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Please suggest something sane for me!

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Moook · 12/04/2010 17:06

Name change as I haven't told my mn/real life friends I'm expecting yet. I know some of these names are a bit unusual. Please suggest something similar but more sane / tell me which ones I wouldn't be mad to use.

For a girl:
Adriana
Aemilia
Alicia
Amelia
Beatrice
Bryony
Cressida
Esme
Harriet
Hermione
Luciana
Lyra
Niamh
Rosalind
Rowena
Sienna

For a boy:

Hero
Hugo
Jake
Leo
Lewis
Lucas
Oliver
Oscar
Piers
Rupert
Tobias
Toby

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TeddyBare · 12/04/2010 19:40

Some suggestions for boys:
Artemas / Artemis
Atticus (would have been dd's name had she been a ds)
Byron
Cedric
Darcy
Dylan
Felix
Lucius

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waitingforbedtime · 12/04/2010 17:19

PS Congrats

waitingforbedtime · 12/04/2010 17:18

For a girl:
Adriana - lovely, not out there, what about Arianne too?
Aemilia - dont like spelling
Alicia - lovely but bit boring imo
Amelia - veyr popular
Beatrice - like this alot
Bryony - dont like this
Cressida- no no no no no
Esme - my name of choice!!
Harriet - again, one of my fave names
Hermione - too many HP connections
Luciana - dont like
Lyra- plain
Niamh - love it
Rosalind - dont like
Rowena - dont like
Sienna - sienna miller bad connotations

For a boy:

Hero - no please dont
Hugo - hmm where I live it would be very 'out there' but maybe not for you
Jake - very very popular
Leo - as above
Lewis- as above
Lucas- as abover
Oliver - as above
Oscar- as above
Piers - noooooooooooooooo
Rupert - nope!
Tobias - nope
Toby - quite like it

Suggestions

GIRL
Arianne, Isabella, Genevieve, Clara, Ophelia, Melissa, Felicity, Rachel, Rebecca, Natalie/Natalia, Skye, Eden, Isla, Iona

BOY
Issac, Adam, Caleb, erm.....

thisisyesterday · 12/04/2010 17:11

i like most of them actually, though Hero is a girls name not a boys name isn't it???

i would spell Aemilia without the A too

mathanxiety · 12/04/2010 17:11

Congratulations!

Adriana -- Nice
Aemilia -- NOOO this is horrible.
Alicia -- Nice
Amelia -- Too popular and a bit meh.
Beatrice -- LOVE
Bryony -- Like a lot
Cressida -- Like
Esme -- Like
Harriet -- Like
Hermione -- Like
Luciana -- LOVE
Lyra -- LOVE
Niamh -- Love
Rosalind -- Like a lot
Rowena -- LOVE
Sienna -- too Hollywood.

Hero -- More of a girl's name
Hugo -- LOVE
Jake -- only if nn for Jacob.
Leo -- LOVE
Lewis -- Prefer Louis
Lucas -- Too popular
Oliver -- Love but very popular
Oscar -- LOVE
Piers -- Like a lot
Rupert -- Dislike
Tobias -- LOVE
Toby -- As nn for Tobias, like a lot.