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Sister for Chester?

57 replies

Lou98x · 10/05/2025 12:28

Just that really! We are after a girl name to go with big brother Chester.

I’m not a fan of really girly names like flower names etc, or the popular, older names like Margot, Florence, Elsie (Old lady names as DH says!), we can’t have anything ending in the a sound (Olivia, Ava, etc.), purely because of our accent! Our surname also counts out anything beginning with L.

Any ideas!?

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AubernFable · 10/05/2025 20:56

Loving these my favourite’s so far

Runcorn
Wrexham
Cirencester
and
Draws/Drawls

I’d like to add

Bradford (maybe too much of a boys name?)
Slough
Luton
Croyden
Grimsby

LadyMonicaBaddingham · 10/05/2025 21:48

Ada
Matilda
Cassidy
Dervla
Penelope
Zöe
Susan
Mary

EmpressaurusKitty · 10/05/2025 21:51

I was going to suggest Liverpudlia, but the OP said she doesn’t want names beginning with L.

LadySouthStar · 10/05/2025 22:10

Chelsea

BootballJoy · 10/05/2025 22:53

Chester is not at all popular in the current generation of grandparents in the UK. Or, as far as I can tell, in the generation prior to that (born in 20s/30s).

Whereas it's been a top 100 name since 2019. Loads of little Chesters. It's got a more modern/trendy vibe to me.

Maybe:
Summer
Ottilie
Eden
Beatrix
Leonie
Merryn
Avery
Joni
Remi

Eta that was meant to reply to the comment about Chester being an old man's name.

sinisterdextersinisterdexter · 10/05/2025 23:00

fuckislessoffensivethanpardon · 10/05/2025 12:52

Runcorn or Wrexham

Mold

AubernFable · 10/05/2025 23:04

Change DS name to Manchester and then name DD Chester? Makes it a bit easier than coming up with a whole new place name.

mathanxiety · 10/05/2025 23:17

@BootballJoy
Chester is a name from the 1880s to 1920s. It's the epitome of Old Man names. You could not pick a more Old Man name if you tried.

It goes with Clyde, Clive, Stanley, Ernest, Herbert, Norris, Cecil, Cyril, and Hubert.

mathanxiety · 10/05/2025 23:24

PansyPottering · 10/05/2025 17:21

You can’t move for Chesters at the moment.

Correct.

But they are part of the fashion for old lady and old man names. These are names that were unheard of from the 1940s to the 2010s but were popular in the last decade or two of the 19th century and up to about the 1940s. They are the names of current generations' grand parents, great grandparents, and g-g- grandparents.

Old Man names go with old lady names, like:
Mabel
Florence
Matilda
Amelia
Beatrice
Nora
Vera
Cora
Ivy
and many, many more.

Names like Scarlett, Zara, Mila, Sienna, etc, while popular these days, were unheard of back when 90+ year old Chesters and Stanleys and Arthurs were schoolboys. They are modern names.

CrystalSingerFan · 10/05/2025 23:31

MrsMoastyToasty · 10/05/2025 17:32

Draws. Drawls if you're in/near Bristol.

Beat me to it.

CrystalSingerFan · 10/05/2025 23:33

I've RTFT and I'm in! (Unless I missed it.)

Win (Winifred if you want...)

monktasmic · 10/05/2025 23:48

I think one syllable- eve. Grace. Rose. May. Faith. Kate. Bea (Beatrice?)

uncomfortablydumb60 · 11/05/2025 01:25

Chester and
Cora
Rosa
Alice
Louisa

BunnyRuddington · 11/05/2025 07:26

uncomfortablydumb60 · 11/05/2025 01:25

Chester and
Cora
Rosa
Alice
Louisa

I thought that the OP had said no names ending in a? Smile

timoteigirl · 11/05/2025 07:33

Chester and Audrey
Chester and Frances
Chester and Marlene
Chester and Verity
Chester and Carol
Chester and Violet
Chester and Rosanne

WombatCowgirl · 11/05/2025 08:27

Doesn't Chester end in an A sound? Maybe not in a west country accent but to me it rhymes with the name Nesta.

BunnyRuddington · 11/05/2025 08:31

WombatCowgirl · 11/05/2025 08:27

Doesn't Chester end in an A sound? Maybe not in a west country accent but to me it rhymes with the name Nesta.

We very much pronounce their er sound at the end. Like all things baby names though, it can be entirely regional Smile

Knowsley · 11/05/2025 10:02

@AubernFable , Chester is a picturesque and touristy city and nothing like Bradford, Slough, Luton, Croydon or Grimsby.

Sarah Palin has a daughter called Bristol.

Debtfreeme · 11/05/2025 10:08

Got to be drawers

totk · 11/05/2025 10:11

I know a Chester with a sister called Anwen.

MrsAvocet · 11/05/2025 10:51

Dee

EmpressaurusKitty · 11/05/2025 10:53

BunnyRuddington · 11/05/2025 07:26

I thought that the OP had said no names ending in a? Smile

Also none beginning with L.

Knowsley · 11/05/2025 11:19

@MrsAvocet , I've already suggested it. Are you from that area too?

Knowsley · 11/05/2025 11:21

@sinisterdextersinisterdexter , Hawarden?

mummysmagicmedicine · 11/05/2025 15:44

No ending in A, no L, no flowery no old lady.

Chester and…
Annalise
Alice
Avery
Amelie
Bethany
Chloe
Cleo
Daisy
Daphne
Delphine
Esme
Elle
Elin
Evie
Felicity
Georgie
Harper
Ivy
Indigo
Jasmine
Marley
Maisie
Madeleine
Maeve
Navy
O
Penelope
Rosie
Rose
Ruby
Shiloh
Violet
Willow
Zoe