We've found the name but scared of people's reaactions

I love Minty!

Anything with mint as the main sound is a bad choice imo.It sounds made up.Arabella is nicer.

Love it!

Can’t stand Elsie. It’s not a chic old lady name like Nancy. It’s just a granny with wrinkled stockings.

You both like Araminta so use it. Screw other people's opinions. It's not like you're calling her Domestos.

I also love Elspeth, but I just don't like Elsie as a name on its own. It's purely the sound I don't really like average. It is in fashion though, you're right about that. It doesn't mean everyone will like it.

Just out of interest, why does Elsie have to be the middle name rather than the first name? I think Elspeth shortened to Elsie is nice. Araminta as the middle name would sound good then. Elspeth Araminta.

Where I come from, people use minty to describe something scruffy or exceptionally dirty. I agree that Stanley and Araminta are not natural bedfellows. Elsie and Stanley would be better. Also, Araminta Elsie does not flow, doesn't roll of the tongue, sounds clunky and awkward to me.

I don’t understand the reaction to Elsie as that’s beautiful & really in line with most people’s choices / current fashion of vowel heavy names.

Araminta (which my phone wants to correct to ‘a ram in here’) is a name I personally hate. It’s just very OTT but it’s definitely a name & messing about with the letters wouldn’t improve it.

Any common name will be deemed boring & unusual name will be hated by many - you’ve found a name you both love & that’s great. I’d only try to deter you if you were going for something ridiculous that would negatively impact the actual child. Someone in here wanted to call their girl: Tree

It's a bit of a mouth full so expect lots of 'how do you spell that '.
Stanley and Elsie are lovely names.

I love it!

Oooooh Araminta Elise is beautiful! Really beautiful.

I don't mind it and do understand wanting to honour a relative with a middle name. Personally I wouldn't choose Elsie no matter how emotional the connection, but the name Elise is the same letters and same meaning and seems more in keeping with Araminta, so that's what I'd go with.

I think extending the name to four syllables is the reason why it comes across to some people as posh or pretentious

What’s with the interminable obsession with class?

The name was derived in the 18th century when longer female names were common - Georgiana, Henrietta, Virginia, Arabella, Isabella, Magdalena, Cecilia, Theodora etc.

Wow some people are so mean! I def think you should go with it. One of our children has an unusual name and we waited till she was born to tell everyone. They were all nice about it- not sure we'd have had that response while I was pregnant but harder to be rude in front of a little baby! That would be my tip. (I really like Araminta for what it's worth.)

@walkaround why is a multi-syllable name so objectionable to you? Many classic names are as long, if not longer than Araminta.
Isabella is a currently popular name, foe example.
Not everyone feels a need to shorten a name with more than a couple of syllables. In my own experience no one in any of my many classes at school used a shortened version of their name except for a couple of Anthonys and a Jennifer. No one has ever suggested shorting my own name, perhaps because I have always introduced myself with my full name.
Araminta is in my opinion a delightful name and as an Australasian myself I agree with the OP that it will be accepted without comment (and may influence others to use it!)

Sakura - well, I would certainly choose none of them! I think extending the name to four syllables is the reason why it comes across to some people as posh or pretentious. To me, it just sounds ugly. Mind you, with that many syllables, Araminta is guaranteed to find she spends most of her life being referred to by various nicknames, or more or less renaming herself with her favourite nickname, anyway.

Aramint and Aminta sound ridiculous, far worse than Araminta.

To be fair, though, names generally seem as nice to people as the first person they met with that name.

Popularly used = well used.

Ah, so it's a popularly used not well-used name, then! Amazing.

It’s a very old name, so the phrase ‘newer version’ is odd.

It’s much more popularly used than Aminta which isn’t particularly nice.

Actually, if you look it up, Aminta was the original name, it is not made up, and Araminta the newer version. Still, if people want to add stupid extra syllables

Adding an a to the end of the word doesn't deflect from that, it's just a fuck awful extra and ugly sounding syllable on the end of a name that has enough syllables already. Aminta would be hugely preferable to Araminta

With all due respect, what are you on about?

Araminta is an established, known (if not well-used) name.

Aramint / Aminta are just random made-up words?!

Fair play if you don't like the name - but I hardly think you're going to convince the OP to opt for a random collection of letters, suggested by a total stranger on the internet, over an actual, well-established name.

P.S. who knew the letter 'a' could inspire such rage in a person. Loads of girls names have an 'a' on the end.