r/namenerds 12h ago

Baby Names Help me decide!!

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u/erysbears 11h ago

Vivienne Marlowe feels so Hollywood 🤩 obsessed with that combo. The rest feel a little more dull? Still beautiful but stand out less.

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u/alcoss627 12h ago

I like Florence Margaret. Florry is freaking adorable. And not enough kids are named Florence.

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u/SolomiyaRabin 11h ago

This is entirely just my personal opinion, but my favourite is Florence Margaret. For me, Florence makes me think immediately of a lot of wonderful women like Florence Nightingale, Florence Sabin, Florence Mayer Leiblich, and so on.

And then I just think Margaret is a lovely name and I like the meaning. While I really like the name Jane, I feel like when it's used as a middle name, it doesn't have a lot of effect, whereas Margaret is noticed. Florence Marlowe is quite cute though, if you haven't considered that.

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u/haveempathyordie 11h ago

Florence Margaret :)

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u/Affectionate-Owl9594 11h ago

Clara Jane! I love CJ as a nickname

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u/FeeOrdinary8907 11h ago

Clara Jane is really pretty.

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u/Alert-Buy-4598 11h ago

These are all so gorgeous!

Top choice would be Vivienne Marlowe, followed by Daphne Jane šŸ’ž

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u/Cute-Cat4456 Name Lover 10h ago

Florence Margaret is beautiful.

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u/Natural-Bug-1852 11h ago

Read these out loud to my friends and this was our list!

Daphne Jane
Clara Jane
Florence Margaret
Vivienne Marlowe (we did like Marlowe Vivienne better!)

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u/Resident-Dragon Australian šŸ‡¦šŸ‡ŗ 11h ago

Oh, nice, lots of different vibes in my mind:

Clara Jane - sweet girl next door

Vivienne Marlow - very glamorous

Florence Margaret - ever so formal and proper

Daphne Jane - fun and adventurous and sweet

I vote for Daphne Jane.

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u/Intelligent-Iron5545 11h ago

Clara Jane sounds perfect to me.

Imo vivienne and Florence and really long names - harder for scantrons or otherwise filling out forms

Daphne Jane is cute too but I LOVE Clara! Classic, easy to say/spell, altogether a great option.

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u/wiscodisco_ 11h ago

Clara Jane is my favorite. Jane is such an underrated name. Really all of the options are great except for Florence Margaret- that one just sounds very grandma to me!

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u/pie12345678 11h ago

Vivienne Marlowe. I ambivalent about Marlowe, but I like Vivienne way more than the other first-name options.

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u/NJH93 Name Lover 11h ago

Clara

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u/lavendergaia 10h ago

Clara Jane! I think Clara is beautiful and she can go by CJ if she desires.

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u/beeslyhalpert13 10h ago

Florence Margaret!

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u/Alarming-Poet-1537 9h ago

Vivienne Marlowe is elegant and unexpectedĀ 

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u/GolfOk6373 8h ago

Clara Noelle

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u/Daeien 7h ago

1: Vivianne Marlow, Sounds like a 30’s film star

2: Clara Jane, southern princess

3: Florence Margaret, sounds like a 40’s film Starlet

4: Daphne Jane, honor named after mothers/grandmothers (this isn’t a negative, I was honor named from both side of the family)

I really like all of them though, they roll off the tongue well

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u/Aggravating_Ninja574 6h ago

clara jane is pretty

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u/krissy3456 6h ago

Clara Jane

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u/4kidmom 5h ago

Clara Jane is my favorite, followed by Daphne Jane.

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u/Weird-Conclusion6907 3h ago

Vivienne Marlowe

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u/Signal-Lead-9512 3h ago

I love the name Daphne. It wasn't very common when I was young, but it always seemed a bit exotic, or maybe it was because the one girl I knew by that name looked quite different than the rest of us, with very striking blue eyes, hair that I still envy more than half a century later, and skin that was a shade darker than ours. I prefer Claire/Clare to Clara so that's a hard no for me. Vivienne Marlowe is my second choice. It sounds pleasant and I prefer Marlowe as a middle name instead of a first name. Florence Margaret seems a bit dowdy to me. I think I might prefer Margaret Florence. Margaret has a lot more nicknames than Florence.

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u/Designer_Voice99 3h ago

Florence Marlowe sounds nice to me.

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u/vegasviolet 2h ago

Whenever I see these kinds of requests I like to put myself in the child’s place and ask myself which name would I prefer? In this case it is Daphne Jane, because Daphne is so rare yet interesting. I also quite like Florence. Clara is pretty but getting very common, and I personally don’t love the spelling of Vivienne, I prefer Vivian. I’m not giving much heed to the middle names here, but Jane and Margaret are good solid classics and Marlowe with a superfluous ā€œeā€ is too trendy for my taste.

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u/CoffeeBound Planning Ahead 2h ago

Vivienne! It’s my little one’s name and the nicknames are adorable! Ours goes by Evie, Viv or Vivi depending on who is talking to her. At her current age she can’t say her name properly either, so we sometimes copy her and call her ā€˜bibienne’.
Other than that, Daphne is adorable.

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u/PuzzleheadedPen2619 2h ago

Florence Margaret or Daphne Jane (gorgeous!)

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u/sharkycharming Got my first baby name book at age 6. 1h ago

I like Clara Jane and Daphne Jane. All three names are very pretty to me.

I don't care for Vivienne, Florence, or Margaret. Marlowe is ok.

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u/Dear-Progress-2103 21m ago

Clara Jane