Reply #26: Pick up a copy of Beyond Jennifer and Jason.

[wickerwoman]

It's the best resource out for telling you what other people will think about your naming choice.

Isabelle is a really, really popular name now. She'll probably be in school with a few others. If you don't mind that, though, go for it.

If I had a daughter, I'd name her Anna Livia and call her Livia (but I'm a bit of a Joyce freak.) I like the name Aletheia (Greek for Honesty)too- she can be an Ally or a Thea if she thinks it's too pretentious.

I'd go for a longer name that gives you a couple nickname possibilities- a tomboy option, a princess option, and a power-suit option. That way she can choose what she likes when she's older. So I'd nix Greta, Quinn and Paige. And she'll resent the hell out of Pepper if she grows up to be anything but a cheerleader. Use Pepper as a nickname if you like it, don't put it on her birth certificate.

(The dean of my college was a 55 year old woman named Muffin. No one could look her in the eye.)