Stuck on names

[Anonymous]

Thought I was having a boy. Have a GREAT name picked out. DD3 is going to be a girl and I have NO idea what to do.
Requirements - needs to be mature enough for an adult woman, cute enough or have a cute nickname for kids, not top 10 popular, and easy enough to spell. Sisters have classic “old lady” names - Evelyn and Josephine. Their initials are EJ and JE (so also conflicted to stay with this theme or branch out). Both of sister’s names have family significance. Last name is Italian, three syllables ending in O.

List of names
Juliette
Jacqueline
Holly - outlier to the rules above
Daphne - outlier to the rules above
Gwendolyn
Ruth (Stay strong RBG)
Eloise - nickname LouLou
Cassandra

Thoughts??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thought I was having a boy. Have a GREAT name picked out. DD3 is going to be a girl and I have NO idea what to do.
Requirements - needs to be mature enough for an adult woman, cute enough or have a cute nickname for kids, not top 10 popular, and easy enough to spell. Sisters have classic “old lady” names - Evelyn and Josephine. Their initials are EJ and JE (so also conflicted to stay with this theme or branch out). Both of sister’s names have family significance. Last name is Italian, three syllables ending in O.

List of names
Juliette
Jacqueline
Holly - outlier to the rules above
Daphne - outlier to the rules above
Gwendolyn
Ruth (Stay strong RBG)
Eloise - nickname LouLou
Cassandra

Thoughts??

Does any of these names have family connections? I like Juliette or Jacqueline but that might change if other names have family connections.

[Anonymous]

I don't love any of your choices. Others:

Celeste
Eleanor
Cecilia
Penelope
Anastasia

[Anonymous]

Eloise (but NOT loulou, that's AWFUL)
Juliette
Jacqueline
Gwendolyn

The others are no good.

[Anonymous]

Dorothy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eloise (but NOT loulou, that's AWFUL)
Juliette
Jacqueline
Gwendolyn

The others are no good.

I like Eloise and agree LouLou is awful. And just imagine that nickname sticking when she's older and can't quite get rid of it. Do people then start calling her Lou?

A name I love but is hard for people to remember how to spell is Genevieve. Vivienne.

Eloise Juliette
Jacqueline Evette

[Anonymous]

I'd go with a two syllable name to break up the 3 syllable thing you've got going on.

I like Holly or Celeste.

[Anonymous]

Gwendolyn is a marvelous name and flows beautifully with Josephine and Evelyn

[Anonymous]

I like Holly and Daphne the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd go with a two syllable name to break up the 3 syllable thing you've got going on.

I like Holly or Celeste.

FWIW, I would stick with the 3 syllables, or at least formal, since I always find it odd when two kids get formal names, then another that doesn't follow the same pattern feels odd. Like the parents got tired of working on names.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gwendolyn is a marvelous name and flows beautifully with Josephine and Evelyn

+1 I like the fit with the sisters.

[Anonymous]

Amelia
Beatrice
Catherine
Cecilia
Charlotte
Cora
Frances
Hazel
Iris
Lillian
Mabel
Margaret "Maisie" or "Daisy"
Matilda
Nora

I'd forget the E/J matching (not noticeable enough that anyone would care). I also wouldn't care too much about number of syllables as long as it sounds good with your last name and matches the general style of the others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thought I was having a boy. Have a GREAT name picked out. DD3 is going to be a girl and I have NO idea what to do.
Requirements - needs to be mature enough for an adult woman, cute enough or have a cute nickname for kids, not top 10 popular, and easy enough to spell. Sisters have classic “old lady” names - Evelyn and Josephine. Their initials are EJ and JE (so also conflicted to stay with this theme or branch out). Both of sister’s names have family significance. Last name is Italian, three syllables ending in O.

List of names
Juliette
Jacqueline
Holly - outlier to the rules above
Daphne - outlier to the rules above
Gwendolyn
Ruth (Stay strong RBG)
Eloise - nickname LouLou
Cassandra

Thoughts??

Juliette-- love it
Jacqueline-- it's okay, but a little too 1980s for my taste (it was super-popular in the 1980s)
Holly - Instead of Holly, what about Hollis or Holland, with the nickname Holly?
Daphne - not my style
Gwendolyn-- love it
Ruth (Stay strong RBG)-- I love RBG, but I don't like the name Ruth, especially with an Italian LN
Eloise - nickname LouLou-- Eloise is lovely. LouLou is terrible.
Cassandra-- love it

Other suggestions:
Eleanor
Helena
Lana
Lillian
Hazel
Katherine or Katerina
Elizabeth
Cora
Mila

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd go with a two syllable name to break up the 3 syllable thing you've got going on.

I like Holly or Celeste.

FWIW, I would stick with the 3 syllables, or at least formal, since I always find it odd when two kids get formal names, then another that doesn't follow the same pattern feels odd. Like the parents got tired of working on names.

I don't think of Holly and Celeste as unformal names I guess.

I don't think there is anything particularly "formal" about a long name. I have one and don't have a nickname, but I don't think I'm more formal than anyone else.

Sticking to a 3 syllable name just because you first two have that seems silly to me. But I think most people overthink having their kids names "match".

[Anonymous]

Don't worry about the initials.

Juliette - 3- ugly
Jacqueline -6
Holly - outlier to the rules above - 5 eh
Daphne - outlier to the rules above - 5
Gwendolyn - 2 awful
Ruth (Stay strong RBG) - 0 REALLY AWFUL
Eloise - nickname LouLou - 0 see Ruth
Cassandra - 10

Cassandra is your best choice followed by Jacqueline.