Hello!
My assorted thoughts are:
- Annie could be a very sweet nickname for Rhiannon
- There might be other long names for Annie to consider - eg Anastasia or Anneliese - and the shorter Anne nn Annie - or even same letter count, Anouk
- I like Tallulah, and brother Emmett from your older list. Elio and Asa are cool too but I think they’re a different style/ genre and direction.
- Rosalia Rae and the middle Bay are the names that haven’t dated as well, imo. And Asa is a name about which you need to be extra careful re middle - “as a”.
- You could still collect a list of equally magical and fairly evenly lengthed middle names - like Hummingbird but considering names like Hawthorne, Wildrose, Evergreen etc (there are lively threads on these long nature names)
- I love your rats’ names!
- I would build a list based on Annie and a potentially separate one based on Rhiannon. I don’t see these as sisters b/c of my first point and their different vibes - storybook sweet v lyrical and grounded (if a little punchy).Eg Annie, Rose, Elsa, Mabel, Thea, Clara, Beatrice, Lucy, Heidi, Nell, Ada, Polly, Iris, Fleur, Tabitha versus Rhiannon, Zoe, Maeve, Greer, Fenella, Carys, Kirrily, Anwen (nn Annie), Bryony, Petra, Niamh, Keeva, Seren(a), etc.
Hope this helps!