Girls names - classic but interesting

[sillysausage999]

Hi everyone, I'm 40 weeks pregnant with first baby (eeek) and we are struggling to make concrete headway on names! It all feels so hypothetical still...

Names on our current shortlist, in no particular order:
Florence, Elsie, Alice, Penelope, Eleanor, Margot, Hazel, Roberta, Iris, Elizabeth, Astrid, Ivy

Please don't say anything negative about them, as they are all genuine contenders! But do you think any of them go together well as first/middle name combos?

AND are there similar names that we might not have thought of? I feel like nothing is massively jumping out at me and so I might not have found "the one"...

Thank you :)

Nice names

Alice Elizabeth

Eleanor Hazel

Also Clara, Sarah, Susannah, Beatrice

iris

From your list I like Margot, Hazel, Iris and Penelope.

Other suggestions: Tabitha, Beatrix, Cordelia, Willow, Seren.

I think Elizabeth is a Great middle name as it goes with longer first names as well as shorter ones.

I think Florence as a middle name goes with most of the list.
I quite like Ivy Florence.

All great names
I'd choose Florence Elizabeth

Beatrix
Sylvie
Cecily
Cora
Marianne
Juliette
Imogen
Helena
Marguerite
Iris
Madeleine
Romily
Clara
Rose

Roberta! Haven't met a little Roberta!

Roberta Hazel
Roberta Florence

I actually really like Roberta Jane.

What a lovely list of names.

I think Alice and Elizabeth go well as middle names with lots of your suggestions.

Other names I'd add to the list, thinking both first and second name possibles:

Elspeth
Edith
Grace
Clara
Betsy
Charlotte
Eliza
Constance/Connie
Louise
Martha

Dorothy
Sorrel
Rowan

Matilda and Penelope

I like Florence Ivy, ivy works really well as a middle name esp with the longer first names.

Lovely list of names.

Some others include:
Josephine
Meredith
Marnie
Rebecca
Christina

I love your list! They are all gorgeous. Maybe depends if you want something that’s more widely used currently (Florence, Ivy etc) or less widely used. Or one name from each category!

other names I like:
Etta
Maude
Blythe
Estella
Adalaide
Dorothea
Cecilia
Edie
Vera
Gwen
Nell
Emmeline
Cora

First and middle name combos:

Florence Eleanor
Florence Elizabeth
Florence Astrid

Elsie Margot

Alice Eleanor
Alice Margot

Penelope Astrid
Penelope Iris

Eleanor Alice
Eleanor Iris
Eleanor Astrid
Eleanor Ivy

Margot Elizabeth
Margot Alice

Hazel Penelope
Hazel Eleanor
Hazel Astrid
Hazel Elizabeth

Roberta Iris
Roberta Elizabeth
Roberta Eleanor
Roberta Penelope

Iris Eleanor
Iris Elizabeth
Iris Margot

Elizabeth Alice
Elizabeth Eleanor
Elizabeth Astrid
Elizabeth Ivy

Astrid Penelope
Astrid Elizabeth

Ivy Penelope
Ivy Margot
Ivy Elizabeth
Ivy Roberta

Suggestions:
Flora
Tamsin
Lara
Susannah
Rebekah/ Rebecca
Edith
Evelyn
Rosemary

I love Alice Elisabeth

Suggestions:

Genevieve
Juliet
Laura
Lucille
Olive
Caroline
Zara
Millicent
Lillian
Freda
Frances
Ada

I love so many of these combos!

Another suggestion: Annie.

Eleanor Florence
Elsie Penelope
Ivy Roberta
Astrid Hazel

Beatrix
Leah
Rowena
Amber
Pearl
Romilly
Diana
Anthea
Hermione
Violet
Jasmine
Ada

Really nice list. I'd go for Astrid Eleanor.

Othe thoughts:
Claudia
Maria
Annaliese

Cassandra, Cassie for short

Lovely list.

There’s quite a Victorian era flavour to those names so you might want to google what other names were popular in that era as you may like them too.

Eg
Violet
Ida
Arabella
Clara
Effie
Emmeline
Dorothea

www.babycentre.co.uk/a567488/why-old-fashioned-names-are-so-popular

I like Hazel Roberta (I would have considered this for my own DD honestly), and Astrid Penelope, and think they are lovely as sibling names too.

I’d dump Florence, Elsie, Alice, Eleanor, Margot, Iris, and Ivy - just because they are all very popular (if you don’t mind that I’d go for Iris)

Penelope - are you OK with Penny? It will get shortened. You could try and impose Nell.

Elizabeth - popular but a great classic and so many short forms

Hazel - I don’t like it

Astrid - I really like it - it’s very of the moment, but I don’t think it’s actually overused

Roberta - I DO quite like it - I know one who is nn Bobbie

I’d go for Astrid

These might be some less common options:

Lois
Ines
Flora
Marianne
Zoe
Aster
Jocelyn
Frances
Carys
Ida

Like: Alice, Astrid, Elizabeth
OK: Florence, Penelope, Eleanor, Hazel, Iris
Don't like: Elsie, Margot, Roberta, Ivy

Suggestions: Flora, Laura, Catherine/Katherine/Kate, Emma, Ingrid, Mararet/Rita, Willow
Jasmine

Great names, I like them all apart from Penelope.

Other suggestions -
Catherine
Heather
Phillipa
Emma
Emmeline
Seren
Felicity
Josephine
Lydia
Stella