndSmellLikeBooze · 15/12/2020 02:28

Wren
Piper
Harper
Quinn
Pippa
Martha
Mila

DontWalkPastTheCastle · 15/12/2020 07:54

Oh someone upthread suggested Edie; I think that sounds great with Everly.

DontWalkPastTheCastle · 15/12/2020 08:16

Oh someone I know named their daughter Elara, that would be lovely too.

I'm over invested now Grin

ICouldHaveCheckedFirst · 15/12/2020 08:48

Venetia
Astrid
Yolanda

LouiseTrees · 15/12/2020 08:52

Verity or Eliana

KnobJockey · 15/12/2020 08:58

I liked Indigo but dp said too weird. We ended up with Indie, Indiana was an option too but we preferred the shorter.

Elena, Remi, Harper, Piper also on the list.

KnobJockey · 15/12/2020 08:59

Ooh, I heard Cleo the other day too, like that.

Stargazer89 · 15/12/2020 18:32

How about:
Everley and Sienna
Everley and Serena
Everley and Alice
Everley and Clara
Everley and Rae
Everley and Josephine
Some of those might be too popular for you but it’s just some options.

MostIneptThatEverStepped · 15/12/2020 18:33

Ivory

twilightcafe · 15/12/2020 18:35

@MostIneptThatEverStepped

Ivory
Grin
BigBlueMeanie · 15/12/2020 18:41

Orla
Mara
Mira/Mirabel
Aster
Jana
Enfys
Greta

Lettitbee · 15/12/2020 18:42

If he likes Atlas, try Athena maybe

littlebillie · 15/12/2020 18:45

Stella and Kitty are both lovely older names

BigBlueMeanie · 15/12/2020 18:46

Atlanta
Aurora
Aurelia
Leonora
Norah
Dinah
Hester
Linnea

shamus2020 · 15/12/2020 18:46

Everley and Iona?

Ruby
Scarlett
Meredith
Merryn

NeonSparkle · 15/12/2020 20:19

Keira, Faye, Morgan, Kate, Angelina, Natalia, Orla, Juliette

Boxoffestivefizz · 15/12/2020 20:56

Everley and faye

nancybotwinbloom · 15/12/2020 21:11

Vita is lovely

Orphlids · 15/12/2020 21:13

Some good suggestions on this thread! I like the name Everley, it sounds lovely. Shame you can’t have Ingrid, as they do sound good together. As you like names beginning i, how about Isolde? We’ve got an Isolde. But perhaps too weird for your DH? Although it was once the 27th most popular name for girls in Britain... about eight hundred years ago. From your list, Vita is my favourite. It was on our list too. So elegant and exciting!

chickensoup23 · 15/12/2020 21:14

Martha?

NonyaBizniz · 15/12/2020 21:15

Iverley.

Scumble · 15/12/2020 21:18

Atira
Islyn
Reya (ray-uh)

CrochetOrBust · 15/12/2020 21:20

Estelle
Jocelyn
Rosemary

MrsMaryClausFace · 15/12/2020 21:23

India?
Scout?
Cleo?

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