Louisa?

[pgwithnumber3]

Sorry, keep starting these name threads but I do like to have feedback on names.

Louisa for a girl (obviously), what do you think. Has a special meaning as have lovely SIL call Louise and wonderful cousin also called Louise, both very special people to us.

I would probably shorten it to Lulu as a term of endearment.

Lulumama, I live not far from there, off the main road beginning with Lul. Let me know if you are ever venturing down there! You can pop in to mine for a cup of tea!

We have definitely decided we are going for Louisa Hope if we have another girl. So far for a boy we like Gabriel Alexander but that could well change. SIL is over the moon that we are going to have Louisa! She wants me to have a girl now!

bikerunski, was the Village you lived in in North Wales by any chance? When you are saying you are expecting a boy do you mean you know for definite or you think you are?

like it

Really nice and MUCH nicer than just Louise!

Classic. Lovely.

Thanks everyone. I really really love it, want another DD now so i can use it!

its a lovely name. do it.

was on our list but we were going to use Lois as a nn for it

tis lovely

Beautiful name...

I do like Louisa. (Don't like Lulu)

fantastic name.

Louisa Hope is lovely. Good choice.

Love it so much that it's DD1's middle name.

It is DD's middle name

lovely

At this rate there'll be a Panorama investigation in a few years time into why all the little girls born in the latter half of 2008 were named Louisa

Yes Janni, I will start a trend for the name! I did with the name Grace.

Have to give the kudos to Lulumama for picking the middle name though, round of applause Lulumama!

It just feels right. With DD1, we had the name Grace Elisabeth pretty much straight away, when we found out she was a girl, we stuck with it and never wavered. With DD2, we kept her sex a surprise and we only chose her name the last couple of weeks of the pregnancy. Strangely enough we could NEVER chose a boys name, I wonder if this one will be another girl with me having the name already!

hi pgwithno3

No, we lived in Hope in Derbyshire. We think we are expecting a boy based on 20 week scan, nothing more intrusive. We'll know soon!

Did the sonographer 100% think a boy or were they not sure? Congratulations anyway, are you due December?

pgwithno3 Sonographer said he was more certain than usual. Then found "bits" and said words to the effect of "oooh yes, look". We only have boys name (the only name at all we could agree on, with family connections on both sides) and clothes (mostly donated) lined up! I am aware that he could be wrong though abd keep having to remind DH.

I'm due in 5 weeks! Middle of September. Scarily close!!!!! 2 more weeks at work, and phew, am I ready to go.

Gorgeous!

Classic and beautiful.

Lovely name - a real classic

I love the name Louisa! It is on my names list (along with Louis for a boy).

One thing though - how do you pronounce it? I would pronounce it as 'Loo-EEZ-a'. However I've also heard it as 'Loo-EES-a' with a strong 'S' sound. I prefer my way but I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing it correctly?!

Leave it alone
It's MINE
(well my dd's)

Obv I LOVE it!