See the results of this poll: MN for Catherine?
Respondents: 62 (This poll is closed)
- Catherine Eliora : 15 (24%)
- Catherine Emilia : 24 (39%)
- Catherine Ivy: 23 (37%)
I vote [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] [name]Pearl[/name] 
I went with [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Eliora[/name] because I love the idea of [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Eliora[/name] [name]Jane[/name] but they are all adorable!
Huh. Apparently [name]Emilia[/name] means “rival?” Can this be? Sounds so sweet and soft.
[name]Eliora[/name] “My God is my light”
[name]Ivy[/name]…
I’ll go with [name]Eliora[/name]. Feels most unexpected with [name]Catherine[/name]. I think it gives [name]Catherine[/name] just the slightest edge, which [name]Catherine[/name] kinda needs.
Besides, [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Eliora[/name]… nn [name]Cora[/name]?
I like [name]Emilia[/name] but I dont like that it means rival. Plus, [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Eliora[/name] [name]Jane[/name] sounds so stunning. I just love your names in general:).
I really like [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Ivy[/name] [name]Jane[/name]. I also like [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] but I voted for [name]Ivy[/name] since I’d prefer a shorter second name.
Loving the sound of [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] [name]Pearl[/name], but [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Ivy[/name] [name]Jane[/name] was a close second.
I like any of those with [name]Pearl[/name] as the 3rd, the all flow beautifully.
1 [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Ivy[/name] [name]Jane[/name]
2 [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] [name]Pearl[/name]
3 [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Eliora[/name] [name]Jane[/name]
[name]Emma[/name] - sounds about right. [name]Don[/name]'t most [name]Amelia[/name]/[name]Emmy[/name] names mean “rival/emulating”, though? It really doesn’t bother me–[name]Amelia[/name] ([name]Emilia[/name]'s soundalike) was my great-grandmother’s MN (actually, her full name was [name]Katherine[/name] [name]Amelia[/name], but I like [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] much better), so it would be there for her, not just because I liked it. Family meaning trumps a bad literal meaning, imo.
I think my favorite is still [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Eliora[/name]–I love how unexpected it is!–but it was interesting to see the popular vote swing from [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] to [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Ivy[/name] from last night until after work today.
I’m still torn on the [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] thing, though–I really love [name]Emilia[/name] and really want to use it (besides the whole great-grandmother thing, I also love the literary [name]Emilia[/name] in Comedy of Errors), but I’m not sure if using [name]Catherine[/name] [name]Emilia[/name] would be either really cool, or honoring overload. My great grandmother died before I was two, but I grew up hearing all these amazing stories about her, and I always felt this special tie to her because I was the only one of my siblings to ever meet her. On the one hand, I feel like just [name]Catherine[/name] honors her, but on the other hand, I want [name]Emilia[/name] in there, too. But I think [name]Emilia[/name] and [name]Eliora[/name] are too similar to use together. 