Which of these girls names do you prefere?

[mummyloveslucy]

Hi, I know exactly what name I'd give a little boy, Oliver. I'm very undecided about a girls name. What do you think of these names ?

Matilda- Tilly for short.

Emilia- Milly for short.

Briony- I don't think you can shorten it. "B" ?

I'd have Rose as a middle name for all of them.

What do you think? I think I prefere Matilda.

It's quite tricky as I'd like something classy but not pretencious, lady like but not too popular and something that an be shortened to something sweet for when she's little. If you have any other suggestions I'd like to hear them. I like the idea of old English names too.

i was thinking eddy, pronounced, eeeeeeeeedie.

but you hate dont like it. fair enough.

I love Briony/Bryony

Matilda is lovely, but I know a fair few around here now

I like Emilia most. Matilda is very popular, but I'm really not keen (sorry).

Briony is nice, but a very different type of name I think.

I do like some old lady names like Martha, Violet, Alice etc.
eeeeeeeedie does sound better than Eddy.

I love Martha but dh didn't.

What makes Bryony a very different type of name? Is it dated?

I asked my Husband what names he liked and he said he came up with Hannah, sophie and Emily. He also likes Tilly and Tabitha as there are two lovely girls at my daughters nursery with these names.

But why Bryony not Briony? It's like spelling Rose, Rowse, or Daisy, Daisee!

Katherine could be Katie when she's little.

Are you pregnant then, MLL?

I have a Catherine and an Alice ,so I guess I'm biased towards those !
Trouble with Catherine/Katherine is that there are so many ways of spelling it

I like Emilia and Matilda but not Briony.

Emilia is a region in Italy

Matilda - lovely, and Tilly is lovely

Emilia - I'd assume you were Italian/some kind of Italian connection, think it'd continually be mistaken for Amelia too. Amelia/Milly is a lovely name though.

Briony - I think it's very pretty in itself, although I know a horrible girl called Briony so it's spoilt for me!!! Her nickname is 'Bri' by the way (to rhyme with 'try' not 'tree') which isn't pretty. 'B' is a cute nickname though. How about

Seeker- I wasn't sure how to spell Briony. I'm sure the girl I knew spelt it Bryony.
I'd have to make sure I had the correct spelling. I'm not keen on these strange ways of spelling names. (I tend to spell every thing a bit strangely)

Briony is a lovely name.

But it can and does get shortened to Bry and younger children often struggle and use Barney.

My daughter has a speech disorder and would probubly pronounce it Pie wa me.
She can't say her own mame properly either bless her. She says yuswee.

I have an Emilia, we call her Emmy rather than Milly though

like all of them

ds1 would have been Emilia had he been a girl. Matilda has stayed on my names list all 3 times now lol

not much help is it.

Matilda is my favourite girls' name. Love it.
Emilia is OK but there are lots of Emily/Amelie/Amelia type names around at the moment.
I love Briony. I have a good friend called Bryony and it gets shortened to Bry or B.

My youngest calls her Baa Baa. My niece used to call her Biney.

There are three 'offical' ways of spelling it btw.

Bryony
Briony
Bryonie

I think Bryony was the original spelling, but others have become more popular over time.

Matilda.
Emilia is nice, don't like Briony

Matilda is lovely and my fave.

Quite like Emilia.

Not keen on Briony.

Briony/Bryony is currently my absolute favourite girl's name. I am not having any more, but if I did I'd definitely name her that.

But why Bryony?

The only Briony I've ever known was a really horrible girl so that's probably put me off, though she was often called Bri too- not pretty.