I love T names and I love so many of your options!
Faves:
Tallulah
Thisbe
Tanwen
Teagan
Thessaly
Trillium (I just recently saw a baby with this name and I loved it!)
Tabitha
Fine, though not as good:
8. [name_u]Taliesin[/name_u] (I actually love this name, but it’s definitely male in Welsh so it’s lower here)
9. [name_f]Teresa[/name_f]
10. [name_f]Thais[/name_f]
11. [name_f]Tanith[/name_f]
12. [name_f]Tzipora[/name_f]
13. [name_u]Tempest[/name_u]
Not my style but usable:
14. [name_f]Tirsa[/name_f]
15. [name_f]Tesni[/name_f]
16. [name_f]Tulip[/name_f]
17. [name_f]Twila[/name_f]
18. [name_f]Thilda[/name_f]
19. [name_f]Tindra[/name_f]
Guilty Pleasures that should be middle names:
20: [name_f]Titania[/name_f] (the “tit” syllable is just too prevalent, but it’s so beautiful)
21: [name_u]Thistle[/name_u]
22: [name_u]Truth[/name_u] (too literal)
Discard:
[name_f]Thekla[/name_f] (I’m sorry, I just find this one very ugly)
[name_f]Tisiphone[/name_f] (pronunciation nightmare)
[name_f]Tuilelaith[/name_f] (ditto)
I like everything from 1-17, the others are either not my style OR I think they’d be a little “much” as a first name, but my policy has always been that (nearly) anything goes in the middle spot, and I can appreciate all these names on some level!
[name_f]Tuilelaith[/name_f]! I’m embarrassed to admit that I’d never seen that before, and had no idea that was the “original” [name_f]Tallulah[/name_f]. But I love the way it looks! [name_m]How[/name_m] is it pronounced?
Here’s my ranking…
[name_u]Love[/name_u]
[name_f]Thessaly[/name_f]
[name_f]Thisbe[/name_f]
[name_u]Tempest[/name_u]
[name_f]Twila[/name_f]
[name_f]Tzipora[/name_f]
[name_f]Thais[/name_f]
[name_f]Tabitha[/name_f]
[name_f]Thilda[/name_f] (much prefer [name_f]Tilda[/name_f])
[name_f]Tallulah[/name_f]
[name_f]Tuilelaith[/name_f] (I actually like the look of this more than [name_f]Tallulah[/name_f] – it strikes me as a bit more “mature”, somehow – but it loses first name marks for probable pronunciation headaches!)
[name_f]Thekla[/name_f]
[name_f]Tulip[/name_f]
[name_f]Tesni[/name_f]
Like/OK
[name_f]Tanith[/name_f]
[name_f]Titania[/name_f]
[name_f]Teresa[/name_f] (not excited by it but I do like the possibility for [name_f]Tess[/name_f] for short )
[name_f]Tanwen[/name_f]
[name_f]Tirsa[/name_f]
[name_f]Tisiphone[/name_f]
[name_f]Tindra[/name_f]
Wouldn’t use as a first
[name_u]Taliesin[/name_u] (adore for a boy, but it’s just not a girls’ name to me)
[name_u]Teagan[/name_u] (perfectly usable, I just really don’t like it )
[name_u]Thistle[/name_u]
Trillium
[name_u]Truth[/name_u]
I adore the top 3-5 options especially. [name_m]Can[/name_m] I also suggest [name_f]Thallo[/name_f]? A bit short for your tastes, maybe, but an underappreciated mythological gem!
Yes, pronounced just like [name_f]Tilda[/name_f] a la [name_f]Matilda[/name_f]. I keep the H to call her [name_f]Hildie[/name_f] after my mom’s great grandma [name_f]Hildred[/name_f]. But [name_f]Tilda[/name_f]/Thilda is more buttoned up than [name_f]Hildie[/name_f] as a nickname standalone so I love it.
I pronounce it TILL-yeh-la I think, with a slight trill of the L, but I believe there is also a TILL-eh-la with the last two syllables really short.
One of those top 4 are likely to be our T pick as that’s the compromise between our lists. [name_f]Thallo[/name_f] is amazing! So fresh. I’ll have to decide if the O sounds good with her brothers or too matchy. Wdyt?
@Scater, teehee, of course you’d pick [name_f]Tanith[/name_f] with that username and profile pic.
This is not a foolproof method but I achieved the goal of stratifying these names! As a baseline, I gave 10 points to each name in the top 5 of a response; 5 points to each name in the 6-10 position; 2 points for every name ranked thereafter, and subtracted 2 points for every name you said to discard. That was the baseline, but if I noticed your username as someone who frequently comments on my posts (i.e. more than once in recent memory), I doubled your points, so that wound up being two-thirds of you who got a double muliplier bonus for both the negative and positive.
Without including my own (or DH’s) list, these are the results:
I think that, with this being your final baby, you can easily choose to embrace the pattern and go for a third O if that happens to coincide with your favourite. People would see it as a deliberate pattern, for sure, but it sounds like you love patterns and connections and cohesive sibsets of all kinds, so it doesn’t strike me as a dealbreaker in your case.
However, I don’t know if this is just my perception, or whether I’m being skewed by your sons’ names, but I’m sensing that you’re going to end up choosing something longer and more elaborate for a daughter, even though you enjoy shorter, sleeker names too. So I’m not sure [name_f]Thallo[/name_f] (or [name_u]Truth[/name_u], or [name_f]Tulip[/name_f], or [name_f]Tesni[/name_f], etc.) will eventually make the cut.
The above are in order from favorite to least favorite. As for the rest, I don’t really have an opinion on the exact order, as I don’t particularly like any of the rest.
Discard:
[name_f]Tzipora[/name_f]
[name_f]Tisiphone[/name_f]
[name_u]Truth[/name_u]
Tuilelath
[name_f]Thekla[/name_f]
[name_u]Taliesin[/name_u] (kinda reminds me of ‘Taliban’)
Taliesin - common for boys where I live
[name_f]Thais[/name_f] - naming a child after a group of people feels wrong to me
[name_f]Tindra[/name_f] - would probably get called Tinder by accident
[name_u]Truth[/name_u] - not really practical
Ones I really like, in order of how much I like them:
Teresa
[name_u]Taliesin[/name_u]
[name_u]Teagan[/name_u]
[name_u]Tempest[/name_u]
[name_f]Tanwen[/name_f]
[name_f]Thessaly[/name_f]
[name_f]Thilda[/name_f] ([name_u]Love[/name_u] your suggestion of nn [name_f]Hildie[/name_f])
[name_f]Tzipora[/name_f]
Names I like alright but not as much/haven’t heard before so I’m still processing them:
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