Name for little girl

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).:confused: I don’t plan on them being related, but they definitely treat each other like siblings. Thanks!

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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]! :slight_smile:
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].

What time period is it? I’ll post a mixed bag.

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]

Younger:
[name]Quinn[/name]
[name]Chloe[/name]
[name]Anna[/name]
[name]Laney[/name]
[name]Hannah[/name]
[name]Katherine[/name]
[name]Leah[/name]

Older:
[name]Helen[/name]
[name]Sylvie[/name]
[name]Claire[/name]
[name]Isla[/name]
[name]Caroline[/name]
[name]Margaret[/name]
[name]Stella[/name]

Wow, [name]Rose[/name] Zales is quite the mouthful. O_O

[name]Matilda[/name]
[name]Kelly[/name]
[name]Keeva[/name]
[name]Penny[/name]
[name]Adelaide[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name] (nn [name]Ellie[/name])
[name]Drew[/name]
[name]Lacey[/name]
Elliette
Erella
[name]Sarah[/name]
[name]Sally[/name]
[name]Suzy[/name]
[name]Tally[/name]
[name]Sasha[/name]

For the youngest:
[name]Annabelle[/name]
[name]Danielle[/name]
[name]Rebecca[/name]
[name]Samantha[/name]
[name]Elizabeth[/name]

For the oldest one:
[name]Giana[/name]
[name]Missy[/name]
[name]Michelle[/name]
[name]Fawn[/name]
[name]Farrah[/name]
[name]Giselle[/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):

[name]Jennifer[/name]
[name]Taylor[/name]
[name]Bailey[/name]
[name]Madison[/name]
[name]Ashley[/name]
[name]Jessica[/name]
[name]Alyssa[/name]
[name]Hayley[/name]