girl names I like<\/a>. About a dozen years ago I had a co-worker named Georgia, and I felt SORRY for her because of her name. Also, I went to school with a girl named Ruth, and I thought that was as unspeakably awful as her red hair. And now both names (AND the red hair) look good. These things go in waves, and we are floaties unable to resist.<\/p>\nThis is why my policy on names that are popular (or increasing in popularity) is “Good! That means a lot of people will like it!” And then I just cross my fingers that it stays “popular” without getting “trendy,” because trendy is a whole different bowl of soup.<\/p>\n
Where was I? Oh, yes. Okay, let’s look at what you’ve got so far:<\/p>\n
Josephine Elizabeth Birchall (JEB), nickname Josie
\nGretchen Elizabeth Birchall (GEB), nickname Greta
\nHollis Elizabeth Birchall (HEB), nickname Holly<\/p>\n
Because you like the boy’s name Frederick (and would\/might use it for a future baby, if this one is a girl?), I’d lean toward using Josephine or Gretchen, both of which seem excellent as sibling names for a Frederick. And because “Gretchen Birchall” is a little difficult for me to say, my first choice is Josephine. Here are a few more girl names to consider:<\/p>\n
Agatha Elizabeth Birchall (AEB), nickname Aggie
\nAugusta Elizabeth Birchall (AEB), nickname Gussie
\nEleanor Elizabeth Birchall (EEB), nickname Ellie or Nora
\nFlorence Elizabeth Birchall (FEB), nickname Florrie
\nGeorgia Elizabeth Birchall (GEB), nickname Gigi or Georgie
\nHenrietta Elizabeth Birchall (HEB), nickname Hen or Hennie
\nLydia Elizabeth Birchall (LEB), nickname Liddy
\nVirginia Elizabeth Birchall (VEB), nickname Ginny
\nWilhelmina Elizabeth Birchall (WEB), nickname Willa or Mina<\/p>\n
Let’s vote! I’ll put a poll over to the right. [Poll closed; see below.]<\/p>\n
Poll results (299 votes total):
\nAgatha (Aggie): 9 votes, roughly 3%
\nAugusta (Gussie): 3 votes, roughly 1%
\nEleanor (Ellie\/Nora): 64 votes, roughly 21%
\nFlorence (Florrie): 5 votes, roughly 2%
\nGeorgia (Gigi or Georgie): 34 votes, roughly 11%
\nGretchen (Greta): 17 votes, roughly 6%
\nHenrietta (Hen, Hennie, Hettie): 6 votes, roughly 2%
\nHollis (Holly): 19 votes, roughly 6%
\nJosephine (Josie): 92 votes, roughly 31%
\nLydia (Liddy): 28 votes, roughly 9%
\nVirginia (Ginny): 14 votes, roughly 5%
\nWilhelmina (Willa, Mina): 9 votes, roughly 3%<\/p>\n
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Name update!<\/strong> Gillian writes:<\/p>\nThank you so much for the suggestions and all the help in picking out a girl’s name. It turns out we needed it! Our beautiful baby girl arrived on February 26th and we named her Josephine Elizabeth. We’ve had lots of comments on her name and everyone loves it. Most importantly, so do we! Thanks again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gillian writes: My husband and I are expecting on February 20th. I\u2019ve got my fingers crossed that we\u2019re having a boy simply because we can\u2019t find a girl\u2019s name that feels right! If we have a boy, we\u2019re going to name him after my grandfather, Frederick. We\u2019ve come close with a few girls names but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-name-update"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iyiG-1Qr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10297,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/10297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swistle.com\/babynames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}