I have discovered the most fantastic girls name, it is so cool, I might have to have a baby to call her that.

[Carmenere]

Well obviously I won't as I hated all the horrid pregnancy and childbirth nonsense but I heard this name today and after googling it I think it is FABULOUS.

Pearl. I wanted to call DD1 Pearl.

thankfully, DH vetoed that.

I like Levi for a boy's name, too, because I like how Leah thought about her predicament when she named each of her sons. 'God has seen me in my misery and made me fruitful.'

I thought Pear sounded a bit Gwyneth, expat!

See my post below for Naomi/Mara biblical reference!

Expat, lovely names.

I chose Naomi because its Hebrew for 'pleasant' which she is.

Aha! I knew one of them had also been called Mara. Couldn't remember which, though.

Been a long time since I read the Bible.

But no shortage of good names in there!

Thanks for the references. Naomi/Mara.

It's an Old Testament name, IIRC.

No bother.
I wrote an essay on it recently, so it is still near the top of my mind!

That is cool, though, Weegie. My mother is in a Bible study course just now and finding it very interesting.

I like Cicely as a girl's name, too. But so shallow as pinched it from one of Thomas More's daughters.

Oh I like Naomi. I also like Esther and Miriam. I've noticed more and more people are choosing names related to their roots.
I have a Nia.

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How do you pronounce Eilidh?

statia is horrible

not pretty

sounds like station

mind you I am tempted to have another one and hope its a boy so I can call him Leonard.

statia is horrible

not pretty

sounds like station

mind you I am tempted to have another one and hope its a boy so I can call him Leonard.

Some lovely names on this thread.

Expat, I love your DCs names, Struan is a fab strong name.

My DCs have Scottish names too, DD is Catriona and DS Connor.

We live in Germany and new friends sometimes struggle over DD's name at first (the adults not the DCs) but they soon learn the right pronounciation.

Forgot to say, I like the sound of Statia, but not the look of it iykwim.

Any of the Monica Edwards fans on here remember Stacia Decks, from the Romney Marsh books?

Jim Decks harridan of a wife who adored Meryon and fed him toffees. I love those books in fact those and the punchbowl ones are my favourite books ever.

Statia is very frequent in S London schools - a popular choice in black families a few years ago - along with Alicia. I know two personally.

Statia sounds like the plural of status.