ukfirestorm's baby name shortlist

[ukfirestorm]

Last name list, baby due in May, any ideas on these guys, we need to rule some out.

Here's the shortlist of baby names I'm considering that I generated with Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder. Let me know what you think.

Girls
Alice
Avery
Brogan
Elodie
Hadley
Heather
Merryn
Ottilie
Rossella
Scarlett
Tansy
Tressa
Willa
Willow

[QuietNinjaTardis]

I like willow and merryn. Hadley and brogan sound like boys names. Arr these for girls and boys?

[BlueChampagne]

Merryn for me too.

[Willow36]

Elodie
Merryn
Rossella
Scarlett
Willow

Would be my short-short list from your selection

[HorryIsUpduffed]

I really like Alice and Ottilie.

[DonkeysDontRideBicycles]

Brogan - sorry not for me. Tansy, not as keen on this as the rest. With that exception can picture a little girl with your other choices.

Willa makes a change from Willow.
Best of all I like Elodie, Alice and Ottilie.

[ukfirestorm]

Think we have got down to alice defintely being the middle name.
Any to rule out?

[littlermissstan]

Hadley is my friend's cat's name, and he is named after a brand of mountain bike. So, maybe not that!

[ZolaBuddleia]

I only like:

Avery
Elodie
Merryn
Ottilie

[ukfirestorm]

Ottilie alice
Merryn alice, rosella Alice, or Elodie alice

[TenthMuse]

My choices would be:

Elodie - but increasingly popular and could well be the next Amelie
Merryn - gorgeous
Ottilie - lovely, but dislike nn Tilly. (Would go for Orly/Otty etc)
Tansy - pretty and unusual
Willa - feels classier than Willow somehow, and has nice literary link to Willa Cather (like Willow for a mn, though).

Alice works quite well as a mn to all of these, I think. Not keen on Brogan (just doesn't sound nice to my ears), Avery (birdcage connotations) and Heather (I see a middle-aged woman).

[birdofthenorth]

Another vote for Merryn, it's gorgeous and the best by a long shot!

I quite like Willow and Tansy too.

[DonkeysDontRideBicycles]

Of those three you mention, if Alice is to be a middle name, then Merryn Alice if your surname doesn't begin with D.

[DonkeysDontRideBicycles]

4 grr can't count!

[ukfirestorm]

so down to:

Ottilie alice,
Merryn alice
elodie alice

[Leeds2]

I like 1) Alice 2)Ottilie 3) Merryn.

Hadley and Brogan sound like boys' names to me, so I would rule those two out straightaway!

[ukfirestorm]

fair enough, they are out.

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Merryn Alice - but I like Alice better.

[wiltingfast]

I like

Tansey and Tresa

Best :)

Merrin but not merryn. No clue why!

[whatagreatname]

Ottilie and Willow are my favourites

[wiltingfast]

You could use hadley and brogan. Posh called her girl Harper!

[ukfirestorm]

Having a girl (girl number two) and need to pic k a name, went with juliette for the first one...

[ukfirestorm]

these are the ones on the new shortlist..
Girls
Alice
Alys
Annabelle
Lola
Maya
Merryn
Rowan
Scarlett
Serafina
Tansy
Willow