Comments on: BRITISH BABY NAMES: Quirky & Charming

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:24:49 +0000

BTW all mine are 9 and under. Their cousins are called Lily Francesca, Polly, Harry, Harvey, Milly, and their friends are Lucy, Alice, Charlotte, and Nell. We live in Germany and their German friends are Albert (age 4), Magnus, Clara-Charlotta, Maxi (short for Maximillian), Henning, Marlene (pronounced Marlena) and Jonas. We would have called our second daughter Verity but my husband is from the US and none of our American friends could pronounce it, they kept saying “Vee-ra-EE”. Somehow the “t” would get lost and we wanted names that would be pronounced the same (or at least in a way we liked) on all continents! Georgina has always been my very favorite girl’s name so I was delighted when my husband agreed. She is now 6.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:04:57 +0000

I am British and our children are Raphaela Rose, Georgina Grace and Gabriel Thomas. I was given three names (not including my last name/family name) at birth but as we are Catholic we decided to let our children add their third name at their Confirmation.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:00:32 +0000

My grandfathers first name was Casimir (middle name Bowen). I really like the idea of using his name in our (on the way) baby’s name somewhere. I also like Loveday what a great name Casimir Loveday has an interesting ring.
Our first born is Fionnuala Hillary Anne.

By: Vickib

Vickib — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:41:55 +0000

Our daughter is Isobel Kitty Taylor. Kitty is a family name and although Isobel is really popular now, our spelling isn’t used as much ( people like to tart it up with odd spellings and add ons )

By: Keiley

Keiley — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:50:38 +0000

I saw the name: Octavia Isobel Rose

Gorgeous!

By: Karensco

Karensco — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:45:33 +0000

I’m from the UK but not living there and have named my daughter

Freya Mary Maud

I love it! Freya for Freya Stark, an early British explorer, and Maud a particularly outrageous great-aunt. I just hope Freya appreciates it when she’s big enough. My grandmother, on the other hand, had to go by Mary Gertrude Patricia, and my brother ended up with a whole pile of middle names that were mentioned in jest & my mother, somewhat addled by childbirth, didn’t realise and thus he was registered. Luckily he has broad shoulders.

By: sheigh

sheigh — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:13:57 +0000

I love particularly these two associations:

Dorothea Isobel Ann, for a girl.

and

Maximilian Arthur Bennett, for a boy.

Smart, refined and without bad tasting.

By: Carmen

Carmen — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:06 +0000

Two of my children have 2 middle names.

Octavian James Abel

Zachariah Thomas Solomon

I kind of wish we’d given our first born daughter, Ekaterina Joy another middle name too.

I loved Evangeline Sophia Kate!

By: EvanescenceDolly

EvanescenceDolly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:27:02 +0000

I love the british names! I love Urusla! I also love Elspeth, Eugenie, Alice, Ivy, Catherine, Sylvia, Ottilie, Pearl and Florence and for boys Edmund, Felix, Hugo, and Barnaby!

~Bree

By: stephanie-elizabeth

stephanie-elizabeth — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:19:42 +0000

One my cousin’s has several middle names, mostly because her parents weren’t sure they were going to have any more kids and wanted to honor every body at once. Her younger sister has multiple middle names, too, but they are the only people I know that have more than one middle name.