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A sister for Emmeline...

55 replies

Nimmop · 05/12/2023 23:13

Hi, we have a boys name picked out but not a girls.

We loved the name Emmeline so much, and she has such a great namesake that we are struggling to feel too enthusiastic about any.

Josephine (after Butler) a possibility but concerned about both children having -een endings
Also open to Rosalind, but don't like Roz as a nickname
Husband doesn't like Millicent or Constance
Lydia doesn't work with surname
Elizabeth feels too popular, as does Charlotte and Matilda
Rosa, Anna, and Harriet don't feel like they 'go' with Emmeline
We liked Persephone but felt it was a bit too out there

Looking for suggestions! Helpful if they are a female pioneer, book protagonist etc!

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Highlyflavouredgravy · 05/12/2023 23:16

Christabel?

Charlotte or Jane?

Highlyflavouredgravy · 05/12/2023 23:17

Sorry, missed that you've already rejected Charlotte

coldcallerbaiter · 05/12/2023 23:20

Christobel or Christabel

Suffragette sister to Emmeline

Mmmkaay · 05/12/2023 23:24

Eloise?

ColonelPine · 05/12/2023 23:25

Emmeline and Anna, and Emmeline and Harriet work, I think.
Or:
Emmeline and Esther
Emmeline and Virginia
Emmeline and Sylvie
Emmeline and Madeleine
Emmeline and Veronica
Emmeline and Isabelle
Emmeline and Estelle

Nimmop · 05/12/2023 23:25

coldcallerbaiter · 05/12/2023 23:20

Christobel or Christabel

Suffragette sister to Emmeline

We considered this but Christabel was Emmeline's daughter; is it too weird to have sisters named after a mother and daughter?

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user1492757084 · 06/12/2023 02:04

Charlotte is popular but is lovely for a sister's name.
Emmeline and ..

Charlotte Genevieve
Charlotte Christobel
Victoria Cleo
Clotilde Victoria
Rose Isobel

TeeBee · 06/12/2023 02:15

Violet
Grace
Ottilie
Isobella
Aurelia
Odette
Amalia
Valentina

frenchfancy81 · 06/12/2023 03:24

Cecile
Cecelia
Claudine

motherofkevinnotperry · 06/12/2023 05:37

Arabella
Jemima
Beatrice
Annabelle
Sophia
Amelia
Nancy

MilkChocolateCookie · 06/12/2023 05:42

Laura
Ada
Molly

geoger · 06/12/2023 05:45

Christabel, Estelle or Sylvia

MrsTerryPratchett · 06/12/2023 05:46

Eleanor, also a great namesake.

Plus, you have the bonus of L and M as nicknames!

pilates · 06/12/2023 05:50

Harriet
Alberta

oldnorsesaga · 06/12/2023 06:07

Hermione
Rosamund - just use Rosa as nickname
Madeleine
Romilly
Eleanor
Thomasina
Katherine
Callista
Rebecca
Juliet

tinytemper66 · 06/12/2023 06:07

Margot

WhereIdeasBloom · 06/12/2023 06:12

The Emmeline (nn 'Emi') I know has a DS called Sophia.

WorkworkworkworkworkTips · 06/12/2023 06:14

Penelope
Sophie

wellingtonsandwaffles · 06/12/2023 06:22

Francesca - top pick, goes well and similar vibe!
Eliza
Maria

SorrowsPrayers · 06/12/2023 06:29

Please use Persephone! Fabulous name....or Calliope.
I also like Ophelia, Felicity, Constance and Dorothy.

LadyGAgain · 06/12/2023 06:38

Ottilie

theduchessofspork · 06/12/2023 07:38

I think Harriet and Anna go fine. I like Rosalind - just use Rosa not Roz - Roz is quite old fashioned, I don’t really hear it now. Christabel would be a bit Pankhurst fan girl but nothing intrinsically wrong with that.

Maria after Marie Stopes?
Mary after Wollstonecraft, Shelly and Seacole - you could jazz it up to Marianne - actually Marianne is also quite nice with the French symbol of womanhood going on
Ada - Lovelace
Florence - nightingale
Octavia - hill
Jane - Austin
Nancy - Astor (you could have Anna nn Nancy as is traditional)
Aphra - Benn

MargotBamborough · 06/12/2023 07:46

I love Josephine and I don't think the matchy endings would bother me.

I also love Anna and Rosa but since Emmeline is a longer name I'd go with Annabel or Rosalind for the full name and then shorten it if you want.

Copperas · 06/12/2023 07:48

Millicent

Mumofgirls2017 · 06/12/2023 11:33

Emmeline and….

Florence
Margaret
Ada
Beatrice
Juliet
Henrietta
Clara
Rosalie
Winifred
Martha
Bridget
Edith
Esther
Vivienne
Dorothy
Philippa
Ottilie
Theodora
Tabitha