Opinions needed on our possible girl's name - do your worst!

[MissMummy1]

DH and I are team yellow. We've had a definite boy's name agreed almost from day 1 (Aulay Nathan Angus) -Nathan after his dad and Angus after my grandad and the area of scotland we had our first home in.

BUT we've been racking our brains for weeks and months trying to think of a girl's name that suited us. DH is an ulsterman and I'm a scot so would ideally love an ulsterscots name that reflects us, and DH came up with one tonight that I think I love, so here goes:

Caley-Rose Luna

Caley as in Caledonia, Rose after his late mum and Luna short for Lunanhead (town in Angus we had our cottage) and after the moon which plays a huge role in both of our lives being sailors.

Do your worst with opinions (on both biys and girls names) and any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Great name without the hyphen, but terrible with it!

Also prefer Callie.

Badtime - Did you mean me? I think I am the only person who mentioned Carly. And I did so in the context of the pronunciation Cah-Lee. I wasn't suggesting that would ever be the right pronunciation for a Cally pronunciation. And a good chunk of mine and my husband's families have the relevant accents.

Team yellow means you don't know the sex of the baby (so you're not in team pink or team blue...)

I agree about losing the hyphen and going for a less ambiguous spelling. Your boys name come across as solid and traditional (and nice). Your girls name comes across very differently. Are you sure about Luna?

Ribena, if you know people with 'the relevant accents', you must have noticed that 'cah-lee' and 'car-lee' (say) would sound very different. The letter 'r' is pronounced at the end of syllables in most Scottish and Ulster accents, in contrast to most English accents.

I still disagree actually. I do know how 'car' would sound. Maybe it is to do with a differing interpretation on how we think cah-lee would sound. But it's obviously not worth arguing over since it's not even the pronunciation the OP wants.

I said 'the relevant accents' because I didn't want to detail too much personal information about what accents we all have.

Perhaps you genuinely can't hear the difference - some people can't.
No-one would pronounce 'cah' with an 'r', so it can't be that.

There is a very big difference though - it's like the way Americans pronounce 'r' at the end of a syllable. Read about rhoticity here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhotic_and_non-rhotic_accents

Maybe - although I can hear it in lots of other similar words. Can't think of any off the top of my head, but words that sound the same in my accent and very distinct in my MILs, or vice versa.

Anyway, sorry for sidetracking your thread OP.

First thought was that it was pronounced Kayleigh which I don't particularly like. However, now upon reading how Caley is going to be pronounced it just reminds me of that teenage lottery winner who blew her £2million on cocaine. Also, I really don't like hyphenated names and ones that particularly include May/Rose etc as there are so many of them around. And I'd put Luna in the same mould as Lola/Lexi etc.

I do like Rose as a first name though.