Emmeline & Christabel ?

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Have an Emmeline

Really warming up to Christabel and struggling to agree on names with DH.

Too much?

Not too much at all. Really pretty.

Absolutely love it!

Perfect.

Suffragette fan I assume 😂

Lovely names but that’s where my mind would go. Not that it’s a bad thing!

One of my favourite names!

Mine too straight away but def not a bad thing!

Christobel is sweet. Is she to be born around Christmas?

Lovely choice

Christabel sounds a bit frilly or like a Christmas carol to me. I love the nn Christie though, so she can always use that if she dislikes the full name.

Both gorgeous names - as long as you are sure you are happy with nailing your suffragette credentials to the mast as it were.

There's no reason why you shouldn't be, but people will notice, and comment.

It works well

And why not? Great women to celebrate

christabel was the favourite child

Poor Adela & Sylvia

Indeed. 🤣

I love emmeline but am not a huge christabel fan. I like Christiana though

Mine too

It's lovely. She was the strong female lead in the excellent recent book The Whalebone Theatre. Usually shortened to Christa as she grew up.

I think Christabel is a lovely name. The only one I've known was always called Chrissy by her friends though, if that bothers you.

Fantastic!!!

Pankhurst

I have a friend whose daughters are Eleanor and Christabel. Christabel is a lovely name (so is the girl 🙂).

Both beautiful names but a bit much with the Pankhurst connection, unless you are naming them after the Pankhursts.

I think it's too much and a bit odd to have sisters named after a famous mother and daughter, even if they were amazing. They're such distinctive names, it's inescapable.

It's way too Pankhurst I'm afraid!

Likely only a certain subset of the population (the well educated and/or feminist) will get the connection - and even if people do, it’s not exactly a bad one, is it?

Go for it OP - Emmeline and Christabel are a lovely sibset, both unusual yet not (due to their similarities to popular Emily and Isabelle), both retro style elegant with some nice nn choices if they want them.

I don’t think it’s that recherché a bit of knowledge, is it? I imagine kids are taught about the Pankhursts at school…?

They’re great names, OP, and if you don’t mind the strong Pankhurst connection (and obviously they’re two terrific namesakes), go for it.