Hi everyone, newbie here and first time mom!
We’re terrible at this and all the baby name lists seem to regurgitate the same names over and over! I came across this forum and the responses are great so I signed up!
Anyway my late grandmother was named [name_f]Helen[/name_f] and I had always decided my first daughter would have her name before I married my husband. I’m struggling because our last name is a 3 syllable name beginning with H and I’m trying to avoid it being a bit of a mouthful!
First name [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m]
We like either really soft feminine names, or on the other spectrum unisex/strong names!
Ruby, I’m not a huge fan but I love how it sounds with [name_f]Helen[/name_f], it’s the first sound that I’ve liked as a double name and I like [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] [name_f]Helen[/name_f] but not [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] said alone! Hmm that’s something to think about! Thank you!
Well if baby was a boy, we’d go [name_m]Jax[/name_m] [name_m]George[/name_m] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m] and I like the ring to that but open to suggestion, I often find short girls names more popular yeah! [name_u]Love[/name_u] [name_f]Etta[/name_f] [name_f]Alba[/name_f] and [name_u]Wren[/name_u]!
That is cool! But because we’re set on that, if we eventually have a boy I’d like to keep that name [name_u]Free[/name_u] and I’m not sure siblings [name_m]Jax[/name_m] and [name_u]Lux[/name_u] are our style! Hmm
Hi, Congratulations! [name_f]Glad[/name_f] you joined us! I’m going to go with mainly short names too; i think that works better with a longer surname.
My suggestions for you…
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f]- my favourite name, soft and feminine but strong at the same time. Pretty popular in the UK anyway, not sure how you feel about that
[name_f]Esme[/name_f]
[name_f]Jane[/name_f]
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f]
[name_f]Grace[/name_f]
[name_u]Rowan[/name_u]
[name_f]Lydia[/name_f]
[name_f]Zoe[/name_f]
[name_f]Phoebe[/name_f]
[name_f]Ivy[/name_f]
[name_u]Josie[/name_u]
[name_f]Edith[/name_f]
[name_f]Hallie[/name_f]
[name_f]Maura[/name_f]
[name_f]Fiona[/name_f]
[name_f]Marnie[/name_f]
[name_f]Imogen[/name_f]
[name_f]Stella[/name_f]
[name_u]Georgie[/name_u]
[name_f]Poppy[/name_f]
[name_f]Eva[/name_f]
[name_f]Evie[/name_f]
[name_f]Megan[/name_f]/Meg
[name_f]Bella[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosa[/name_f]/Rose
[name_f]Millie[/name_f]
[name_f]Faye[/name_f]
[name_f]Freya[/name_f]
[name_f]Nancy[/name_f]
[name_u]Wren[/name_u]
[name_f]Faith[/name_f]
[name_f]Cassie[/name_f]
[name_u]Casey[/name_u]
[name_f]Fleur[/name_f]
[name_f]Bonnie[/name_f]
[name_u]Reese[/name_u]
[name_u]River[/name_u]
Would you consider dropping the h and using [name_f]Elen[/name_f]? [name_f]Ellen[/name_f] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m] is slightly less tricky to say than [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m].
Just being devils advocate here, I actually find [name_f]Helen[/name_f] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m] easier to say than [name_f]Ellen[/name_f] [name_m]Harrison[/name_m], missing the H off just makes me miss the H off [name_m]Harrison[/name_m] too in my accent anyway. And as a middle name, I guess it wouldn’t get used too much anyway.
Haha accents definitely play a big part in name flow! I’m having to really think about how people will pronounce my babes name as I am [name_f]English[/name_f] with an [name_f]English[/name_f] accent but we live in NZ where they pronounce their vowels really strange!!
I joke in the [name_f]English[/name_f] accent we have “a, e, i, o, u” but in the Kiwi accent they just have “Eeee, Eeee, Eeee, Eeee & Eeee”
definitely! my accent (pretty strong regional UK one) makes so many names sound really different, and puts me off using them. Most names starting with H go out of the window sadly
and congratulations on your first baby!
in my accent anyway. And as a middle name, I guess it wouldn’t get used too much anyway.
