Please comment on these names for a baby due September 2012

[Kiddleton]

I'm not ttc right now, in fact I'm getting married soon. My thirtieth is in January 2012 and I want to be able to have some shampoo and wear a fabulous dress of my choice, choose the designer myself, is that too much to ask? then it'll be chocks away.

Here are my names.

Mary
Caroline - a nod to my mother.
Alice
Jane
Georgina
Victoria (I hate this but husband to be's family very conservative)

David (begins with the same letter as my husband's late mother's name, and he has a Welsh connection)
George
Richard
Philip
Arthur
Albert

Sigh, can you see my dilemma. My husband has such boring taste. Mary Alice reminds me of Desperate Housewives. Mary Jane is probably not going to work either, although it reminds me of more relaxed times.

Nope, definitely VIII

Then there was Edward II, he came to a very nasty end.

How about going back to the names of the Kings of Wessex, I think it's time this country had another king called something like:

• Egbert
• Cuthred
• Caedwalla
• Ceolwulf
• Sigeberht
• Beorhtric

For a possible future Queen, there were some female rules in the Kingdom of Mercia, and I'd like to see one of these:

• Æthelflæd
• Ælfflæd
• Ælfwynn

Bring back the names of the really old monarchs, be brave! [buwink]

hatter
how about canute or carratacus remember the rolf harris song
boadicea for a girl would also have some clout

Oh I like Canute, as long as they don't use the original spelling of Cnut, that could cause a few problems!

oh cnut would be brilliant . nothing like having a name to aspire to .
he could talk to trees and insult foreign dignataries like

[1] Alice, Georgina, Victoria.
[2] Mary, Jane.
[3] Caroline.
You could have Caroline as a second name for everything but Jane. Victoria Jane, Georgina Alice, Alice Georgina, Alice Mary, Georgina Mary, Mary Victoria.

[1] Richard, Arthur, Albert.
[2] Philip.
[3] George, David. (Sorry, I HATE the name David.)
Richard is a name that I always forget in my own thinkings, but actually really like. Love Arthur too. Philip Arthur, Albert George (although thinking about it maybe there's a reason I think those go together :P).

I'd go Alice, Georgina, Victoria, Richard, Arthur or Albert.

Mary - like
Caroline - not keen
Alice - not keen
Jane - like
Georgina - like
Victoria - like

David - like
George - like
Richard - OK
Philip - OK
Arthur - not keen
Albert - OK

I like all your girls names, all lovely classics.

I like your boys names, except for Albert. Strong dislike.

I love how some people are enjoying the joke and some are giving serious feedback :o

ooooh so stupid, just read your post again, and now get the joke.

You need to get down with the plebs, I suggest Wesley and Lola

There is a Lola in the family. Laura Parker Bowles' daughter I think. Her husband's sur name is Lopes (Portuguese name) so Lola Lopsh. ??

Just got the joke! Groan!

I'd completely cross off anything you actively don't like, and then rank them with the ones that inspire you least at the bottom.

You're not naming your child to please your family, but to give them a name they can use and be proud of throughout their lives.

I'm an Alice, and like being one. My sister is a Miriam. We shorten it to Mim. There aren't many of those about!

Why not have a look through some of the more classic names (to please your OH) and find ones that have a bit more character to them?

Reuben for example. It's a beautiful name, there aren't many of them, but it's also biblical (Jacob's eldest son, and therefore one of the houses of Israel) and so has been used throughout many generations.

Personally, I'd cross Mary and Jane completely off the list. To me they just seem dull and flat, unless you put them together and then they're too 1950s- you might as well have a Peggy-Sue!