Anyone like to be kind about my girls' names list????

[No19]

So come July I may be needing one of these (will think about boys tomorrow), what does anyone think? I like old-fashionedy, feminine names, but obviously don't want Emily, Isabella, Sophie or any of the others (all lovely names of course, lovely lovely but a bit too common at the moment from the names listings you see). DP likes ones that end in -a.

Alice (I'm not mad about Alicia though)
Louisa
Iona
Thea
Julia

I've always liked Flavia but it's way too pretentious to use.

I like these but not IN LOVE with any.

Had a classmate who's middle name was Iona - I think it's lovely!!! Never thought of "Iona Carr" though - hee hee! She was lucky not to have that thrown at her!
Other "nice ones I can think of are:
Alexandra Eloise
Katrina
Rebekah
Sarah
Annabel Rose
Lucinda
Belinda
Anita
Hope
Constance (Connie)
Claudia

ines is nice - and i love beatriz, the spanish beatrice

um, whats wrong with lucy

nothing but she wanted a endings i think

That's not fair. You can't start a names thread and ask people to be kind about it.

Well anyway, as luck would have it, I like:

Louisa
Julia
(Iona's ok)

I love most girls names ending in 'a'
I've got an Anya Grace.

I have known some lovely Louisa's but DD has a Iona in her class and she is adorable.

however, i always like a name when it is attached to a beautiful little baby

(well very nearly always)

Oh but I can, pointy, see how it has lured 'em in and I've got a load of brill suggestions out of it...

I like Beatrice but as we are in Ireland people will say Bee-triss in stead of Be-a-triss and I'll spend the rest of my time on earth grinding my teeth.

thank goodness ska! I thought it was some new trendy spelling! Aaaargh!

Lucy is a pretty name - sorry, didn't mean to suggest otherwise. Just that its a different name to Lucia - Like if you called you DD Emily and people called her Emma it would annoy you (even though they are both pretty names).

Thanks for the praise of DD's name No 19 We are really happy with it, it suits her really well too.

BTW, my friends DD is Ilona (Ily), which I like too. Other names I like: Ilya (Ily), Elia, Anna, Matilda/Tilly, Faith.

What about Lilia ??

Alice is lovely - though there are quite a lot of them around. My friend has just had a Thea, so maybe that's becoming more popular? I used to want an Amelia, but I've come across a lot of them recently.

My DD is Henrietta (and both her middle names also end in 'a'!) If I had another DD (over my husband's dead body, he says), she'd be Augusta or Gertie - these names may be a reason why DH has said no more children, though!!

On my list for my DD were Portia (I thought it was from Shakespeare - I never watched Ally McBeal!!), Hortensia, Clarissa and Cordelia. DH vetoed them all (but I did know he would - which left him with Henrietta, my number one choice !!!)

I do still love Henrietta. What's more, the only other one I've met was 82!!

One of my cousins was called Fabiola, I always thought it was v pretty.

I love Thea, I have a great friend called Thea though, so I suppose I'm bias! Chiara is also lovely, I would pronounce it kee-ah-ra, btw .

Hmm I like Henrietta and Cordelia (King Lear assoc. for me) though I don't like Delia. I have never heard of Fabiola.

I quite like the idea of literary associations but ran Flora past DP last night and he said no . Cold Comfort Farm is one of my absolute favourite books of all time so I would love to have a Flora (apart from it being such a pretty name). He's also now ruled out pretty much everything else I like and has come up wth NOTHING except Nancy (which doesn't even end in -a) and maybe Tessa which I think is quite nice but not oooooo yes. What is Tessa short for or is it a name on its own, does anyone know? He is also suggesting Madeleine (one of my own middle names). My printer was bockety so I wasn't able to print off the thread to staple to his forehead so I will do that later today.

I still love Alice and I still love Flora .

tessa = teresa tereesa) or theresa (teraysa) - think the latter would be french we had one at school and she wasnt popular so i dont like it (poor girl she was probably perfectly nice)

portia rossi (I think) was the actress in ally mcbeal who played the skinny long haired blonde one who ally didnt get on with. oh how i miss that programme...and obviously she was the 'quality of mercy' one from the merchant of venice.

Mmm I am not mad about Teresa.

Do you think Lyra would be going a bit far? Or would it absolutely date her forever?

no lyra is lovely just dont take keira!

The problem with Flora, which is a lovely name, is that kids will associate it with margarine, and teenagers with the fact that said margarine spreads easily... or at least they would in Glasgow

I LOVE Louisa
but then I would (having one myself)

I think it is a pretty name without being wet or boring. IYKWIM. Lots of good pet names from it too

LauraT - No Flora margarine here in France

Whispers

you might not be, but child's classmates might!

That's what I'm looking for, Countess, strong yet feminine.

Oops I mean what WE are looking for.

Didn't realise margarine was a class-bound issue, wasn't there a whole U / non-U kerfuffle at some point about marJArine versus marGArine?

Come to think of it was Felix was bandied about for DS I vetoed it because of assoc. with cat food.

Am now glad I vetoed it but just because I think it's a bit wet, I've completely forgotten about the cat food.

I know someone called Ajax, but I think of Greek warriors rather than scouring powders.