I've had enough now - Name my baby. I am quite honestly sick and tired of thinking I like something then changing my mind. :0(

[LadyOfTheFlowers]

Have 3 boys, this will be my first and only daughter - think this is why it seems so hard to choose the right name.

Names have included:

Eleanor
Lydia
Sophia
Eloise
Alexia/Alexis
Sienna
Verity
Bryony

Latest was Sophia but I have caught wind of this becoming popular and most Sophias getting called Sophie anyway which is a totally different name IMO and I'm not as keen.

Didn't want anything really popular.

Can't have Rose as it bleeds into our surname, as does Eloise actually as a first name.

Surname is 2 syllables beginning with S very similar to Simpson.

I am not going to be much help because I like all of your choices.

If a gun was being held to my head though to choose one it would have to be:

aaargh too difficult

would have to be either Elouise or Alexia

Actually, Alexia.

Beautiful name. Please choose it. I would if I could have another dd. Absolutely gorgeous.

Just to add Lady, I have been through this FOUR TIMES with girl's names.

Call her Alexia.

You won't regret it. And I will be so jealous.

I can totally empathise!

Had my 1st DD named from being about 16 weeks pregnant and told I was having a girl. This name stuck in my mind and was the only name I considered.

With dd2 I couldn't find out the sex before the birth and I was convinced she was a boy, and had 2 boys names chosen and ready. For girls I had a list of about 10 names and could not decide.

When DD2 was born I just got to know her for a few hours and seriously a name just popped into my mind. Both her names had been on my list at one time or another,but not together. I just felt those 2 names were 'her'. So don't panic just yet, maybe after the birth something will spring to mind and be perfect.

Verity or Lydia. Or Claudia?

How about Felicity? It's always been stronly associated with Verity in my mind, hence suggesting it. It happens it lend it's self to Ci-Ci too...

What's the boys name you'd have used?

If you like Sophia what about Sonia / Sonya?

Charlotte?

Other suggestions for Ci-ci

Lucille
Priscilla

Um, I'll have a think of some more ...

Or what about Circe? (pronounced SIR-see - a Roman sorceress)

Won't Alexis have the same problem as Eloise in bleeding into your last name?

Not very positive I know, but just thought it might help to at least take one off the shortlist. Agree it might be best just to wait and see what she looks like.

S names would definitely be good, I think, for a girl with an S- last name. Sounds proper old-school glam film star.

Elodie?

Alexis would bleed into surname yes, so would be Alexia or Alexa instead I guess.

Charlotte has also been on the list - forgot that one - but think that has recently boomed in popularity, no?

It is so hard.

What do we think about Rosina? Is it a bit 'meh'?
Rose is my favourite ever name and anything else along those lines doesn't seem to cut it. They don't seem as good as straight forward Rose....

Eleanor - like this a lot but prefer Elinor
Lydia - nice
Sophia
Eloise - really like this. Wanted it for dd1 but dp vetoed.
Alexia/Alexis - don't like
Sienna - don't like
Verity - like a lot
Bryony

You have some nice names here!

Charlotte is nice. Don't like Rosina at all, sorry.

More ideas:

Marianne
Naomi
Beatrice
Yolande
Clover
Harriet

Verity gets my vote

I love Grace, but from your list Sienna

What about Atalanta; one of the children that i used to nanny for was called Atalanta and it was shortened to Lante, which was so cute and unusual. If its out of the ones you've listed then i like Briony best and was thinking about it for our DD but DH was not so keen. Good luck with the choice.

Was very sure i was going to call my ds Ben, my friend even bought a book about Ben the bunny. But with 3 weeks to go dh worked up the courage (took me out for a lovely meal public place) and told me that his dead dog was called Ben. Ds is now Joshua.

I finally decided on my dd name on the way to the registery office and even then worried about it for days afterwards. Cannt image her called anything else now it so suits her - Naomi.

They're all lovely, so difficult to choose, I think I prefer Verity.

My current favourite though is Vanessa.

Rosina
Rosanna
Rosetta?

Love the name Sophia. Sophia Lorren was gorgeous. Thats my vote.

Don't listen to them Lady.

It's Alexia. You know it. I know it.

Does it matter too much if Rose "bleeds" into your surname, as you said?

It's nice to get a combination of first and last names that flow together well, but unless it sounds absolutely stoopid, it doesn't really matter if it's slightly off.

If she marries she'll only have this combo for a few years anyway. Then she'll have pot luck with her husband's surname!

But she'll always be lovely Rose.

Roses - I have a Naomi too! Dp and I agonised over her name as we were either poles apart in our choices or the ones we both liked didn't 'go' with his surname so we 'settled' on Naomi but I'm so glad we did. Pretty and not too common, unlike dd2's name (I think there are 3 in her class!).