DH name ideas

Indigo instead of India ? I prefer his names if I'm being totally honest but my two adult children have REALLY unusual names and they love having very stand alone names . It's always tough choosing and your names are pretty but very run of the mill.
Good luck on your twins! How exciting

Congratulations!

My brain went straight to Savannah

Sorry I can't think of anymore, I'm interested on what you choose though! Keep us posted 😃😃

I much prefer your husbands list to yours! Whilst the names in your list are totally inoffensive, he's right, they are a bit boring.
Maybe some more classic ones that might be a bit more out there:

Francesca with the NN Frankie
Olive
Ottilie
Margot
Tamsin
Cleo
Eliza
Celeste
Maeve

Take one from each list for each girl ..

Saskia Madeleine
and
Victoria Blossom

India Madeleine or India Elizabeth
and
Katherine Alaska

I wouldn't normally comment on this but my stepdaughter is also called China and I think it is a gorgeous name that very much suits her. I've asked my husband if he remembers any other contenders to see if they would suit your taste he mentioned

• Blair
• Scarlett
• Cassie/Cassia
• Maya
• Alicia

Perhaps something Savannah would suit both of you? Or Sienna?

I met a woman with a daughter called Cherry. Cherry Ada.

I really like Saskia, but none of his other choices. Blossom especially would get the thumbs down, unless he was hoping she would have a career as a burlesque dancer.

Your name choices are much nicer, though Isabella and Sophia are immensely popular and have been for years.
Some ideas...
Aphra
Dido
Pandora
Paloma
Dulcie
Jocasta

Corinna
Marguerite

China cherry and india would be some sibset

DH:
I really like Saskia.
I don't like any of the others

OP:
I like Elizabeth, Katherine and Victoria, but they'll get shortened.
Madeleine - will be Maddie
Florence - not keen
Isabella and Sophia are overused

Tell him he can’t possibly have three daughters named after places, it will look like the only thing he’s ever read is an atlas.

I also like Saskia

what about

juliet
cassandra
louisa
indigo
xanthe
lindsay
merran
meredith
rachel
miranda
lucinda
jacqueline
maggie

Haha I prefer your name choices. Ideas for a compromise.

Jasmine
saffron
vienna
clememtine
tallulah
juniper
autumn
eden
estelle
celeste
adeline
mabel
melody
adelaide
Zara
cora
thalia
arabella
violet
meredith
olive

I was at school with a Geraldine (quite grand, very nice family) nicknamed Cherry. Just because of the sound, I think. Its a tree with exceptionally pretty blossom and also very sweet, tasty fruit. Nothing not to like,,,

Dakota = the name of some Native American peoples. DEEPLY. DEEPLY disrepectful to call a child of a different heritage that.

Indiana = literally 'the home of ""Indians"" - ie of the peoples who Europeans massacred, conquered and turned off their homeland.

Is your DP some kind of Trumpist white supremacist??

India and Sophia are nice together, have matching endings but different sounding names

Well Saskia is perfectly nice - could you live with that ?

Saskia and Sophia - you get one each.

Adelaide and Florence are beautiful sound nice together and lots of nn options I hope your husband goes with them.

@ParrotPaula
My daughter is called Cherry, yes, really. It was my DH's idea and it grew on me. Her middle name isn't Blossom or Pie but might have been if my DH was Jamie Oliver.
Anyway your name choices are so much better than your DH's, excepting the Cherry.

Adelaide.
Savannah.
Sydney
Aspen
Cheyenne
Juneau
Liberty
Eden
Rio
Paris
Helena
Juno
Grimsby

Didn't Katie Hopkins once call people stupid when they name their children after places - despite having a DD herself called India?!

In response to his choices
India - does he want to imprint an image of a country that treats its women and girls with such violence and degradation ? Really? One for patriarchy
Cherry?? Yes really hmm, doesn’t he realise “ taking her…”
Dakota - has he been there? Really? Flat, endless grain and casinos? Nothing romantic about that
Indiana - god in heaven, I worked for company based in Indianapolis for 39 years, we’re talking bible bashing, mid west conservatism, home of pence, and all the right wing anti abortion, gun slinging, capital punishment views you could want.

Blossom (though obviously not with cherry is what he'd follow this up with) - least bad but too twee …sounds like a donkey or cow frankly

Teddy - historically a boys name short for Edward. Ok, if it was a nick name, but not as a female first name
Saskia - ok, not that original though
Alaska - as in baked Alaska, or just freezing cold,

what’s with his obsession with USA state names- send him on a road trip op, but leave his daughters out of his misguided devotion to an idealised version of USA. it’s the equivalent of calling his daughters Cotswold, Yorkshire (Yorkie of short?), or Rutland. Why would he not consider that, ask him? 🤷🏼‍♀️🤦‍♀️🙄

One classic name (your taste) paired with one of his style. ie:

Eden Victoria
Sienna Madeleine
Verity Elizabeth
Madison Elise
Pheobe Saskia
Verona Isabelle

Saskia is a perfectly lovely and quite normal name. How about Saskia and Ottilie?

India is lovely but a bit problematic.

It looks like he likes unusual names and you like more classic, very feminine names. How about looking at Shakespearean names, unusual Biblical names, Ancient Greek or Roman names or French names? You might find some common ground there - unusual enough for him but not in the place/noun names category that he likes and you hate.

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I would get this deleted.

Can't you have a Theodora and call her teddy? Although I really like Teddy!