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Help with middle name

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Disneybaby12 · 31/01/2023 18:24

we really love the name Sydney for our baby girl but struggling to find a middle name that goes with it any suggestions

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UnleashMyPicasso · 01/02/2023 18:23

What’s your mum’s maiden name, would it work?

or if you like family names, copy what you and your daughter have and go for Sydney Jaynez

Disneybaby12 · 01/02/2023 18:50

No my mums maiden name is awful it’s gamble my mums middle name is ann

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Barleysugar86 · 01/02/2023 18:55

Personally I love to take the opportunity to go a bit flouncy with a middle name

Sydney Georgiana Willis
Sydney Evangeline Willis

ShillyShallySherbet · 01/02/2023 18:59

Need to be one syllable I think
Rose
Claire
Anne
Jane
May
June
Brooke

23mum · 01/02/2023 19:01

I second Sydney Rae or raye, either spelling. It sounds lovely

Disneybaby12 · 01/02/2023 20:29

@Barleysugar86 Thank you love them
both

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user1492757084 · 03/02/2023 05:43

Rae is taken from the letters of your mother's name. Debra which means bee as does Melissa.
Sydney also has a feminine form - Sydelle
Inspired from your list ...

Sydelle Rae
Beatrix Sydney
Sydney Melissa

SallyWD · 03/02/2023 06:22

Out of all the options suggested I think Sydney Debra works best!

mumonherphone · 03/02/2023 16:14

I would go for Sydney Anne or Sydney Bea, With 'b' being a key letter in Debra and Barbara.

Love Sydney by the way!

Luredbyapomegranate · 04/02/2023 11:20

Thank you all lots of choice but still nothing is jumping out our surname is Willis my daughter likes ivyanne and anna-mae I would of like my mother or mother in laws name but there abit old Barbara and debra my grandma is sheila

I really like Sydney for a girl, but I think you need something distinctly feminine in the middle so she has options - as Sidney is a family name perhaps the middle name could just be something you like?

But as you mention Ann a lot

Sydney Annabel Willis works really well

alesl360 · 04/02/2023 11:29

Sydney Adeline
Sydney Deborah

alesl360 · 04/02/2023 11:33

Sydney Wren

user1492757084 · 04/02/2023 12:31

Sydney Annica
Sydney Breanna

ellecf21 · 04/02/2023 23:10

Sydney Storm

Roseyposeypudding · 05/02/2023 05:28

Debra means ‘bee’. You could have Sydney Bee or Sydney Bea?

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