Pregnant with DC6 - opinions and suggestions please

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Only 4 weeks and haven't even told anybody in real life yet so no idea on whether it's a boy or a girl (though I have 5 girls already, not sure if my body does boys ... !)

Please can you give me your (brutally honest!) opinions on these names as well as any other suggestions in a similar vein:

Girls:
Cassandra
Arabella
Jessica
Xanthe
Araminta
Alexis
Vanessa

Boys:
Nicholas
Patrick
Alexander
Isaac
Oscar

Absolutely lovely girls names.

Think of alexis as a boy's name though.

Isaac and Oscar I like less than the other boy names.

Ps congratulations! Hope it all goes well.

I love Patrick but couldn't use it on either DS as our surname ends in -ick too. Also love Alexander. Like Isaac very much, neutral on Nicholas and not that keen on Oscar mainly because I know quite a few but don' t hate it.

Not so in love with the girl names but I can see how you must have worked your way through a lot already! Jessica is my favourite. Alexis I like a lot as a name but makes me think Joan Collins! The next generation won't make that association though.

Congrats by the way!

Araminta is my guilty pleasure name......

Oscar is a snake's name

Apparently Cecilia derives from a welsh name Seissylt meaning 6th child.

I love arabella from your list.

Love your girls' names especially Arabella and Araminta - classic, feminine and not overused, as well as having lovely nicknames.

I'm not that keen on any boys names but would choose Nicholas if I had to.

Xanthe from your girls names, Nicholas from your boys names. Nicholas is the best boys name, ever. (I may be biased!)

Xanthe and Oscar

lovely family btw 6 of one sex is very special

Thanks for the thoughts.

Arabella is my favourite BUT I already have an Isabella (though part of me thinks that if I ended up with 6 girls 2 similar names wouldn't be such a disaster!) which makes me want to go for Araminta but I'm a bit worried it's just too comedy-posh. I do love Xanthe too though. Hmmm, decisions. Maybe it's a short list of 3. My husband (oh so helpfully) said they were 'all very lovely'

Why is Oscar a snake's name? An animal snake or a snake of a man?? Nicholas and Alexander may be my forerunners for boys at the moment. DH likes Nicholas with Oscar as mn.

Interesting about Cecilia too. Great meaning and it's a nice name. Don't know that I love it though.

What are the names of ur girls already!!

What about Arabelle rather than Arabella then?

Vanessa or Patrick.

Would also suggest Meredith or Amaris for a girl and Peter or Edgar for a boy.

Araminta is a hard name to carry I think - makes me think of a very posh, horsey and bit dim person - apologies to any Aramintas out there!

Annabel?

nannyof3 - I have Natasha, Rebecca, Matilda, Isabella and Abigail.

musttidy - Arabelle is an interesting idea. I've never heard it used. Like it but worry she would be forever correcting people who heard Annabelle. Which is also nice and another possibility I suppose.

X post amxk yes, I do like Annabel (prefer the frillier spelling though)

Hannah
Jessemay

Xanthe or Patrick!

Annabelle such a pretty name.
Arabelle
Or Amabelle which I have heard (once) and like too but you will be forever correcting! Congrats btw how lovely for you.

From your list I love Cassandra and Jessica. I think these go best with your other dd's names too.

I love Patrick best on your boys' name list (nn Patch) but I also really like Alexander, Isaac and Oscar (although I know far too many dogs called Oscar to ever use it myself).

I'm not keen on the names Nicholas and Oscar together - they run into each other too much and it sounds like Nicola Soscar.

Thinking of a name to go well with your DD's names - have you considered:

Francesca
Lorna
Charlotte?

I wouldn't go for Araminta as it doesn't go with the DDs you already have IMO.

I like all of your boys suggestions - Isaac has always been a favourite of mine but DH wouldn't allow it for DS2 . Do you not have one boys name that has always been your favourite, and been "the boys name" in your previous pregnancies? .

Or Amelie?

Like Hannah and Francesca from recent suggestions too. Also love that Arabelle means 'prayerful' - the name is growing on me.

The Poppy - the boys name for my first pregnancy was Nathaniel but she was a girl and I used Natasha so that's now out. Then I liked Joshua but my cousin used it (and we're very close so I wouldn't). The shortlist since then has been similar to now.

or even just Anna is nice too.