got to tell someone

[karinajack]

We will be finding out our wriggly bums sex in 3 week and have been discussing names.
We will be telling family what sex it is but have decided to keep names secret but I have to spill lol
Here goes
Lily eve
Oliver max

Opinions?
Thanks xx

There lovely!! so nice to see some 'normal' names. Fabulous choice op

Very popular, but probably because they're such lovely names. Nowt wrong with that as long as you know he/she won't be the only one with their name in their peer group.

Both the names you have chosen are really lovely.

4 of the most popular names I can think of but they are all very sensible & very nice. I wouldn't use them if you have a common surname but otherwise, why not if you like them.

Nice, but very very popular.

Thanku everyone .. we did look through the top 10 names so thought they might be popular lol we don't know any though x our son is jack and he's fine with having another jack in his class :) just learnt his surname aswell and his classmates call him his full name x

Nice, neither are going to set the world alight but nice normal names.

Yawn, pretty overdone names IMO. Sorry.

Oliver Max is nice if popular. Lily Eve doesn't really go well together for me. I'd change the second name to one with a hard consonant, for example, Lily Kate.

Dull dull dull! Do your child the favour of knowing that you put a bit of thought into his or her name!

It makes me laugh when people say they are are overdone-if you like them then use them.
Dull names are lovely-I'm very glad that my parents didn't try being original!
Having said that I don't think that Lily Eve goes-you need the second one longer and not starting with a vowel.

They're fine. Lily Eve doesn't run together well, though...

Thanks for ur opinions though I must admit I won't take any to heart and change the names that we have spent weeks debating over! Yes we have put much thought into them and coupled with our second name I think it sounds great. We'll see what family members think in 23 week ! Lol seems soo far away I can't wait xxx

Thank you for your suggestions though ever long xxx

Yes - where does one draw the line between too popular and therefore dull, and rare enough to be acceptable as unique to your oh so unique child? Top 10 / 100 / 1000? arbitrary lines drawn where by whom?? Names are popular for a reason and it isn't cos they are horrid and only chosen by people with no imagination - even if some of the popular names are not ones you like! FFS

Such a minor reason not to have a name. OK something to bear in mind but not a reason to reject a name you really love! Otherwise we wouldn't have so many James, Claire etc etc

Lovely names and being fairly popular doesn't equate to putting no thought into the names IMO. I far prefer these names to many of the "unique" names I've heard.

My ds is Oliver but it was close with Max if we ever have another boy I think we'll call him that, mine is Oliver alfie as ds 1 wanted to call him Alfie, nice names.

I loved Alfie and Oscar but dh disagreed we have been at this for many weeks lol he adores Charlotte ... Never gonna happen lol

I love both. gorgeous. x

Just because names are popular doesn't mean that no thought has gone into them. Maybe the thought was 'I don't want DC to have to explain/spell/blush every time they introduce themselves'?

They are lovely names, though I see the point about Lily and Eve kind of running into each other.

Love both options, but can see what other MN mean about Lily Eve not quite going together. I would change Eve to Grace or Alice.

There is acres and acres of middle ground between very popular, i.e. top 10 names - and unusual, yoon'eeq names... It's not an either/or situation.