find me the name of my dreams

[smilingserenely]

dh loves the name felicity but i dislike this name. he likes it beacuse it's sweet ,feminine yet fun and grown up.dh insists he likes no other name . i dislike it because i find it to sickly sweet and a bit wishy washy .

i love the name cecily because it's sweet , feminine,yet grown up and serious. i have a list of other names i like and could compromise on but dh has vetoed them all. he dislikes it because it's too old fashioned and unusual

in reality they are both very similar names in terms of how they sound sound ,femininity etc

dh after initially insisting on felicity has now agreed i can call her cecily

however , i don't want , to railroad dh into a name he dislikes. i really want to find a compromise we can both love.

problem is dh will not come up with any suggestions and i have given up trying to find a compromise.

so do your best and find us the name of our dreams or at least a few suggestions i can put to dh

Prudence
Marianne
Susannah
Clarissa
Henrietta
Imogen
Belinda

love clarissa and marianne but yet again dh not keen

susannah like but not nn susie

How about Eleanor or Elena? Pretty and strong!

have a niece elinor so can't use it

Felicity has such a lovely meaning.
I know one who is know as Felix instead of the usual Fliss.
However, it may bother you forever if you don't like it ... my DS is 16 and I still wish I had changed my mind about his name on the day he was born .

It would be good for you both to like one name enough. Have been looking at my books for you. Here goes:

Camilla
Leonie
Estella
Francesca
Lydia
Genevieve
Catherine/ Katherine (lots of lovely diminutives to choose from)
Cassandra
Gabriella
Eloise
Verity
Caroline
Miriam
Phoebe
Christianna
Marianne
Marisa
Althea

Good luck!

Also my favourite - Elizabeth

aka Lizzie, Liz, Liza, Lilla, Beth, Betsy, Betty, Bett - so many lovely diminutives to choose from!

Elissa/Elyssa/Alissa?

freya

frieda

callie

carlotta

celeste

Carys
means beloved in Welsh

Clemency

I would just call a 'truce' for now and then when he sees you giving birth to a beautiful little girl and what hard work it is . . . how could he deny you Cecily???
My dh wanted Delilah for our dd3 which I really did not want . . . but after seeing me give birth he totally caved in and said "you pick, you did all the work" and so I got my Esther after all
We got a tortoise called Delilah instead!

I have 3 children with unusual names, U either love them or hate them, but, I find the majority of people love them, and they are most definately remembered!!!

My Son: DAX
My Daughter: MISSY
My Daughter: XANTHE

Saffron
Juliette
Saskia
Scarlett
Laurel
Georgina
Rhian
Darcy
Eleonora

Undine/Ondine
Justine
Clea
Thetis
Calypso
Hera/Juno (see a theme developing here?)
Athena
Artemis

Mariella
Muriel
Phyllis
Phyllida
Wanda

love so many of these names but dh likes none of them. he can murder a name at a 1000 paces .
he really likes nothing even slightly unusual and/or he has a secret crush on felicity kendal . maybe i should suggest kendal !!

especially like genevieve , clemency, camilla, marianne and phoebe and xanthe .can't use lydia as it is in the family already

also like muriel and mariella

wondering if we can get round the impasse with felicity nn fee or feebee as dh will refuses to budge and i'm fed up trying to move him.

Leonora - beautiful, underused and only 8 in 2009.

Smiling Serenely, I have had to dismiss countless names because of DH disliking them. Similarly I have dismissed many of his suggestions.

You have to choose a name you both like, dont let him railroad you.

What about Vivienne?

Helen
Rachel
Dinah
Syrie
Laurance (French, innit)
Clemence (ditto)
Victoria
Claudia

or, go all Anglo-Saxon on his ass
Ethelburga
Wilfrieda
Winifred
etc.
He won't go for them but if you look serious it might frighten him back to one of your tamer options?

You've my heartfelt sympathies as DH and I were like this with girl's names. We finally finally decided on one, then had a boy anyway! Actually, even with boys' names we only had one we both liked so if we have another boy I don't know what's going to happen. Let the grandfathers fight to the death, perhaps. Whoever's father is still alive at the end gets to pick the name...

vivienne lovely but with our surname she would have a very famous fashion designer namesake

given dhs name preferences (the only other name in the universe he likes is augusta) i worry that if i suggest ethelburga, ermintrude etc dh would think these were great names and insist on baby ethelreda .

Ermengarde? :) I rather like Ermengarde.

I also thing Cecily is a lovely name, and CeCe as a nn is cool, or Lily, but thats very popular.
Celeste is lovely, but just twigged your sirname and it wouldn't really go!What about

Eloise
Ellice
Alice/Alecia/Alysia

Harriet?

Marielle,it's glamorous,serene(like yourself!) and if I'm not mistaken,beautiful with your surname!

Augusta can only be the name of a Great Aunt!

Tell dh he has no taste! Would he go for Shakespearean? Ancient Greek? Give him a list of 10 names you like and tell him he needs to give you a list of 10 names as well. That should start as a brainstorm and stop him being stuck on one or two. Otherwise it is not fair for you to suggest loads which are just vetoed.