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Names to go with Ira and Vada?

25 replies

KingAragorn · 24/02/2022 20:52

Hello, we are due our third soon, already have a son & daughter called Ira and Vada. Looking for any suggestions of names that go with these? We don’t know the sex of the baby.
So far we have:

Girls:
Birdie
Thomasin
Nellie

Boys:
Rudy
Rufus
Lucius
Asa

We are looking for something a bit more ‘unique’ like our other two but haven’t really found anything that’s clicked yet!

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AudTheDeepMinded · 24/02/2022 20:54

Pia or Rumer for a girl!

Luredbyapomegranate · 24/02/2022 21:48

Your boys names are all nice, Jerome, Moses, Silas, Joss, Cassian/Cassias, Augustus, Blaise, Linus, Kester might be other thoughts

Please please don’t call your daughter Birdie, it’s like a horrible sexist nickname from a century ago.

Thomasin is ok, Nellie I think is unfortunate if she is ever a bit chubby - also it really is a nickname. Zelda, Astra, Aster, Oona, Honor, Hera, Hero, Circe, Iseme (iz-mee-nee, or sometimes iz-may-nee), Ione (eye-oh-nee), Irene (eye-ree-nee), Fernanda, Adela, Cassia

JemimaTiggywinkle · 24/02/2022 21:50

Vita. Possibly a bit too matchy with Vada, but I like it.

BreadInCaptivity · 24/02/2022 22:01

Girls:

Eira ( Snow in Welsh)

Bryn (hill in Welsh)

Boys:

Aneirin (early Welsh poet)
Siral (Welsh version of Charles

Yes I like Welsh names (as is my own and my child's) Grin

BreadInCaptivity · 24/02/2022 22:04

Oops Ira and Eira probably won't work.

What about Seren (star)?

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 24/02/2022 22:06

Amos and Merle

watcherintherye · 24/02/2022 22:11

Aphra

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 24/02/2022 22:13

Clarice and Serge.

WeasilyPleased · 24/02/2022 22:14

I love your boys names especially Asa which I think is a great match for Ira and Vada.
A pp suggested Zelda which is a good shout.

JuliaSways · 24/02/2022 22:16

@Luredbyapomegranate "Irene" that's a very common name in age 60 plus and is pronounced "eye-reen"

OP, I like Asa from your list.

TwoBigNoisyBoys · 24/02/2022 22:19

Asa is one of my very favourite boys names (but was vetoed by ExH) and goes really well with your other names I think.

Blue4YOU · 24/02/2022 22:26

Oh please not Birdie!
I’ve always had a soft spot for Thomasina but love Thomasin too.
I’ve also lived Wilhelmina (which has (in my mind( the great nicknames Willie, Mina etc).
Florentine, Georgiana and Gloriana are also the sort of names I think are a bit similar (and I also love)
Other unusual names I love:
Dorcas
Ida
Hester
Etienne
Isadora
Eliana
Irina

I love Rufus and Lucius in particular (that was on my boy’s list!!)
Dorian, Dickon (I know!!), Ferdinand, Silas, Amos are also bid favourites of mine

Blue4YOU · 24/02/2022 22:26

Big

unnumber · 24/02/2022 22:47

Tamsin
Jago

IsThisAkissingBook · 24/02/2022 22:52

Girls
Alma
Avril

Boys
Nathaniel
Kit
Peregrine (pip)

Fivebeanchilli · 24/02/2022 23:00

Asa would work well. Your other boy names feel a lot more popular and mainstream than your current names.
For a girl Birdie isn't nice and Thomasin just feels like it's trying too hard to be different (and yet is almost the same as one of the most popular boys' names out there).
I like Nellie but again it feels more mainstream than the others.
How about:
Gwen
Tess
Zanna
Wanda
Hester
June
Rhea

NoCureForLove · 24/02/2022 23:00

Amos
Moses
August
Valentine

Glory
Gloria
Joan
Semele
Loveday
Thora
Janice
Lena

Luredbyapomegranate · 24/02/2022 23:22

[quote JuliaSways]@Luredbyapomegranate "Irene" that's a very common name in age 60 plus and is pronounced "eye-reen"

OP, I like Asa from your list.[/quote]
@JuliaSways

It should be pronounced Eye-ree-nee in the UK. Eye-reen is a US pronunciation. It’s not common in people in their 60s - it’s popular for women of 80 plus - it was at it’s heyday in the teens 20s and 30s.

Names from this era are coming back, so I think it will be revived - with the much nicer 3 syllable pronunciation - in the next decade or so.

campion · 25/02/2022 08:55

@Luredbyapomegranate
No one in the UK will pronounce Irene anything other than Eye-reen. It's not a name that's disappeared and therefore needs re-introducing, even with its current demographic .

JuliaSways · 25/02/2022 09:08

@Luredbyapomegranate whilst that may be the case, it is such a common name in the older generation that I think it would automatically get pronounced as "eye-reen" and the only spelling I'm aware of (and I have a lot of experience with names, which sounds bizarre I grant you 😂 but is work related ) is Irene. I've never known a UK Eye-ree-nee.

I'm only pressing the point because any child being given said name faces a lifetime of having it pronounced the old fashioned way. I have sympathy as my name is often mispronounced.

scottishnames · 25/02/2022 09:47

Irene means 'peace' which is what we badly need now.

I've met people called 'Eye-ree-nee' in the UK (at leat one with nickname 'Reenie'). I've also met people called 'Ih-ray-nuh'.

Irina (E-ree-nah) is a different version of the same name and perhaps solves most of the pronunciation issues? But you surely won't want Irene (in whatever form) if you already have Ira?

Bryn (hill in Welsh) and Etienne (Stephen in French) as suggested above are most definitely male names.

Agree that Birdie is not nice, and that Zelda would go very well.

Luredbyapomegranate · 25/02/2022 12:27

@JuliaSways @campion

Julia - no I get why you're pressing it. But actually I know 4 now very elderly UK Irenes (3 syllables), so I do think that while it there are deffo 2 ways to say it, it's much like Mia, Esme and Helena in that different pronunciations can co-exist.

It's possible the 3 syllables is a slightly more middle class pronunciation, now I think about the women in question.

Anyway - it's the same sort of era as Vera etc, so I think it's due round again. It's pretty I think.

@scottishnames - I've never met an Irene pronounced Eye-ree-nah in the UK, but I am guessing that might be how it's said in Germany or Scandinavia so maybe it comes from that? I know a fairly young Irina pronounced that way, but she's Russian.

Luredbyapomegranate · 25/02/2022 12:29

@scottishnames I didn't know it meant peace. God yes, perfect time to revive!

Allthebears · 26/02/2022 17:17

Gaia
Golda
Hebe
Romy
Thora
Xanthe
Zalie

Asa (from your list)
Elias
Ezra
Jude
Silas

BeefSupreme · 27/02/2022 11:06

I like Thomasin. Although a lot of people might think it's a boy's name.

I like Lucius the most from your list. I like Rudy and Rufus as well though.

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