# Baby girl born yesterday! Need name suggestions fast please **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 30, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905 "2008-09-30T19:52:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Juniper200](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@Juniper200](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Juniper200)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/41 "2008-10-01T02:51:06Z")
> [@dactylic\_hexameter](#): > > Persephone (per-SEF-o-nee) is the goddess of spring. > Demeter (DE-mitt-er or de-MEET-er) is her daughter. Got it backwards. Demeter is Persephone’s mother. ---
**Author:** ![BaileyC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df788c/32.png) [@BaileyC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaileyC)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/42 "2008-10-01T03:42:03Z")
> [@blinkingblinking](#): > > My baby girl was born early. Now my wife is having second thoughts about the name we chose. Are there any good names meaning ‘September’ or 'Spring ( the season ) ? > I please request no attempted lame humour. I do not have the time. He’s got a daughter he calls Easter. She was born on a Tuesday night… I have a friend named Purity Spring (lastname). It works for her. My kids are Mary Grace and Claire Elizabeth. We call the first one “Mary Grace” but the second one is just “Claire,” unless she’s in trouble. And the big one is “Mary Grace Elizabeth” when she is in so much trouble that I need a middle name to yell. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/43 "2008-10-01T04:25:21Z")
If your wife is nixing “Jenessa,” then she sounds like a classy lady. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/44 "2008-10-01T09:15:49Z")
> [@blinkingblinking](#): > > I am looking at the names ‘Ariana’ or ‘Indiana’. LOVE Ariana, HATE Indiana! Haru is Spring in Japanese and is an old fashioned name. Aki is Autumn in Japanese and is a name that is well known but not super popular. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/45 "2008-10-01T17:48:07Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Check the location - he’s in Australia - no spring in April and May. Well, he said he was in a hurry. I had no time to look. 🙂 I’ll stick with my flower names then. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/46 "2008-10-01T18:30:16Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Lucy is a very simple name that is not at all common. Lucy is a lot more popular lately, at least in the US. It’s climbing and at #135 on the SSA list. Ariana is a very nice choice. Congrats, dad! ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/47 "2008-10-01T18:31:21Z")
Just name her Claudia. That’s the name I was going to spring on my husband when our baby was born but he turned out to be Matthew. Get it - Spring? ---
**Author:** ![torie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@torie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/torie)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/48 "2008-10-01T18:38:36Z")
On my first trip to Germany, I stayed with a family who had Romanian roots. The daughter was called Senta because she was born in September. That’s all her mother had the English to tell me, so I don’t know exactly what the connection would be, and Google is failing me. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/49 "2008-10-01T21:18:49Z")
[ul] [li]Lois[/li][li]Betty[/li][li]Veronica[/li][li]Sabrina[/li][li]Ginger[/li][li]Mary Ann[/li][/ul]😃 ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/50 "2008-10-01T21:45:52Z")
[Pulp Fiction] Esmeralda: What is your name? Butch: Butch. Esmeralda: What does it mean? Butch: I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean shit. [/Pulp Fiction] ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/51 "2008-10-01T22:09:15Z")
Not quite the same, but \*\*Aurora \*\*is nice. It means “Dawn” or “Sunrise”. Springtimey in feel, if not in literal meaning. Persephone had another name I like a lot: **Kore** , pronounced “Coray”. I believe it should be repopularized in these days of Kaylees and Cory’s. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/52 "2008-10-02T21:52:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Isn’t Aviva either that holding company that owns all those tobacco firms, or that old-people’s insurance company (Norwich Union) that got renamed? To me it has an air of corporate weaseling. The tobacco company that you’re probably thinking of is [Altria](http://www.altria.com/Default.asp), formerly known as Phillip Morris. I’ve never heard of the insurance company, but as someone from a social group with largely Hebrew names, Aviva is a totally normal girl-name to me. I have an aunt Aviva. FWIW, I think Ariana is lovely, but Indiana makes me think of imitation-pulp movies, or a Midwestern state. ---
**Author:** ![blinkingblinking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@blinkingblinking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkingblinking)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/53 "2008-10-02T22:18:38Z")
Thanks for all the replies. I think the baby’s name will be Matilda. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/54 "2008-10-02T22:28:45Z")
> [@blinkingblinking](#): > > Thanks for all the replies. I think the baby’s name will be Matilda. Nice name. Congratulations! ---
**Author:** ![Hokkaido\_Brit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Hokkaido\_Brit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokkaido_Brit)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/55 "2008-10-02T22:53:24Z")
Congratulations! I think Matilda is a nice name too but I am biased as my niece is Matilda! (I preferred Ariana but who cares what I think!) Have a very happy life, live long and love hard, Matilda!! ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/56 "2008-10-02T23:05:20Z")
No love for my favorite name, “Samantha,” eh? Renée, “reborn,” might be due for a comeback. ---
**Author:** ![Mahna\_Mahna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Mahna\_Mahna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahna_Mahna)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/57 "2008-10-02T23:51:36Z")
> [@blinkingblinking](#): > > Thanks for all the replies. I think the baby’s name will be Matilda. I love it! And very appropriate for an Australian little girl, might I add. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/58 "2008-10-03T00:43:47Z")
Awesome!!! I love the name Matilda!! Congratulations! Will you call her Mattie or Tillie? Or Matilda? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/59 "2008-10-03T00:50:06Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > How about “September?” > > Or maybe “Spring?” > > Both perfectly acceptable female names. Since when was “September” an acceptable female name? ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905/60 "2008-10-03T03:43:33Z")
While I think Matilda is much preferable to some of the names you folks considered, does it have some relationship to spring or September of which I am not aware? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-girl-born-yesterday-need-name-suggestions-fast-please/465905.md?page=4)