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Please talk me through my shortlist, I need three perfect names!

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gentlydownthestream · 07/03/2012 20:02

Okay, so the last few times I've suggested names to DH he has laughed a lot. I've got a pretty considerable long list and want to shortern it before showing it to DH. Now we're expecting triplets very soon (yay!) so need names that go together, aren't 'matchy', don't have the same first initial and aren't madly popular (don't want them to be refered to as 'X the triplet'). So I'll post my extra long list below and I would love any feedback (positive and negative!) as well as advise on sibsets.

BOYS
Rupert
Alfred
George
Stanley
Wilfred
Henry
Victor
Hugo
Rufus
Theodore
Christopher
Arthur
Felix
Sid
Jasper
Stuart
Lawrence
Roman
Xander
Sebastian
Euan

GIRLS
Esther
Juliet
Hope
Iris
Elizabeth
Florence
Lydia
Genevieve
Rosa
Martha
Nora
Zara
Beatrice
Phoebe
Anna
Elsa
Violet
Ada
Sadie
Sylvia
Clementine

Thoughts?

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SoftSheen · 07/03/2012 22:29

Henry, Arthur and Genevieve

Rupert, Sebastian and Anna

George, Hugo and Florence

Jasper, Felix and Violet

LOVE your name lists- and how fabulous to be having triplets!

welovesausagedogs · 07/03/2012 22:27

Three Boys:
Alfred
Felix
Stanley

Three Girls:
Iris
Florence
Violet

Two Girls and a boy
Alfred, Iris and Violet

Two Boys and a girl:
Alfred, Felix and Iris

mumofjust1 · 07/03/2012 22:21

Beatrice and Phoebe, Xander and Felix Smile

birdofthenorth · 07/03/2012 22:18

Lovely lists, some of my great faces on their! George is pretty popular now though (top ten) so could leas to George, The Triplet... though irritatingly they may spend much of early life as "The Triplets" anyway!

Congrats. Tell us what combo you've gone for when they are here Smile

emmyloo2 · 07/03/2012 22:17

Fabulous taste in names!! I love all your boys names, and I have a 16 month old George. Other favorites are Rufus, Felix and Arthur

PigletJohn · 07/03/2012 22:08

jenny veeve

Don't call a boy "Rupert" if he may ever want to join the army.

Plonker · 07/03/2012 22:08

First of all, congratulations! How exciting Smile

Ok, from your list I like:
George
Henry
Rufus
Felix
Sebastian (this is my favourite, I adore the name Sebastian!)

From your girls' list, I like:
Juliet
Hope
Elizabeth
Genevieve
Rosa
Beatrice
Phoebe
Anna
Sadie
Sylvia

I especially love the names, Elizabeth, Hope and Juliet. Beautiful.

So, three boys
Sebastian, Felix and George

Two boys and a girl
Sebastian, Felix and Elizabeth

One boy and two girls
Sebastian, Elizabeth and Hope

Three girls
Elizabeth, Hope and Juliet

Good luck and happy choosing

BorderDancer · 07/03/2012 21:53

How do you pronounce Genevieve? I never know! It looks nice written down!

Beatrice Hope Rosa are the best girls on that list I reckon and Christopher Arthur George for boy

rachel234 · 07/03/2012 21:50

Rupert, Victor and Lydia would be my choice.

JoInScotland, Laurence is a girls name, the feminine form of Laurent. Better to go with Lawrence for a boy imo.

JoInScotland · 07/03/2012 20:36

I vote for Christopher, Laurence, and Phoebe. Or Elsa (I love this one). That would be three names that sound very different, and are timeless/classic.

I used to be a nanny for triplets - two boys and a girl! You are in for some fun times. :)

FilterCoffee · 07/03/2012 20:34

Henry, George and Lydia
Theodore, Xander and Clementine
Felix, Christopher and Hope
Rufus, Victor and Zara
Sid(ney), Hugo and Florence

Original poster
gentlydownthestream · 07/03/2012 20:18

Thanks for the replies. Should have said that we are having (most probably!) two boys and a girl :)

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BenderBendingRodriguez · 07/03/2012 20:13

Congratulations! My first thought is that you have excellent taste in names Grin Some groupings I think work well together, of the names I would use from your list:

Stanley, Wilfred, Lawrence
Rufus, Xander, Sebastian
Theodore, Felix, George

Elsa, Sadie, Juliet
Violet, Esther, Hope
Iris, Lydia, Genevieve
(I love Rosa and Anna too but they didn't fit into a group)

Obviously this assumes you're having three the same, but they're all very mix-and-matchable if not.

LemonDifficult · 07/03/2012 20:08

Theodore, Lawrence, Hope

Hope, Genevieve, Theodore

eggtimer · 07/03/2012 20:06

Two on your boys list are what we called our twin boys - so we share great taste in names!

2 boys and a girl
George, Hugo and Rosa
2 girls and a boy
Florence (Flo), Rosa and Stanley (Stan)

Lovely names
Grin
Congrats, by the way!