Girls name. What do you think?

[dancerandprancer]

Have short list for boys but cannot decide on girls.

Comments on the following would be lovely.

Jessica
Jennifer
Sian
Catherine
Abigail

sian would be my choice - cant be shortened

Like all of them except for Jennifer.

catherine - lovely name - I quite like it spelled as Katherine

Jessica and Abigail - i like the shortened version of them both too.

All nice though Jennifer least favorite

Think Jessica is very very popular - depends if that bothers you or not.

Order of preference:

Abigail
Jessica
Catherine
Jennifer
Sian

Catherine is lovely very traditional

Catherine is my fav. I quite like them all except Sian.

catherine for me too, but probably with a k. love kitty too, if you like shortening names.

Jessica - OK
Jennifer - Nice
Sian - No!
Catherine - Nice
Abigail - OK

Your list read from the bottom is my order of preference.

Jessica
Jennifer
Sian
Catherine
Abigail

Abigail (DD1's name so maybe a little bit of bias)
Jessica
Sian (but beware of idiot people pronouncing it SI-ANNE this is what my family would do)
Catherine
Jennifer

Thanks everyone. The problem is I dont love any of them. We have one DD already and think she has a great name. Really worried about not finding a name I like as much. Anyone else felt like that?

Catherine is my favourite.

I didn't love any of my children's names apart from 1 as I had to compromise with dh over them all. I do love the names now though.

I am pg with dc5 now and can't think of a name I love either. I'm hoping one will come to me (Catherine is on my shortlist too )

I love Catherine. My niece's has a different version of it. It is Catarina.

I feel exactly like that DancerandPrancer. We've managed to sort out a boy's name, but if this one is a girl, she is going to be nameless for a while because we just can't find anything we like/agree on.

I like Katharine, would spell like that.

I like Catherine the best, not mad on Jennifer or Abigail BUT that's because I once had a holiday job in an estate agency and there was a particular type of woman who, once she'd left, would have every member of the office look at one another and agree - Abigail Longshot!

Not on your list but my fav girls name is Amelia

I like Abigail and Catherine.

jessica and Abigail

Catherine

Dancer - Yes I know how you feel. I had DD1s name decided by the time I was about five .

When DD2 came along it felt as though she would just get one of the other options from DD1s list that we didn't use and I didn;t really want to do that. As it turned out DH said I want to call her and I said OK, sounds fine but didn't think about it for a while - wasn't sure it was right and was worried it might not have suited her. Then one day her middle name just came to me - the two together were fab and the name was decided.

I had a MC last year, I knew she was a girl, and I knew her name from the start - funny isn't it?

From your list I like

Abigail (abi)- I know lots of pretty Abis
Jessica (DD1s reserve)
Jennifer (although Jenny is awful IMO) but it is often shorted to Jen for older women who think Jenny sounds too 'little girly'
Catherine is quite versatile I guess as she could be called Cat or Kate or Katie also (choose your own name )
Don't like Sian at all, If she doesn't like it when she is older than there isn't much scope to change it.

I also recommend Megan - I won't get to use it now. To be reserved for only the most beautiful and precious girls (as I'm sure yours will be )