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Pick between these names for me

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 14:46

Hi all, not pregnant yet, trying for a baby now though. Very excited, and DP and I have already decided on a boys name. We'd like to have a girls name planned out too. A bit sad, but each to their own eh?

We like the following:

Isla Jules [G surname]
Zia Jules [G surname]
Brooke Jules [G surname]
Blair Jules [G surname]

What do you think? Or do you have an alternative we might like in the same jist as those names?

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TigerFeet · 19/02/2009 15:54

Isla Juliette is lovely imo

Flightattendant27 · 19/02/2009 15:54

Hope and Faith very nice, sorry Faethe (but she will have to spell it for people a lot!!)

I like Jules though.

Kaidi lei looks like your dp fancies that weather girl but doesn't want it to be too obvious

BonsoirAnna · 19/02/2009 15:54

Julia is pretty, feminine and not much used - basically has lots going for it. Could you not use it as a first name?

Flightattendant27 · 19/02/2009 15:55

Yes Isla Juliette v nice. Names can look better when you put them tgether iyswim.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 15:58

Haha is there a weather girl called that? I shall be having words, thanks for grassing him up lol.

I LOVE Isla, it's my favourite by far, but Dp doesn't like it much at all.I like the combinations people on here are coming up with. I love Isla Juliette. Obviously DP doesn't lol.

You can understand why I am starting this process early. Between him disliking anything I like, and MIL trying to name our children, I need to stamp it out early before the rows start lol.

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belgo · 19/02/2009 16:03

Can I ask again, how do you pronounce Faethe?

toomuchmonthatendofthemoney · 19/02/2009 16:05

Isla or Hope are nice. Don't like the rest.
Juliette is the prettiest form of the middle name i think.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:05

Oh sorry. I'm pretty sure it's the same as Faith. We've gone off that one again now lol. We're hard work

We like Faith though. But Faith Julie doesn't go.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:06

Our very favourite name was Libby, but my sister's just called her baby that so we can't have it.

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SalmonFromTheLiffey · 19/02/2009 16:08

Isla G is going to get Ali G comparisons.

Brooke rhymes with fuck and is nmsaa.
Blair is quite androgenous, don't hate it but don't like it either.
Zia is the best, but I prefer Zoe by about 100 sea miles.

SalmonFromTheLiffey · 19/02/2009 16:09

ps, Love Juliet. Juliet Faith would be LOVELY.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:12

Juliet Faith is lovely. I'll put it to DP.

I appreciate all comments by the way, even the ones saying you hate the names, as I don't want to give baby an awful name.

Keep them coming!! I HAVE to pick before MIL gets there. She tried to name the last baby such a chav name I cried lol (pregnancy hormones).

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SalmonFromTheLiffey · 19/02/2009 16:14

Ok, I've just read this

"We also like Faethe, Caoife (Keefer) and Kaidi-Lei aswell. What about those?"

If you're serious I'd say, just spell Faith Faith. The creative spelling is stupid. It's beauty is partly its simplicity.

Caoife. Aoife with a C in front. This is like a 'ringer' of two Irish names Caoimhe and Aoife. Put them together and get Keefa. It's not ugly, but it is funny, re-jigging old Irish names. It's a farking liberty as the gran from catherine tate would say

And Kaidi-Lei, now you are just forcing me to say the chav word. You are comforming so precisely and exactly to the chav template by utilising two of the chav recommendations there, with your K at the start, hypenated name ending with either lee/lyn/mae.

Also, bonus chav points for spelling lei in sucha confusing way.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:23

I got them from the Gaelic bit of gurgle.com.

How do you say Caoimhe?

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branflake81 · 19/02/2009 16:23

I only like Isla, the others are fairl grim. Especially Blair.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:24

What do we think of Darcey/ Darcy?

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BonsoirAnna · 19/02/2009 16:28

Darc(e)y? Not very feminine. But that is a theme of yours.

thumbwitch · 19/02/2009 16:29

I really don't like the name Jules - it always reminds me of Jools Holland, who whilst being a fab pianist, he is not an ideal namesake, imo. Julie or Julia much better.

An alternative - why don't you expand Julie to e.g. Julianne, Juliana (as someone else suggested) or Juliet and use it as a first name?

sassy · 19/02/2009 16:29

We hate it.

TigerFeet · 19/02/2009 16:43

I like Darcey

I love Gaelic names very much and would consider them myself but I fear I'd be consigning an English child to a lifetime of having to spell their name and/or correct pronunciation. Aoife is lovely.

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MumOfBaby · 19/02/2009 16:46

Kaela?

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diedandgonetodevon · 19/02/2009 16:47

I'm afraid I don't like any on the first list but hey, each to their own.

Love Darcey tho (but that may be because it is our lovely dogs name!) and very feminine IMO. Think Darcey Bussell not Mr D'Arcy!

belgo · 19/02/2009 16:47

Faith Julia or Faith Juliet is lovely.

willowthewispa · 19/02/2009 16:49

Hope, Faith, Julie and Isla all very nice. Darcy is ok.

Kaidi Lei is ridiculous!

Caoife is odd, but Caoimhe (I know a couple pronounced Kweever, but I recently met a baby pronounced Keever. Aoife is a beautiful name, but tbh I think gaelic names are a bit silly on those without any gaelic roots.

willowthewispa · 19/02/2009 16:50

If you're going to go for something like Kaela, at least spell it in the most usual form (Kayla).