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Please help me with ideas for a girls name....its doing my head in....

34 replies

ImDreamingOfANortyXmas · 18/12/2008 09:44

I'm 32 weeks and we CANNOT come up with a girls name we like.

Already have a DD (starting with K, so no K names), and surname is D. So no D's or anything that spells something odd on initials.

We both like traditional names, got to be able to spell them, preferably are pronounced as they are spelt, but we are not fans of giving names either than can be shortened (to something horrible) or are shortened versions of something else IYKWIM

Not too many conditions then

Please please pretty please help me come up with some ideas to put to DH....

I can't have this baby not knowing what they will be called.

Will probably have a boy now (and those names are sorted!)

TIA

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VerifiedLU4097 · 18/12/2008 09:50

Emily
Emma
Claire
Hannah
Lorna
Laura
Helen
Susan
Paula
Wendy
Mary
Marie
Jane
Jean
Anne
Sarah
Louise

Any good?

ImDreamingOfANortyXmas · 18/12/2008 09:56

Oohh thanks. There are a few there that I like......

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singyswife · 18/12/2008 10:00

Beth
Ella
Leah
Heather
Teaghan
Elise

Lockets · 18/12/2008 10:01

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Tas1 · 18/12/2008 11:38

Tilly
Matilda
Holly
Phoebe
Araminta
Chloe
Erin
Amelia
Milly
Poppy
Alisha
Rosie
Olivia
M egan
Molly

VerifiedLU4097 · 18/12/2008 11:53

Whixh ones did you like Im Dreaming?

BlueChampagne · 18/12/2008 13:22

Ruth
Frances
Anne
Alice
Rachel
Esther/Hester
Faith
Hope
Verity
Anita
Eve
Janet/Janette
T amsin

ImDreamingOfANortyXmas · 18/12/2008 13:49

Ohh thanks ladies...

my likes so far are

Sophie
Anna
Amy
Emily
Lois
Claire
Marie
Holly
Rosie and Leah

I know DH likes Helen, and I'm trying to think of why I'm not sure about it. Don't think he'll go for the last two....

Why did I use both my favourites for DD and not keep one back

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ImDreamingOfANortyXmas · 18/12/2008 13:50

Frances is nioe...what would that be shortened to? Fran?

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BucketsofReindeerPoo · 18/12/2008 19:20

How about Jane Austen for a source of classy names?
Marianne, Elinor (S&S)
Catherine, Isabella (NA)
Elizabeth, Lydia, Maria, Charlotte (p&p)
Harriet (Emma)

littlerach · 18/12/2008 19:26

My friends's dd is Frances and we call her franny.

Grace?
Harriet?
Abigail?
Ellen?

salvadory · 18/12/2008 19:40

Alice, Eliza, Polly, Romilly, Imogen, Elspeth, Clodagh, Marianne, Lucy?

Lulubee · 18/12/2008 19:56

What about Lucy? It ticks all your boxes - traditional, sounds likes it's spelt, goes well with a 'd' surname, can't be shortened (although teenage girls WILL find a way, sigh!)

ImDreamingOfANortyXmas · 18/12/2008 20:46

Lucy is lovely actually.....will present a list to DH....thanks ladies

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BlueChampagne · 19/12/2008 12:42

A few more:

Lara
Tina
Angela
Lynne
Joan

SnowballsintheSky · 19/12/2008 12:45

Helena then? I love that but it's my boss's name and I couldn't give her the slightest reason to think it was after her!

FIMBOingaroundtheChristmasTree · 19/12/2008 12:51

Louise? But will be shortened to Lou or Lulu

laughalot · 19/12/2008 12:54

Lauren
Hattie
Chloe
Eve
Evie
Alice

pamelat · 20/12/2008 20:05

Florence
Martha
Ivy
Imogen
Matilda

????????????????

Sidge · 20/12/2008 20:39

Rachel
Claudia
Imogen
Elizabeth
Lucy
Sophie
Abigail
Amelia
Jessica

TinySocks · 20/12/2008 20:47

Nathalie
Grace
Clara
Ruth
Faye
Antonia (not everyone's cupoftea but I love it)

CaptainKarvol · 20/12/2008 20:54

Helena
Elizabeth
Marianne
Nina

(that's my [current] shortlist, anyway!)

chloemegjess · 20/12/2008 21:55

Tegan?

jinglebelles · 20/12/2008 21:57

My girls are

Ruby Mae and

Rose Ellyn

But also liked Phoebe, Olive, Lydia and Jessie

Rachyanne · 22/01/2009 13:51

Love Alice, gorgeous, classic name, yet lightly quirky and not too common xx