Name sorted if it's a boy, now what if it's a girl?!

[ChocolatEtVin]

DH and I have decided that if DC5 is a boy then they will be Pasha Theodore Axel. The name hasn't really gone down well on here tbh but we love it. Things are a bit more problematic if DC is a girl, though. We had thought either Violet or Saffron, but I've really gone off both in the last couple of days and can't image uning them :(
There are some other names we've come up with recently but we're not sure how much we love them as they've only just come to us. Oh and should probably say DC is due on the 28th! What do you think of our new list, I should add that DH loves more unusual names and I am hormonal so they might be truely awful!

Aurora Eleanor Hero
Tamsin Eleanor Hera
Ines Camille Hera

Other DCs are Tobias, Jago, Sorrell and Asa. What do you think of the list, I'm getting into such a panick over the name!

I love Violet. A;so Eleanor and Camille.

Pasha makes me think of a club in Ibiza and Axel Guns and Roses! Theodore is lovely.

Pasha???? Really?

Theodore is fab! Theo for short?

Have just asked my boys if they would like to be called Pasha and they both said a resounding NO!

Ottilie Beatrice Jude
Romilly Annabel Hera

are my current favourites. Not keen on your girl names tbh.

I'm not keen on Pasha as I know a few seedy nightclubs with that name. I love Aurora and it goes lovely with your other childrens names.

I think Pasha is definitely staying as we love it and also love the fact that it reflects DH's heritage.

Ines is lovely! provided you use the right accents for it (circumflex or acute over the "e"). Or you could go with the American spelling of Inez.

Tamsin's a bit celeb-y to my ear. Aurora's pretty too, though it might be best not to have another "A" initial.

I would go with Hero over Hera. The goddess Hera always struck me as a bit wet for putting up with Zeus. lol.

I like Ines Camille Hero best of your list.

Aurora is my favourite of the first names.

How about Aurora Camille Hera?

Tamsin Eleanor is really nice! I do also like Violet and quite like Saffron.

I think Pasha is lovely and goes well with your other kids' names. All your girls' suggestions are lovley but I prefer Aurora.

Also how about Camille as a first name - Camille Eleanor Hera?

Camille is gooooorgeous as a first name. I will say it's a little bit vanilla compared to your other names though! That doesn't necessarily matter of course.

Honestly? I'd revist your boy's name.

Please - stop and think what you're planning to do to that poor child.

Not heard Pasha before, but to me it sounds like it could be a girl's name - any reason why not?

Pasha Theodora Axelle

sashh, Pasha is a Russian name short for Pavel so it could seem girly because of the names Sasha and Misha which are male names often used for girls. So sort of for that reason we wouldn't use it for a girl.
I know not all names are to everyone's taste, but what is particularly wrong with Pasha?

I like Ines and Aurora best from your choices. I used to know a Pasha whose parents were from Russia, I think. Perfectly nice name imo especially if it reflects your dh's heritage.

I think the problem with Pasha is that
a) in English, -a endings are associated with girl names,
b) Pasha sounds a lot like Passion, which is pointedly sexy sounding, plus with a girly ending which seems extra weird (the connotation of giving a "girly-sexy" name to a boy being the strange thing, I think)
c) many people know Pasha as a chain of dodgy nightclubs. So on top of the girly-sexy connotations, you also have a dollop of "seedy" in there.
d) On top of it all, it's a nickname, not a full name.

So. TBH, as an English speaker, Pasha as a given name sounds girly, sexy and seedy. If you named him Pawel/Pavel and nnamed him Pasha, that would make more sense, because at least your son could choose to use his whole name in situation where his nn would embarrass him.

I know many Russians and if a Russian-accented, Russian-surnamed person went by Pasha, I wouldn't bat an eye. (Having said that, I have actually never met a Pasha... I know a single Pawel...)

But an English-speaking, non-EEuropean-surnamed child with the legal name of Pasha? I would think his parents were fairly short-sighted to name him that, tbh.

FWIW, in terms of honouring your DH's heritage, in Russian naming traditions it would be extremely rare to name a child by a nickname in any case. Kids are named with saints' names, always in full, to honour the saint and other family members with the same saint's name. Orthodox priests would wag their fingers at anyone who tried to shorten their child's baptismal name.

Hence nicknames being popular in Russia... to distinguish the 1000 Dmitris/Alexeis/Katerinas/Anastasias etc from one another.

I like Pasha.

I also like Violet, and prefer it to your new options, actually. Ines is pretty, but i think you need some Spanish connection. How about Inessa instead as you have a Russian thing going? Aurora is a bit fussy for me, and Tamsin I just dislike.

Yes I thought it sounded like passion too.

oikopolis, DH is a quarter Russian so it's not like we have 'naming traditions' to stick to. It's just that his grandma (who is Russian) is very old a frail and we just think it would be lovely for her to have her heritage passed on down the generations and for it to happen whilst she is still here with us. Also I really don't like Pavel - there are so many little Alfies/Charlies/Freddies about does it really matter if a nn is on the birth certificate in this instance?

Of course do whatever you please, but I thought I would outline some reasons why others (incl myself) would not use the name.

Pasha is lovely, for girls I love all of them but Aurora is the favourite! Either that or Hero, which I have always loved but will never be able to use :(
So I would have Aurora Camille Hero.

Muddling, glad someone else is with me in liking Hero - I can't get DH to let me use it as a first name :(

ChocolatEtVin

Nothing wrong with it, I actually quite like it, but I had just never heard it before