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Please help with our girl/boy shortlists for DC3

32 replies

YesIKnowILookHugeThanks · 14/09/2012 16:12

Time is ticking away quickly now - 5 wks to edd. It's been much harder this time to find names we both like.

I'd love to hear your honest thoughts on our (v. short!) shortlists.

Girls
Esme (we'd go with the Ez-may pronunciation but is this one of those names that would give her a lifetime of correcting people???)
Eliza
Harriet

Boys
Toby
Aaron (pronounced Arran, so maybe that should be the spelling???)
Adam

Not in love with any of them really so alternative suggestions welcome. Can't be anything ending in an s sound, runs into our surname in a way that often produces hilarious results (gutted as love Tobias and Lawrence) and can't end in th either for similar reasons (gutted as love Seth and Meredith).

Siblings are Eleanor and Tabitha.

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Ebb · 14/09/2012 17:54

I love Esme and Eliza and like Harriet too. Toby is nice too.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 14/09/2012 16:53

Love Adam and love Harriet. Dislike Aaron/Arran.

Hester is beautiful.

Eleanor, Tabitha and Marianne
Eleanor, Tabitha and Miranda
Eleanor, Tabitha and Melissa
Eleanor, Tabitha and Clover
Eleanor, Tabitha and Hermione

Eleanor, Tabitha and Barnaby
Eleanor, Tabitha and Andrew
Eleanor, Tabitha and David
Eleanor, Tabitha and Christopher/Kit
Eleanor, Tabitha and Laurie (instead of Laurence)
Eleanor, Tabitha and Edward/Teddy (or Laurie could be Teddy!)

YesIKnowILookHugeThanks · 14/09/2012 16:48

Thanks everyone.

DH has vetoed Sebastian. Not keen on Mary or Victoria, I do like Philippa and the nn Pippa but Pipppa Middleton has put me off. Love Hester but have a cat called Esther (who we've had for 12 years so it would feel a bit weird) also love Martha but there's already one in the family. Don't like Fabian or Raphael.

All the names with the exception of Adam are outside the top 50 so we don't consider that to be 'super popular'. Have thought about the sharing initials thing but with so few names that both like we've accepted we might just have to live with this as a minor irritant of family life for the next 18 years. Once they're out in the world on their own it won't matter.

Keep the thoughts/suggestions coming please!

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FunnysInLaJardin · 14/09/2012 16:21

I love Harriet, Eliza and Toby. Also like Hester (Hetty for short), Martha, Fabian and Raphael (Rafe for short)

breastisthebest · 14/09/2012 16:19

These are just super popular at the moment, so wouldn't you end up with like 10 kids of the same name in classes?

jaffacakehips · 14/09/2012 16:17

Eleanor, Tabitha and Mary
Eleanor, Tabitha and Philippa
Eleanor, Tabitha and Victoria

Eleanor, Tabitha and Hugh
Eleanor, Tabitha and Sebastian
Eleanor, Tabitha and Rupert

jaffacakehips · 14/09/2012 16:16

I love Toby and Eliza.

But that means you might have 2 DD both Miss E Surname. Or a Miss and Master T Surname. I'm guessing this doesn't' brother you?

What about just Toby and not Tobias. Mary?