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Pregnant with DC6 - opinions and suggestions please

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blameitonthecaffeine · 17/12/2012 18:26

Only 4 weeks and haven't even told anybody in real life yet so no idea on whether it's a boy or a girl (though I have 5 girls already, not sure if my body does boys ... !)

Please can you give me your (brutally honest!) opinions on these names as well as any other suggestions in a similar vein:

Girls:
Cassandra
Arabella
Jessica
Xanthe
Araminta
Alexis
Vanessa

Boys:
Nicholas
Patrick
Alexander
Isaac
Oscar

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amck5700 · 17/12/2012 23:14

Hannah
Jessemay

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blameitonthecaffeine · 17/12/2012 23:10

X post amxk yes, I do like Annabel (prefer the frillier spelling though)

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blameitonthecaffeine · 17/12/2012 23:09

nannyof3 - I have Natasha, Rebecca, Matilda, Isabella and Abigail.

musttidy - Arabelle is an interesting idea. I've never heard it used. Like it but worry she would be forever correcting people who heard Annabelle. Which is also nice and another possibility I suppose.

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amck5700 · 17/12/2012 23:05

Annabel?

amck5700 · 17/12/2012 23:05

Araminta is a hard name to carry I think - makes me think of a very posh, horsey and bit dim person - apologies to any Aramintas out there!

amck5700 · 17/12/2012 23:03

Vanessa or Patrick.

Would also suggest Meredith or Amaris for a girl and Peter or Edgar for a boy.

musttidyupBeforeSantaComes · 17/12/2012 23:03

What about Arabelle rather than Arabella then?

nannyof3 · 17/12/2012 23:02

What are the names of ur girls already!!

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blameitonthecaffeine · 17/12/2012 23:00

Interesting about Cecilia too. Great meaning and it's a nice name. Don't know that I love it though.

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blameitonthecaffeine · 17/12/2012 22:59

Thanks for the thoughts.

Arabella is my favourite BUT I already have an Isabella (though part of me thinks that if I ended up with 6 girls 2 similar names wouldn't be such a disaster!) which makes me want to go for Araminta but I'm a bit worried it's just too comedy-posh. I do love Xanthe too though. Hmmm, decisions. Maybe it's a short list of 3. My husband (oh so helpfully) said they were 'all very lovely'

Why is Oscar a snake's name? An animal snake or a snake of a man?? Nicholas and Alexander may be my forerunners for boys at the moment. DH likes Nicholas with Oscar as mn.

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iclaudius · 17/12/2012 22:41

Xanthe and Oscar

lovely family btw 6 of one sex is very special Wink

AnathemaDevice · 17/12/2012 20:15

Xanthe from your girls names, Nicholas from your boys names. Nicholas is the best boys name, ever. (I may be biased!)

shoobidoo · 17/12/2012 19:39

Love your girls' names especially Arabella and Araminta - classic, feminine and not overused, as well as having lovely nicknames.

I'm not that keen on any boys names but would choose Nicholas if I had to.

ScaredySquirrel · 17/12/2012 19:03

Apparently Cecilia derives from a welsh name Seissylt meaning 6th child.

I love arabella from your list.

curlypoo · 17/12/2012 18:56

Araminta is my guilty pleasure name......

Oscar is a snake's name

StellaNova · 17/12/2012 18:54

I love Patrick but couldn't use it on either DS as our surname ends in -ick too. Also love Alexander. Like Isaac very much, neutral on Nicholas and not that keen on Oscar mainly because I know quite a few but don' t hate it.

Not so in love with the girl names but I can see how you must have worked your way through a lot already! Jessica is my favourite. Alexis I like a lot as a name but makes me think Joan Collins! The next generation won't make that association though.

Congrats by the way!

Leafmould · 17/12/2012 18:53

Absolutely lovely girls names.

Think of alexis as a boy's name though.

Isaac and Oscar I like less than the other boy names.

Ps congratulations! Hope it all goes well.

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