Help us with a girls name, please

[Thomcat]

We have played with Eve / Evie for the new bubaloo but it's just not sticking, something is preventing us both for going for it, and I don't know what / why. Perhaps we'll suddenly feel it and go for it, but maybe not.

Other contenders are:

Lauren
Amelie

Last night D said he really liked the name Saskia, I'm not so sure.

It has to semi go a bit with Carlotte / Lottie (our eldest DD) and her last name begins with M and you makes a 'moy' sound.

Any comments on the names we have thought of and any other suggestions?

Pippa is a great name and is now quite unusual

What does Lottie think?

If ds had been dd2 (dd is Anna) we had on our shortlist:

Sadie (but Sarah on birth certificate)
Rosa
Tess
Kate
Jemma

Sadie was my fave as it reminded me of a really feisty old lady I used to know - the type who does 30 lengths of the swimming pool before breakfast every morning when she's 80. I also think it goes really well with Lottie

i love harriet

wish it wasnt dd1s middle name

tc our shortlist (although 3 months to go) is currently:

Susanna
Kate
Pippa (dh likes it)
Sasha
Beatrice (hmmmmmmmm like Bea but not sure)

Just read some of this and found you also call your DD pickle (I do that).

Any way I wanted to call my DD Felicity Hope, but DH said 'NO', so I went back to the baby name book and found Nadine (meaning hope), so we now have Nadine Beth.

Natasha
Jennifer
Imogen
Olivia (Liv/libby)
Beth
Theresa (Tess)

Do you have any 'roots' you can claim ?
There are tons of nice Celtic names etc.

nooooo, not Pippa Enid and TC! You have to exercise some dh control!

There are so many other nicer names around (and on your lists...)

TC how about Anna? I think it is completely versatile - classless, dateless, classic and sweet. Good for a baby, child, adult. And sounds sweet with Lottie.

You can still have Harriet, Enid - GDG's boys only have about 4 names between them IIRC

Susannah prettier than Susanna
Katharine more flexible than Katie
Sasha is Russian diminutive for Alexandra
Beatrice/Bea lovely

and don't forget classic, incredibly adaptable, Elizabeth. (If I had a girl now I'd definitely call her Elizabeth.)

TC, just call her Junior Daughter until you make a decision! (Or baby, like Aloha?)

There was a little girl at softplay today called Cara, I thought that was lovely

I like the following names:

Luisa
Abbey
Adrienne
Faye
Anna
Eve
Judy
Keeley
Melanie

She's still called Baby a great deal of the time!

DD2 gets called Porglyworgeous.

Jan I left Elizabeth off

we all like that esp dd1 who thought of it!

not massively keen on Liz or Beth though but there you go

pph dont worry there is no way she is going to be Pippa- you know our surname - how showjumpery is that!!??

imagine it said in full county accent

Anna is now on list

Verity
Hope
Fionnuala
Aisling
Niamh
Ava
Louise

All the girls' names that I'm not going to get a chance to use myself, now!

Yvonne
Siobhan

But there are so many shortenings of Elizabeth though.

I like Naimh, think it sounds quite cooly classy and aloof.

Preferably when spelt correctly

Claudine
Dominique
Raphaelle
Leonora
Antonia
Theodora
Thomasina

phew, relieved to hear that Enid.

You would be damning her to a life of large spready buttocks in jodphurs....!

I think Anna is lovely, works for every type of person/personality. You could be tall, tiny, dark, blonde, an artist or a prime minister, and be called Anna.
And I've never known a nasty one.

Just call her Lottie, TC and be done with it. It saves you the trouble of having to remember which child you're talking to.