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Edwina.. yay or nay?
Trying to expand our list of girls names from three... to more than three! Lol. I used to detest that name, but now it's suddenly grown on me and it's one of the feminised names that husband likes! (He dislikes Rowena, Wilhelmina and Thomasina much to my disgust)
Also, it's a bit of an honouring name as my grandfather is Edward and husbands grandfather was Edmund, so that's kinda nice too.
1) Do you like Edwina?
2) Do you think Eddie is a cute nickname for a girl?
3) What siblings go best with Edwina?
Rufus, Sidney, Casper, Theodora, Hilda, Daphne
4) What would be a nice middle name to go with Edwina? Possibly with a second middle name of Hilda
Edwina ____ Hilda Arnold
Trying to expand our list of girls names from three... to more than three! Lol. I used to detest that name, but now it's suddenly grown on me and it's one of the feminised names that husband likes! (He dislikes Rowena, Wilhelmina and Thomasina much to my disgust)
Also, it's a bit of an honouring name as my grandfather is Edward and husbands grandfather was Edmund, so that's kinda nice too.
1) Do you like Edwina?
2) Do you think Eddie is a cute nickname for a girl?
3) What siblings go best with Edwina?
Rufus, Sidney, Casper, Theodora, Hilda, Daphne
4) What would be a nice middle name to go with Edwina? Possibly with a second middle name of Hilda
Edwina ____ Hilda Arnold
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I really like Edwina. It seems kind of witchy to me.
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First off, this might not hold true in Australia, but in the US, Eddy Arnold (I think that's the spelling) is a pretty well-known old-style country -western singer.
Edwina is hideous, so hideous it seems almost deliberately designed to be hideous. It would fit right in with hideous siblings Rufus and Hilda.
Eddie as a nn for a girl seems self-consciously tomboyish and won't age well. I do know a woman around sixty named Eddie, I don't know if it's short for anything or not. She's from the hills of West Virginia, and I think that kind of name on a girl is also pretty typical of the poor rural south several generations ago.
Edwina is hideous, so hideous it seems almost deliberately designed to be hideous. It would fit right in with hideous siblings Rufus and Hilda.
Eddie as a nn for a girl seems self-consciously tomboyish and won't age well. I do know a woman around sixty named Eddie, I don't know if it's short for anything or not. She's from the hills of West Virginia, and I think that kind of name on a girl is also pretty typical of the poor rural south several generations ago.
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I knew a half-French Suzanne Edwina - father or grandfather is/was Edward.
Edwina is good. Stylish, in a jazz-age way. Edwina would show her legs right up to the knee, wear fringed clothes and long ropes of beads, and Charleston the night away. Eddie is a good nn for Edwina, mostly perhaps because I really don't enjoy it as a male nn. And there's also Winnie!
I think the best matches as sibs would be Rufus and Daphne.
Edwina Lucy Hilda? Edwina Joan Hilda? Edwina Ruth Hilda? Edwina Penelope Hilda - OK, it's a lot, but it does sound lovely.
Edwina is good. Stylish, in a jazz-age way. Edwina would show her legs right up to the knee, wear fringed clothes and long ropes of beads, and Charleston the night away. Eddie is a good nn for Edwina, mostly perhaps because I really don't enjoy it as a male nn. And there's also Winnie!
I think the best matches as sibs would be Rufus and Daphne.
Edwina Lucy Hilda? Edwina Joan Hilda? Edwina Ruth Hilda? Edwina Penelope Hilda - OK, it's a lot, but it does sound lovely.
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hahaha. well I guess we were always going to disagree on a name somewhere!! Lol. I doubt we will use Edwina, but i'm just kinda getting a bit sick of Daphne, Winifred and Theodora.. the only three names we actually like!
Ironically, Hilda Mary is my grandmothers name! So Edwina Mary Hilda is massively honouring! Too bad I hate Mary. My grandmother hates Hilda, I really want to use it but she's so against it! :( She tried to talk me into Mary instead. eww
Edwina Josephine is gorgeous!
Ironically, Hilda Mary is my grandmothers name! So Edwina Mary Hilda is massively honouring! Too bad I hate Mary. My grandmother hates Hilda, I really want to use it but she's so against it! :( She tried to talk me into Mary instead. eww
Edwina Josephine is gorgeous!
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