Sibling name for Edith

Jermysgirl

Not for now, but in a couple of years when we adopt again.  We're brainstorming to see if there is something we can agree on, and haven't come up with anything good yet.  Obviously we like old fashioned names - our daughter is Edith Joan.  I don't want anything too matchy matchy or common...toss some names at the wall and lets see if any stick!

LoriFalce

Names of the same generation that I think are pretty:

Helen, Iris, Maisie, Agatha (pronounced Agaytha...it's my ggma's name), Ruth, Dulcie, Henrietta.

Jermysgirl

I like Helen and Ruth

PS. Boy names too!

brightning

I had a student named Eunice, but that might be too matchy for Edith. How about Rosemary/marie? Lynn? Jeanne/Jean? My great-grandma's name is Onie, which I've always thought is cool. Lois. Alice. Frances.

Traditional boys names would match well: William, Michael, Matthew, etc. as long as you didn't shorten the name. Edward/Edwin, Ronald, Francis, Otis, Samuel, Leo.

LoriFalce

Oh, boy's names are so much easier. The classics never go out of style there.

Robert, Edward, William, John, James... Joseph is nice.

Then there are the more era-specific. The ones you don't hear as much anymore.

Franklin, Henry, Truman, Saul, Calvin, Arthur.

tdown

Girls:

Olive, Agnes, Esme (maybe a little matchy?), Hazel, Alice, Adele, Beatrice

Boys:

Linus, Jude, Solomon, Walter, Oliver, Winston, Preston 

pinktulips

Girls

Audrey, Ester, Alice, Margaret, Caroline, Ruby, Joyce, Gloria, Lorraine, Evelyn, Blanche, Marilyn, Bernadette

Boys

Walter, Howard, Bernard, Gerald, Alfred, Arthur, August, Angus, Fredrick, Lauren, Wyatt

kcjessieb

Boys:

Dean, Walt, Paul, Robert, William

Girls:

Helena, Eleanor (Ellie), Beatrice (Bea or Trixie), Roxanne, Amelia?

cloud9climber

I like Hattie and Henry!! ?LOVE Eleanor but my favorite old fashioned girls name is Mabel ?I named my pug dog Mabel and it's so cute! ?

sunnyday016

My favorites would be Ruth and William.

newportbride715

Beatrice

Sadie

Ruby

Rose

Eleanor

Claire

Grace

Iris

Elsa

Ivy

Miriam

 

newportbride715

Oh and boys-

Edward

Hugh

Theodore

Archibald

Harvey

Oscar

Henry

Charles

Harrison

George

Frederick

JChandlerJBates

Ruth, Grace, Mary, Margaret, Charlotte, Ruby, Macy, Eliza, Faith, Ivy, Dorothy, Betty, Virginia, Elizabeth, Frances, Anna, Evelyn, Alice, Marie, Jean, Shirley, Barbaba, Irene, Rose, Martha, Louise, Patricia, Susan, Sharon, Joan

JChandlerJBates

Asher, Henry, James, Robert, John, William, Richard, David, Charles, Thomas, Michael, Ronald, Larry, Donald, Joseph, Gary, George, Kenneth, Paul, Edward, Jerry, Dennis, Frank, Daniel, Raymond, Stephen, Roger, Walter, Ralph, Albert

Temp950106187509203

I love Edith Joan.  We prefer traditional names that aren't hugely popular/common, too.  Our top four for each are here: https://babynames.com/namelist/9686061

Sweden+Canada

I pretty much love all names mentioned in this thread. :-)

funkybride

How about Eleanor and you could call her Ellie? Edith and Ellie? So cute!

Jermysgirl

We decided on names for #2 - Gretchen Ruth or Theodore Thomas.

LoriFalce

I think Gretchen is lovely, and Theodore is charming.

stephnews

That was my grandmother's sister's name. Her sisters were Lucille, Effie  and Olive and brother was Marvis.