Your honest thoughts on these?

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Clementine
Octavia
Ivy
Athena
Pearl
Blossom
Tabitha
Skye
India
Savannah

Chester
Balthazar
Roman
Thaddeus
Seth
Saxon
Jasper

What springs to mind immediately? Too chavvy? Too posh? Any suggestions these lists make you think I might like?? So many names!! How do people choose?!

Clementine - love it, on my current list
Octavia - nice
Ivy - old lady
Athena - poster shop from the 80's
Pearl - old lady
Blossom - TV show I used to love
Tabitha - love it
Skye - nice
India - like this too
Savannah - not sure

Chester - great
Balthazar - love
Roman - abramovich
Thaddeus - love
Seth - love
Saxon - quite like this
Jasper - love

I like Pearl and Tabitha, Seth & Chester.

I think there is a slight danger of trying too hard with these but a lot depends on your surname. If it's a really straightforward name, maybe do the "facebook test" checking you don't get 1000s of hits [confessionsmiley] but if you've got an unusual surname I would probably go for something more like an Emily or a James so that they won't need to spell two names. Others have mentioned the CV test (which I agree with) but I think the introducing-yourself-on-the-phone test is a good one too.

Clementine - an orange
Octavia - a ship
Ivy - traditional and querky...like it
Athena = not for me
Pearl - fortune teller
Blossom - a nick name
Tabitha - ok
Skye = a dog's name
India - yes like it
Savannah = not for me

Chester = a cat
Balthazar - a restaurant in New York
Roman - Chelsea
Thaddeus = a Greek god, yuck
Seth - star wars
Saxon - horrible
Jasper - a dog

I like Seth, a lot.
Ivy and Pearl are ok.
Not keen on the others.

The only name I like out of all these is Skye, though I would spell it Sky.
Don't like any of the others.

I like Seth and Ivy.

Honestly I think people are reading into these choices too much, if your son is called Saxon it doesn't necessarily mean he will be a tattoo'ed heavy metal listener (not that there is anything wrong with that anyway!)

Any of them would be a lovely name, I don't find any, apart from Balthazar and Thaddeus which just seem "different for different's sake" to me, and Savannah which I find too American, all of them are lovely

India Pearl or India Skye
Athena Skye
Ivy Clementine

are my fave girls ones

Seth Roman would be my fave boy combo

Clementine - a joke surely.
Octavia - see above.
Ivy - OK.
Athena - ridiculous.
Pearl - OK.
Blossom - stupid.
Tabitha - a cat.
Skye - a dog.
India - too middle class.
Savannah - too American.

Chester - a monkey.
Balthazar - stupid.
Roman - stupider.
Thaddeus - worst name yet.
Seth - OK.
Saxon - awful.
Jasper - a cat.

There's no names here I can give two thumbs up to. Really really bad selection. Especially the boys.

Roman and Octavia lovely, suspect you would need an italian connection tho. :)

They are all awful pretentious names except Seth which is ok.

Out of your list I like:

Clementine
Octavia
Tabitha
India
Savannah

Chester
Roman
Thaddeus
Jasper

My favs are Clementine and Jasper.

Clementine - oranges, oh ma darlin
Octavia - octomom
Ivy - lovely
Athena - poster
Pearl - lovely
Blossom - bit too nickname, not a real name
Tabitha - cat, Bewitched
Skye - lovely
India - lovely
Savannah - ok

Chester - town
Balthazar - 3 kings
Roman - Roman soldier
Thaddeus - v religious
Seth - Cold Comfort Farm
Saxon - parents like historical reenactment
Jasper - dastardly character in a Jilly Cooper or similar

Clementine - Lovely, quite traditional
Octavia - Lovely, more traditional than Clementine. Quite sloany if that bothers you.
Ivy - Very cute
Athena - Pushy parents
Pearl - Chavvy
Blossom - Parents wanted to stand out from the Lily-Evie-Mae crowd. Bloody awful.
Tabitha - Sweet, always imagine one to be quite chubby though
Skye- Chavvy
India - Gorgeous
Savannah - Ok

Sorry but I really dislike all your boys names.

Love Jasper

Like Indie rather than India

Love Jasper

Like Indie rather than India

What varied responses!!

I guess as I like unusual names not everyone is going to like them! I would like to say that some of the names I like but wouldn't be brave enough to use, just thought I try them out and it seems I was right!

I think my faves are Roman and Octavia as my fathers family are Italian and my name is v v Italian so I think we could pull it off!

If I start a post again I will keep in mind that there's a thin line between honest and bitchy, ouch!

I know a good few Thaddeuses in Ireland. And a lot of polish people use Thaddeus (or the polish version of it) so it's actually in the top fifty names in Ireland I think! I like it.

The rest of your boys names are.... well. Chester, yes, woof woof. Balthazar, very very very try hard.
Roman - no. The C word.
Seth - ok but I don't like it. Prefer Saul
Saxon - [clutches sides laughing] anglo is hanging in the air.
Jasper - ok but he'd have a very annoying mother.

Girls names, I like Pearl the best.

Seth is lovely lovely lovely lovely

If you can have roman and Saxon as names could you have celt? Viking? Perhaps pict? (tries to remember ancient history)

Visigoth,,,? I like that

savannah is my fave

Clementine-love it
Octavia-like it, but reminds me of the Ostrich in Pipkins
Ivy-awful old lady pissy knickers
Athena-pretentious
Pearl-see Ivy
Blossom-are you serious?
Tabitha-really like but had a cat called this
Skye-dreadful
India-like it
Savannah-dreadful

Chester-dreadful
Balthazar-see Blossom
Roman-no too Beckham
Thaddeus-ok-like Teddy as nn
Seth-like it
Saxon-
Jasper-love it