First daughter Silvia Lyn. Need sibling name.

[stacyk]

Our first daughter is Silvia Lyn.

I have loved that name since I was a little girl. Silvia was my name in Spanish class in high school. I just have always loved it and knew, that was THE name.

Its feminine with the gorgeous curvy S, I love the strong stylish V, and most of all its a dream to have a Shakespeare poem written about "Silvia" with the most beautiful words that anyone would hope their daughter could be like.

Can you tell I love it!?! Lyn is my middle name and I see more as a last name continuation...something I can pass on.

So, this time around it's too early to know if it's a girl, but were both pretty sure it will be. Just that feeling.

But, I feel like vie used my "best / favorite" name up...with no backups.

Ive always liked Ava, but it's far to common now.

Evelyn and Roslyn have been floating around, but evelyn I don't love the "e" start (doesn't feel as feminine) and my husband.s cousin is Roslyn and she goes by Rosie which he doesn't like. He's against it because he has friends that go by Ros and we both aren't fans of names that easily get shortened.

We like traditional names that aren't too common. We both have art backgrounds / careers so I think we might be able to get away with more, name wise, than some.

My husband out of the blue says he likes Violet. I would have never picked that. I'm trying to stay open as Ive said I like "v"s but today "violent" popped into my head. Eww. That hasn't deterred my hubby, but I'm not sold.

Any help for alternatives to my one and only true name love Silvia?

[etoile]

Violaine? (vee oh lehn)... does this conjour up violent for you?

[kerrie]

Audrey
Briony
Coralie
Cecilia
Elise
Verity
Vivian
Vanessa
Cameo
Annalise
Jovienne
Giselle

[stacyk]

Violaine is one i havent heard of before. I like that its interesting! Thanks for the suggestion....But, i might be open to something that rolls off the tongue a bit quicker/easier...pronunciation without question.

Kerrie you've been in my head a bit. Audrey is a name my sister suggested. I do like the sophisticated with a touch of potential sass it has.... The tone of it reminds me of Silvia. "aud" sound isn't as fem, but it's good overall.

Cecilia I am really down for. I think the C is curvy and fem. Is it pretty standard that people go by CeCe though? For that reason I was thinking Celia maybe.

Elise is a name I have liked for a looooong time. One of my best friend in elementary school was Elise, so it has nice history. My husband didn't bite on that one....but the "l" and "s" sounds in it is what gets me liking it.

Vivian is ANOTHER one I've thought of for awhile. I think it's visually gorgeous, super fem, hard to shorten unless you're close friends who call you viv...but not something in the work place / school / etc....which I like. It might be a bit snooty, but I don't mind. Maybe I'll do some campaigning to my husband for this one. Voilet seems like it's trying to be creative, where I think these more traditional but not common names are more genuinely creative.

Vanessa is another one ive always appreciated, but is a bit common and is my husbands sister's name and would want something fresh. My moms name is wendy and if I ever did a name sake it would be her, but my husband doesn't like the food chain reference which I get.

Jovienne is a new one for me. I kind of like Joslyn. There's the ray Lahmontagne song Jolene. ....not sure.....

Giselle is a super sexy hot name. I cant help but think of the model and the exoticness of it. I really like it, but not sure if I've got the gumption to use it. Lol

Thanks for all the names... This helps me brew on this some more.

Any other ideas are welcome. Love this site!

[rollo]

Christiana Marie
Ellen Hazel
Delilah Katherine
Phillipa Anne
Caroline Aurora
Clementine Arianne
Hermione Willow
Cecelia Antoinette
Liliana Hope
Vivian Louise
Jacquelyn Kate

rollo

PS Giselle is beautiful and not out there at all.

[oldsienna]

My first thought was Elodie. I think it goes perfectly with Silvia.

Other ideas:

Silvia and...

Lydia
Louisa/Luisa
Julia
Rosa
Evelia
Georgia
Calla
Willa
Helena
Nadia

[lori johnson]

My recommendation is ...

Silvia [and] Lydia

Or a Shakespearean-name sibset ...

Adriana / "Comedy of Errors"
Aemilia / "Comedy of Errors"
Alice / "Henry V"
Anne / "Richard III"
Audrey / "As You Like It"
Baptista / "Taming of the Shrew"
Beatrice / "Much Ado About Nothing"
Bianca / "Othello" and "Taming of the Shrew"
Celia / "As You Like It"
Constance / "King John"
Cordelia / "King Lear"
Desdemona / "Othello"
Diana / "All's Well that Ends Well"
Dorcas / "Winter's Tale"
Emilia / "Othello" and "Winter's Tale"
Francisca / "Measure for Measure"
Gertrude / "Hamlet"
Hecate / "Macbeth"
Helen / "Cymbeline"
Helena / [several plays]
Hermia / "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Hermione / "Winter's Tale"
Hippolyta / "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Imogen / "Cymbeline"
Iris / "The Tempest"
Isabella / "Measure for Measure"
Jaquenetta / "Love's Labour's Lost"
Jessica / "Merchant of Venice"
Julia / "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
Juliet / "Romeo and Juliet"
Katharina / "Taming of the Shrew"
Katharine / "Love's Labour's Lost"
Lavinia / "Titus Andronicus"
Lucetta / "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
Luciana / "Comedy of Errors"
Margaret / "Much Ado About Nothing"
Maria / "Love's Labour's Lost"
Mariana [several plays]
Miranda / "The Tempest"
Nerissa / "Merchant of Venice"
Ophelia / "Hamlet"
Paulina / "Winter's Tale"
Perdita / "Winter's Tale"
Phoebe / "As You Like It"
Portia / "Merchant of Venice"
Regan / "King Lear"
Rosalind / "As You Like It"
Rosaline / "Love's Labour's Lost"
Silvia / "Two Gentlemen of Verona"
Titania / "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Ursula / "Much Ado About Nothing"
Valentine / "Twelfth Night"
Viola / "Twelfth Night"

[shanade213]

Linnea was the first name that popped into my head
Pronounced lynn AY uh
Swedish; means lime tree blossom

others that came to mind
Valentina
Lavinia
Deanna
Flavia
Claudia
Junia
Antonia
Paola
Celia
Susannah
Lydia
Demetria
Jillian
Felicity
Reverie (means dream)

[kerrie]

Very welcome, you will love this site, people are so creative! Jovienne is a guilty pleasure of mine so I just threw that in, haha.

I like the suggestions of Lydia, Louisa, and Elodie

[stacyk]

Status update: I'm still early in the pregnancy, but my husbands favorite Violet is starting to grow on me. some of the others ive redly like listed above he's not warming up to at all so we'll see. I'm just happy the one he loves I'm getting into more. I saw a little girl today at the zoo named violet, which was my first encounter with a person with that name and somehow it just clicked as a good choice.

Scarlett is another one he liked. It would go with our "s" theme for the ladies in the house.

Does anyone have opinions of violet vs Scarlett?

Soon we'll get confirmation on boy or girl, my husbands convinced it will be a girl, we'll see. if a boy Henry is sticking out for me for some unknown reason.