I need a name for my LO.........

[UCM]

I was stuck on Pippa for yonks but have gone off it. Then latched on to Harriet but we live in Essex so poor child will be called 'Arriet'. Then liked Verity but Soapstar Superstar arrived on our screens.

I don't want anything in the Govt top 100 but want an old fashioned name, not made up...thats really unusual

see top 100 here

My surname is similar to Gilbert.

Can anyone help????

Poor you UCM! Hope you recover quickly!

BTW, I've thought of another name: Mathilde.

can I jsut say

tulip?

seriously?

ucm hope you are better soon. my god giving birth with a broken ankle...big sympathy...

Funnily enough my Dad went to school with a little girl called Tulip Norton. She had callipers on her legs and died when she was 9. He said she was lovely. That would've been in about 1940.

UCM - hope you mend soon - poor you.

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Does she know that 'Orchidectomy' is removal of testicles?

faith is my fave girls name

Esther, Ruth, Tess
Flora , Clara
Mae, Rose, Rosa
Ceri (Welsh)
Elena
Felicity
Florence

Take a look at this...
French Baby names
There's a link to Scottish baby names sites and if you explore the sponsored links you'll find even more countries I should think

orchid is love;y but does make me think of the testicles thing

ditti otis-lovely but-that ear medicine

mimosa. whats wrong with mimosa?

sounds like samosa???

hmm

or satsuma

oh well

Also, sounds a bit like 'Our kid' in a sort of Liverpudlian way! (I wouldnt' say this to anyone who loved the name for their own child, btw!)

lori-ann
woodey
willow
belle
minnie

Aloha, am strugging with that one. am saying it in a liverpudlian way, as best I can with my strongly RP accent, and just cannot make it work

anyway

Jemima

I know it has had problems but think it could be due a resurgance

and

Susan

(ditto)

Also love Martha - dh vetoed it for dd3.

Hebe
Florence
Thalia
Rosamund or Rosa
Cecilia
Lois
Josie/Josephine
Henrietta/Hetty
Deborah
Sophia
Agnes
Mabel
Elsa

Tess
Heloise
Violet
Nina
Sidney
Marnie
Margeaux
Nancy

oh yes, agnes

I love agnes

no one else seems to though

Helena?

I think it depends where you live too. When I lived in London, Jack and Ellie were both very uncommon names, but I knew several Inigos, Felixs and Clementines

Violet? Anyone else like Violet, I think it's lovely!

Ow, UCM...poor you! Hope you get better soon.

Must just add that I am really pleased to see my dd2's name (I thought I was the only person who liked it!) appearing at least 3 or 4 times here!

Poor you UCM, hope you are ok!

I love Violet, had bunnies called Mabel and Violet. They just got taken by a fox after xmas. I would have had them as baby names but i only have boys! Have 3, soon to be 5 sons and 1 dd!

My daugther is called Ella, she was the only one in pre-school and her last 2 schools, although it seems popular in some places.I have a friend whose daughter is called Ocean, unusual but with her big blue eyes really suits her. My grandma ws called Frances, another nice name.

Camille

Tahlia/Thalia

Both lovely names

Honor/Honoria
Libby
Gillian
Patricia/Patsy
Margarethe
Amelia
Stephanie
Samantha
Fenella

And if you're wondering where I dug these up from, I'm perusing my old Christine Pullein-Thompson novels!

Before you decide, UCM, double check on bounty.com. They have a thing to check the popularity of a particular name. Several names I had in mind thinking they were still unusual turned out to be only just outside the top 100.