Help please! Harriette or Violetta?

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Help! We have a 2yr old named Beatrice Rose ‘Bea’ and we are struggling to choose a name for our second daughter due to be born in two weeks time.
Our last name is 3 syllables and ends in tine.

I love
Evangeline
Clementine - but these don’t sit well with our last name.
We also like
Harriette - Hatty
Violetta - Etta
Sylvie
Maeve
Maeva
Kitty
Felicity - Flick

Thoughts please 🙏🏼

I like Harriet but not Harriette (not a spelling I recognise). Prefer Violet to Violetta which feels too frilly.

Of your choices, I really like Felicity and Sylvie.

I'd avoid Maeve and Maeva as these seem to be gaining in popularity. Evangeline would fast become an Eva or Evie and there's so many of those already. Kitty is nice, but only as a nickname for Katherine/Katharine/Catherine.

I like Harriet and Kitty, I would go for a "proper" name like Kathryn or Caitlin and call them kitty as a pet name. I don't like the extra -te on Harriet at all.

Evangeline very House of Elliot I like Ginny as a nn

Harriet.

Henrietta. Hennie/Hettie/Etta

I like Violet and Harriet. Kitty short for Catherine

Harriet and Violet are way nicer than Harriette or Violetta. I also like Felicity from your list.

Here was my list for my 2nd - we went with Tallulah!
⁃ Abigail
⁃ Chloe
⁃ Anastasia
⁃ Beatrix - trixy
⁃ Tabitha - Tabs
⁃ Madeleine
⁃ Genevieve
⁃ Isla
⁃ Daisy
⁃ Summer
⁃ Jemima - Mimi
⁃ Elsbeth - Elsie
⁃ Delilah - Ilah
⁃ Esther
⁃ Amelie
⁃ Willow
⁃ Maddison
⁃ Tallulah - Lula

I like Harriet. Harriette looks like a spelling mistake/unnecessarily flouncy and I don't like it at all. Violetta is nice. My favourite is Clementine.

Harriet or Violet

Is Harriette pronounced differently to Harriet? Harriet is much nicer either way.

I like Etta on its own. Violetta is a bit of a mouthful. Or Violet - goes nicely with Beatrice but I think she’d end up with the nn “Vi”.
Felicity is lovely but not “Flick”.
Love Kitty as a nn for Katherine.

In my head the - ette ending changes the pronunciation of Harriet, making it more like harry-ette , rather than harri-ut, with the u being a schwa sound, like in Helen.

Either Harriet or Henriette. Harriette looks silly and misspelt.

Evangeline - not keen
Clementine - quite like, but prob not with your surname
Harriette - no, it's Harriet, the other spelling looks odd. It's ok, bit horsey
Violetta - noooo, looks made up. Violet is lovely. Viola is also nice.
Sylvie - Sylvia is beautiful
Maeve - like
Maeva - nope
Kitty - too girly
Felicity - Flick - Felicity is nice, but most nn, e.g. flick, fizz, fliss etc are terrible

Verity, Lucy, Eleanor, Josephine, Florence, Cecilia, Eloise, Imogen?

Harriet and Violet - both good.

Harriette and Violetta - yuk - I hate it when people add random letters to perfectly good names.

Stick to the conventional spellings otherwise the poor kid will spend her life explaining.
Verity, Lucy, Laura.

@zafferana

Harriet and Violet - both good.

Harriette and Violetta - yuk - I hate it when people add random letters to perfectly good names.

Well, they're not 'random letters', are they? What a strange assertion. They're completely legitimate alternative European spellings of those names: 'Violetta' is the lead character is Verdi's 'La traviata' and is still a popular name in Italy and S. America. 'Harriette' is how the name was spelled in this country until about a hundred years ago.

'Random' would be 'Harrietfguhp' or 'Violetdvkhe' 🙄

Harriet.looks like the masculine form of Harriette.

I like Sylvie best

I much prefer Harriet and Violet to OP's spellings.

Otherwise I like Felicity, but not Flick. Felicity goes nicely with Beatrice.

Violetta Maeve.

I like Harriet but the Harriette spelling just looks wrong to me, too fussy.

I like Kitty too

Harriet or Violet, the extra letters just look really silly and try hard

Harriette - Hatty (Never seen this spelling. Harriet's ok)
Violetta - Etta (I like this, or Violette, also Letty)
Sylvie (lovely)
Maeve (ok)
Maeva (no)
Kitty (lovely but short for Katherine)
Felicity - Flick (yes, nice but maybe Fliss)

How about:
Camille / Camilla
Clarice
Mirabel

Harriet (not Harriette as pp’s have said it looks like a spelling mistake and she’d probably not enjoy correcting people every day!).

I really like Etta as a name in itself but using it as a shortening of ‘Violetta’ rather than Henrietta is unusual, but not really in a good way, sorry OP!

Etta and Bea sound lovely together for sisters!

How about Syliva?