Brother or Sister for Verity

[Valinor]

We are on team yellow and can't seem to agree on a name for Verity's little brother or sister.

DH likes Imogen, Phoebe, Tamsin, Hugo, Elliot and altho I don't mind any of these they aren't 'the one'.

I want to find a name which like Verity is relatively unusual but everyone has heard of and a name where spelling isn't an issue. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Our sn is 1 syllable and begins with an M so 1 syllable fn's ten to be out as they sound too blunt together.

Thanks

Verity is a lovely name. I'd say Cecily sounds like her sister!

I love Phoebe and Hugo from your list.

Rafaella
Olympia
Lucrezia
Frederica
Calypso
Octavia
Christabel

Girl
Zara
Eleanor
Poppy
Bella
Lucille
Elizabeth
Sarah

Boy
Freddie
Edward
Ellis
Michael
Aidan

Verity and Christabel sounds wonderfully 1930s together.

Verity is lovely.

I know a family with a Verity, Martha & Louis.

I like Phoebe with Verity too.

I know 2 Veritys and both have brothers called Felix.

Marianne or am I the only one that likes a bit of alliteration? If not, how about

Marcus
Meredith
Margot

Are you also wishing to avoid names with obvious one syllable nicknames eg Matthew?

At my old school there were three sisters called Verity, Elizabeth and Olivia. Lovely names i thought

It doesn't really matter that the nn is only 1 syllable. We call Verity 'V' a lot of the time anyway. In an ideal world I suppose the nn would be 1+ syllable but I don't want to narrow the field too much as ultimately you never know what nn the child will end up with anyway.

I really like Cecily but not sure if it's too rhymey with Verity?

I like Christabel (nn Belle, not Chris) a lot too and Felix.

A lot of M names don't sound right with our sn for some reason altho Meredith doesn't sound too bad. Maybe it's the 3 syllables? Unfortunately Meredith to me is a sn.

Elizabeth and Olivia are out for family reasons. Olivia is a bit too popular for me too.....I know quite a few under 5 already.

Thanks for the suggestions tho they are great.

Tabitha
Harriet
Eleanor
Willow
Emmeline

William
Charles
Thomas
Rufus
Patrick

Cecilia

I know a Verity who has sisters called Emily and Harriet and a brother, Henry.

Children are individuals and shouldn't be tailored into sets or pairs.
It truly doesn't matter if the names don't "go" together, just pick a name you like.

If dc3 is a girl then she will almost certainly be Verity, which means that she will have a sister called Philippa (Pippa) and a brother called Duncan Elliot.

DC3 wasgoing to be Verity. But he was a boy so we never got to use it.

My suggestions

Tom
Jonathan
Esme
Anna
Thea
Samuel
Gregory
Sara
Noel
Noelle
Una

Wesley

CaveMum - if you read my original post I didn't say that the name had to 'go' with Verity, I just wanted ideas for a name which like Verity is relatively unusual but everyone has heard of and a name where spelling isn't an issue

I don't want to just pick a name I like, I want to love it - that's why I'm asking for suggestions. If I didn't give posters anything to go on I may as well just read the name book from cover to cover.

Celia
Celeste
Cordelia
Beatrice
Penelope
Constance

Hugo
Hector
George
Timothy
Nicholas

I think Phoebe and Imogen from your original list are lovely.

Other mainstream but not overused girls' names I can think of include:

Felicity
Miriam (3 syllables and an M!)
Rachel
Naomi
Louisa
Laura
Esther
Ruth
Lydia
Olive

For boys how about

Joel
Jonah
Michael
Benedict
Henry
Philip?

Miranda, Celia or Viola?

I don't think Verity is very unusual. I know of two under three years.

Beatrice
Isabel
Constance
Amelia
Martha
Clementine

Thomas
Frederick
Alfred
William
N icholas
Alexander

Imogen, Phoebe, Tamsin, Hugo, Elliot

I like your DH's choices - Imogen would also have been one of my first suggestions and I also love Elliot. The rest are nice too.

Felicity
Harriet
Caroline
Lillian
Eloise
Thalia
Lara
Ivy
Florence
Rosalie
Saskia
Juli et
Delilah
Georgina
Beatrice
Carys
Annelise
Adeline
Elinor
Emilia

Edward
Julian
Marcus
Henry
Frederick
Lawrence
Elias
Theodore
Oscar
Dominic
Atticus
Silas
Linus
Nicholas
Reube n

Verity is quite unusual - it was 363rd most popular name for little girls in England & Wales in 2008, with 121 little girls named Verity that year.

Considering that list of name charts runs into tens of thousands, it is not unusual at all. Those are from 2008 anyway.
I don't dislike it, I'm just surprised by names some people think are unusual.

My suggestion of Clementine is twice as unusual, yet it's always described as becoming popular on here.