long fancy girls name to match other DC...

[hedgiemum]

I have daughters named Genevieve (Gigi) and Celestine (Celeste), and a son named William (Billy).
I'm now pregnant with DC4, another girl.
We're seriously considering;

Violet / Violette - only problem is what to shorten either to (Vivi would be confusing alongside Gigi.) Don't like Letty.

Ottilie - nn Lottie/Lotta since Tilly wouldn't work well with Billy! Any other ideas what it could be shortened to?

Marianna - nn Mimi (DH's favourite as named after his late mother). Tennysons depressing poem puts me off a bit. Also concerned that wouldn't match well with our surname, a Mc name of 3 syllables.

Evangeline - but Evie would be confusing with Gigi. Know of any other nn's?

Emmanuelle - nn Esme or Emmy. (My favourite because a family name on my side) but yes we do know the 70's soft porn connotations. Does it really matter??!

If you have a minute, which do you think "goes" best with my other children, or can you think of anything better? (Francesca has bad associations for me; DH doesn't like Josephine; DH is Irish but we don't want a traditional Irish name; DH doesn't want anything that sounds Scottish; meanings are important to us, as is being unusual (for girls).

Josephine (Josie)
Margeurita (Maggie/ Margot)

Jocasta (Jo/Jo-Jo,Joy?)

Vivienne
Adrienne

And more!

lockets - Patience is adorable actually! wouldn't have thought of that in a million years!

pestomonster - Agree Valentina sweet, but think Violet/te is my fave V name. And can't get past "Val" as nickname - old neighbour who moaned that our kids were too noisy in the garden (where are they allowed to be noisy then?!)

rindercella again - I won't ignore you! Abitheah has a lovely ring to it, but know quite a few Abi's (=bad).

Horton - Emmeline, hmmm, I have a sister Emily, she would probably see that as a compliment! Good idea!

MrsMattie - I know where you're coming from with Gigi & Mimi. I have visions of people hearing me call it in the park, and expecting to see 2 poodles running up! DH actually calls Celeste "Cissy" and I know that he will find some similarly-twee nn for the new baby too... nothing I can do about it, apart from not use it myself! (Celeste is 2 1/2 and tells off anyone but DH who calls her Cissy!) Another vote for Delphine and Seraphina.... I am going to research those and suggest to DH later.

Fimbo - Jocasta sounds quite Scottish to me, but perhaps I'm wrong?

another vote for Delphine

I like Penelope

The Celeste I know gets called Lesty

My dd knows a girl called Sassy

I love and think Cordelia would go well too

Rosetta
Rosanna

Angelina

Florentine - nn Floss/Flossie
And another vote for Delphine.

Benidict (Benni)

Your daughters' names don't end in 'a' which I like. So keeping with that I like

Annabel - I think use Mabel or Annabel. Amabel would be confusing.
Beatrice
Beatrix - pfrefer to Beatrice
Estelle
Florence
Constance
Christabel
Juliet
Vivien

Already suggested, I think Madeliene is nice and would blend well.

Fimbo, Lesty is awful. LIke Lusty!

What about Ariadne ~ Harry for short. If Ds had been a girl, it would have been in the running

Or Marietta ~ Etta for short...friend is called this and it's lovely.

I like Ottilie though

I agree, reminds me of Lester the boys name or worse Lester Piggot

I have a friend with four DDs; Dorothea (Thea), Constance (Connie), Joscelyn (Josie)and Rosalind (Ros)

I love them all, especially Connie! Fab names. My DDs are so dull in comparison!

I love Delphine as well.

Also, I've been suggesting this name till I'm blue in the face on here and no one has even batted an eyelid, but I love Jacinda, which means Hyacinth in Spanish.

Hedgiemum - Angie as a nickname reminds me of Angelina Jolie (for better or for worse! Personally I'm a fan ) - I've "heard" lots of people refer to her as that (including Brad and Billy Bob! ) so I guess it works on young beautiful women as well as middle-aged ones!

I've just researched
-Delphine. It means Dolphin, as the town of Delphi was thought to be the womb of the world and a dolphin is womb shaped (or something like that). Don't know why, but that puts me off a bit.

-Seraphine. We are Christians, so quite like the angelic connotations, and that its a saints name. Fits well with Genevieve (patron saint of Paris) and Celestine (means heavenly)!
What to shorten it too though?? Horrible feeling DH would make it Fifi, so I'd need something a bit less twee for the rest of us to use.

• Persephone, amongst other things, she was the goddess of the underworld. So, off that!

LG&T has a Seraphina doesn't she? She calls her Phinn as a nn.

Persephone was the reluctant goddess of the underworld. she was kidnapped, and held against her will. Her mother was Ceres, goddess of crops, whoo pined ofr Persephone and neglected her duties, hence autumn/winter when crops/trees/fruits die off.

when Persephone was rescued, Ceres was very happy, and everything began ot bloom again - Spring/summer.

but, there was a deal struck with the god of the underworld, and so Persephone has to return to the underworld for 6 months of each year, and then spends 6 months back out with her mother.

So not all doom and gloom really, as persephone heralds the beginning of Spring/end of Winter.

I know a Seraphina, nn Sia. She is a gorgeous, gorgeous Italian woman...

Florence
Matilda
Georgiana
Anatasia
Madeleine
Millicent
Margaret