I love Lillian, and I love Clara, too. Also, strangely, Mabel, which I think is due for a comeback. I don't like Edith as much as I like Edie, though.

So many friends wanted us to name our boys Harvey. Because of the whole Harvey Garvey that would result, obviously. We politely refrained.

I so love Clara. DW does not so it is off the list. It is just so adorable!

Marguerite is a popular name in my family. I have two (?) cousins named Marguerite and had a great aunt Marguerite, but she was called Mamie. My mother is a Margaret and I had a great aunt Margaret, who went by Maggie.

One shortens to Lilly, the other to Marge.

Not true! My grandmother is Margot. (And actually, I believe Margot was a family name, but my grandmother went trendy to give her Marguerite as a formal name.)

Of course, because I'm contrary, if I named a daughter after her, she would be Daisy (same flower).

The renewed popularity of Lillian makes me wonder what's up with Marguerite -- my (born in 1919) grandmother is a Marguerite, has a friend Marguerite, and has had several friends named Lillian. So I figure they must have both been pretty popular in those days, so why not come back together?

Yes! My grandmother had a ton of Marguerites in her crowd but I haven't heard of a single one under the age of, like, 80.

I like Margaret, but it's both my grandmother's name and follows my preferred convention of women's names that don't end in -a or -ie sounds and have shortened nickname options that don't either. (Meg as opposed to Peggy)

Marguerite could also be a Maggie.

I love the name Margot -- a friend's daughter has that name.

My mother is Meredith, named for her grandmothers Mary and Edith. I always thought that was a nice nod.

I love Lillian, but I have a bias since the maternal side of the family has always called me Lilibeth, or Lili (but none of them call me Beth, interestingly enough, which is what the rest of the family uses, unless you're talking about my sisters and parents, who call me Henry). My BiL once complained that when he first met the large family group he had trouble keeping track of all the different name variations.

Speaking of baby names, I wonder what Ben Affleck and Jen Garner are naming their new baby? I love Violet.

We have a bunch of Margarets in my family--my grandmother, mother, and 27-year old cousin to name a few. They go (or went in the case of my grandmom) by Peg, Penny, and Meg respectively. Penny, my mom, was going to be Peggy but she couldn't say it when she was little.