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Look, I know this is pathetic, but we're really stuck for a name for DD3 (she's 2 weeks old already, poor thing). We have a Benedict, a Felicity and a Cecilia. Suggestions please.

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duchesse · 16/09/2009 14:30

I was convinced throughout the pregnancy that she was a boy, in which event she would have been Theodore.

Criteria:

Very short surname so has to have 3 or 4 syllables.

Not too many Ls as would be silly with surname

Early Roman saint would be perfect but we can't find one that's "right" iyswim

Thank you for any ideas you could throw into the naming hat.

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floaty · 16/09/2009 14:44

Theodora
Meredith
Hestia
Stella
Alys
Elinor
Dominica
Romilly
Hepsibah (love Hepsy for short)
Heloise

sorry not good at roman saints but love your other childrens names,hope everything is going well now

MrsVik · 16/09/2009 14:44

Victoria!

Gabriella, Bernadette, Dorothea...

BelleWatling · 16/09/2009 14:45

i don't know any roman saints...but think the following would go:

Elizabeth
Isobel (and variant spellings)
Catherine (and variant spellings)
Amelia
Theodora (my favourite girls name when I was little)
Isadora (going off on a theme now)
Annabel
Hermione
Estella
Eugenie / Eugenia
Matilda
Violet/te
Honora
Penelope
Romilly
Antonia
Georgina
Pandora
Ursula

Basica lly I think all your DCs names are FAB and I have dug out my own baby name list.

Unfortunately I cannot have any potential DD with a 3-4 syllable name have given my own DS a one syllable one and wanting to be 'fair' and 'balanced' (I know this sounds crazy - i hope YKWIM)

onebatmother · 16/09/2009 14:57

I know you said long, but Alice goes v well with the others..

Ponders · 16/09/2009 14:59

Hermione

Cies · 16/09/2009 14:59

Don't think these are early Roman saints but I know siblings of Benedict, Felicity and Cecilia (not all in the same family )who are called:
Serena
Elizabeth
Verity
Genevieve

Ponders · 16/09/2009 14:59

Virginia?

LaTrucha · 16/09/2009 15:00

Francisca

LaTrucha · 16/09/2009 15:00

(Spanish form of Francesca)

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Ponders · 16/09/2009 15:01

Georgiana (you get the 4th syllable with that)
Catriona

meep · 16/09/2009 15:03

Imogen?

alittlebitshy · 16/09/2009 15:03

isolda (saw isadora and it reminded me).

er... sorry. foggy brain..

loving all the above suggestions so can't think of any better ones. I liked Georgiana as an option when i was pg with ds (obv as a dd name lol).

thirtysomething · 16/09/2009 15:06

Antonia
Eleonora
Theodora - Thea for short
Coralie
Amalie
Serena
Constance/Connie
Elena
Chiara
Rosalie
Beatrice

LadyoftheBathtub · 16/09/2009 15:06

Alianore
Berengaria
Francesca

MakemineaGandT · 16/09/2009 15:11

Lucinda

cyteen · 16/09/2009 15:14

Magdalene
Artemis
Seraphine

mummydoc · 16/09/2009 15:16

Arabella

mummydoc · 16/09/2009 15:16

octavia

floaty · 16/09/2009 15:17

Love Genevieve,also thought of Cressida or Cassandra

KaDeWeh · 16/09/2009 15:17

Floaty - I love, love, love Hepsy. DH wouldn't let me have it for DD. Grr.

NewbeeMummy · 16/09/2009 15:29

A few roman Saints here....

Serapia
Lucina
Demetria
Melania
Lucilla
Serena - her feast day is the 28th August
Sabina - her feast day is the 28th August
Asella
Vissia
Anthia
Domnina
Vissia
Marciana
Savina
Marcella
and of course Romana

NewbeeMummy · 16/09/2009 15:30

Yes - I know - I have no life and had an odd hobby of collecting saints names when I was younger

PestoLovelyMonster · 16/09/2009 15:32

Leonora

Emilia

Valentina