Please shred our shortlist!

Girls:

Aileen - no
Ailsa - haunted a fridge in Home and AWay
Audrey - ok
Bethan - yes
Blair - witch
Bryn - not for a girl
Callista - horrible
Daphne - no
Darcy - ok
Eilish - I know an Eilish, there is not a single person in England who can pronounce this name, even after being told 17,000 times
Fearne - no, Fern is the same name, also no
Grier - too much like Gruyere. Not nice, even if it didn't sound like cheese
Hazel - no
Juliet - ok
Lena - yes
Mara - yes (my favourite from your list)
Marion - no
Natasha - yes
Roisin - looks like raisin
Rowan - ok
Chairs - seriously?
Winter - risky, nice if she can pull it off

Boys:

Augustus - gloop
Blair - witch/tony
Conrad - no
Corran - pronounced like the Koran???
Ellis - no
Gil - urgh, NO
Hamish - no
Harris - ok
Seamus - no

Aileen - no
Ailsa - meh
Audrey - no
Bethan - ok
Blair - Waldorf, yes
Bryn - definitely no
Callista - no
Daphne - no
Darcy - no
Eilish - yes
Fearne - yes
Grier - no
Hazel - no
Juliet - no
Lena - no
Mara - no
Marion NO NO NO
Natasha - yes
Roisin - no
Rowan yes
Vhairi no
Winter - definitely no

Boys:
All no

Ones I like:

Audrey
Darcy
Hazel
Juliet

Boys:
Ellis
Gil (as a nn)

Daphne and Hamish.

Girls:

Aileen - very pretty and underused, would be lovely to meet a little girl named Aileen.

Ailsa - dislike
Audrey - Like, retro chic
Bethan - Lovely welsh name, also nick Beth and Bethie
Blair - I think Tony
Bryn - sounds middle aged angry woman to me
Callista - I like Callie, I like Callista in theory but it seems over the top irl
Daphne - dislike
Darcy - I love on a boy, but think it sounds teenage pregnancy on a girl
Eilish - not a fan
Fearne - I like, but prefer the simplicity of Fern
Grier - Greer is quite retro chic like Audrey
Hazel - pretty enough, a little bland
Juliet - I like in theory, but not in rl
Lena - dislike
Mara - dislike
Marion - dislike
Natasha - great name and you don't come across it every day, I like the nn Tasha
Roisin - I know a Roisin and she is lovely. Gets mispronounced a lot though. I think fine only if you have irish roots
Rowan - on a boy great, please leave it for the boys
Vhairi - dislike
Winter - seems a very precious name, dislike

Boys:

Augustus - can't stand
Blair - again think Tony
Conrad - Nice handsome, rugged rogue type name
Corran - okay
Ellis - nice enough but I find it hard to picture on a baby
Gil - dislike makes me think of fish
Hamish - decent enough
Harris - dislike
Seamus - It comes across as a rough, chavvy name to me

my favourites of your list are Aileen and Natasha for girls and Conrad for a boy

Aileen - Nope
Ailsa - Nice
Audrey - 70s waitress
Bethan - Pretty
Blair - No, not for a girl, ever.
Bryn - As Blair
Callista - Meh
Daphne - Good Grief, No!
Darcy - Not bad
Eilish - Nice enough
Fearne - Pretty
Grier - Germaine! No.
Hazel - Pretty
Juliet - classic and nice
Lena - No, 70s singers, Martell and Zavaroni
Mara - meh
Marion - Got a couple of old aunties...
Natasha - No, nice name but rarely suits the child it's given to
Roisin - Pretty
Rowan - Pleasant
Vhairi - It's spelled Mhairi, but pronounced Vari
Winter - Silly

Augustus - Not fair to any 21st century boy
Blair - strong and clean
Conrad - Nope, too strong
Corran - Nice
Ellis - No, sounds more like a girl
Gil - Just no
Hamish - If you give birth to a Scottish Terrier, otherwise no
Harris - Strong
Seamus - Nice

I would vote for Bethan or Blair

Fearne is awful but Fern is a lot nicer.

Also, Marion and Juliet and Ailsa.

Only Augustus and Conrad for the boy's name. But I like the suggestion of Corin above.

Mara or Hamish

Fearne is dreadful.

For posters who are asking, in Scotland Eilish = Ay-lish (with the 'Ay' as in 'hay'). It's the Gaelic form of Alice or, sometimes, Elisabeth.

Corran is the name of a famous ferry across Loch Linnhe near Fort William. It's a place name that probably means something like 'crescent' or 'curved headland'. There is also at least one Corran Bay.
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/corran/corranferry/

Corin has been used as a name for boys since Shakespeare's time, or even earlier. It comes from a Roman word meaning 'spear-carrier'.

Aileen -I prefer Irene
Ailsa - noooo, Home and Away character of the 90s with awful hair!
Audrey - love
Bethan - dislike. Always sounds kind of heavy and clumpy.
Blair - awful.
Bryn - even more awful.
Callista - a bit frilly.
Daphne - love
Darcy - Where I live, this is one of the names constantly shrieked at kids by fishwife type mums.
Eilish - I don't know how you pronounce it. If it's anything like eyelash, then no.
Fearne - No.
Grier - Horrible!
Hazel - nice
Juliet - lovely
Lena - meh
Mara - meh
Marion - nice
Natasha - not my taste, but perfectly nice.
Roisin - ok
Rowan - prefer it as a boys name
Vhairi - not sure how to pronounce this.
Winter - nooooo.

Boys:

Augustus - please don't.
Blair - no no no.
Conrad - nooooo.
Corran - have never heard of this one. It's ok but sounds made up.
Ellis - meh
Gil - slightly better than meh.
Hamish - I like this one
Harris - OK, but it's a surname to me.
Seamus - love.

Quite a long shortlist you've got there!

Do you have Celtic heritage, OP? You seem to have gone for a lot of Celtic names...

Anyway, here's my two cents:

Girls:

Aileen nope. First ever female serial killer, as depicted by Charlize Theron in Monster
Ailsa
Audrey
Bethan
Blair
Bryn isn't that a boys name?
Callista
Daphne
Darcy
Eilish - how are we pronouncing this?
Fearne
Grier absolutely not
Hazel
Juliet
Lena
Mara
Marion
Natasha
Roisin
Rowan
Vhairi - would you be pronouncing this VAR-ee? Because if so the traditional spelling would be Mhairi, which I think is lovely and would be my favourite.
Winter no

Not a fan of any of the boys names in afraid

Hazel and mhairi I really like but expect a lifetime of being called M-hairy unless you live in Scotland. Agree vhairi is wrong.

For the boys, Hamish, Harris and Seamus. I would consider Seamus if I were Irish enough. (Half NI)

Sorry - Roisin is used in Scotland, which I was thinking of in above message, but it's probably more often associated with Ireland. So absolutely no offence intended by use of 'UK' in messgae above. I didn't wish to 'take over' a very pretty Irish name.

As others have said, Vhairi is nonsense.

Mairi is the Gaelic form of Mary. It's pronounced 'Marry'.
Mhairi is the vocative form of Mairi. Gaelic nouns change spelling depending upon their grammatical usage. Mhairi is the form used when speaking to someone with that name. In Gaelic, 'Mh' is pronounced 'v', and so the name sounds like 'Varry'. 'Vh' at the beginning of the name makes no sense at all. If it's used, it will just look totally illiterate. Sorry, but that's true.
It is occasional modern Gaelic usage to call girl children 'Mhairi' rather than 'Mairi', but never, ever, 'Vhairi'.

FWIW Hamish and Seamus are the same name - the Gaelic version of James. Seamus is the actual name; Hamish is an anglicised version of the vocative form, used when speaking to somone with that name. Also in (relatively) modern Gaelic usage, the two have become accepted separate forms of the name.

Eilish/Ailish are Gaelic forms of 'Alice', pronounced 'Ay-lish'.

How are you intending to pronounce Roisin? It's normally 'Rosheen'.

Blair is a Gaelic word meaning 'field' or 'flat grassland'. Why would anyone want to name a child that?

Also as others have said, Bryn is a Welsh male name meaning hill or mountain, and signifying massive size and strength. Also closely associated at the moment with large and well-built deep-voiced opear singer Bryn Terfel.

It puzzles me. Why do people think that the traditional languages of parts of the UK can have their spellings/meanings ignored?

Aileen - I like it
Ailsa
Audrey - I like it, classic
Bethan
Blair
Bryn
Callista - interesting, maybe divisive though
Daphne - I really like it
Darcy
Eilish
Fearne - maybe, is is pronounced like Fern?
Grier
Hazel
Juliet- I like it
Lena
Mara
Marion
Natasha- it's alright
Roisin- nice! I've never actually seen this one before
Rowan- unisex. I like this for a boy or girl.
Vhairi- unusual (where I live anyway) but nice

Winter

Boys:

Augustus- I like this one but I know lots don't
Blair
Conrad- I like it
Corran- it's nice
Ellis- I quite like this one
Gil
Hamish
Harris
Seamus- I like it!

Girls - Audrey, Daphne, Hazel, Natasha, Juliet & Rowan all great names, I'm not keen on the others personally

Boys - Love Gil and like Hamish & Seamus too

Girls:

Aileen - no, so many pretty names out there
Ailsa - Home snd Away
Audrey - don't like it personally, but it is very zeitgeisty
Bethan - not to my taste, but fine
Blair - not for a girl!
Bryn - ditto
Callista - not sure. Has a ring to it but will be marmitey
Daphne - can see this being top of the lists in 10 years
Darcy - nope
Eilish - nice
Fearne - looks like 'alternative' spelling of Fern
Grier - ???
Hazel - nice, very nice
Juliet - nice, rather 'upper middle class trying rather hard'
Lena - German woman in her 20s
Mara - ditto
Marion - German woman in her 40s
Natasha - I love this. Natalia is lovely too
Roisin - love
Rowan - love
Vhairi - like it, if you can cope with people unable to spell/pronounce it
Winter - nope, not as a name

Boys:

Augustus - nope
Blair - nope
Conrad - OK
Corran - not sure, never heard this one before
Ellis - not keen on surname names
Gil - as in Gilbert?
Hamish - lovely
Harris - see Ellis
Seamus - lovely

Girls:
my favourites - Audrey, Callista, Roisin
also like - Ailsa, Daphne, Hazel, Juliet, Lena

As PP said, Bryn is a boy's name as 'yn' is a masculine ending in Welsh.
Have never seen Vhairi before - do you mean Mhairi? Please don't spell it Vhairi!

Boys:
my favourite - Hamish (love)
also like - Conrad, Ellis, Harris

Aileen - no, I'm Irish so this is just so dreary and old to me.
Ailsa - I like it
Audrey - sophisticated but not pretty.
Bethan - I love it. Beth for short or Bethan, I like both
Blair - OK, unisex feel which I don't normally go for but I do like Blair(e)
Bryn - no, terrible. Reminds me of brine
Callista - no, harsh
Daphne - no. Can't say why, just no
Darcy - no. this is like a trend that peaked and died a few years back. You'd regret it.
Eilish - bit dreary again
Fearne - ok, more of a middle name perhaps
Grier - are you kidding?! no, this is like the noise a dying animal might make
Hazel - love it!
Juliet - love it!
Lena - quite like it.

Mara - no, prefer Mary tbh
Marion - no, Love Marianne thoug
Natasha - I like it!
Roisin - Like it. Rosie as a potential nn
Rowan - again, kind of like it, unisex feel but pretty
Vhairi - what!? collection of letters?
Winter - American feel. Not sure. Don't dislike it. It might grow on me. Prefer Win to 'Bryn' though.

Boys:

Augustus - love Gus
Blair - quite like for a boy too
Conrad - I like it
Corran - not sure
Ellis - no
Gil - yeh, short but I like it
Hamish - I like it!
Harris - know my dad and other old men woudl say "bomber Harris" whoever the f*ck he is
Seamus - yeh, I like it!

Thanks in advance!
Girls:

I like Bethan, Callista, Daphne, Juliet, Lena, Mara, Marion, Roisin, Rowan and Vhairi the best.

I dislike Aileen, Bryn, Darcy and Fearne. The others are all ok.

From your boys list I like Augustus, Conrad, Gil, Hamish and Seamus best, and dislike Blair, Corran, Ellis and Harris.

Isn't 'yn' a male suffix, though? So Gwen is a girl's name and Gwyn is a boy's? Wouldn't it be the equivalent of calling your daughter Andrew?

Love - Bethan, Hazel, Juliet, Lena, Rowan
Loathe- Aileen, Ailsa, Blair, Bryn, Daphne, Darcey, Grier, Mara
Ok- Audrey, Callista, Eilish, Fearne, Marion (love Marianne though ), Natasha, Roisin, Vhairi, Winter

Love - Hamish
Loathe- Augustus (Gloop), Blair (Tony), Corran, Gil, Harris
OK- Conrad, Ellis, Seamus

sorry I meant to say I mentioned Bryn for my first DC

I actually LOVE Bryn for a girl. I'm not sure how well it would go down in the UK but my sister lives in the US and it's actually a fairly "normal" name. I love it but I tend to not really like very girly-girl names. I mentioned Blair for my first DC but everyone I asked said it was far too masculine but if you love it then go for it.

Also like Blair, Fearne, Juliet, Lena (love Lana also) and Rowan. All of those names are right up my street!

From your boys list i really like Harris and Ellis. Much prefer Blair for a girl. You have great taste