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Middle Name Desperation

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Hello, there! Almost as soon as we found out we were expecting, we settled on Philippa if it was a little girl. Sure enough, it will be, but now we're stuck for middle names. Philippa's such an unusual name here in the states, and might present spelling difficulties for her over her life, so we want to give her a simple, classic middle name. Unfortunately, our last name is also the name of an animal, and a possible racial slur (it's a lot of fun, believe me /s),so we're looking for something that follows the below rules:

-no "a" sound at the end or beginning, because of the "a" at the end of Philippa.
-nothing that could be a descriptor of an animal - for example, we really liked "Grey", but it would be tantamount to naming her Philippa Grey Squirrel. Not good.
-nothing difficult to spell or with tons of popular spellings (Sherry, for example - Sherri, Cherie, Sherie, etc.)
-nothing that sounds like a country, southern name - we talked about Philippa Mae, but it sounded like something from the Beverly Hillbillies. lol
-nothing that is associated with Pippa Middleton, the world's most famous Philippa (Pippa will be our girl's nickname, too.) So no Charlotte, Elizabeth, Kate, Catherine, etc.


We're just at such an impasse right now! We've ruled out all of the following, just because we don't like them for one reason or another - Jane, June, Jo, Grace, Rose, Wren, Elaine, Layne, Marie. I realise we might be just thinking about it too hard, but I'm hoping someone here will be able to help us break past our block. I know that's a lot of restrictions, but anyone have any suggestions to get out of our conundrum?
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