I am writing a children’s novel about an orphaned girl named [name]Rose[/name] Zales who goes to live at a foster home where there are already two foster children living there. I need a name for the youngest one (short brown hair, big brown eyes) and the oldest one who’s about [name]Rose[/name]'s age (long, curly brown hair, blue eyes). I don’t plan on them being related, but they definitely treat each other like siblings. Thanks!
Maybe [name]Evelyn[/name] ("[name]Evie[/name]") for the younger one and [name]Beatrice[/name] for the older one?
Other choices for the younger one:
[name]Charlotte[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name]
[name]Maya[/name]
[name]Amelia[/name]
Other choices for the older one:
[name]Claire[/name]
[name]Rosalind[/name]
[name]Gwen[/name]
[name]Margot[/name]
[name]Maisie[/name]
Ooh, yay! I suggested [name]Rose[/name]!
For the older one:
[name]Jennifer[/name]/[name]Jenna[/name]
[name]Annabel[/name]
[name]Clara[/name]
[name]Claire[/name]
The younger one:
[name]Alice[/name]
[name]Amy[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Katie[/name]
I like having [name]Katie[/name] and [name]Clara[/name] with [name]Rose[/name].
I like more nickname-y types for young kids, and more mature names with young sounding nicknames. So:
[name]Sophie[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name]/[name]Catherine[/name] ([name]Kate[/name], [name]Katie[/name])
[name]Lucy[/name]
[name]Molly[/name]
[name]Ella[/name]
[name]Bonnie[/name]
As for the older girl something slighlty different.
[name]Jane[/name]
[name]Julia[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name]
[name]Grace[/name]
[name]Ellen[/name]
I agree that a little more information is necessary. Is this present day? What country/city? What are the children’s backgrounds?
[name]Foster[/name] kids today in Los [name]Angeles[/name] would probably be named something like [name]Asia[/name] or [name]Nahla[/name] or [name]Marisa[/name].
A foster kid in [name]Boston[/name] in 1930 might be named something like [name]Betty[/name], [name]Annie[/name], or [name]Viola[/name]
[name]Rose[/name] Zales doesn’t particularly flow for me, it reads more like [name]Rose[/name] [name]Ales[/name] as the Z blends in to the end of [name]Rose[/name]. Have you considered her being called [name]Rosie[/name] or [name]Rosa[/name]? It just has a slightly better feel to it as a name.
Agreed with the others about needing more information - time period, ages, setting etc. It also depends on the backgrounds of the fostered children - if they come from a lower class background they might be more likely to be named something trendy or misspelt, or if they’re from a foreign background they might have a more ethnic sounding name reflecting that.
I’d imagine something with quite a cutesy nickname for the youngest one:
[name]Melissa[/name] nn [name]Lissie[/name]
[name]Charlotte[/name] nn [name]Lottie[/name]
[name]Jasmine[/name] nn [name]Minnie[/name] or [name]Jazzy[/name]
[name]Evelyn[/name] nn [name]Evie[/name]
[name]Georgia[/name] nn [name]Georgie[/name]
[name]Rebecca[/name] nn [name]Becky[/name]
[name]Caitlin[/name] or [name]Katherine[/name] nn [name]Katie[/name]
For the older girl, I imagine something a bit quirky or trendy - if they’re not siblings, it seems a bit implausible that [name]Rose[/name] and the other two girls all have names that compliment each other. Thinking of names that were pretty popular/trendy in the USA in the last couple of decades (of course, knowing more info would help here):