How did you manage to name your baby? Also, opinions and suggestions please.

I like all 4 names you first suggested.

We made a list for both sexes (opted not to find out in advance) but never chose a final name and then waited a week just getting to know our son before we decided. Husband suggested his name out of the blue and it just felt right straight away - it wasn’t even on our final list. Then when we phoned round to tell people my grandad (who I love dearly) was delighted and said it’s what he’d wanted to call either my dad or uncle but grandma hadn’t been keen at the time, and it’s one of his favourites and he’s glad one of ‘us’ finally got it!

It is a big decision but that doesn’t mean you can’t make it quickly. Don’t feel you have to decide before you’ve seen your baby’s face!

We had a boy's name straight off - first name DH's grandfather, middle name my grandfather's (got to use that second time around!)

Girl's names were harder - we had a rule of 'Nothing in the top 10', so Charlotte, Olivia,Emily etc were out, but nothing too weird. In the end, about a week before DD was due, DH met a girl at a party with the name we eventually used and suggested it. It was along the lines of some of the names we had considered (such as Flora, which we dismissed due to the margarine!) and was slightly unusual without being so rare as to be weird, as I knew of a few girls with the same. He correctly predicted it would be in the top 100 names within a few years and he was right.

As for some good 'European' names:
Claudia
Olympia
Laura
Colette

Sebastian
Leo
Gabriel
Xander

Rafael?

Also though Daniella might fit your criteria but I am not sure if I actually like it....

Anna is one of my favourite names, and definitely fits your criteria. It's so simple and elegant.

And I got to choose because I did the work!

We liked different names, so we had a list we added to and subtracted from. There were two names that stayed on the list we both liked. We chose when DD arrived.

Pick a name you like, and that you will still like in 5, 10, 20, ... years time.
Pick a name that sounds OK in English, German and Italian, that doesn't seem too naff in any of the countries.
Pick a name that you will still like even if there are 6 of them in your circle.
If you pick a name from outside your own culture, you could end up giving your child what is a mum/dad name in that culture.

Love Sebastian and Svetlana. Such gorgeous names

I like Sebastian I know a 5 year old Sebastian who gets called Seb.
Have you thought about:
Gabriel
Raphael
Samuel
Maximus
Thomas
Alexandra
Evangeline
Maria

Not RTFT.
Gloria - nice in theory, phonetic spelling & not likely to cause pronunciation issues. Makes me think of Gloria Todd, a bartender at the Rovers Return in the mid-late 1980s.
Anna - like it a lot.
Matteo - nice but may seem a bit downmarket in the UK.
Sebastian - don't like it.

I wrote my list then wrote every nickname that could result. I love Elizabeth but can’t stand Liz. I love Rosalind but don’t like Rosie.

Then I googled the names (first name / middle name combo). Then I googled the initials (to check they don’t stand for some hideous organisation or disease).

Then I posted the names on here and had a mixture of responses.

Then the child was born and I decided then.

It took 7 months to come up with girls first name. Another month for second name.

With our son it took 8 months.

I used to call my bump by names we'd discussed. Also wrote it down, said it out loud with surname etc. Considered initials etc.

It was all discussed lots with DH. We both liked different names. In the end with both it was the name we both liked.

We didn't mind a name being popular. Daughters is top 10. Son is top 50. It was just a case of finding a name we both liked. Also we didn't want a name that already had strong associations for us.

Like literally every other parent in history- pick a name you like, job done.

Or call it Baby McBabyface. Your choice.

I love Carlotta, Elisabetta too.

I love Yael too, though in English we'd spell it Jael and then it sounds like jail which is... not a great association!

What about Judith/Judit?

Louisa might hit all those criteria though not sure about the German bit. Though lots of people get it confused with Louise... .

Anna is also a lovely name. I know a German woman called Alexandra. I actually have an Italian friend with a dd with that name.

We wanted Greek / English names and went for one biblical (pretty standard) and one which was a Greek word with a nice meaning but a name in English.

Gloria - no. I picture some evangelical American Christian.
Anna - pretty, travels well. Ime it is trendy though.
Matteo - love this
Sebastian - fine.

I'm 35 weeks pregnant.
I've been trying to find a baby name since I first started ttc (August 2016!) and it took me until about 8 weeks ago to (maybe) having picked one.
I've Just kept looking at names and making short lists and re-doing the shortlist over and over and over.
We found out we are having a boy at 19 weeks, so finally i could focus on just one set of names.
Me and Husband finally found a name (well he finally liked a name on my list) and it kind of stuck. I kept thinking of the baby as this name, and he said he does too.
I'm not certain though. I still have a shortlist of about 5 names and we'll not make the finals decision until we see baby.

Tbh Gloria sounds dated to me, however isn’t it true that on the continent names from the 50s are quite popular, Linda, Brenda, Rita, Veronica, Denis, Victor and Walter were all in the kids club whilst on holiday in Italy last year. Not really my taste.

I like Pps suggestions of Nina, Sofia, and Samuel. What about Mattia for a boy?

DH and I each went through the baby names book and made individual lists.
Then we went through each other’s lists and crossed out the definitely nots.
Then we put the possibles on the kitchen wall and whittled them down over several weeks.

I like Anna, Matteo, & Sebastian. Gloria isn't my cup of tea, but there's nothing wrong with it.

Some other names that might be fit the bill, based on a quick google of recent name popularity lists for Germany & Italy:

Alex
Adam
Leo
Gabriel
Samuel
Daniel

Aurora
Clara
Mia
Sofia
Nina
Greta
Noemi
Lara