girls names not ending in ee or ah

[GibberingGinger]

My DH has a thing about all girls names ending in the sounds ee or ah (Millie, Lucy, Amy, Sarah, Emma etc) and for some reason wants to avoid it.

It's really difficult to come up with names that we like, but fit his silly rule. They all sound really 1970's (Lynn, Susan) or really 1950's (Beryl, Agnes)

The only ones I like are Ruth and Claire however neither of these work with our surname Roth. (Ruth Roth??? Claire Roth/Clear Off???)

Help please......

Isabelle?
Gabrielle?
Miriam?
Rachel?
Helen?
Justine?

lauren/laurel
astrid
amber
hazel
tiegan
jane
vivien
yvonne/yvette
skye
saxon
dion
emer (ee-mer)
shane
arran/aerran
aoife
saffron
kate
madison
meredith
celeste
gail
karen
patien ce
fleur
nadine
rachel
rowan
roisin
neve
serendipity

Gibbering I really like Annabel too but know a few that have been born in the last couple of months.

My DH is good at coming up with silly rules and then having no suggestions himself.

Tell him the only name you like that fits in with his silly rule is Olwyn (sorry to any Olwyns out there). Hopefully, he will see sense.

On the other hand, he does have a bit of a point, it does stop you both choosing standard issue names like Ruby, Evie, Eva and Ava.

I actually agree with your DH on half his rule - I don't like ee endings for girls either, they sound too girly to me. I think it's because of associations with "weak endings" in the grammatical sense, and because we use -ie as a diminutive ending (lassie, doggie etc.), it makes those words sound diminutive too IMO.
Does he mind other vowel endings (um, Juno?) or is it consonant all the way?

Returning briefly to this thread to suggest

Frances

which I'd have chosen if it didn't clash with our surname

Frances and Madeleine
Frances and Imogen
Frances and Isobel
Frances and Helen...

See, you can't go wrong!

Violet?

Camille?

Carmen

What did you decide on!?

How strange. A year later, my DH has made the same stipulation. We're down to:

Jocelyn
Evelyn
Gwen
Alice
Madeleine
Gretchen
Beatrice
Edith
Ruth
Judith

I like Morgan with your surname.

And Madeleine

Or Coral or Faith perhas, but two sylables is better

Colette
Carmel
Kathleen

Claire
Elizabeth
Abigail

i think a long name like elizabeth or seraphine or catherine goes well with roth

charlotte or maybe lucia or sophie

Ginger, thanks for starting this thread: I know where your DH is coming from - I find "ee" sounds can sometimes be a bit diminutive (let dd/ds choose them, for an nn, if they want it, but let's assume this person will grow into an adult) and our surname ends with an "ah" sound so would prefer not to saddle the poor soul with two of those in a row.

That said at 19 weeks we've not even started talking about names yet (saving that post sexing scan so we only need have half the conversations) so let's see where our short lists end up. Notable female scientists, anyone?

This thread is a year old

the OP will have had her baby long ago!

Harriet?

Started to read it then realised the same thing as you Itsawonderful

The baby will be about 9 months old by now.

I wonder what name they did choose though