Which girl name do you like best?? Da...

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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 2:05pm

Which girl name do you like best?? Daughter's name is Savannah Grace



  • Annabelle Kate
  • Lauren Jessica
  • Teagan Annabelle
  • Isabelle Kate


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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 2:27pm

I almost voted for Annabelle Kate until I realized that both girls would have "anna" in their names. Savannah and Annabelle is just a little too much, IMO, especially if one of them ever decides to go by Anna, Ann, or Annie.

Lauren Jessica is nice, but not as pretty as Savannah Grace, IMO, and I don't think Teagan is feminine enough next to Savannah. So by process of elimination, Isabelle Kate gmv, and I think that's a beautiful name.

Other ideas (if you're still looking)...
Charlotte
Alyssa
Julia
Tessa (or Theresa/Teresa, nn Tessa/Tess)
Claudia
Caroline
Felicity
Genevieve
Melanie
Vivian
Eliza (or Elizabeth, nn Eliza)

Good luck finding the perfect name!
Stephanie, mom to Megan Joy (nn Meg) and Julianna May (nn Annie)

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Registered: 12-28-2005
Fri, 12-01-2006 - 4:26pm
I voted for Isabelle Kate, but I prefer it as Isabella. That's on our list too! I'm trying to talk dh into letting Kate be a potential mn, but he likes Marie right now. I also really like Annabelle and Annabella, but thought it was too similar to Savannah, with it having the anna sound in it as well. Good luck!
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Registered: 12-09-2005
Fri, 12-01-2006 - 7:19pm

I do like Annabelle, but I don't like the "ann" sound would be in both girls names- savANNah and ANNabelle... I voted for Teagan.

-Nikki


                             
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Registered: 10-27-2005
Fri, 12-01-2006 - 7:48pm

My first reaction was that Annabelle was the only first-name choices that made a good match for Savannah, both being romantically feminine with an old-fashioned, southern-tinged charm (to me, at least). I do see the point raised by the previous posts that both names have -anna- in them, though (I don't see Anna as a likely nickname for Savannah, however, and I think an Annabelle would more likely go by Belle or Bella than Anna), which is a little problematic.

Teagan I think is much too gender-neutral to match with Savannah. I personally think the name is all-girl, it looks very wrong to me on a boy, but still it's not very feminine in sound. Lauren, too, is much less frilly than Savannah and the two don't work together for me. I like Isabelle, the Scottish Isobel being a favourite of mine. I think it could work, though it doesn't have the same feel as Annabelle despite the similar sound. I would caution, though, that she would probably be called Isabella routinely, as that version is very, very trendy right now (here in Canada, with more of a French influence, I see Isabelle/Isabel/Isobel more often, though Isabella is still in the lead, but Isabella seems to be much more popular in the US).

If you decide that the double-anna concern rules out Annabelle for you, you might consider Amabel/Amabelle - historically Annabelle probably originated as a form of this name rather than as a compound of Anna and Belle, though Amabel is now much less common. There is also Arabelle (though the Latinate Arabella is the norm) and my great-great grandmother was Mary Belle or Maribelle (19th century records being rather inconsistent with spellings). Many other two-syllable names could work in compounds with Belle/Bella - most would be quite rare in actual usage, though they still seem familiar in sound. I have seen Rosibelle, Zoebelle, Corabelle, Mirabelle, Christabelle and Claribelle, for example.

I also like the suggestions of Caroline, Genevieve, and especially Charlotte or Felicity with Savannah. Others that occur to me are Angelica, Lydia, Marguerite, Regina, Rowena, Marina, Delilah, Magnolia, Sequoia, Delia, Natasha or Natalia, Nicolette, Camelia or Camille or Camilla, Helena, Linnea, Lorena, Aurora or Aurelia, Cynthia, Desiree, Ginevra, Gwendolyn, Althea or Anthea, Clarissa, Emmeline, Melinda or Belinda or Clarinda, Claudia, Cecily, Amelia, Lucinda, Adaline, Cassandra, Amandine (Amanda sounds too sing-song-like, for lack of a better word, with Savannah... much more so than Annabelle), Augusta, or Virginia. Apologies if any of those are duplicates; most are rather more uncommon than your choices, but not unheard-of.

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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 10:32pm
I like Annabelle Kate- it seems to "match" your other daughter's name without being actually "similar". I think that both Savannah and Annabelle have a slight certain Southern "frilly-ness" to them, so they seem to go well together. I just like the two as a pair a lot. And Kate and Grace are both timeless names, so I think they both work well as middle names as well. :-) I think it's a great choice. Isabelle would be a close second for me... Lauren is nice but pretty common and I'm just not a fan of Teagan. But Annabelle I really love... :-) Best of luck!
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Sun, 12-03-2006 - 5:39pm

I like your Charlotte suggestion.
today I saw the name Starlotte in the credits of the movie Deja Vu.
I thought "what a pretty name"

Starlotte Kate

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Sun, 12-03-2006 - 8:55pm
I like Isabelle Kate best as a sister for Savannah Grace.






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