[name]Hi[/name] - i have been posting a lot this week in desperate search for a baby sister to [name]Sofia[/name] - everything has been very helpful, but unfortunately we don’t feel that we have a solution we can agree on. all of the names we really like have an “issue” that has caused us to discard them and nothing else is catching our eye. With [name]Sofia[/name] i knew for years that if we ever had a girl that is what we would name her- i consider the name sofia to be soft yet dignified. by the time we had her it was already very popular but we looked past that and i am very glad we did, the popularity has not bothered me to this point anyway. But now unfortunately there is no name we love for our second. Please help us think of something as our timing is imminent, here are our guidelines/thoughts:
Names we really like with their issues:
[name]Catherine[/name]/[name]Cate[/name] - [name]Catherine[/name] while beautiful is a bit too plain to me next to [name]Sofia[/name] and our last name is 1 syllable so nn flow is not great, this is one of the very few names that i do like the long form and nn though
[name]Charlotte[/name] - don’t like the nicknames and after last night’s posts i think we are better to move past this one
[name]Amelia[/name] - matchy and similar issue with the nicknames - we would like this to be the middle name if possible as it has meaning to us
[name]Lila[/name] - my favorite early on but DH was not very fond
[name]Emma[/name] - I really like this but with [name]Sofia[/name] already so popular it seemed silly to have another uber popular name and in our area [name]Emma[/name] is waning. although as i said the popularity of sofia has not bothered me - should we resurrect?
[name]Julia[/name] - matchy issue
[name]Madeline[/name] - good friend used it and nn issue
[name]Ellery[/name] - i know this doesn’t go with our style but we actually agree on liking this name - but seems too far out there - we are much safer namers
Other names that came up that we like but we don’t really love: emily, ella, lily, eliza, clara, juliet, sara, olivia, eva, ava - i wish i loved some of these more as i feel for the most part they don’t have the issues that the ones i love do
other things to consider - our last name is 1 syllable, we don’t mind popularity and with a sofia i would actually want something fairly common or known so one child doesn’t feel like they got the popular or oddball name, i really dislike nickname prone names unless its just a pet shortening (think em for emma), we would like amelia to be the middle name if the flow works
if you have any ideas please share or if you see something in either list above that you think we should resurrect please let us know. as i said i am starting to panic!