DH worried DD may be rather thick set and a pretty name would not suit her!!!

[Madamecastafiore]

Right, have no idea if expecting DD or DS but we have a whole raft of boys names we like.

Girls names I like are:

Daisy
Florence
Kitty
Polly
Poppy
Claudia

DH likes Gabriella and keeps saying all my names are pretty names and if daughter is thick set like DH then a pretty name will be odd.

Surname is a colour and about the 3rd most common name in the world!

I think its sensible to consider descriptive names. I was a porky kid pre puberty and would have been tortured had i been called somethung like grace....half of the names people use these days conjure up little fairies wafting about in pink tutus - not the reality for everybody (and why should it be).

blueshoes sounds like a smug arrogant arse.

Going back to your list of names OP something about them reminded me of Jilly Cooper titles (I know, I know) so here are some of her heroines:

Harriet
Emily
Bella
Octavia
Prudence
Lisa

Polly - the best name on your list. I have one and she is gorgeous. Get lots of compliments on her name and she is the only one in her school.

Your rather solid DH may be surprised at what a beautiful daughter he can help to produce/create, if my DD and her father are anything to go by

He does seem to be being a little negative here before she's even arrived !

Why do you see it as negative? Big girls can be beautiful too.

Exactly, kitten. What is wrong with big girls? Weight sadly seems to evoke strong emotions, when it should not.

I think there may be an element of people being offended on behalf of other people (who themselves may not actually have been offended).

Indeed, the ranks of the professionally offended.

I really like Polly at the moment.

I sympathise. DH vetoed Phoebe (my favourite) on the grounds that the only one he knew was nicknamed Beefy which would have suited DD rather too well in all honesty

If you like Kitty, maybe call her Katherine and abbreviate it to Kitty?

Your DH has a point. I know a little girl with a flowery name that really doesn't suit her - she's a sturdy little thing, and couldn't be less like a delicate little flower if she tried. It's not a criticism of the child, she's bright and playful and inquisitive and fab, but she's not flower-like at all.

I agree with your DH but then I have a Claudia

I agree that "frilly" names need to suit a child in a way more "robust" names don't.

So any dc could be an Elizabeth for example, however if bruiser DD1 was called Fifi it would seem odd. She has a friend called Millie Rose who is a wee dainty little thing, if I had called DD1 that it would have looked like I was taking the piss.

So we considered names like Hermione, Alice, Verity, Katherine, Josephine etc.

The problem comes of course in what you would define as a frilly name. To me Gariella is definitely more frilly than Polly, and Kitty could be a tomboy or a Kit.