Judge My Top 5 Names

I love Adelaide, Claudia and Rowena. All favourites of mine. They feel substantial, strong, feminine, distinctive and full of history, but not over-used. I also love Claude (used in France for a girl's name I believe) and Claudie as nns. Hard-pressed to pick a favourite of those 3 - possibly Rowena as the least expected, but I'd love to meet a little one of any of these.

I don't mind Marina and Evangeline - just don't love them like the others. Evangeline is very much a current name in that the nn Evie is everywhere - on its own and for names such as Evelyn, Eva and Evangeline.

I love August from your boy list but not so keen on the others. Wilbur is okay but I prefer other Will names - Wilfred, William, Wilken, Willem, Gwyllim. Gabriel is pronounced several different ways, and just feels religious to me. I just hear Lucy with Lucien, though I do love girl's name Lucienne. Amos is one of a style like Ezekiel and Jonas etc that doesn't appeal to me and feels rather heavy, though I think Amos is better than the usual of that style - Elijah, Noah etc.

I love Claudia and Marina - both gorgeous, easy to pronounce and you don’t come across many.
Also love Gabriel and Wilbur - would have seriously considered both for DS but didn’t go with our surname. Also I don’t really like that Wilbur will just become Will as I think it’s a lovely name in full!

I really like Adelaide, Claudia (not Claude) and Evangeline. Marina and Rowena sound a little... middle aged to my ears.

Gabriel, Lucien and Wilbur are all super. Quite like August. Not so keen on Amos, sounds quite elderly. But you really mustn’t base your choice on the opinions of others - you will find people who hate all your choices. Who cares what we think? Choose something you truly love, or you’ll always regret it.