Girl Baby Names

I know this post is totally premature.

We don't know if we're having a boy or girl, and we won't know until mid March. But some of you may recall that I did a post about boy names before Joshua was born. This list of girl names may be entirely superfluous, but if that is the case, I wanted to write about it before we did discover it is to be a boy (perchance). After all, I didn't get to do it last time.

So anyway...when we're expecting a new baby, we like to keep a running list of names that we like, and we don't actually pick the winner until we're within a month or so of the due date. We only have one or two that we like for boys, but several on the girl side.
Here are some of the contenders this time around:

Annie
pros:

• Elora loves the movie Annie, and she has consented to calling the baby "Elora Annie".

• Joshua calls all of Elora's girl dolls "Annie", because one is a Raggedy Anne.

• It would be really cute if she had red hair (though she might hate that).

• It was my sister's nickname from my dad when she was little (her middle name is Anne, and she had the curly red locks).

• Joseph's mother's middle name was also Anne.

cons:

• A common name, but then so was Joshua.

• We have friends with a daughter named Annie, but they live in New Mexico, so they're not too close.
• There's already a little red-head Anne at church, but we won't live here forever.
  

• She might actually get teased if she has red curly hair. But people thought they were clever to call me Pipi Longstocking when I had braids, which is much worse.

Pipi Longstocking
just kidding.

Eowyn
pros:

• Fairly unique.

• I was named after a warrior princess, Elora was named after a princess: it would continue a tradition.

• My brothers were all named from Lord of the Rings, so it carries on that tradition as well.

• It sounds cute with Elora.

cons:

• Everyone has seen LOTR, so they all know where it comes from. This might lead to teasing, or at least disapproval from some people.
  

• I read on a baby site that people think it sounds like someone saying "Aaron" but they can't say their "R's". I don't want everyone to think she has a speech impediment when she says her name! Not that anyone says my name right. Much. :)
  

Lila/ Lyla
pros:

• Its from one of our favorite movies, August Rush.

• It is also fairly unique, although its broken the top 100 list since that movie came out.

• It goes with Elora as well.

cons:

• Maybe it's too close to Elora, they'll be easy to mix up. But so were my brothers Dain and Thain. It's not a big deal.
  

• It sounds similar to Twyla, which is a very unappealing name to me. (no offense to the Twylas out there.)

Ember
pros:

• We thought this'd be a cool name after we saw the movie City of Ember.

• I like that it means smoldering flame, which is great if she's a red-head. Or has a temper.
  

• Another "E" name to go with Elora.
  

cons:

• For some reason, I sometimes associate Ember/Amber with mean snotty little girls, even though I can't remember any girls with that name in particular. (Note: this does NOT apply to adults with this name...all the adult Ambers I know are nice!)

• Because its similar to Amber, there is a greater possibility of girls with almost the same name living nearby.

Other names possibly on the list: Gracie (extremely common), Autumn (unlikely because it's still in the summer), Hava (too ethnic?), Jane (friend with same baby name), Rowan (maybe, but Joseph doesn't like it.)

PS I don't know why that one name is a different color. Sometimes I hate blogger.