Middle name for Leonora! Thoughts?

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Hey, so I posted yesterday asking for thoughts on the names Leonora, Rosalie and Severine for our daughter due in four days. DH and I are about 95% sure we want to go with Leonora but still haven't finalised a middle name...

All the names we liked were fairly long and our surname is 4 syllable so we decided early on that the middle name would be a nice 1 syllable name to offset how long the rest is. These are our picks...

Leonora Kate
Leonora June
Leonora Jean
Leonora Skye
Leonora Belle
Leonora Joy

Any ratings/thoughts would be brilliant! Thanks!

Kate.

I think with Leonora something with a strong consonant works nicely.

I'm a big fan of Leonora Rose ❤️

Leonora Iris

I LOVE Leonora, and the ones that I like best from your list are:

Leonora Kate
Leonora Skye

And Leonora Grace was the other option that immediately sprang to mind.

It’s a gorgeous name!

Fern or Jean

Kate, Jean or June from your list.

I also like Clare and Mary.

Leonora Faith

Jean is so chic. Jeanne is even more so!

I grew up knowing the kindest, most decent, loveliest lady — her name was Leonora Lee “Smith.”

She was just the most pretty and ladylike and wonderful woman — thank you for making me think of her.

When I was little, like 6 or 7, my Nan used to play cards with Leonora’s mum - she must’ve been in her 90’s hahaha and she’d boss my Nan and all the other “girls” around. But she always indulged me and being 80+ years younger than her, that was something.

Leonora and her mum were both just delightful.
I miss them.

Embracing the washing-esque theme, how about Ariel?

Kate and Joy from your list.

Fern sounds lovely with Leonora.

as Leonora means light, compassion, I like the sound of:
Dawn (first light)
Helen (shining one, bright)
Thea ( goddess of light)

I think it's nice if middle names have some connection but obviously that's personal so I can't suggest any! But I actually like Leonora Severine. Because it has that French connection. If not then of the ones you said Leonora Jean is a bit different?

I like Jean from your list. But personally I quite like Quinn.

Please do not go with the generic middle names...Grace, May, Rose etc. Her first name deserves better than that.

Actually I like all of your choices of middle names

Oh gosh it sounds like fabric softener. Please don’t saddle a poor baby with that name!! All the middle names are nice though.

@Beekindbeehumble Dawn is lovely! That's a definite contender!

@Ladymartin Feel like that's a bit of a leap tbh...maybe If I was making her Lenora or Lenore then sure but the way Leonora is pronounced is quite a different sound altogether so that seems like such a reach.

Leonora Skye is lovely.

Leonora Rose
Leonora Paige
Leonora Jay
Leonora Storm
Leonora Faye
Leonora Jade

Jane.

Or otherwise June or Jean
skye and belle are pretty naff and Kate better as a nn

Not wanting to rock the boat but I think 2 syllables are better after 4 syllables, eg

Leonora Frances
Leonora Katharine
Leonora Sophie
Leonora Alice

It’ just more balanced

Leonora is fabulous BTW. Very underused.

Leonora Grace x

Rose flew into my head as I read your thread title.

I admit that I do love the way Leonora Rose sounds but I do find that I can't get over just how popular it's become recently. I know that in my nieces primary school there are tons of Rose names, especially as part of a hyphenated name. Rosalie was another first name I had considered but ultimately just wouldn't want her being shortened to Rose all the time...

Leonora Kate!

Aaaannnndddd she's decided she's decided she's making an appearance a few days early!

Thanks everyone for the comments and suggestions. A couple of the suggestions are definitely contenders! Hopefully something will hit when I look at her 😁

Eek! Good luck!