Effie or Pippa

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Hi all, so I posted last night about whether we should spell Effie as Effie or Effy. I think Effie won by far. However this has reopened the conversation on if we should use Pippa instead.
We have an older DD but I’m reluctant to share her name as it was mentioned on a different thread and very unpopular.

We are pretty much down to Effie or Pippa, not really looking for other options, nor do we really care if you think they are both awful. We won’t be doing full names as we prefer the shortened version and we stuck to that with DD1.

I guess my question is Effie or Pippa?
Please be kind and consider I’m not actually asking your thoughts on the names or whether you would use them or what you would use instead. If you don’t like either name feel free not to vote and scroll on!

Hmmm, not a fan of either. Have you considered using the full names? Or another name entirely?

(I joke. I like Pippa!)

Effing hell

Haha! You nearly had me there. I think I slightly lean towards Pippa too. Mainly as DD1 has a name that ends in a “ee” sound and I worry Effie might be too similar sounding.

Pippa is great. And not over-used.

Lends itself to cute nn’s too

Yes, Pippa is really nice. Short and fun but still feels very much like a proper name (I've known a couple of adult Pippas and they were lovely like their name!)

What do you like about Effie? It's quite "nothing" imo It's better as a family nick name for a nicer full name - Fern/Flora/Frankie

Pippa/Pip both lovely options

That’s a really good question. DH was very much team Effie both for our first and now. So I guess I’ve grown to like it. He isn’t that forceful though and loves Pippa too.

Pippa if I had to, though I seem to remember it means something sexual in Swedish, if that bothers you.

I've got a Pippa

Usually people pipe up on here that it means blow job in some country or
other but this has never been an issue 🙄

Personally I like strong sounding names and Pippa is the stronger of the 2 names imo

Effie sounds like a NN, and not a very nice one IMO. It's makes me think, is that short for elephant or effluent?

Pippa I love.

Effie sounds like a Victorian housemaid who came to a bad end.

I like Effie because I think in my mind I'm shortcutting from Seraphina, which I love. I also like names with Es in them.

Pippa is a bit rabbity for me, but I can see the appeal in that people won't ask what it's short for, plus it's not an 'ie' ending matching your other DD.

Both names tick the box of 'unusual but not weird', which was a criteria of mine when choosing names.

In short, I don't think you can go wrong with either. Which works best with your surname?

Edited to add...
Is your first DD's name a cutesy one, or does it just happen to end in an ie sound? For some reason I don't find Effie that cute (maybe because of the Euphemia connection) compared to Poppy/Daisy so I don't think it would be too cloying to have two 'ies'.

Pippa is a nicer sound and not Effie off, but effie would be a nice NN

I’m not really sure which is better with our surname, they just both sound “fine” to me. Our surname is Brazier.

I had a Pippa doll when I was little and I loved her (am old 😆) and also loved Pippi Longstocking with her ginger pigtails sticking out sideways. So there you go, my entirely irrelevant and tenuous reasons to vote Pippa!

Also this place is fickle, you could do a post about your elder DD's name and everyone could rave about it, unless it's Krystal and then you're on a sticky wicket 😁

For me I think Effie Brazier flows better than Pippa Brazier, but neither sound off.

I like Pippa.

Effie reminds me of Effie Trinket in Hunger Games, and sounds like a nn on its own but my mind runs over with trying to work out what the full name might be. Really like Pippa (though is also a NN somehow works better in its own right).

Only ever met awful Pippas. So t has totally put me off the name.Strong dislike the name Effie. Makes me think of The Hunger Games.

Oh gosh I know. I just didn’t want to say as I (naturally) feel quite protective over DDs name and found it a little tough seeing some (admittedly not all) posters being pretty horrible about it and the type of person who would pick it. But incase it actually does sway anyone’s views or if I have missed an obvious flaw in the two names together. Our older DD is Gigi (please be kind if anyone doesn’t like it, she’s a real little girl with that name!)

This made me laugh so much.
And we have a new arrival in the family by the name of Effie.
I like to think it's short for Euphemia ( meaning well - spoken), but she's just Effie.

I don't like Pippa. It sounds coy and silly to me. You do realise the full name is Philippa? That has more gravitas for when she is grown up, but in the meantime she could be Pippa for short. Effie sounds like a Victorian parlourmaid to me - it must be short for some longer name?

I’m aware they are short for full names. I don’t like the full names, I do like the shorter names, I’m not going to give my child a name we don’t like for “gravitas”.

Effie was a huge comedy character in Australia in the ‘90s. She was hilarious, really brash with giant hair, etc, but maybe not very politically correct. Any Aussie from that era would recognise it

www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/comedian-mary-coustas-explains-the-immaculate-conception-of-her-alter-ego-greek-goddess-effie/news-story/39b03ce4b51313bfda6309068dbf6208