Baby name other ideas help.... what the husband wants....

[1Willow23]

Hi baby is due tomorrow and struggling with names terribly ...it is a girl....

I’ve posted a couple of times over the last couple of days, and suggestions have been helpful and lovely but husband is a firm no to all my names.....

We have it down to Ivy Florence, Esme-Eve Esme Florence, Evie-Florence.... I also love Amelie Eve (but he is firmly against this)

Any help on these... they seem quite popular names to me, I have an Isabel and Ruby already and when I named them didn’t know any and now they have common names.

Would prefer to have this one a little more individual, the name Rose, and Sophia are out of bounds as these are middle names for my girls.

Any help appreciated.

Esme is the nicest name there!

Esme Eve or Esme Florence are lovely.

I’d drop the double-barrelled options, they’re clunky and not very attractive.

No no no to Esme- Eve! But yes to Esme Eve.

I'd rule out Ivy so two dds didn't have similar initials. I think I'd go with Esme Florence as it fits a little better with your other dds names. Esme is much less common around my area than Evie too. I just don't like Esme Eve.

Alternatively, wait and meet her and try each name in turn. One may just free right.

I don’t like them double barrelled but the names themselves are nice.

What does your husband think? Dies he not like any of these names?

I like esme and Florence. I would try them out with the others children's names.

"Oh I have to pick up Isabel, ruby and Florence tonight"

Maybe the start of Isabel and esme are quite similar?

Gosh, it's hard picking names isn't it?

whatever you do, please don't hyphenate!!!

If popularity is an issue for you, you might want to drop Esme and Eve. I know two of each born this year already and I know hardly any babies at all.

Esme is nice, but yiu will have to accept that different people pronounce it differently to you, whichever pronounciation you chose.

Please lose the hyphens! They make nice names horrible.

Without the hyphens, they're all nice but I'd probably go for Ivy Florence.

Amelie is my absolute favourite girls name, ours friends recently named their DD this and it's just lovely.

All of these name are really popular right now so if you’re looking for something a little lesson common (as in popular) you might want a complete rethink. Sorry!

Evie is a very common name now,so I'd rule that out if you want something original. Amelie is getting popular too. Esme is such a wishy washy name. Ivy is nice,but I hate Florence.

Husband likes, Evie and Esme, I like Ivy and Amelie but he is against them.

He likes ie/y sounding names on the end... she calls Isabel Izzy as an example... and if we had an Esme would call her Emmy I think.... Florence would be a middle name as I know a Florence loosely already that is a first name.

Ivy is my favourite out of the ones you've chosen but most of the names on your list are shooting up in popularity. Esme, Eve and Amelie are very popular names. Ivy maybe slightly less so but I can imagine it being on the rise, it has that on-trend feel to it.

If you like names like Esme, Evie, Amelie etc but are worried about popularity, maybe opt for something less trendy and more classic/grown up like Anna, Eleanor, Elspeth, Elizabeth, Geniveve etc. You can optionally get the Ellie or Evie type nickname from some of these.

I’d go for Florence as the first name. Isabel, Ruby and Flo! My daughter has a couple of friends called Florence (she’s a teenager) and they both are known as Flo. I also like Ivy. (We have a DD called Ruby)

Not Ivy. That’s horrible. Poisoned ivy always springs to mind.
As others have said, drop the hyphen.
Not keen on Florence either.

They’re very popular names. Be prepared for lots of kids with the same names at school.

Also, I definitely wouldn’t double barrel a first name. It sounds quite naff.

Annabelle
Marie
Alice?

I love Ivy and Esme but not the hyphenated names. Best wishes for the birth.

16/17 or so years ago there were a load of Amelies. That awful film was to blame.

Erin?

Esme-Eve doesn’t flow nicely imo but both are very pretty names in their own right. In fact I like all of the names you’ve suggested individually but don’t like the sound of them double barrelled. Is the intention that they would be known by both names together, or will one be a first name and the other a middle name?