do these names go

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annie and alfie? we already have the alf, am pg now, convinced it's a girl. is it too cute?

no opinions?

Not too cute but if you called her Anne or Anna you could still use annie and she could be Anne when she was older.

I think they sound lovely together

It's fine. You have my permission

yes, i was going to give a longer name to shorten to annie. alfie is an alfred.

ofcourse, my feminine intuition could be wrong...

there are some books about 'alfie' and he has a little sister annie-rose. don't know if this would bother you? or could be a good set of books to get

It's lovely! I love the name Annie, I aways think of super-cool Annie Hall...

Shirley Hughes' Alfie and Annie-Rose books are rather great - so wouldn't be a bad association to be lumbered with.

Use just Annie if that's what you like.

Anna is a lovely name too.

I love Anny, was thinking of Rosanna as a long name.

If I had an Alfred/Alfie, I would want to give Annie a longer name too.

Annabelle, Annalise, Marianne, Johanna.... lots of choices?

I have a really good friend called Annie but her 'proper name' is Joanne, but has been called Annie since she came out of the womb!

Reminds me of the Shirley Hughes books too

Very cute!

...but I meant that in a good way ...

i'm pretty sold already. i mentioned it to my mum earlier. she said 'hmm, that's nice, how about mary?'!

Annie is very nice, as is Anna if you want to use that as the official name. Alfie is more downmarket, they don't go together IMO.

ouch.. we already have an alfie. but thanks for the feedback anyway, tasala.

Lovely combination, not a bit too cutesy.

thanks math.

Sounds great to me.