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Shaunti's avatar

I love Calliope, Sequoia, Storm, Saoirse, Rhiannon, and Adriel for girls. A bit much perhaps, but I can't help it. 😅

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Dana's avatar

Calliope and Rhiannon are gorgeous.

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Storm's avatar

My name is Storm and I agree, it's a bit much 🤣😭

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Shaunti's avatar

Oh but it's beautiful!!

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Elizabeth's avatar

Okay, I’m not even sure it’s a real name so much as a combination of sounds, but hear me out: Tricity. It’s like Trinity and Felicity, or the ending of electricity. I think it’s cool 😎

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Cathy's avatar

Reminisce for a girl! :) Nickname could be Remi...Minnie...or something else. I need some sib names to go with it!

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Miette's avatar

That's gorgeous! I've always liked Remember or Remembrance but I couldn't think of a nickname I liked . . . Minnie for Reminice is adorable.

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Shaunti's avatar

I love that!!

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Katelin's avatar

I love the names Esther and Siegfried, much to my husband's chagrin...

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Dana's avatar

I am 100% convinced that Esther is a secret hot girl name. I’ve known two women with this name and both are naturally beautiful and beyond kind. Plus I love love love the nickname Estee.

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Stacey Acon's avatar

Dear lord Mungo really? I am of a certain age bracket so all I can think of is Mungo Jerry who sung "In the Summertime". Sorry but it's a no for me.

Love some "trendy" names that I would have never named my children: Sloane, Saige, Wren and Griffin, Indigo, Ryder

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Avery's avatar

Sybil (girl) and Walter (boy)

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Jaelyn's avatar

Lavenia. I think it’s classic and literary and dark academia. But I have no idea what to shorten it to. Also my husband said hard no.

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Miette's avatar

I like Liv or Livvy as a nickname for Lavinia, I think it works for Lavenia. Maybe Lia or Nia? Vena?

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Roxy's avatar

Spy X Family made me really love the name Twilight for a boy

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Autumn's avatar

This is probably the fantasy lover in me but I just love the names Moss for a boy,(or girl too!) and Fea for a girl, they're just so whimsical and fun!

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Clare Green's avatar

I've met a real life baby boy called Moss!

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Miette's avatar

I knew a boy named Moss, it wore well. His sister was Gaia, which I think is gorgeous. Would Fea be pronounced like Leah and Mia? Or like Bea and Leigh? Or more like Leia?

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Leni's avatar

We have a son who we named intending to use his middle. But we chose Morris as his first, not in small part because, if he ever chooses to use his first name, we can use the nickname Moss 😍

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Storm's avatar

I like Pecan as a name, but I know a lot of people will pronounce it as "pee-can" instead of "puh-kahn", so that makes it a hard no. 😭

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merlynhawk's avatar

Maybe if you spelled it differently - like ... Pekahn ...

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Faye's avatar

Halo and Timber are adorable for a girl!

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Dana's avatar

Also- I know someone who is pregnant and last I heard they plan to name baby girl Honey.

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Miette's avatar

I recently read a book with a character named Element "Ellie", I read another with a male Lavender. Mungo makes me think of St. Mungos, the wizarding hospital in Harry Potter. My guilty pleasures are Apricity, Ulalume, California, Matilija, Georgetta, Rosamunde, Cleotilde, and Titania, but as much as I'd like to use them, they're definitely too much.

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LadySybil's avatar

Definitely Persis!

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merlynhawk's avatar

Both are nicknames that I wanted for myself but could never get friends to call me - Rusty (because I have red hair) - and the name Hawk but because I'm a woman I guess It was seen as just to masculine.

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Clare Spinney's avatar

Loved the name Clemency (still do in fact) but my husband was having none of it 🤣

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Miette's avatar

Oh my god Clemency is adorable!

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