Help with a name combination

[twitchywoman.livejournal.com]

Someone very dear to me died 7 months ago from Alzheimer's and I want to honor her somehow in my children's name.  No matter what, the first child I have will be named after her in someway.  If I have a boy, the middle name will be her last name, Manning.  If I have a girl, I'm stuck.  Her name was Linda Susan (first and middle) and I don't know how to combine or use those names in a middle name.  I guess I'm looking for variants of those names too.  I'm not particularly fond of the name Linda, but I would use it for her.

Here are some of my favorite girl names:
Ada
Aurelia
Esme
Esther
Katherine
Liesl
Louisa
Violet

Comments

[roseofjuly.livejournal.com]

One idea is to use another name that has similar sounds. Like for Linda, you could use Lynn, Linden, Linnea, Lindsay (hypothesized to be a related name), Melinda, Belinda, or Kalinda. Or for Susan you can go with Susanna or Susannah. I like Susanna as a middle name for Ada, Esther, Liesl, Violet, and Katherine. The Hebrew version of Susanna is Shoshana.

You could also go for a meaning thing. Susan means "lily", so you could go for Lily. It also could refer to lotus flowers or "joy of life/to be joyful, bright or cheery." You could go with other names that mean lotus; they tend to be from non-European languages (like Sadira and Padma). Or you can go with names that refer to joy, like Rena ("joyous melody") and Letitia ("joy, gladness"). Linda has a lot of potential meanings (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_%28name%29).

You could also pick a name that has a meaning that refers to your friend...like strength, grace, courage, etc. That would need to be explained, though, and nobody would immediately get it.