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 .... ????????

Copper, where on earth did you get those from?

www, sorry, I didn't think you wanted an Indian name as such but some of the ones in the Indian list are quite universal (IYSWIM).

Lily - my fave
martha - dh's fave
rosie, rebecca,

lily - my fave
martha - dh's fave
we have a ds tho

ooops

Eloise??

Cor blimey ... you lot have been busy while I was sleeping

Your suggestions are all fantastic ....
My shortlist now ...
Rosie
Alice
Grace
Beth
Louisa (my grandmother was Louisa ... nick named Lou Lou)

I love Ella and Ellie ... but something is making me hesitate ... do you think Ellie would be nicknamed Nellie the Elephant if she happened to be a bit on the tubby side???

I like things like Molly and Poppy but I have friends with dds with those already ....

Katherine is also a favourite but DH's sister is called Kate and I know lots of other Kates ...

Isabel is also gorgeous .... I wanted that for DS if he was a girl but my dad ruined it by saying "Isabel necessary on a bike!"

Isn't it funny how association ruins names for you? I said Alice to DH yesterday and he suddenly shouted, "Alice, Alice, who the f**k is Alice?" ... didn't someone do some awful spoof of a song once??

Also being an ex teacher I think of a name and then think of a child that I have taught and think ... "Oh no ... definitely not!"

Eliza was also what DS was going to be and so when he was born and was a boy that name sort of disappeared on me ....

PS ... Don't want to post DS's name for the same reason as WWW ... anonymity ... but like I say there were 7 English kings ... and we have shortened it to a name that goes with Bear (NOT Pooh )

Thanks everyone ....

Hugs

Ghosty xxxx

PS ... WWW there are quite a few Indian names that don't sound too Indian though ... I am trying to think of some for you now ...

Ooh I'll have a look then Janh. Sorry, am being dozy atm, brain crammed as it is with fear of childbirth!

Copper, Damaris would be better if it wasn't also the name of a naughty knicker brand nowadays

Ghosty, isn't that "Alice, Alice, who the f* is Alice?" an Arlo Guthrie song? May have to go and look it up now...

Cor, I'm sad. The Arlo Guthrie song is Alice's Restaurant and the other one was Smokie, apparently. I remember it vaguely.

My DD is Ella Jean (middle name after DH's mum), but she also could've been Lily Jane (after both our grandmothers).

That horrible foul mouthed comedian covered it a few years ago, ummmmmmmmmmm, Chubby Brown. VILE

Ghosty - that was dp's objection to Alice too!

I wouldn't worry too much about possible nicknames - nasty kids can turn anything into something not very nice.

Wallace?

He he he phillipat

Actually Queen Philippa was one of said English king's wives, (I? III? who knows!)

Ghosty I'm so pleased you like Louisa. My dad calls her Lou Lou, we call her Weezle or Louisa.

I really wanted Nell but dh had a dog called Nell when he was young so he didn't. Liked Nadya too.

I made a mistake didn't I Phillipat? ... there were 8 weren't there? And a descendant is in the news a bit at the mo ....
CD ... I really like Louisa ... DH isn't so sure but I can work on that
My mum is called Louise and she was called Weezle or Weezie as a little girl ... now she is Lou ...

Ghlsty, there were 8 but if you blinked you missed the last one!

Tell you what, call her number one daughter until youmake your minds up.

The Alice song was by Smokie - "for 23 years I've been living next door to Alice" (????)

Call me thick but I have no idea which king we are talking about - goes with bear? Can't think

Ghosty, my dd is a Rosie Grace

I'm trying to think of traditional names...

Eve, Rebecca, Charlotte, Emma, Joanna, Sarah, Imogen, Katherine/Katie, Laura...

jan is that the one...... alice, alice who the f**k is alice?

fio, that's the song but originally there wasn't a f* in it - it was copied by someone else! - not sure about 23 either - it was 20-something though...

I know, I know - I was joking!

Oops. Sorry, fio!

Roy 'Chubby' Brown did the cover version.