We are having trouble picking a name for child #2 (daughter due last week). First born son is named [name]True[/name].
Some front runners, in no order:
[name]Clementine[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Wren[/name] [name]Clementine[/name]
[name]Clementine[/name] [name]Wren[/name]
[name]Gertrude[/name] (my beloved gramma) [name]Wren[/name] (would call her [name]Wren[/name])
[name]Gertrude[/name] Traeger (family name) nickname would be something completely different!
[name]Gertrude[/name] [name]Mae[/name] (call her [name]Mae[/name])
[name]Gertrude[/name] [name]Elizabeth[/name] (call her [name]Eli[/name]–is that too weird for a girl? I don’t love the more common nicknames for [name]Elizabeth[/name])
open to new ideas, too.
Goals:
I want to avoid being trendy (I love old fashioned names and am wishing they were not quite so popular these days!!) and I want what we call her to go well with “[name]True[/name]”. I also would like to honor my grandmother but I don’t really “like” the name [name]Gertrude[/name], and I don’t like [name]Trudy[/name] or [name]Gertie[/name].
I like [name]Clementine[/name] [name]Wren[/name] best, followed by [name]Clementine[/name] [name]Mae[/name]. I can’t say that I like [name]Gertrude[/name], although I love vintage names as well. What was her middle name? Here are some other suggestions, although at 5 days past due date you may want to ignore them!
[name]Estelle[/name] [name]Gertrude[/name]
[name]Lorelei[/name] [name]Mae[/name]
[name]Rowena[/name] (which can mean spear, like [name]Gertrude[/name]) [name]Mae[/name]
I like [name]Seren[/name] more than [name]Wren[/name] I think it is a very feminine name and yet you can still get the nn of [name]Wren[/name].
To honour grandma why not use her initial G with a name you love like [name]Genevieve[/name] or use one of Grandma’s middle names that you prefer more.
If you prefer your daughter to have the nn of [name]Wren[/name] I say call her [name]Seren[/name] [name]Clementine[/name] and she has the best of both worlds a more formal version of the name that you like ie [name]Wren[/name] and she has choice of what moniker she prefers to be known by ie [name]Seren[/name] or [name]Wren[/name].
[name]Clementine[/name] is a beautiful name and I would happily use another middle that makes a better combo and is more vintage.
As [name]Gertrude[/name] is a family name, my pick would be [name]Gertrude[/name] [name]Wren[/name] (I think [name]True[/name] and [name]Wren[/name] are perfect together). However, why not change it up to [name]Wren[/name] [name]Gertrude[/name]? That way you still honour your grandmother, but the need to explain that actually her preferred name is [name]Wren[/name] to teachers et cetera is negated.
