A sister for Emmeline...

[Nimmop]

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!

Lisa

After Lisa Simpson, the yellow feminist icon.

I am not kidding.

Emmeline and Victoria
Emmeline and Genevieve
Emmeline and Rhiannon
Emmeline and Saskia
Emmeline and Juliet
Emmeline and Lillian
Emmeline and Francesca
Emmeline and Xanthe
Emmeline and Lucille

I LOVE Josephine with Emmeline! They go together nicely but they sound sufficiently different that you won't get them mixed up. Josie and Emi are very sweet nicknames and I love that they rhyme too ☺️

Ada? After Ada Lovelace?

I personally think using Christobel is too on the nose, it’s a huge legacy and I would feel they need their own pair of names

I think a Rosa name goes nicely, Rosalind etc

Calliope
Violetta
Viola

If I'd had a daughter the name would have been Freya, after the Victorian explorer/writer Freya Stark. That's super popular these days though which you may not like. (Other similar writer/explorers were Gertrude Bell and Isabella Bird.) I also liked Marianne, after the botanical artist Marianne North.

Mary (Seacole)
Florence (Nightingale)
Amy (Johnson)
Amelia (Earhart)
Marie (Curie)
Frida (Kahlo)
Anne (Frank)
Ada (Lovelace)
Jane (Goodall)
Katherine (Johnson)
Rachel (Carson)
Helen (Sharman)
Dorothea (Lang)

Or Leonora after the writer/artist Leonora Carrington?

Claudia
Jemima
Jessica
Martha

Eloise
Elodie
Elise
Emily
Elena
Esther
Enola

Jessamy

Eleanor
Elaine
Elizabeth
Madeleine

Audrey
Coralie
Cora
Aurelia
Savannah
Adeline
Clementine
Florence
Ottilie
Xanthe
Sylvie
Sylvia
Margo
Martha
Natalia / Nataliya
Ivy
Eden
Edith
Sybil
Nora
Bea / Beatrice
Autumn
Willow

Sylvia Pankhurst's first name was Estelle - I love both of those names.

Then there was Adela Pankhurst.

Helen Pankhurst

Annie Besant

Mary Wollstonecraft

Anne Brontë

Jane Austen

Virginia Wolf

Emmeline and Joan
Emmeline and Edith
Emmeline and Clara
Emmeline and Florence
Emmeline and Victoria
Emmeline and Nora
Emmeline and Katherine nn Kitty
Emmeline and Alice

I don't think Elizabeth is that popular?

Henrietta
Dorothea
Theodora
Theodosia
Antonia

Emmeline and Pandora

Cassandra
Adelaide
Victoria
Alice
Samantha
Annabel
Alexandra
Katrina
Helena
Marietta
Phoebe

I like Rosalind, and you could always encourage Ros(i)e for short if you don't like Ros.

How about Alice (Alice Hawkins, another well-known suffragette)? I like Florence too.

E. Nesbit was a very progressive thinker and her actual name was Edith, but you might not want to use the same initial twice.

Emmeline and Octavia

Emmeline and Xenia
Emmeline and Anais
Emmeline and Darcey

(artist, author and dancer)

Florence
Amelia
Penelope
Deborah
Charlotte
Annabelle
Arabella
Lucy
Francesca
Freya
Hannah
Rosemary
Georgina
Harriet
Matilda
Sarah Jayne
Caroline
Colette
Tanya

Marceline

Seraphina
Florence
Meredith
Eliza
Carlotta
Felicity
Clementine
Samantha

Christina 🩷