Names like Harriet?

[deeperthanallroses]

If I love Harriet both as a name and the sounds of it are just right for our family, but don’t want to use it due to close family using it, what other names are there?

Janet

(Miss Jackson, if you're nasty.)

Martha
Edith

Etta seems popular atm. I don’t like it but obviously some do.

Alicky
Martha
Matilda

Ottilie or Ottilia?

That just conjures up DAMMIT Janet.

@deeperthanallroses Just because a family member is using Harriet, why can you still not use it?

I dislike it also.

Letitia
Ophelia
Jemima

Scarlett
juliet
violet
isabel
beatrice
georgina
eleanor
tabitha
eloise
louisa
amelia
charlotte
rosanna
alexandra
margaret

Imogen
lydia
hilary

Harriet
Arietta
Betsy
Charlotte
Eliza
Jane
Victoria
Claudette
Camilla

I suppose my rules on that are common names are a free for all, names I’ve always really loved and planned to use I would still use, I’ve flagged one of those names to a couple of people just to give them a heads up that of course they can use it but not to get upset if there is another little relation with the same one. I consider that fair warning! But if the name isn’t that common, hasn’t always been THE name, and it’s a close family member I think it’s polite to find something else if I know they’d think it odd/off.

Vanessa
Hermione
Rosalind
Juliet
Marianne
Susannah
Abigail
Elvira
Georgina
Pamela
Tabitha
Tallulah
Catriona

We have a Harriet, names we also like are
Loretta
Eliza
Delilah
Henrietta
Penelope