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[oni85.livejournal.com]

Names for girl children are hard. grrrrr.

I like Elisabeth and Ella - but both are super common.

If you had to choose... what is your number one, super awesome choice?

Maybe it'll inspire me to make a choice.

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[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Harriet.

However, everyone hates it. So I'd probably go with Anne/Annie.


What about Eliza or Eleanor? Eliza is less common, but still similar, and Eleanor could be Ella, but could also be the less-common Norah if the popular of Ella bothered you.

[oni85.livejournal.com]

norah = BEAUTIFUL

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

I love Norah, too:)

[oni85.livejournal.com]

ps
I knew a really cute/funny woman named Harriet and I have total positive associations with that name.

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

See, I always see "old" sounding names seeming spunky on a little girl/teenager and intelligent and unique on an adult. I have ones like Louisa, Harriet, Eleanor, Anne, Margaret, Matilda, etc. on my list, but Harriet just seems like "too much" to most people. With most of those, I can at least get a nickname that people won't pick on (Mattie, Meg, Ellie, etc.), but with Harriet it's too much of a battle, haha.

[oni85.livejournal.com]

Matilda!

I forgot about this one - so gorgeous.

As a girl, Tilly?

And adult, Matilda?

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

I like Mattie better -- it seems more contemporary as a nickname, which is what I'd like to go for -- old fashioned/timeless given name with the possibility of a cute/trendy/hip nickname if necessary. Tilly seems just as old fashioned to me as Matilda (but I do think it's cute!).

My top four right now are Anne/Annie, Margaret/Meg, Eleanor/Ellie, and Louisa/possibly Lia, but probably just Louisa.

[nearlyalegume.livejournal.com]

I know a Harriet who is about 13, and she's just Harriet. She doesn't need a nickname, because her name suits her completely.