I give-up, after 9 months and hundreds of these threads, we settled on a name only for a close friend to call her baby the same thing.

[artichokes]

She announced it yesterday.
The name was Nina.
My DD2 is due in 2 days. We have no names, it took ages to settle on Nina, and now I am so bored with name hunting.

Someone just tell me what to name her. Pretty please?

It should be classic but not boring and I tend to like short names.

no no, uptomyeyes, that is the Disney version - in the original Dodie Smith version, Perdita was called that because she was found by the Darlings, lost and sad because her own puppies had also gone missing. She was covered in mud and when they washed her off, she was a liver-spotted Dalmation. I think her litter was only about 7 pups but they were also found with the rest.
Pongo's missus was originally called Lady (I think), and they only had 15 pups.

Don't let it stop you. I didn't call my ds a name I had been going to call dd1 if she were a boy, because two of my friends had dss of that name.

You know what, now he is 12 and I haven't seen either of them for years, so it wouldn't have mattered in the long run if I had stuck to that original name. Lives and friendships change, social groups move on. If it is the name you love, just go for it. In ten or so years you probably won't even remember the other Nina.

Disclaimer: the name we ended up giving ds suits him down to the ground and I can't imagine him being anything else!

geek update - see Wikipedia on 101 Dalmations original - my memory ain't what it used to be - Darlings = Dearlys and Lady = Missis (so close!)

Hi - how about a name that you could shorten to Nina (maybe Elanor?)

Nadia

How about Nona?

About as close to Nina as you can get

and just as nice

these alleged theft of names really are daft.do you like it?use it then.end of

did you expect to go through life never meeting another nina

but i'd be gutted if a friend called their baby DS's name, it would be so weird.

Eva? Ava? Hannah?

This is the problem with boring classic names. I have a classic name and I share it with several friends. Pisses me off it does.

Call her the name you love! I have friends with a Charlie each who were born within three weeks of each other and it isn't a problem. Nina is a lovely name. Go for it!

Nina is a very boring name anyway imho. Choose something completely different from your mate - it will be v. daft if she has a Nina and you have a Nona...

My faves girls names are Esme, Madeleine and Eliza. Also met a Kitty the other day which seemed v.cute.

Nona is Catalan for Grandma I think.

Eliza is lovely!

i second ELIZA! tis dd2's middle name, but i wish we'd had it as a first name.

my next girl will be ELSIE , if i have one

yup, kitty is sweet. dd2 has one in her class. great till you meet her on the playground and say 'hello kitty'

Nona is from the Latin word "nonus" meaning ninth

so if DD is born on the 9th it'll be perfect

Ella
Macey
Rosa
Nancy
Daisy
Freya

Hey artichokes - any progress. Have been scouring the Oxford dictionary of names but haven't come up with anything that hasn't been suggested here. Naomi is gorgeous.

Evie?

Dara

Daria

I don't see why your friend's choice of name has any bearing-if you like Nina stick with it.

It does matter if you want to avoid your child always being known as Nina X-surname.

I have a very ugly surname indeed and I would prefer my children to just be known by their first names.

It depends a lot on whether you live close together and are going to send them to the same school. If it is going to be a friend you lose touch with, it is a bit silly to have avoided your favourite name.