Sister or Brother names for Charlotte!
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| Mon, 10-17-2005 - 4:25pm |
I just found out I am pregnant with my second child! Baby is due June 17th. My 15 month old Charlotte's name was determined after much agonizing on this board (anyone recall the Charlotte/Lola debate?).
So now I am tossing around names for the next one already!! (It took us 2 years and fertility treatments to conceive Charlotte so I am shocked and happy to be pregnant already!)
I would love suggestions. I love names that sound royal, Victorian, and kinda 1940's/1950's classic/traditional. ie Michael and Jane. Harry and Lila. Charles and Eleanor. In other words, names that are very popular right now! Of course, I want to be "unique", which I won't be (Charlotte is climbing!).
So far I have thought for a girl:
Lucy
Jane
Beatrice
for a boy:
Henry
Hugo
Augustus
Rawdon (this was the name of the hero from Vanity Fair with Reese Witherspoon--they named their son Rawdon also and called him Rawdy which I thought was cute)
I love Frederick nn Freddy but last name is Farley--I think that is too cruel)
Thanks so much!!!
Edited 10/17/2005 4:27 pm ET by ddatepj

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Out of the girls names you listed, I like Lucy and Beatrice best with Charlotte. Jane is nice too, but it seems too plain next to Charlotte. However, it would make a great mn. Beatrice is used far less then Lucy, if that's something you are looking for. Some other ideas:
Amelia
Cecily
Chloe
Eliza
Victoria
I'm not in love with any of the boy choices for a brother for Charlotte. I like most of them, just not with Charlotte. How about:
Edgar
Julian
Oliver
Jayme
mom to Johnathan Corey (1/16/01)
and Ethan James (10/15/03)
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good luck
tirtzah
It is so great to see so many familiar faces! Michelle, I remember your Rowan situation. I had Rowan as my boy name until last year when I decided it's gone girl for sure. I love Julian , Edmund, and Ambrose, perhaps Ambrose as mn. I also love Leland which I saw on a another list of yours. My dh has a cousin in England named Dermot, last name Desmond, son Brogan. I love Dermot but not with Charlotte, also Desmond nn des (pr Dez). Have also toyed with Dexter nn Dex. Hollis is good. Can't forget Graham! I love Graham, also intrigued by Bram and Brigham, nn Briggs. Hiram I like too. Lionel?
It's so funny that you mention Vivian, you and I determined before that Vivian is perhaps the best sounding name in the world to go with Farley. (also I love Lila with it--this was my girl name for 5 years until it was unknowingly stolen by a neighbor)
I love Anneliese, do you pr lees or leez? I don't want to go with a nother C and Nor a is a neighbor (I had to give up my beloved Eleanor)
I also love Edgar, Edmund, and Eustace. Oliver I like in theroy but reminds me of a very round boy. I like Dominic a lot, and would go over well with dh's all Irish family, who for boys only accepts Peters, Toms, and perhaps a few nouveau Irish name her and there.
Eveyln and Margaret are very pretty, my grandmother was Margaret. I like nn Greta. Caroline was taken by a friend.
I like Lucy as a little sister name. She would be the pesty cute one who gets her way, a girly girl. Jane I just love. I think it's poetry in a word. Jane Farley sounds so respectable, so crisp. Jane is a girl with possibilities. She can bring anything to her name, like a James or a Michaal. Jane with nut brown hair, Jane in a white organdy dress with a blue sash, Jane having her picture taken, Jane riding in a car, Jane dancing a waltz, Jane singing Christmas carols. Somewhere between Jane Eyre and See Spot Run, I guess!
I can't decide if I'm naming a boy something spunky and all-american (Henry), or brooding and romantic (Julian Ambrose, Rawdon James, Desmond Harris). Dh would go for the former, I lean toward the latter. Henry is nice because it's sort of both I think. Don't love it with Farley but that didn't stop me before.
btw, we had a similar crazy hospital scene. After my c-section, I made everyone leave the room but dh and baby girl. We had previously agreed on Lucy as a compromise to the great Charlotte/Lola debate. He shocked me by saying, "So, Charlotte?" I had to say "What about Lucy?", but he let me have Charlotte!! I guess it was the c-section!
Edited 10/19/2005 3:14 pm ET by ddatepj
How funny is it that I had consciously forgotten about my previous campaign for Vivian yet -- pop! -- there the name was again when I thought of a name for you?
Michelle
Graham May 1999, Lily P
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