Ok Mumsnet jury, do your worst...

[ivanapoo]

I think we have reached some name decisions...!

Boy: Rafferty (Raf or Raffy for short)

Girl we're still unsure of though, short list is currently:

Emmeline
Serena
Iona
Iris
Alexa

Thoughts, criticisms, praise etc most welcome.

Oh and Kitty!

All lovely -Rafferty and Serena faves

Love all your girl names.

I also like Rafferty, but always dither about names beginning with R incase they couldn't pronounce there R's.

All lovely , apart from Kitty .

raffa and serena - tennis theme??

I don't like any of them sorry, apart from Iris.

Er outtolunch my husband is a tennis nut! No wonder he liked those suggestions... Luckily we ruled out Roger and Venus...

Thanks for replies so far, didn't think about the r pronunciation thing...

i love Iona. really love it, it's by far my favourite. also like Kitty.

i like Raffi, but much prefer Rafael to Rafferty.

Have i been worse enough?

Rafferty and Serena are both lovely.

Love Rafferty.
Emmeline would probably be shortened to Emma or misheard as Emily.
Iona just sounds like 'I own her' to me. Not great.
Serena - Williams
Iris- love it!
Kitty- like it.

Rafferty and Iris get my vote.

I like them all except Serena. I like Iona the most.

Love Kitty.

I know an Emmeline and she is know as Meena, which I think is a lovely nn,

I really like Kitty but then my neice is called this so maybe I'm biased.

Ahh I like them all - very very similar to my girls names, infact I have an Alexa Kitty!

We've got an Emme, and FWIW she has never been misheard or called anything else :)

Only one I'm not too sure on is Iona - maybe its just me but I'm just not keen on the way it sounds? Sorry!

op cute

Rafferty is fab. Kitty would be my pick from your girls followed by Iris.

Love Rafferty and all your girl choices except Iona. Alexa is my fave.

Emmeline..reminds me of old ladies (used to work with many called that)
Serena...love it
Iona...like it
Iris....reminds me of eyes..
Alexa..love it

Oh forgot rafferty..hugely dislike it sorry

I love Emmeline and Serena. Kitty is nice but I would use Katherine on the BC.

Not keen on Rafferty. Reminds me of 'riff raff'.

Emmeline because I think of Pankhurst

Thanks everyone. Rafferty seems quite divisive but it's the only boy's name we've found we can both tolerate...

Just to be contrary I want to throw another girl name in the mix:

Fenella nn Nell.

Worried it's a bit pretentious...