halp me, pulease!!

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

so here i sit, with 3w2d remaining til i'm due and can you believe i still don't have a baby name? i'm just going to straight up ask for help here, ok?

these are the things that are important to me in a baby name:

-popularity, it shouldn't be ranked high on the SSN list. so names like Sophia, Lily, Ava are out for me...as they're all in the top 10. but i do love all of them, so maybe you have an idea of my "taste"

-unique, it shouldn't be too plain. no offense, but while Mary, Jane and Ann are classic names, they don't "POP" enough for my tastes.

-uneek, it shouldn't be too uneek. i don't want my daughter confused for one of frank zappa's children...so Diva, Moon, Dweezil are out. but thanks.

-tough, i really like tough names on girls. if i had it my way, i'd name my daughter a unisex name like Elliot, but that name simply sounds horrible w/ my last name, so it's out. I do want something strong, though. Something that makes you think of a "sturdy" lady. Tegan, Scotia, Wren, Georgia, are all those kind of names for me and have all been vetoed by my dear husband.

-matchy/matchy, my 9y/o daughter's name is Isabel Lark. Mind you please that 9 years ago, Isabel wasn't ranked on any name lists but has since grown popular. We call her Izzy mostly, but I don't want any rhyme time names w/ Isabel, so Isadora, Anabell, Abigail, Isla are all out for me.

So if you have a few minutes and you've read my criteria, what name would you suggest? I really appreciate you reading this, if you're still reading this.

TIA!! Seriously.

(edit: oh yeah, duh, it's a girl incase you couldn't figure that out)


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Comments

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

Charlotte? Charlie as a nickname?
Francesca? Frankie as a nicname?

[traezer.livejournal.com]

Xanthe

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

Charlotte is really cute/ of course Charlie as a nn...but I feel like that is pretty popular, no?

Frankie is cute, but I dunno.

thanks a million!!

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

prn X-Antay?

we have a big printing outfit here w/ that name and that's all I can think of. haha.

cute, though.

Thanks!!

[polly-purebred.livejournal.com]

I always thought that Casey was kind of a spunky name for a girl.

[polly-purebred.livejournal.com]

I also like Molly. We were going to use that name for our little one, but we saw a penis on the ultrasound! =) We're saving it for the next one.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Harlow/Marlow
Geneva
Scarlett
Leah
Blythe
Roisin (prn.Ro-SHEEN)...yes, it's out there, but maybe you like it =))
Juna
Leanne
Carmine
Cressa
Cecilia/Cecily
Mia
Thessaly
Janine
Nina
Ruby
Taryn


Good luck =D!

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

*Also an option: Helicia. It was once mentioned here and I remembered it because it means sunshine, which is nice! =)

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

Piers Anthony!

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

Charlotte isn't in the top 100, but I think it's close.

Those are the name my husband vetoed, but I ended up having boys anyway :(

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

Lydia
Penelope
Helena
Sienna
Leila
Cecily/Cecelia
Laurel
Lucia
Savannah

[morphinae.livejournal.com]

S names came to mind, cuz of your previous choices.

Samantha
Samara (love this one)
Sidra ;) (I'm sorry, I love it!)

Some of my personal favs I can't use:
I always tell people I love Elise, cuz I do.
I love Norah, but Jason refuses to use it.
Aurora
Alora
Carly
Kaida (guilty pleasure)
Lily

...Ok, I'm drawing a blank now. More later maybe.

[lipsty.livejournal.com]

Wren is gorgeous! Is there any way that you can unveto it?

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Eleanor. The tough thing makes me think that. I prefer feminine "tough" names and not masculine "tough" names because I don't think that someone has to be masculinized to be tough, you know what I mean? I guess that's why I hate unisex names so much.

What about...
Morgan
Lena
Eden
Casey
Ivy
Arden
Sydney
Ainsley
Alexandra (Alex?)
Caroline
Josephine/Jocelyn (Joey?)
Maren/Marin
Audrey
Dalaney/Lane
Charlotte (Charlie?)

I was thinking maybe something like Alexandra or Josephine or Charlotte where there's a possibility of a "tough" nickname -- Alex, Jo(ey), Charlie.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Rhiannon is very fierce, not so popular, yet not unheard of.

Other suggestions:
Mallory
Raissa
Josephine
Norah
Tabitha
Sharon

WDYT?

[smasharash.livejournal.com]

Esme
Eve
Faye
Fern
Felicity
Genevieve
Jamie
Phoebe
Robin
Tamsin
Zoe

I think they are all pretty "sturdy"

[kristinwitha-k.livejournal.com]

I think we may have similar taste in names, so I'll list few I know I love. :-)

Harper
Tamsin
Ruby
Evelyn
Stella
Arden
Louisa
Willa
Scarlett
Ivy
Eden
Violet

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

adria
adrienne
ainsley
audra
audrey
aurora (possible nn: rory)
azura
camille
cora
dagney
eden
emerson
emery
fallan
greer/grier
harlow
harper
kai
luca (possibly nn: lucy)
maeve
matilda
mia
morgan
nora
parker
piper
quinn
reese
rowan
shiloh
sloane
stella
tess

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

oh dur. gotcha now.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

from your list, the ones that stand out most to me are:

Augusta (vetoed by SO)
Penelope (do you think it's too popular)
Tatum (just plain cute, cute, cute. love it)
Josephine (i think that's gonna be the next Sophia, wdyt?)

My husband likes:
Sasha (i don't want to do Sasha. it's kind of frou frou to me, I guess.)

My daughter likes:
Noelle (i'm indifferent to that.)

This is a good list, thanks!!

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if that is where she is getting the name from, but Piers Anthony is my favorite author (I geek it out), and he has a series called Xanth..

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

Casey is cute, but I know a Casey and I wouldn't want to be confused as naming my baby after that weirdo. hah. I'm impossible, aren't i?!!

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

Molly is adorable. I think probably growing in popularity. I couldn't use it b/c a good friend of ours, they just named their baby Molly and I don't know how they'd feel about us doing that too. haha.

But i DO love it.

[girlsknowbest.livejournal.com]

Of your list, these are the ones I love:

Marlo(w)
Blythe (vetoed, tried that one early in the game)
Juna is adorable, love it.
Thessaly is simply beautiful and it fits all of my criteria. I should look it up, for sure. Thanks! Do you know much about it's origins?
Nina is cute, but vetoed

Thanks. Good list!!

[plaidpineapple.livejournal.com]

I just realized I typed Cecily/Cecelia right after someone else! How weird. I didn't even see it.