How to incoporate either Mom or Grandma's name

ams6404 · January 2011

I am looking for some ideas on how to potentially incorporate my mom's side of the family into this baby's name, if we end up having a girl (we are "team green").

My daughter's middle name is Helen, after my paternal grandmother. If we have another girl, I would like to use a name from my mom's side of the family as the middle name, but I am struggling with how to do that. Here are the names:

Mom: Mary Ann (technically a first and middle name but she goes by both)

Grandma: Edith Isabel

The easy thing to do would be to use Isabel... but I feel like it's so popular that I don't want to, even as a middle name. Oh, I should mention that we are struggling with first names overall, but right now the two frontrunners for girls (and actually the only two that are currently on the list) are Lucy and Matilda.

Any ideas would be much appreciated! Thanks.

lovemytwoboys · January 2011

I love the name Edith Isabel. I think you could use either of those as first names or as middle names with the other first name choices you have.

Lucy Edith
Lucy Isabel
Matilda Isabel

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clee2009 · January 2011

I am big on having the middle name mean something so I love your style. If our next child is a girl her middle name will be Ann (after my mother JoAnn and MIL midddle name). What I love about that middle name is that it seems to flow well with most first names. Good luck!

mlf625 · January 2011

You've got some great options. I think Edith is the winner, you're right about Isabel being so popular, I'd nix it for that reason. I love Matilda or Lucy with Edith as a middle name. Lucy Ann is also nice. Matilda Maryann could work as well, if you're not opposed to combining your mom's names.

AwBeth · January 2011

My daughter's first name is Edith, after my grandma. We call her Edie. I love the name!! (obviously)

ams6404 · January 2011

Thanks for the comments so far - I really appreciate it. I'm feeling a little more optimistic about my options. My only concerns with Edith are:

- With Matilda, do the two names sound too "old-ladyish" together?

- With Lucy, does the "ee" at the end of Lucy and the "ee" at the beginning of Edith run together too much and sound funny?

I could always go with Ann, but it seems a little boring... combining Mary and Ann into one name might not be a bad idea. Would it be okay to spell it MaryAnn? Or would it need to be Mariann or Maryann(?) -- the "y" kind of looks weird in the middle to me.

MrsW801 · January 2011

Lucy Isabel would be my choice. Yes, mn is popular but in your case it's a family name so you could see past that.

BecauseICan · January 2011

I think you could spell it Maryann, and it would be okay. It has meaning to you, and it's not as though it's her first name, where she'd have to spell it frequently.

We had a similar dilemma--and I ended up using my grandma's middle name, which was Marie, b/c it just flowed better than her first. We got comments about it being 'too common', but it still has meaning to US.

TBS, I love either of your names w/ the mn 'Ann'.

TiffaniMay · January 2011

My first thought was combining the two in one name. Maribel would work! We took the first two letters from our dads names for our LO's middle name, Dean. I love the idea of incorporating family names!

waterfly · January 2011

Hrm...what about Lucy Marian?

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