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BAs from England
These are from a couple of local papers and a few real-life BAs as well.Abigail Charlotte
Adelaide
Alice Mackenzie
Amelia Chloe – sister for Paige
Bella
Eden
Hattie Louise – sister for Max
Isabelle Chloe
Isabelle Olivia Grace
Keziah
Winifred RoseCharlie William – brother for Hanna
Ethan
Finley Jacob – brother for Aimee
Guya – brother for Ruby and Bonnie (never heard of Guya before, thought at first it was a typo)
Henry Charles Raymond
Henry James
Huey
Josiah Patrick – brother to Lydia
Logan – brother for Corey
Oakley – brother for Hayden
Olly Jack
Oscar Stanley
Oscar Teddy Roy – brother for Riley
Swaley (not sure of spelling - a friend's nephew)
Ted
Thomas Michael – brother to Isobel and AbigailAlso, not a BA but my Grandpa was telling me that as a young boy in the 20s his family knew a young woman whose actual name was Girlie which I thought was interesting!
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I like:Abigail Charlotte - Lovely! I'm seem to be one of the few BtN-members who genuinely loves Abigail.
Adelaide
Eden
Keziah - Nice to see this!
Winifred Rose - Beautiful.
Bonnie
Lydia
Isobel
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Henry Charles Raymond
Henry James - His parents literature professors, by any chance?
Josiah PatrickI *would* like Isabelle Olivia Grace, if it weren't such an overload of currently popular names.
I'd also prefer Oakley on a girl (in fact it's the name of one of my characters in something I'm writing - her mother's maiden name).
What, exactly, is "Swaley?"
Thomas Michael is quite boring. But at least he won't be teased for his name.You also have both a Guya and Girlie in this post... not names I'd like to have, to say the least (especially not Girlie... wow).
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I have no idea about Swaley. My friend (who's nephew it is) thought it was a made up name. I Googled it and apparently it is an Old-English word / place name but I assume the mother (who I don't know) just heard it somewhere and used it.Oakley is proving to be quite trendy for baby boys here. I assume influenced by the sunglasses brand but don't know. Not my style.Isabelle is a baby I know of and I think the parents did deliberately use all their favourite names as she may turn out to be an only child. I think it's nice, but a bit of a mouthful.Don't know anything about the parents of Henry James. They are either huge fans of his writing or have never heard of him and so the association has passed them by!
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Is Guya supposed to be Gaia? If so, oh the horror...
Edit: Just realized that it was a boy. So no Gaia then. I like:
Adelaide
Alice
Mackenzie
Amelia
Eden
Isabelle Olivia Grace
KeziahCharlie William
Henry James
Josiah Patrick
Oscar

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What's the "horror" with the name Gaia? It isn't *that* awful. I mean, it's not Tinley, or anything...
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Gaia is fine, but Guya isn't.
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Abigail Charlotte - nice
Adelaide - very cute
Alice Mackenzie - I don't like Alice at all. However, this combo is oddly nice together. For some reason the different styles really complement each other. I like Mackenzie a lot
Amelia Chloe - Amelia has grown on me a ton this year. I love Chloe
Paige - has grown on me a lot the last few years. Only like it as a MN though
Bella - nice, but overdone (unfortunately)
Eden - nice, but I wouldn't use it
Hattie Louise – very cute
Isabelle Chloe - I like Isabelle but prefer Isabela.
Isabelle Olivia Grace - I adore all of these names. But Isabelle Olivia is a bit of a mouthfull
Keziah - cool name
Winifred Rose - Hate Winifred, much prefer Wynn/Wynne. Don't really like Rose either, I prefer Rosalie
Girlie - whaaaaat? Kind of endearing when you think about it as a name in the 20s. But not today.
Hanna - love it, but prefer Hana spelling
Aimee - hate it
Ruby - see Eden
Bonnie - NMSAA
LydiaCharlie WilliamCharlie is really cute. Don't really like William even though there is nothing wrong with it. Just doesn't do anything for me. The combo flows nicely though

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Slighty OTA friend of mine knows a woman named Girlie, but she lives in a Dakota Reservation so it's possible that's just a nickname for a difficult to pronounce Dakota name.
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Very unlikely. This was in Southampton, England, I'd imagine nothing to do with a Dakota name! I looked it up on the Free BMD site which I sometimes use for family tree research and there are a few born after 1885 including a Girlie Florence and a Girlie Helena. The more I type it, the stranger it seems!
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(sorry, double-post)

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"Girlie Florence and a Girlie Helena"They had lovely middle names - I hope they went by those!
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