Sister names to go with William

[SHB2021]

We are expecting a little girl at the end of September. Surname is B and one syllable. To go with William...

So far thinking...

Jessica Rose
Lydia Rose
Ida Rose

Middle name doesn’t have to be Rose - although it does have some significance. And seems to go quite well with all of the first names!

Open to other ideas which fit with William. Also like something I can shorten. Ida was hubby’s one and only suggestion so need to keep that as an option 😂

Thanks

Lots of names "go with" William. Either Jessica or Lydia would be good.

Personally, I don't like Ida but if you do then it's not so “out there” as to raise eyebrows. I'd avoid it though if your surname makes a phrase beginning “I'd a ...” (I had a ball, I had a bell, I had a brown..)

Benedetta
Benjamina

Lydia and Jessica are both nice. Lydie and Jess.

Rose is a filler middle name - I'd go for something that isn't every other girl's middle name. Lydia Rosalind or Jessica Rosemary perhaps?

Ida is too similar in sound to 'I had a'.

Catherine Rose
Jennifer Rose
Elizabeth Rose
Alexandra Rose
Victoria Rose
Amelia Rose
Madeliene Rose
Abigail Rose
Charlotte Rose
Penelope Rose
Eleanor Rose
Hannah Rose
Evelyn Rose
Emily Rose
Molly Rose
Isabelle Rose
Martha Rose
Francesca Rose
Vivienne Rose

Ida is my favourite by a long way, but I’d avoid it with the noun name Rose for reasons already given.

Harriet
Alice
Georgia
Lucy
Ruby
Thea
Sophia

My fave of your choices is Lydia - it just sounds the most classic to me, like William. But there's nothing wrong with Jessica (pretty and Shakespearean) or even Ida (I just prefer Ida pronounced the European way ("Ee - da") as "Eye -da" sounds a bit masculine to me). Rose would be a lovely classic first name though - it's so popular as a middle. Other ideas (hopefully no repeats):

Caroline
Julia
Celia
Beatrice
Laura
Sarah
Antonia
Anna
Emma
Josephine
Susannah
Marianne

Oh I have always loved Lydia. I think my DD could well have been a Lydia had DH not irrationally disliked the name. I’ve liked the name for years and never gone off it, which I usually do with names that make my list

Lydia and Jessica are both great, although I am not a fan of Ida...

Other thoughts - Rosanna, Rosalind, Louisa, Frances, Francesca, Adeline, Adelaide, Adela (Ida alternatives), Miranda, Serena, Cassia, Caroline, Marianne, Emmeline, Emma, Julia, Juliet, Lucinda, Hannah, Harriet, Cecily, Cecilia, Felicity (and the currently v popular Charlotte, Beatrice, Emily, Anna)

Rose is nice but it’s a cliche middle name, so might be better as the last of 3 names or a variation like Rosemary.

Iris was my first thought.
Like Lydia of yours. Or maybe Rose as a first name?

Thanks everyone. We have a Rose already in the family so that can’t be a first name really. But am flexible over middle name options and some lovely ideas in here. Will see what hubby thinks!

Lydia and Jessica are both very pretty.

I have a friend who called her children William and Katherine ....

Violet Elizabeth?

I know of William and Rachel siblings.

i have know william and charlotte, william and imogen

William and Charlotte
William and Emma
William and Sarah
William and Tabitha
William and Eloise
William and Claire

I do love Lydia! It's one of my favourite names.

Lydia is lovely!

Some other suggestions:
Alexandra
Alice
Alicia
Beatrice
Catherine
Charlotte
Daphne
Delphine
Elizabeth
Emily
Emma
Florence
Francesca
Genevieve
Harriet
Henrietta
Imogen
Marianne
Marina
Maxine
Olivia
Penelope
Rosalind
Rosemary
Rosanna
Susanna
Tabitha
Theodora
Vivienne

I seriously know a William and Mary.
William and Emmeline?

Feel like Lara would be lovely with William