Middle name for baby girl, Shiloh.

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This is our third baby and all family names have been used on our other children. So I’m trying to find a middle name for her with meaning. My current list is:

Shiloh Louise (Louise is my middle name)
Shiloh Dove
Shiloh Joy

Suggestions are welcome. Thank you x

I love Shiloh. I would probably go Shiloh Anne, Shiloh Marie, Shiloh Felicity, Shiloh Georgia, Shiloh Belle, Shiloh Lark, Shiloh June or Shiloh Pearl.

I agree. I'd pronounce it Shi-low.

Why should Shi be pronounced Shy rather than Shi?

Most other words are eg ship shilling etc

How about Shiloh Eloise? Ads another syllable but still has a dreamily link to your middle name op?

How about -

Shiloh Valentine
Shiloh Effie
Shiloh Saskia
Shiloh Marnie

A consonant and a vowel following a vowel - in this case Shiloh (‘lo’ following the ‘i’) pretty much always means the first vowel is long (pronounced as it sounds in the alphabet). Unlike ‘ship’, ‘shilling’, etc, where the ‘i’ is short. Edited to add: there are no hard and fast rules in the English language, but this almost always applies.

Yes, some people will mispronounce it, but only once - they’ll get it right after being corrected.

If we all chose names that could be easily spelt and pronounced, we’d be working from a very dull, limited pool of names.

As someone with a very widely known name (think: necessary on a bike?) who always has to spell it when I tell it to someone - and who’s the parent of someone with another widely known name that can be pronounced at least three ways (think: Bonham-Carter) - having a name that people sometimes mispronounce on first meeting, or needs to be spelt, really isn’t the end of the world.

Having said all that, I hear ‘Shiloh’, I think Angelina Jolie, but that’s just me.