Getting close to due date and not even close Genevieve,India Annabel...

[brianmayshair]

Genevieve- vivi for short.
India- love this but dm has been vocal about her dislike
Annabel- our compromise name, nothing wrong with it.
Arabella- we both like.
Serena- 4yo ds fave name, don't know where it came from we don't know any and he goes to a boys school but it has grown on me.



Theo- both like not love.
Hugo- love this but we have a h surname.
Ellis- this is a recent I'm not sure.

Stuck for boys names so any suggestions most definitely welcome. Any thoughts on above?

[brianmayshair]

Oh and to complicate things we would like to give the baby the middle name Christina after my Dgma, my other dc have 3 names so this can go anywhere iyswim.

[Towndon]

Genevieve - not keen
India - place name or 80s "exotic" name
Annabel - like, and Annabel Christina fits well
Arabella - like
Serena - like, but Serena Christina is too rhymey

Theo - like
Hugo - a bit too public schooly for me
Ellis - too surnamey but I do like Elliot (I know, also a surname!)

[Montsti]

From the girls names list, I like Arabella best by a long way followed by Annabel. Am afraid I detest the name Genevieve - I know someone who named their DD this as she was conceived in Geneva (she has also always been called Gen which I find too adult like and takes away from the actual name) - sorry but that ruined it for me...I also have this horrible image of people shouting the name in a playground or wherever in an incredibly chavvy accent..am sure people will disagree though as seems to be "in"...

I like Theo and Hugo not keen in Ellis. Do you want a short name? What is DS's name? Will help in thinking up suggestions..

[brianmayshair]

Ha at serena Christina it is truly dreadful.

[Montsti]

Sounds like Angelina Ballerina..

[brianmayshair]

Ds is Max.

[lemniscate]

I have a Genevieve so am obviously voting for that :)

We thought about Vivi but she has turned out to be largely Genevieve. Other nicknames are Evie, Gen, Ginny, Viv - so she will have plenty of choices when she is bigger. I'm amused by the idea of it being 'chavvy' :) - never ever heard anyone say that about it before and we were actually worried the other way, that it sounded a bit too middle-class-trying-hard-to-be-posh! However I probably would think it a bit chavvy if it was because of where the baby was conceived, and Gen is my least favourite of the nicknames :)

It's not too popular - only 90 girls named it in each of the last 4 years according to ONS stats so it's only about 400+ on the names list.

I find Arabella/Annabel too twee and girlie. We went with Genevieve because it is feminine but doesn't imply pink and ballerina-y and little girl in the way that lots of the bel/bella names do so is more versatile when she is an adult I think.

Serena is better than those, and India I like.

Nothing wrong with Hugo and a H surname because of the way that Hugo is pronounced I think, unless your surname is also pronounced in that aspirated way (e.g. Hugo Harris would be fine I think but Hugo Hughes wouldn't be)

[Montsti]

Lovely name. Definitely stick with my original girl's name choices then. Arabella no.1.

I think Theo goes best with Max of your boys names, but also the following:

Ben (Benjamin)
Zac (Zachary/Isaac)
Charlie (Charles)
Freddie (maybe Alfred/Frederick)
Tom (Thomas)
Harry

I know they are "popular" but just think they work really well with Max.

[Montsti]

Lemniscate - I don't think Genevieve is chavvy at all (if anything in the UK quite posh - am not saying that is negative though) as a name just always have this image of chavs pronouncing it in a chavvy way which ruins the name completely (probably because of the conception association)...your other nns are so much nicer than Gen too!

[brianmayshair]

Thanks lemniscate- I really like vivi but dislike gen and genny I'm not sure how easy it would be to avoid those.

montsi- funnily enough my dad suggested ben but I know too many people I dislike called ben.
Love Zac but it's a close friends ds
Ds was going to be a Charlie and have now completely gone off it although tbh it was dh's choice
Colleague is calling her baby Tom and we could never have a Harry with out surname in fact dh was going to be a Harry and the Mw put her foot down apparently and told Ils it was cruel.

I actually really like Hugo with out surname it is Dh that has the problem with it, everyone I have mentioned it too also likes it.

[Montsti]

Well at least I'm on the right track with the boys names! There are other names I really like (some equally as or more popular than the above but don't think they go as well with Max). A few more suggestions that, in my opinion work with Max:

Sam (Samuel)
Oscar
Leo
Finn (Finlay)

[brianmayshair]

Ha you are on the right track sam and Leo are dhs faces I'm not so sure but I think that's because I love Hugo so much, i'm hoping to wear him down, worked with max

[Montsti]

I also like Hugo but not as much as some of the others. Dominic?

[lemniscate]

Just to out myself evenmore, my ds is Leo

[Montsti]

Ha ha this is getting funny!

[brianmayshair]

I'm trying not to out myself to much too . Big no to Dominic for to many reasons to mention.

I also like Jago but am not sure about the reaction it would get, wish I was brave but had a wobble with dd's name when a couple of people made commented.

[threecurrantbuns]

Out of the girls Annabel.

I have a Hugo and love the name but I do get what you mean about the surname thing I've avoided calling any of mine a name which has the same first letter as our surname.

Almost makes the name sound like a stage name.

Really like Theo too I would go for Theodore personally and Theo for short

[HereKittyKitty]

India and Hugo I like from your lists.

The others not so keen on...

[brianmayshair]

*too many

[mathanxiety]

Genevieve- this would end up as Jen, Jenna, Jenny. How about Vivienne if you like Vivi?
India- It's becoming very common where I live anyway
Annabel- Love. I think it's a sweet name without being too frilly
Arabella- A bit frilly, and the name of Donald Trump's granddaughter
Serena- Lovely name but Serena Christina is truly a name only a 4 yo could love. How about Serena Christine though?

Theo- Theodore nicer imo
Hugo- Lovely and I see no problem at all with the H surname
Ellis- A bit girly imo.

I love Sam and Leo.

[Montsti]

Yes I also have reservations about Dominic. Ultimately hope you get your first choices - am sure DH will give in!

[Towndon]

Genevieve can have Evie as a nickname, but Eve/Evie/Ava/Eva are very popular at the moment.

[4madboys]

we almost called our 10mth old dd Genevieve but i KNOW it would be shortened to Gen/jen which i dont like! she is a Merryn :)

Theo is lovely, i have one!

i like Ellis, we had Emmett for dd had she been a boy, but she wasnt, to our surpise!

our ds2 was max for a day and then nameless for a week when he became an oscar reuben :)

just wear your dh down, you give birth, you choose

[4madboys]

our ds is a theodore btw, but theo for short :)