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I'm feeling so unispired about names for 2nd baby

29 replies

totalmisfit · 21/07/2009 14:16

Here are my rather lacklustre lists:

boys:

Jacob (but Jake sounds odd with our surname)

Joseph (too common? dh's grandad's name)

Aaron (dh hates)

Rufus (Wainwright? Also sounds a little like both my name and dh's)

Charlie (and Lola? also dh's other grandad's name)

Vincent (liked this at first but since noticed that very few sane and normal famous people have had this name... Vincent Van Gogh, Vinnie Jones, Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction)

Jasper (like this but there's a good chance he/she could have red hair like dd, and Jasper Carrot lingers in the popular consciousness...)

Girls:

Frida (as in Kahlo... too much like Freya?)

Violet (probably more as a middle name - my late grandmother's name.)

Alexandra (but dh would want to shorten to Sandy after a wonderful 60's folk singer but i think that's a little tacky)

Sophia (but lots of Sophies round here...)

Juliet

Josephine (hmm... i like how classic it is but still not sure)

Julia (gone off this actually, since i put it on my list)

Polly (love this for it's rootsy feel, but doesn't go with our dd's name)

Tess (timeless and literary but perhaps too monosyllabic?)

Audrey (Hepburn? or Corrie?! also has a similar feel to dh's name)

Theresa (hmm... or for 'long' with Tess as a nickname?)

Rosaline (or Rosalind?)

Nina (i like this as it travels well but might result in a lifetime of 'is that short for Christina?')

Beatrice (spent a lot of time watching The Wire before i got pregnant!)

Flora ( a nice oldie name, but maybe a bit wet for my tastes, prefer fiesty names)

Sylvie (i really like this but i don't know why. not keen on Sylvia, mind you)

Eve (or Evelyn, although quite popular round here. dh hates it, says it's an apocolyptic movie name!)

So there you go. i'm quite difficult to please, aren't i?

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AnnVan · 21/07/2009 14:36

I love Alexandra. (Have you considered Alexis as an alternative) Juliet is also quite nice.

I quite like Jacob (but then I've been reading Twilight )

totalmisfit · 21/07/2009 14:35

thanks, you're probably right about Jasper, come to think of it...

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kidcreoleandthecoconuts · 21/07/2009 14:29

Boys...I like Joseph and Charlie. Yes they're both quite popular but they're classics and will always be fashionable.
NOOO to Jasper.....sounds like a dogs name.

Girls....I like Sophia and Tess.

totalmisfit · 21/07/2009 14:18

Oops! o/p goes on forever - i tried spacing it out to make it less confusing but it just takes an age to read. sorry!

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