Getting close to due date and not even close Genevieve,India Annabel...

[brianmayshair]

Genevieve- vivi for short.
India- love this but dm has been vocal about her dislike
Annabel- our compromise name, nothing wrong with it.
Arabella- we both like.
Serena- 4yo ds fave name, don't know where it came from we don't know any and he goes to a boys school but it has grown on me.

Theo- both like not love.
Hugo- love this but we have a h surname.
Ellis- this is a recent I'm not sure.

Stuck for boys names so any suggestions most definitely welcome. Any thoughts on above?

Oh and to complicate things we would like to give the baby the middle name Christina after my Dgma, my other dc have 3 names so this can go anywhere iyswim.

Genevieve - not keen
India - place name or 80s "exotic" name
Annabel - like, and Annabel Christina fits well
Arabella - like
Serena - like, but Serena Christina is too rhymey

Theo - like
Hugo - a bit too public schooly for me
Ellis - too surnamey but I do like Elliot (I know, also a surname!)

From the girls names list, I like Arabella best by a long way followed by Annabel. Am afraid I detest the name Genevieve - I know someone who named their DD this as she was conceived in Geneva (she has also always been called Gen which I find too adult like and takes away from the actual name) - sorry but that ruined it for me...I also have this horrible image of people shouting the name in a playground or wherever in an incredibly chavvy accent..am sure people will disagree though as seems to be "in"...

I like Theo and Hugo not keen in Ellis. Do you want a short name? What is DS's name? Will help in thinking up suggestions..

Ha at serena Christina it is truly dreadful.

Sounds like Angelina Ballerina..

Ds is Max.

I have a Genevieve so am obviously voting for that :)

We thought about Vivi but she has turned out to be largely Genevieve. Other nicknames are Evie, Gen, Ginny, Viv - so she will have plenty of choices when she is bigger. I'm amused by the idea of it being 'chavvy' :) - never ever heard anyone say that about it before and we were actually worried the other way, that it sounded a bit too middle-class-trying-hard-to-be-posh! However I probably would think it a bit chavvy if it was because of where the baby was conceived, and Gen is my least favourite of the nicknames :)

It's not too popular - only 90 girls named it in each of the last 4 years according to ONS stats so it's only about 400+ on the names list.

I find Arabella/Annabel too twee and girlie. We went with Genevieve because it is feminine but doesn't imply pink and ballerina-y and little girl in the way that lots of the bel/bella names do so is more versatile when she is an adult I think.

Serena is better than those, and India I like.

Nothing wrong with Hugo and a H surname because of the way that Hugo is pronounced I think, unless your surname is also pronounced in that aspirated way (e.g. Hugo Harris would be fine I think but Hugo Hughes wouldn't be)

Lovely name. Definitely stick with my original girl's name choices then. Arabella no.1.

I think Theo goes best with Max of your boys names, but also the following:

Ben (Benjamin)
Zac (Zachary/Isaac)
Charlie (Charles)
Freddie (maybe Alfred/Frederick)
Tom (Thomas)
Harry

I know they are "popular" but just think they work really well with Max.

Lemniscate - I don't think Genevieve is chavvy at all (if anything in the UK quite posh - am not saying that is negative though) as a name just always have this image of chavs pronouncing it in a chavvy way which ruins the name completely (probably because of the conception association)...your other nns are so much nicer than Gen too!

Thanks lemniscate- I really like vivi but dislike gen and genny I'm not sure how easy it would be to avoid those.

montsi- funnily enough my dad suggested ben but I know too many people I dislike called ben.
Love Zac but it's a close friends ds
Ds was going to be a Charlie and have now completely gone off it although tbh it was dh's choice
Colleague is calling her baby Tom and we could never have a Harry with out surname in fact dh was going to be a Harry and the Mw put her foot down apparently and told Ils it was cruel.

I actually really like Hugo with out surname it is Dh that has the problem with it, everyone I have mentioned it too also likes it.

Well at least I'm on the right track with the boys names! There are other names I really like (some equally as or more popular than the above but don't think they go as well with Max). A few more suggestions that, in my opinion work with Max:

Sam (Samuel)
Oscar
Leo
Finn (Finlay)

Ha you are on the right track sam and Leo are dhs faces I'm not so sure but I think that's because I love Hugo so much, i'm hoping to wear him down, worked with max

I also like Hugo but not as much as some of the others. Dominic?

Just to out myself evenmore, my ds is Leo

Ha ha this is getting funny!

I'm trying not to out myself to much too . Big no to Dominic for to many reasons to mention.

I also like Jago but am not sure about the reaction it would get, wish I was brave but had a wobble with dd's name when a couple of people made commented.

Out of the girls Annabel.

I have a Hugo and love the name but I do get what you mean about the surname thing I've avoided calling any of mine a name which has the same first letter as our surname.

Almost makes the name sound like a stage name.

Really like Theo too I would go for Theodore personally and Theo for short

India and Hugo I like from your lists.

The others not so keen on...

*too many

Genevieve- this would end up as Jen, Jenna, Jenny. How about Vivienne if you like Vivi?
India- It's becoming very common where I live anyway
Annabel- Love. I think it's a sweet name without being too frilly
Arabella- A bit frilly, and the name of Donald Trump's granddaughter
Serena- Lovely name but Serena Christina is truly a name only a 4 yo could love. How about Serena Christine though?

Theo- Theodore nicer imo
Hugo- Lovely and I see no problem at all with the H surname
Ellis- A bit girly imo.

I love Sam and Leo.

Yes I also have reservations about Dominic. Ultimately hope you get your first choices - am sure DH will give in!

Genevieve can have Evie as a nickname, but Eve/Evie/Ava/Eva are very popular at the moment.

we almost called our 10mth old dd Genevieve but i KNOW it would be shortened to Gen/jen which i dont like! she is a Merryn :)

Theo is lovely, i have one!

i like Ellis, we had Emmett for dd had she been a boy, but she wasnt, to our surpise!

our ds2 was max for a day and then nameless for a week when he became an oscar reuben :)

just wear your dh down, you give birth, you choose

our ds is a theodore btw, but theo for short :)