Still No Name for Baby Girl

[KLRJ]

Officially made it to two weeks with no name for baby girl and I feel beyond awful about it! Every name seems to have something about it that I don't like.

-Faye: love the name in theory, but calling her it seems awkward and clunky because of the single syllable and there being no obvious ways to make it seem affectionate

-Ruby: absolutely love it, sounds SO cute with our surname (Robson) but at #41 with 1020 girls given the name last year, it's more popular than my other children's names and I worry about her being surrounded by others with the same name

-Rosa: also love it, sounds incredibly classy and goes quite well with our surname (not as well as Ruby), but obvious nickname is Rosie which I don't like and is also very popular

Help me decide please! Also I'd love any other suggestions if anyone has any please. Had a couple of suggestions of Romilly on my last post which I thought was super cute but husband disagrees 🫠

I love Romilly. Definitely could be shortened to Romi/Romy

All 3 are lovely names!

I don't think any are too common and you can control nicknames to some extent until they get big enough to choose their own.

Freya could be an alternative to Faye. We have a Frances which we love as not too unusual or common and easy to spell.

I'm personally not an alliteration fan but if you like it then just go for it, it will become her name and you won't be able to see how she could have possibly suited any other name after a few months.

I actually love that ❤️ Bobbi Robson sounds really cool!

@Soccermom2020 "Also Evie is cute not 2 many either." You what? There are thousands of them.

@J18 , good alliteration, with less risk of being Wooby Wobson.

Agree I have a Faye, has always said she is glad no obvious nicknames.
Ruby is lovely as well the only one I know is in her thirties none in my dgd’s classes at primary school.

Inspired from your list ..
Sophie Isabella
Rosa Faye

I love Ruby but I’m hesitant to keep it on my list for the same reason as you.

Having said that, I only know of 1 Ruby who is 5 ish years old.

Also love Rosa.

I vote for Ruby though!

Ruby is great - a real strong name. I am only pit off that as my neighbour had a chocolate Labrador called Ruby and she was so naughty hahahaha (charmingly naughty though and very cute)
Faye is lovely. It sounds very gentle to me, yet strong at the same time. I love one syllable names though.

Love 'Ruby Robson'!
As a pp has said - most Rubies are teens now.
Rosa also lovely. I know two (teens and twenties) - neither have ever become Rosie.end
Much prefer both those names to Faye, however it works really well with both as a middle name.

Bobby Robson was a football manager. Just sayin'

@StrongandNorthern , why aye!

I absolutely love Rosa Pearl. I know two Rosas (Forty years apart in age!) and they have never been nicknamed Rosie as it isn't any quicker to say. They are always Rosa. It is such a beautiful name. And Pearl is such a wonderful symbolic name - creating something precious from grit. I hope you go for this one.

Current names I like, that are hopefully not dated:
Rosalind
Eleanor
Fiona
Catherine

I have a Rubie, spelling it with the 'ie' at the end makes it different. My other daughter is Hallie so wanted them similar 😊

I can't help but think how pathetic it is that people will avoid a name that they love just because other children are named it.

Love this idea and we're going to give that a go, although calling her Ruby so far today is feeling very natural!

Bella has been on my list but I've been slightly put off of it by my cousins lab! 😂 My grandparents had a dog called one of the very obvious nicknames for my name just before I was born, and so I've always refused to go by that nickname 😂

Freya was one of my top names for my first daughter but I've since gone off of it, otherwise it would have been ideal!

I was also never an alliteration fan until I added Ruby to the mix!

Not teachers, but I do run a toddler class franchise so I see lots of children with various names going through our classes and it has definitely made picking a name difficult! 🙈

What an odd thing to say...

Personally I can't help but think how pathetic it is to hide behind a keyboard and try to shame someone for having a differing opinion on their criteria for naming their own children, but each to their own I guess!

Hope commenting that made you feel better! 🥰

hahahaha that is brilliant. As brilliant as they are, labradors have that 'personality' which makes them so unique and if they are naughty too it's worse.

I know both a Rowena and a Rosalind that shorten their name to Ro - could be an option for Rosa?

Ruby is lovely. It’s perfect really- not so common that they are everywhere, but not so unusual it’s unheard of and she spends her life having to correct people or spell it out.

Rosa is also lovely, but Rosie is far more common than Ruby, and she will get people reading it as “Rose” in error. I have a name with one letter different to a more common name and it happens all the time.

I am biased though. If my youngest had been a girl then she was going to be a Ruby.

I am a Faye and have always been happy with my name. With Faye/Fae being old English for 'fairy' my mum always called me Tink or Tinkerbelle when I was little, and she often still calls it me now. I do love the nickname Effie though nobody has ever called me this, I've just never considered it to be a nickname for Faye.

Ruby Robson - she sounds destined for great things in life!
Ruby Faye Robson would be a lovely combination.