If we decided to have another child we each have a name we love picked out, that the other agrees on. Boy names are done, it will be either [name]Felix[/name] [name]Sebastian[/name] or [name]Viggo[/name] [name]William[/name].
For a girl I love [name]Vivian[/name] and he loves [name]Violet[/name] but we are stuck on which middle names sound best. We have decided to go with family names.
The choices are [name]Adelaide[/name] (after big sister [name]Alice[/name], both mean “noble”), [name]Clementine[/name], [name]Josephine[/name], [name]Georgia[/name], [name]Wilhelmina[/name], [name]Beatrice[/name] or [name]Rosalie[/name]
I like:
[name]Vivian[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] (My favorite combo)
or I like [name]Violet[/name] [name]Josephine[/name] or [name]Vivian[/name] [name]Josephine[/name] (both are beautiful)
I like [name]Vivian[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] best from a vacuum. But [name]Violet[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] seems like a wonderful way to honor both big sisters, [name]Lily[/name] (flower name) and [name]Alice[/name] (shared meaning).
I love [name]Vivian[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] and then [name]Violet[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] / [name]Rosalie[/name]. I think [name]Vivian[/name] [name]Violet[/name] is really pretty together, too.
Would I be sticking myself with a theme by using [name]Violet[/name]? I do love [name]Vivian[/name] and the meaning but if I use [name]Violet[/name], then [name]Vivian[/name] would be out.
I do love how [name]Violet[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] ties all my girls together. [name]Lily[/name] being my first born with a flower name, [name]Iris[/name] being another flower name and meaning “rainbow” since she is our rainbow baby. [name]Alice[/name]'s middle name is [name]Susannah[/name] which means “lily” and then [name]Violet[/name] [name]Adelaide[/name] with the flower name and the meaning “noble” which is the same meaning as [name]Alice[/name].
I just think that if I had more daughters then I would run out of ways to honor [name]Lily[/name] and [name]Alice[/name].
@pixielily that is, I think, a “we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it” sort of dilemma.
[name]Iris[/name] and [name]Violet[/name] are, of course, both flowers, but since [name]Iris[/name] is a mythological figure and since [name]Violet[/name] is a color I don’t think the matchy-ness is too overt. If you were to have two more daughters, name the first one [name]Violet[/name], the second could have many other routes to tie to her sisters. I.e. lilies are white, so you could select [name]Bianca[/name]. [name]Alice[/name] and [name]Lily[/name] have many sounds in common, so you could select [name]Lisandra[/name]. Or, a flower name that isn’t so overt, like [name]Calantha[/name] (“beautful flower”). Or, since irises and violets are purple, [name]Lydia[/name] (“seller of purple cloth” in the Bible). There are so, so many options.