Names to go with boring, short surname please!

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Hello! Would be grateful for suggestions for boys and girls. We already have a DS called Jude, which I absolutely love and might give you an idea of what I like. Prefer the slightly unusual / old fashioned / romantic sorts of names but hate anything too top 10. Plus anything too long or flamboyant can sound silly with our surname. Suggestions please!

Iris
May
Poppy
Matilda

Rufus
Isaac
Finn
Jonah

Just a few ideas!

juliette or juliete

amy ammie

leon

james

something old fashioned I think

esmee

michael

....what does bor5ing last name begin with avoid first name containing same sylibles of last name

or make a statement

freud

archie...boring!!

Llochlan

Isabella
Evangelina
Stephania
Titania
Natalie

VINCENT!!!

natalia

obviouse sadie!!! but lovely name

jude for a boy maybee go with other irish names

Chad?

The only other Jude I know has a brother called Emmanuel.

Also you could go with Jonah, Joel, Nathaniel, Ezra, Ezekiel

Or girls, Rosamond, Miranda, Juliet, Arianne

Ooh, some great suggestions, thank you. Particularly like Iris, and in fact most of your suggestions, londres. Think we need to go bit more unusual though, quite a few of the names are quite common round here, like Isabella or Finn. Want to avoid names beginning with j or e. Any other thoughts very welcome!

OK..

Eliza
Martha
Tabitha
Beatrice

Milo
Arlo
Otto
Hugo

Somuchtobits, those are good! Love Jonah and Joel to bits but don't want another j. Nathaniel is fab and so is Miranda. Thank you pixieonaleaf too, all nice but a little plain for me.

Boys

Eden
Ossian
Atticus
Perry
Arno
Inigo

Girls

Elodie
Edie
Zillah
Siân
Corinna

Forget Eliza, just seen the E issue

So nice to hear all of these! Like atticus a lot but think it's a step too far for DH... Inigo is great too... Things to think about now but still open to suggestions. Thanks again.

Boys:
Gabriel
Asher
Tobias
Micah
Tristan (Love this with Jude!)
Silas
Luca
Noel
Hugh
Fabian
Nathaniel
Vincent

Girls:
Susanna
Nina
Seren
Ada
Stella
Evelyn
Penelope
Hermia
Hero
Viola
Beatrice
Celia
Helena
Diana

Your ideas are right up my street, mentalfloss! Love those from Shakespeare. Viola is really pretty. I'd rather have Estella than Stella (yes, love Dickens) but worried about it with an E surname; what do you think?

Arlo is my current fave boys name. If this overdue girl in my being turns out to be a boy, I'm going to fight tooth and nail for suggest-- Arlo.

Viola is pretty I agree.

Aaron
Orlando
Rowan
Cornelius

Ariadne
Miranda
Serena
Ornella
Scarlett

I think Estella depends on what the E surname is.

So I think Estella would work with say Evans but not with say Ewe.

If you love Dickens then I really like:
Arabella (Pickwick Papers)
Clara (Great Expectations)
Belle (Christmas Carol)
Madeline (Nicholas Nickleby)
Ada (Bleak House)
Sophy (David Copperfield)
Amy (Little Dorrit)
Esther (Bleak House)
Caroline (Caddy) (Bleak House)
Clemency (The Battle of Life)
Dora (David Copperfield)

God, you can tell I'm an English teacher can't you!

Clara
and
Quentin

would both sound good with a short surname and are unlikely to be shortened (they are my sister's children and they have a short one syllable surname).

Your ideas are right up my street, mentalfloss! Love those from Shakespeare. Viola is really pretty. I'd rather have Estella than Stella (yes, love Dickens) but worried about it with an E surname; what do you think?