building a sibling set around my favorite name

[name]Hi[/name] Berries,

I posted a post a few weeks ago about the name [name]Veda[/name]. I totaly fell in love with this name. (pron. Vayda)
My husband loves this name also…but here is the problem. It is so different from the names wich we also love.

Examples:
[name]Elena[/name] (we can’t use this one. I names my cat [name]Alana[/name])
[name]Liliana[/name] (can’t use this one either cause our other cat is named [name]Lilith[/name])
[name]Rose[/name] ([name]Love[/name] [name]Rose[/name], but i’ts extremely popular in [name]Holland[/name]) (Roos)
[name]Violet[/name] (Like. Not sold on this name) (The dutch would pronounce this completly wrong)

Those are much more frilly than [name]Veda[/name]. My concern is that I won’t find a sybling name to go with [name]Veda[/name]. We were thinking of the combo [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name]. Maybe even [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Lily[/name]…

Could you help us build a sibling set with [name]Veda[/name]? So [name]Veda[/name] and a name for a brother and sister?

Thanks!!

I could really do with some suggestions, bump! :slight_smile:

[name]Veda[/name] is really pretty! I like [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Lily[/name] and [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name].

For a brother, how about [name]Owen[/name], [name]Charles[/name], [name]Maxwell[/name], [name]Apollo[/name], [name]Ansel[/name], [name]Ellis[/name], [name]Casper[/name], [name]Orion[/name]?

For a sister, how about [name]Ruby[/name], [name]Rosalie[/name], [name]Carlotta[/name] / [name]Charlotte[/name], [name]Amalia[/name], [name]Emmeline[/name], [name]Lucinda[/name], [name]Natalia[/name], [name]Mirabella[/name]? I don’t know if you would consider doing a double V thing, but you might like [name]Verity[/name], [name]Verona[/name], [name]Vivienne[/name]?

I hope this helped a bit. Good luck!

With the exception of [name]Liliana[/name], I don’t think any of your other names are particularly more frilly than [name]Veda[/name]. In fact, [name]Elena[/name] sounds quite similar to [name]Veda[/name] to me. I think you could give the next sibling a slightly more frilly or more straightforward name, as long as it’s not something way out there (like [name]Arabella[/name]). By the way, [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Lily[/name] is a beautiful name!

Girls: [name]Eliza[/name], [name]Amelia[/name], [name]Ruth[/name], Rhoswen, [name]Sophie[/name]/[name]Sophia[/name], [name]Eleanor[/name]

Boys: [name]Edward[/name], [name]Edmund[/name] and [name]Leopold[/name] come to mind, don’t know if those are at all your style though!

I love [name]Veda[/name] and think sibling names (especially sisters) should be more in the exotic/ethereal category.

girls -
[name]Noor[/name]
[name]Opal[/name]
[name]Sage[/name]
[name]Delphine[/name]
[name]Saffron[/name]
[name]Skye[/name]
[name]Kaia[/name]
[name]Lela[/name]
[name]Ione[/name]
[name]Xanthe[/name]
[name]Juno[/name]
[name]Olive[/name]
[name]Sapphira[/name]
[name]Sariah[/name]

boys -
[name]Axel[/name]
[name]Cassius[/name]
[name]Ewan[/name]
[name]Fabian[/name]
[name]Florian[/name]
[name]Griffin[/name]
[name]Inigo[/name]
[name]Jasper[/name]
[name]Lysander[/name]
[name]Leon[/name]
[name]Reed[/name]
[name]Zane[/name]

[name]Veda[/name] is so unique, but beautiful! Wish you the best!

girls:

[name]Eve[/name]
Aluette
[name]Agatha[/name]
[name]Ida[/name]
[name]Rowan[/name]
[name]Elsie[/name]
[name]Fauna[/name]
[name]Noel[/name]
[name]Leanne[/name]
[name]Evangeline[/name]
[name]Angelica[/name]
[name]Nora[/name]

boys:

[name]Leon[/name]
[name]Gideon[/name]
[name]Ethan[/name]
[name]Toby[/name]
[name]Logan[/name]
[name]Levi[/name]
[name]Felix[/name]
[name]Micah[/name]
[name]Abel[/name]

[name]Just[/name] some ideas:D

[name]Veda[/name] and…

BOYS

  • [name]Rio[/name]
  • [name]Kieran[/name]
  • [name]Leo[/name]
  • [name]Leon[/name]
  • [name]Rhys[/name]
  • [name]Jasper[/name]
  • [name]Miles[/name]

GIRLS

  • [name]Kara[/name]
  • [name]Lila[/name]
  • [name]Ruby[/name]
  • [name]Scarlett[/name]
  • [name]Clara[/name]

Thank you so much for the suggestions! I agree that it needs to stand out a little too. What do you think of the names:

Girl:

[name]Esta[/name]
[name]Alma[/name]
Eiris
[name]Neve[/name]

and from your suggestions:

[name]Olive[/name]
[name]Vivienne[/name]

Boy: We find this particularly harder! Especially because we like longer names…

[name]Sebastian[/name] [name]August[/name] [name]Reid[/name]
[name]Christopher[/name] [name]August[/name] [name]Reid[/name]
[name]Oliver[/name] [name]Henry[/name] [name]James[/name] (My husbands favorite name)

Other suggestion are still very welcome!

Thank you so Berries!

I think [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name] [name]Lily[/name] is gorgeous.

I [name]LOVE[/name] [name]Alma[/name], [name]Neve[/name], and [name]Vivienne[/name]/Viven/[name]Vivian[/name] with [name]Veda[/name].

Also, perhaps [name]Mara[/name], [name]Gwen[/name], [name]Ava[/name], [name]Maeve[/name], [name]Iris[/name], [name]Isis[/name], [name]Thea[/name], [name]Celia[/name], [name]Eden[/name], [name]Dahlia[/name], [name]Cora[/name], [name]Amelie[/name], or [name]Leona[/name]?

And I definitely think [name]Sebastian[/name] and [name]Oliver[/name] go great with [name]Veda[/name]. A few other thoughts are [name]Milo[/name], [name]Cole[/name], [name]Julian[/name], [name]Felix[/name], [name]Asher[/name], [name]William[/name]/[name]Liam[/name], [name]Gavin[/name], [name]Tristan[/name], or [name]Theodore[/name]/[name]Theo[/name].

I love [name]Veda[/name] and [name]Alma[/name] together. I think they’re perfect.

For boys I’m digging [name]Sebastian[/name] and [name]Oliver[/name].

Thank you very much!

We know have [name]Esta[/name] [name]Vivienne[/name] [name]Rose[/name] or [name]Alma[/name] [name]Guinevere[/name] [name]Rose[/name] as options. What do you think?

We have decided that we will drop [name]Lily[/name] from the [name]Veda[/name] combo so we need a lovely name to complete [name]Veda[/name] [name]Genevieve[/name] …
Any ideas?