More Tess middle name help

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DD4 on the way ...

Have already used (am going to jumble them to try not to out myself!) names, including middle names, that include:

Rose
Isobel
Eleanor
Alice
Orla
Edith

DD4 will be Tess, most likely.

I like, but don't fully love, the following combinations:

Tess Phoebe (but think Phoebe Tess flows better - DH not keen)
Tess Abigail (worry it feels a little frumpy)
Tess Imogen (I think it's ok)
Tess Elizabeth (DH hates Elizabeth)
Tess Madeleine (DH thinks of McCann; I think he is being ridiculous)

Any other suggestions?

If you can’t use Madeleine them how about Tess Madison?
Tess Bethany
Tess Amelie
Tess Naomi

Ooh yes Tess Amelie - I'll add to the list.

My absolute fave would be Tess Ophelia but it's too much piling sad literary associations on top of one another like that!

Maybe Tess Olivia

Tess clementine
Tess Margaret
Tess Ottilie

Tess Elizabeth

Although Tess Rose is pretty it's a bit predictable. Grace, Jane, Louise and Rose etc are overdone as middle names.

Tess Alexandra

I think after Tess you need a vowel for flow

Tess Eloise
Tess Emilia (or Amelia)
Tess Eden
Tess Adeline
Tess Aurelia
Tess Alicia (too close to Alice?)
Tess Evelyn or Evelina
Tess Annelise
Tess Oriel

Tess Catherine
Tess Araminta
Tess Dove or Wren!

I agree, Tess Elizabeth sounds good, (Tess Bess?), but if your H dislikes it, that'd be a no.

notarabbit we've already used Rose elsewhere in our family names...

minipie thanks - I keep looking up longish names beginning with vowels as I agree that works best.

tonightstheteriyakikitchen DH has pretty much chosen Tess so I've got free rein on the middle name really. I do like Tess a lot but there are other things I'd probably have chosen first. It's just the name on which we most agree.

It's marvellous when you both instantly agree on a name but it doesn't always happen does it. I think by DC4 we'd struggle to agree too.

Two French names that are quite pretty but not too unusual. For a middle name, one has much more freedom:

Tess Amandine
Tess Corisande

I 'd also quite like Tess Melisande (= Millicent) or Tess Melusine, but only if you're OK with the legends.

Tess Amelie is gorgeous.

I also like (apologies for repeats):
Tess Eliza
Tess Catherine
Tess Annabel
Tess Emilia
Tess Rosamund
Tess Carenza
Tess Meredith

Ariane

Tess Veronica
Tess Evangeline
Tess Alexandra
Tess Genevieve
Tess Matilda
Tess Penelope
Tess Julia
Tess Annabel
Tess Charlotte
Tess Marianne
Tess Philippa
Tess Miriam
Tess Joanna
Tess Audrey
Tess Clementine

I love Tess!

I love Abigail (not frumpy at all) and Imogen with it!

Tess Rhiannon
Tess Fionnula
Tess Rowena
Tess Morwenna
Tess Hermione
Tess Eliza
Tess Francesca
Tess Louisa
Tess Albertine
Tess Georgina
Tess Georgiana
Tess Jemima

Would you be averse to
Tess Angharad
Tess Adelaide
Tess Emmeline
Tess Elowen
Tess Angelica
Tess Avery
Tess Anastasia
Tess Annabel
Tess Artemis
Tess Eloise

Tess Catalina
Tess Gabrielle
Tess Violette

Tess Audrey

Adeline
Carolyn
Davina
Emmeline
Helena
Ishbel

I love Tess Ophelia BTW

It’s a shame he’s chosen a single syllable name ending in -ss because that means it will just merge into any middle name that starts with a vowel. And I also feel Tess is a bit of a nothing name. What is it he likes about it?

Having said that, how often will you say the two names together? Hardly ever, I would have thought.

Maybe choose a middle name with a bit of something to it, in case she doesn’t like Tess and wants to change when she’s older.

Have you considered Tessa shortened to Tess? It’s easier to balance Tessa with a middle name. For the most part people are of course suggesting long names to balance Tess out but your existing names are all simpler.
Having said that can I add
Josephine
Harriet

Tess Evangeline
Tess Alana
Tess orla
Tess edie
Tess Iona
Tess Genevieve
Tess merryn
Tess Lois
Tess Astrid

Tess Victoria
Tess Sophia
Tess Alexandra
Tess Elspeth
Tess Athena
Tess Delilah
Tess Elena
Tess Catriona
Tess Octavia
Tess Evelyn

I love Tess Ophelia and Tess Olivia from your posts

Tess Ingrid
Tess Violet
Tess Beatrice
Tess Emilia

Tess Ruby
Tess Emily
Tess Jemima
Tess Rachel
Tess Autumn
Tess Juniper
Tess Cordelia
Tess Rowena
Tess Roxanna
Tess Aurelia
Tess Alexandra