I’ve actually gone through every name in the book, and we still can’t settle on a middle name for our currently cooking daughter. She’s due in early [name_f]May[/name_f]. We’re SO EXCITED to be having a girl (I have a stepson and a son, two nephews, and two nephews-from-a-chosen-sister), and we just don’t want to jack it up.
Our last name has a hard er sound and ends in ey (ee), and is also hyphenated (3 syllables total), so we don’t want anything that rhymes and/or assonates with either of those sounds. Also nothing that ends in a.
The reason I’m having a mini-crisis with our picks is that [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] is a very feminine name with a tragic, passive namesake that I feel deserves a stronger, less feminine, more feminist middle than the florals and other soft names I’m drawn to. Then on the other hand I’m kind of like…eh, she can go by [name_u]Lee[/name_u] if she’s a tomboy or identifies as a boy in the future. I should have just gone with [name_f]Hypatia[/name_f] instead, haha. She was badass.
We like nature names: celestial, marine, floral, and stone. Brothers are [name_u]Kieran[/name_u] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] ([name_u]Kieran[/name_u] self-chosen) and [name_u]Ash[/name_u] [name_u]Orion[/name_u].
Our contenders:
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Lilac[/name_f] (too feminine maybe, but very meaningful to me. also: spring baby)
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Moon[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Emerald[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Hope[/name_f] (this one’s kind of boring to me, but we’re Rhode Islanders ;])
[name_f]Kinda[/name_f]:
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Io[/name_f] (eye-o)
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Inez[/name_f] (a form of [name_f]Agnes[/name_f], who is recently passed great grandmother…but she was kind of a sucky person)
Vetoed by husb:
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_u]Dove[/name_u] (I was so attached to this one ;_;
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_u]Ocean[/name_u]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_u]Peace[/name_u]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Celeste[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] [name_f]Estelle[/name_f]
[name_f]Ophelia[/name_f] Bast
Out because of phonetics:
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavender[/name_f]