With 3 daughters already, we are assuming this baby is a girl until proven otherwise. While it is still early we typically have our babies named by the gender reveal ultrasound which is scheduled for 6 weeks from today. We had a top 5 list but none of those have really made any progress and some of them don’t really seem to fit anymore. Now that we have seen the baby via sonogram and since the baby is now big enough to feel movements we are starting to get an idea of its personality, which is not what we had previously imagined. This is one chill baby. We’re guessing like Daddy’s easygoing, laidback type of personality. So, we are re-assessing.
A little background. We have 3 dds [name_f]Lilla[/name_f], [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f], and [name_f]Tess[/name_f]. [name_f]Lilla[/name_f] (short i like [name_f]Willa[/name_f] not pronounced like [name_f]Lila[/name_f]/[name_f]Lyla[/name_f]/[name_f]Lilah[/name_f]) and [name_f]Vivienne[/name_f] are in grade school and [name_f]Tess[/name_f] just turned 2 this past week. So while we will have 4 children they will be separated into 2 sets of 2 because of their age gap for school and activities/events.
On paper we would like to use another double letter name as it is a fun pattern and this is our last child so we don’t want them to feel left out. To further complicate matters we also have 3 nieces that also have double letter names one ending in belle another in anna, as well as an [name_f]Emma[/name_f] (so no [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]).
Because of this we mainly focused our attention on double t names but they seem to sway from extremely popular ([name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] and [name_f]Scarlett[/name_f]) to extremely dated ([name_f]Annette[/name_f] and [name_f]Lynette[/name_f]) or extremely french ([name_f]Alouette[/name_f] and [name_f]Cosette[/name_f]) to extremely country ([name_f]Coretta[/name_f] or [name_f]Marietta[/name_f]).
We are considering:
[name_f]Colette[/name_f], [name_f]Etta[/name_f], [name_f]Josette[/name_f], [name_f]Juliette[/name_f]
*I still like [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] but it’s so popular and it leaves [name_f]Lilla[/name_f] by her lonesome in being the only uncommon name, because while [name_f]Tess[/name_f] has a very low popularity level it it much more familiar as a nn.
*[name_f]Scarlett[/name_f] doesn’t feel like the right name for this baby.
*[name_f]Colette[/name_f] is probably my top pick, DH isn’t a big of a fan. [name_f]Etta[/name_f] could work here but it feels like a stretch.
*[name_f]Juliette[/name_f] is so over the top feminine to me but DH is a fan. I like [name_f]Julietta[/name_f]/[name_f]Giulietta[/name_f] as well but we are 0% Italian so we aren’t comfortable using these names. I feel like [name_u]Jules[/name_u] is a more intuitive nn than [name_f]Etta[/name_f].
*We would prefer a full name for [name_f]Etta[/name_f] but never really seemed to find one.
*Both [name_f]Josette[/name_f] and [name_f]Joelle[/name_f] are newer additions, I feel like they could work really well but I’m not in love with either of them. [name_u]Jojo[/name_u] is cute we neither love nor hate it. DH likes these the least out of all of our choices.
Other double letter names:
[name_f]Gemma[/name_f], [name_f]Joelle[/name_f]
*I’m generally meh but they both work. DH has [name_f]Gemma[/name_f] in 3rd place on his list.
[name_f]Non[/name_f]-double letter names:
[name_f]Faye[/name_f], [name_f]Flora[/name_f], [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f]
*[name_f]Faye[/name_f] will probably be used as the middle name unless it just has terrible flow (which there are a few of on this list) but we like it enough to keep it on our first name list as well. I’m not loving [name_f]Tess[/name_f] and [name_f]Faye[/name_f] both being one syllables though and no double letter, which are the 2 main deterrents against using it as a first.
*[name_f]Flora[/name_f] is so soft and sweet and it doesn’t pass my would I want to be named this test, but it is our less popular counterpoint to [name_f]Cora[/name_f].
*[name_f]Rosalie[/name_f] has been on our list forever. No double letter and we just cannot do [name_f]Rosalee[/name_f], it just takes all of the pretty and [name_m]French[/name_m] out of the name for me. [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f] [name_f]Faye[/name_f] is pretty good though. Also not loving [name_f]Rosie[/name_f] as a nn. I remember really wishing I wanted [name_f]Tess[/name_f] to be [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f] so we could have a little baby [name_f]Rosie[/name_f] but right this minute it feels a bit blah. I might just be mourning the loss of [name_f]Zuzu[/name_f]/[name_f]Suki[/name_f] from taking all of the [name_f]Susan[/name_f] variants off our list.
Our short list went from a standstill to a longer list that is still at a standstill. I did briefly fall for [name_f]Fiona[/name_f] [name_f]Kathleen[/name_f] but I’m not sure how well I like it for this baby… DH was really into [name_f]Maeve[/name_f], [name_f]Delphine[/name_f] and [name_f]Clementine[/name_f]. [name_f]Etta[/name_f] is probably his all time favorite.
So berries where do we go from here. Are we missing something, have we already found it? What do you love or hate with our girls. Thanks!
