33 weeks and no idea on girl's name whatsoever!

[nearlymumofone]

I'm 33 weeks now, and we don't know the sex of the baby. We are all set on the boys name (have picked 4 names as a short list then will decide when he's born), but we have no idea at all for girl's names.

Am I the only one out there that is getting close to the due date and still does not have a clue on names?

I's love something unusual which doesn't try to hard or isn't pretentious. Where do I head for inspiration?

Thanks all!!

I have about 5 baby name books and there are lots of websites. Basically, everything I read or watch on tv I look out for names. I'm the opposite of you, I have girls names but no boys! Its hard to find unusual but unpretentious names, but I have a book called Cool Baby Names and another called New Age Baby Names which are a bit less mainstream- you can pick them up cheap on amazon.com.

Good luck!

I was the same when expecting DC1 who turned out to be a boy. Maybe it was a sign that you will have a boy too? So, no you aren't alone. Infact DH and I agreed on boys names fairly easily but had opposite tastes in girl's names. Expecting DC2 in November, and facing the same dilemma.

Can you share the boys names shortlist and maybe someone will be able to help you find inspiration for a girl's name?

Had loads of boys names, but only one girls name.
Had DD, so she was easy to name.
Had DD2, no idea what to call her even though we found out at the scan she was a girl at 20 weeks.

Ended up calling her Madeleine, but 2 years later I'm still not sure about it. Not a name I love. I wanted Rebecca, DH wanted Sandra, so Madeleine was a name neither of us loved, or hated so we went with it.

I call her Maddie/Madeleine but she can choose what to call herself when grown up (hence the longer name if she needs to be professional ever).

Munchmummy- that's the position myself and husband are in- we seem to like different names, so we'll both have to 'settle' with something in the middle (madeline is a lovely name i must say though!).

Our boys shortlist is:
Fergus
Hugh
Michael
Carter

That's in no particular order and we'll use one for first and one for second name...

The names I like are:
Greta
Erin
Aoife
Eliza

but I don't LOVE any of them

husband likes:
Chloe
Sophie
Charlotte
Violet

but he doesn't LOVE any of them either- basically we're just clueless!

Thanks for the shortlists. Of course, I am the wrong person to suggest girls names as I can never find any that I love for myself.

My Dad is a Hugh and his sisters are Angela and Susan but those sound v plain compared to your 2 sets of girls names.

I know a Michael whose brother is Alexander. Do you like Alexandra? Good nn potential.

Michaela?

Hope someone more useful is along shortly.

I love your dh's list, except Chloe which I'm not so keen on.

The only one I like on your list is Aoife - lovely.

I love all four of the names on your DH list. I love the name Chloe too (my best friends daughter is called Chloe).

Its tricky isn't it. If its any help our DD is Hazel - suits her perfectly. Gentle and girly fluffy.

Eek - now anyone in real life will know who I am - there arn't too many Hazels around with little sister Madeleine's. Hi anyone who knows me.

Are you anti themes? I think another nature name would be nice, plants, weather, waterways, gems etc.

What about favourite writers or characters from books/films?

I love unusual names and so does dh. My dd1 is called eowyn frances which really suits her, and my dd2 is Aurelia louise. I think dd have so many pretty names that its difficult to choose where as my son was harder to come up with. dh liked kingdom (?) and Gaylan (?) for example we settled on Arian Frederick which really suits him. AZlthough people find it hard to pronounce them but no one in their class shares it. good luck

I love Eliza! Both wonderfully old fashioned, but really modern feeling as well.

The only baby names book I liked was the Brilliant Book of Baby Names, terrible cover (baby with sunglasses and feather boa FGS) but really worth a look.

Hi Spider. [waves]

Morning Penguin (or probably evening in your case). Nice to see you on the baby name boards.

Hi - I really loved Sadie for a little girl. Others we had picked out if we'd had a girl were, Megan, LIly and Anna. However I've really found with groups that me and my little one go to (9 months old now) there's a lot of little girls with names beginning with L - in one group there's Lily, Laura, Laila, Lyla and Lola! Must say tho - reading the thread I absolutely love the name Hazel. Timeless. Tough decision tho!

Misslostmarbles, how do you pronounce your dd's name?

I think Zoe is quite timeless too. As is Alice and Martha.
I have a Bethany.

Uhrm, 5 weeks to go and all change on all the name front - incidentally is probably the same for everything as we don't know where any of the baby gear is - am hoping it is just the dc2 factor and being more relaxed. Well fingers crossed that is the case anyway!

I Like

Lucinda
Josephine
Leoni
Skye
Hope
Gabrielle
Tia
Myla
Eloise

My two favourite unusual girls names aat the moment are Edith and Clemency.

Slightly concerned about Edith if you live in Kent or if there is a tendency to lisp in you family - if I had been called it I would have called myself Edis until I was about 10, and in ds's school an Edith would be Ediff. But that aside, I think it's lovely.

heard a couple of unusual/nice girls name while at work the other day-

Morga
Arianna

A friend has recently called their DD Frankie and i just LOVE it. very cool but still girly.

Here was our girl's list from our first two DDs-

Connie
Betsy
Bella
Ada
Elise
Esme
Coral
Thea
Joy
Dahlia
Callie
Cassie
Isa
Marni e

I like Fergus, Aoife & Chloe.

I really liked Esme until I met a really whiney one about a month ago. Slightly put me off. Also another name I thought was quite unusual a friend of mines ghastly ex dh calls his dd as a nickname.

I am so fickle and so sad to be so influenced

Juliet
Meredith
Aurora
Sarah
Rebecca
Beatrice
Clara
Emmeline
Louisa
Georgina
Rowena
Jenni fer
Corinne
Ivy
Penelope
Cecelia
Evelina
Mary
Iona
Marianne

Thanks everyone for your advice.

CapitalText I love Iona, as does my husband, but unfortunately it's an old men's drinking club where all my family live, so unfortunately we can't go for that.

Seeker- I love Edith (although hadn't thought of the pronunciation issues before!) althoug my husband's not keen.

Somke real lovely names there though ladies, certainly food for thought! xx

We had a looong list of names for our DD, and when she popped out, none of them fit. She was nameless for 2 weeks while we figured it out.

We called her martha in the end, and it's perfect! I'm sure you will find the right name.