Help needed .... to find a girl's name I like!!!!!

[Ghosty]

Hello everyone ......
I need help .... with 10 weeks to go in this pregnancy I am beginning to think of names for our baby ... and am stuck!!!!
DH and I are pretty much at one with a boy's name that we both like (managed to dissuade DH from Bert and Frank ) so there is no problem there but when it comes to a girl's name we are in serious trouble and if we have a girl I can just see that she won't have a name for months ... bit like Edward and Sophie!!!

What I am after is some suggestions .... I hate baby naming books ... I get to C and fall asleep ... I never get past F!

We are looking for a name that goes with DS's name ... but I really don't want to post DS's name here so that is not really helpful ... sorry
Suffice it to say that his name is a very traditional English name (can think of a few kings that were named this ... not Henry, James or William) .... so I am after a traditional English girl's name ... that isn't too poncy or posh ... something pretty. My favourite girl's name is Rose/Rosie but a very close friend of mine had a baby last month and called her that so DH doesn't think we can have that ....
So ... sorry for the rambling post .... let's have it girls .... I need loads of suggestions!!!
Any ideas for me to start working on .... ????????

Close friends of mine who have recently had girls have gone for:

Olivia
Layla
Connie

Think Connie is nice.

Like Natalie and Nadia too

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I love Alice too - wanted it for DD2 but DH didn't like it.

I only know one Alice - she is 15 and is lovely. (At primary school she was referred to by the older girls as Perfect Alice.)

Behind the Name looks like a useful website - I know Ghosty didn't want a book but this is divided by language etc so it's a bit different. There's an Indian list, www!

I like Alice too (dd is called Lauren Alice). Also like Juliet, Ingrid, Ines and Saskia. Not very 'traditional english' I'm afraid...Hope you tell us what you decide in the end!

You can have my name, www, or either of my girls' middle names.

How about Rachel or Gabriella? Do you like flower names, if you want Rose you should go for it Ghosty! Willow is abeautiful name, there are so many beautiful flower and plant names--

i like Elisa too (as in doolittle), Willow is GORGEOUS, sounds so elegant

Eleanor is traditional and lovely shortened to Ellie.

My neighbour has just called her kitten Marley which I think is lovely

Hello other Mum's. I have just joined the Website and thought I would join in the conversation.

I think Dulcie is a lovely name for a girl.

fancy calling a baby motherinferior!

Don't know if these have been mentioned, not all English but old names

Minette
Henrietta
Aurelia
Sarah
Clarissa
Maria
Sophie
Louise
Or some Bloomsbury names..
Vanessa
Angelica
Helen
Nerissa
Violet
Julia
Janie
Constance
Virginia
Lydia
Frances
Ottoline (!)
Mary

Welcome RumbleTummy

Thanks Aloha. Ghosty must have most of her book of names posted in this conversation by now.....have you got a short list?

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hi
We called our third daughter Joy following the death of our second. We called our fourth daughter Hope Angel and when my eigth baby is born in four months its called "final one"

Eight??? Aaargh! You are a brave woman. Maybe Octavia?

Martha? Amy? Meg? Isobel (Izzy)? Hazel? Corra? Connie?Olivia (Libby)?

Or 2 names that are at my dds school that are v.old English names but unusual are Afra (shortened to Afi) and Teuta, said "toota", she gets shortened to Toots.

HTH, Good Luck.

Ghosty, I bet you wish you'd stuck to reading the book as this is turning into a few chapters now isn't it!!

DD is called Mollie.

We also quite liked Poppy, Lily, Anna, Maisie, Ellie, Olivia, India, Emily...

MI, thanks, hmm, baby inferiore! Lucy123 and others, I don't think we want an Indian name for this one since Dp is English (ex dh is Indian, hence ds's Indian name) so it would be a bit odd I think, but they do have to go together. In fact, when I first told ds I was pregnant he said could we please call it Pritesh because Pritesh is one of his friends! Ghosty, what about Aurora? I think you should go with Rose or Rosie though if you really love it. Whoever asked why we don't want to post names here, for me it's because it will completely identify me to anyone who even vaguely knows me (I just looked, there aren't that many boys with that name in the UK) and I like my semi anonymity here.

Hi just checked in on this thread and i would just like to reply to codswallop's comment on my name choice. I have a dd named Amber and she is far from a naughty girl!!!! Sorry just could not resist saying that.

isla - kennedy - brooke -kirsten -lilly louise -

Ghosty
how about some of the 'new' seventeenth century names:
Mirabel
Damaris
Flower
Abria
Tibertia
Maris
Angeletta
or some of the older English ones still in use then
Ureth (no, no)
Garthride
Rabidge
Duglas
Kinborough
Richord

real names all of them ..