Would love some feedback for name ideas - DC1 so new to this!

[bunintheoven1]

Hello, at 30 weeks pregnant my OH and I have started to think about names for our DC. As this will be our first we are looking for people's general thoughts on our name ideas.

Boys
Lennox
Atticus
Chester
Phoenix
Orlando
Austin

Girls
Emilia (nn Lila)
Eloise
Isla
Gabriella
India
Scarlett

What are your opinions on these? Ideally we want our DC to be the only one in their class with their name but don't want it to be too unusual/no one can understand or say it. Do you have any other suggestions that would fit our criteria?

I like Chester and Austin for the boys.

Isla, Eloise, and Scarlett are pretty popular here, there could be others in a class or school year with that name if you used them.

Similarly Amelia, Emily and Emma are all popular and similar sound to Emilia

I would chose Gabriella, usual and classic.

I like Gabriella, sounds like you have quite a long surname though so it might be a bit of a mouthful. Isla is absolutely lovely, that would probably be my first choice.
Not sure I 'get' Lila as a nickname for Emilia - if you like Lila why not call her that, it's a perfectly good name in its own right. Both quite popular at the moment though, I think.

I'm not too keen on the boys names, seem either a bit pretentious or too surname-ey.

They are very different styles- your girls names are v pretty and seem like real names while your boys names are a bit try-hard. They seem like names that could easily be surnames/place names. I don't think they go together so if you had another child I can't see you using the same list - eg Chester and Gabriella don't sound like they are related.

It is really difficult to predict which names will be unusual as it depends on where you are - lots of people will try and get unusual ones so you end up with duplication. I really like Eloise and Gabriella - but both could be shortened to Ellie/elle and there are lots of those around.( Emilia is a bit tricky as I think you'll get lots of variations on the spelling etc

I don't really like the boys names - too hard/american for me- Atticus is best. What about Gabriel? Ellis?