Harlow, Winona alternatives pleeeease

[Zebraa]

DP is hoping and praying I'm just being emotionally unreasonable but I really love names like Harlow and Winona but want something not quite so well known for my little girl... any suggestions?

Harlow is a (not very nice) town. Why would you want to call a child after it, or am I missing something?

willow?

btw harlow isn't well known..... I've never heard it before!

i really like Winona, i think i had it on my girls list for ds1.

Harlow am not sure about because it reminds me a bit of Harlem and a bit of Harlot.

BUT... i don';t htink other people's opinions really matter, you should call your baby somethign you love.
although, obv your dp should get a say too!

how about Arlo for a boy? or Harley?

I love Winona but in DP's words "we are not naming our daughter after a criminal, failed actress"

Harlow is a place in essex. dont call your kid that name, unless you are a nicole ritchie wannabe.

Agree with your DP, Zebraa!

Harlow is a surname - and also the name of Nicole Richie's (or someone similar) daughter. Is that something you want to emulate?

How unusual do you want her name to be?

Let me explain, I don't want to call her Harlow, but I want something along these lines. I love Winona, something a bit quirky but simple...

I love Winona but in DP's words "we are not naming our daughter after a criminal, failed actress"

but, youi wouldn't be, would you? you'd just be giving her a name you like. unless you are a WR fan???
i mean, ds2 is called Gabriel, but he isn't named after an angel, or an actor. we just liked the name.

I think when there is a very strong connotation with a name it's hard to avoid the link though, thisis - esp. when it's perhaps a less than desirable link a la Winona.

My old boss was called Gabriel - he certainly used to make references to the angel, in a tongue in cheek way. Impossible not to really.

I suggest quirky names like Olga or Margot or Winnie/Winifred, Meredith, Gwyneth, Olwen, Bronwen....

Harlow is so Yack and will date terribly. If you're going to do a town get out the atlas and pick anything that sounds nice, then google it, make sure it's not Merfyr Tidfyl (sp) and then you'll be original! Everybody always uses Camden or Harlow when they do this!

Depends what you named him Lockets...if it was Evander Holyfield I can see their point

Winifred
Wendy
Wendoline
Winnie

Or how about

Harlesden...so much more classy and a bit rad even.

Amicia
Sabina
Parnell
Isolda
Gelle
(all medieval English names)

What about Harpenden??!

Billericay? Billy for short....

native american girls' names like Winona

Harlean is Jean Harlow's real first name

In a famous bitchy exchange, wit Margot Asquith apparently said, when called MargoT by Jean Harlow, 'no dear, the t is silent...as in 'Harlow''

OP, you have to use Margot. There was a reason that popped into my head in connection with Harlow I thinkk.

what about

Auden
Bronte
Pearl
Ismay
Arwyn
Blyth

any of those?

No no no - Margot Leadbetter. Not good, not good....

I love Margo and Gerry!

Yes - fab comedy characters (esp the one where she was helping Barbara and Tom pick their veg and slipped in the mud!) - but do you want your child to be named after (sorry Lockets! ) Margot Leadbetter?!

I em, called my dd Margot!!! I love it. People say to me sometimes, after Margot Fontene? And I say gosh no after my heroine, Margo Ledbetter. I was tempted to call myson Gerry.