my friend michelle at work is struggling massively with a name for her expected baby girl. she wants something unusual ish but not weird. any suggestions?

Eliza.....my Nan's name and I like it.

Rosalie, Elsabeth, Elizabeth, Phoebe, Paige... can you tell I like 'proper' names? :-)

Chiara, Tiffany?

There was a thread a week or so ago with LOADS of weird and wonderful names- definitely worth a look :-)

Eleanor, my gran's name in fact her maieden name was Rigby  :)

CARIAD  for a little girl. Cariad is the Welsh word for Love,,,,

all lovely suggestions. shes in work later so will show her :)

2 of my friends have just had babies. One called her little girl Eva which I love as it is unusual without being too whacky and the other caled his daughter Isla which I also like!!! Or she could follow someone with  really good taste and call her Anna like my daughter!!!:-D

lol i've plugged for all three of those already, afraid not :(

My granddaughter is called Elise, not a name I had heard of. Apparently she is named after the car, the Lotus Elise ;-)

lol i've plugged for all three of those already, afraid not



Is she trying to say I have bad taste?!!!! LMAO!!!! :-D

lol, no she liked them all but isn't sure about anything really. shes getting a bit overwhelmed with the decision and is worried about giving the baba a terrible life if she gives her the wrong name lol

There are some very pretty-but-unusual names in Shakespeare's plays. Perhaps she might like one of these? (Steer her away from 'Volumnia'!)

thats a really good idea, i'll pass it on :)

My daughter is called Carrera, after the Porche Carrera, when she is 21 (another 4 1/2 years) she is expecting one for her birthday, her dad will be buying that I hasten to add.
Jane

The best thing I did when I had Anna was get a group of names together...then when she was born she wasn't any of them!!!!! I had never even considered Anna, not sure where it came from. So when she has the baby she will probably know what to call her, she will be an Anna or a Charlotte or any name lol!!

lucky her! nice dad!

> My daughter is called Carrera, after the Porche Carrera

I hope you will take it in good part :-) if I tell you my little sister used to go out with a boy called Ford.  My Dad used to say "thank goodness he wasn't conceived in a Voltswagen" :-o

I know a lad who is called 'Leyland' after the Motor company.  They shorten it to 'Ley'!!  (Pronounced 'Lay', Not Lee)

No problem at all, Carrera loves her name, mainly because she doesn't know anybody else with her name and it does suit her, I will try and add her to my photo bucket so you can see how lovely she is, she is half Italian and everybody comments what a lovely name she has.  I am just glad she was a girl when she was born as her dad wanted to name a boy after one of the three muskateers....
Jane

athos is a nice name :)

Maybe Carla,Harriot,Fern.

how about Grace, i name i have always loved.

I love the name Emma :-) & Paige

Iseballa, Kiena, Lacey, Keana, Tatyana, Orion, Willow, Mya, SueAnne

If I remember correctly is was Aramis that he wanted to call a boy, doesn't really flow off the tongue to well, so I was glad when she was born that she was a girl.  I have added a couple of pictures of her to my photo-bucket.
Jane

How about Ruby or Delilah?? I like those names for girls.

I liked the name Joanna for my daughter but thought it will be immediatley shortened to Jo so called her Rohanna instead and now all her friends call her Ro !!!!

evie         skyla, chloe.betty, isla,lucy,laura,mia,flora,ellie, this are some of the girls names i teach swimming to
ruby
lilly
poppy
daisy
lottie
vertiy
grace
lucy
kitty
emily
millie
sasha

Lydia, thinking about it when I was on the way to work earlier and a young girl came on with her dad and she was called Lydia.  Eleanor does seem very in at the moment, Eli for short, but I hate names being shortened.  I'm Diane, never, ever Di !!

When I was at school my best friend was Joanne ( there were several in our class)  but her sister a year older was called Priah. She hated the fact that her sister had an unusual name name whilst she had a common one.

I was determined to give my children different names. When I had my son there were five boys named James and four named Daniel on our ward.

My daughter is called Elkie and when she moans I say at least they don't have to say which Elkie like they do with her friends Emma, Laura etc .

http://www.behindthename.com/

There now, she'll be completely spoilt for choice :-D :-D

I love the names Phoebe and Lola  - so much so that they're my dog's names :-D :-D   Wish they'd been possibles 25 years ago, but they were too far 'out there' for naming my daughter :(

my little girl is called caitlin, and if i have another girl i like the name mia, or amelia

Eva
Peyton,
Piper,
Dana,
Tia,
Amber-Rose
Kelsey
Keely
Elise
Alyssa
Rosa
Jenna :-D
Larrisa
Lana
Dakota
Demi

I Loved Laurel or Lauren but I had boys. we have an Amber which is nice I dont recommend Vivienne my name as no one gets the spelling right!!

My OH's daughter has Imogen, Mia & Naomi. Other daughter has Poppy, we have Paige, Aniesha, Ambur all nice ones I like Caitlin!!

Oh I note Amber is also Ambur in Indian ( ours is Indian one as her Dad is, Indian that is!!)

carrington she loves dana but seems to not be able to settle on it for some reason (again stressing she names her wrong and ruins her life...) i think its lovely :)

> Elkie

love it.

there are some fantatic suggestions here guys, thanks :) will get her to read them all tonight

> was Aramis that he wanted to call a boy

lol my favorite muskateer :)

oh! your ahead of the game paula! shes feeling drawn to anna!

oh! your ahead of the game paula! shes feeling drawn to anna!

Tell her she has VERY good taste!! And if she's anything like my Anna she'll be gorgeous!!!!!;-) :-D

my daughters are jasmine andie & faith anais,
i also love iris, blue, rhaya, stella, sydney, pagen, francheska (franki), hope, edith, i love unusual & old names :-)

> Or she could follow someone with  really good taste and call her Anna like my daughter!!!:-D

well you win paula! baby anna was born this morning, 7lbs 6 :)

so pleased for michelle, she has a heart condition that could have been passed on, at first glance it is obvious because sufferers are very tall and thin, but thats a good weight so hopefully Anna should be fine :)

Anyway, babies are always nice to hear about and thought you'd maybe like the update.

i love the name Grace for a girl.

My friend has just called her little girl Caitlyn (slightly different spelling - but a lovely name!) I have another friend with an Amelia!

I like Daisy, Harriet, Florence and Delilah. My friend is due to give birth in 5 weeks and she doesn't know what she's having, but she thinks it's a girl and if it is, she's going to call her Mia.

Congratulations on baby Anna, nice traditional solid name. My middle name is Anne and i can remember as a child telling people it was Anna cos i thought that was a much nicerf name,lol

Yes sorry Astarte forgot to say Congratulations to Michelle and baby Anna ! :-)

thank you :)