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.

[duchesse]

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.

PLEASE don't use it, but I've just remembered a name I heard on the radio last year that would go perfectly - Parthenope!

Eulalia

Thecla

Perpetua

Emerita

Euodia

Syntyche

Prisca/Priscilla

Anastasia

H elena

Crispina

Eudicia

Rhipsime

Agatha

What do you think of Viviana - early saints name?

If you wanted Theodore for a boy, why not Theodora for a girl? Equally fabulous name & lots of possible pet names

This is the most beautiful name thread ever.

My first thought was Aurelia.

My second thought was Hermione.

Helena

I know it's been suggested already - I'm supporting it

Beatrix
Margaret/Margot
Aurelia

Congratulations btw

I'd put money on you chooding Ottilie.

Hermione

(again not Roman but Greek)

Love all the names btw.

So, Duchesse have you got a shortlist yet?

Fab names (your older children). If I had another baby girl to name, I would go for Verity which I see has been suggested already. Or Francesca is nice, but it would mean you had 2 Miss Fs.

Dorothea is one I've always liked, also Frederica.

And, I simply LOVE Theodora.

Sabina is gorgeous.

Ottilie is lovely (another one that DH vetoed!)

Hannah

Ooh Aurelia - gorgeous!

Ladies, thank you so much. Sorry I didn't get back on last night- went for a nap then a friend came round, the the troops returned from school and evening started...

These are all lovely names. Some we can't use because they are already mine or my sisters' or my nieces' names (not telling which!) but that really shows how much on the right track you all are. We want to go to Italy at half term so we really need to register the Bug asap so we can get her a passport.

Will report back what we choose for her (I can see she might end up being one of those kids with vast number of names on birth certificate...)

Lynette- I love Ottilie but DH not so keen, and older girls made faces (you know the sort).

Monica is her saint's day name (born 27th Aug) but is also my third sister's middle name and I don't really like it, alas...

Monica is her saint's day name (born 27th Aug) but is also my third sister's middle name and I don't really like it, alas...