Argh! Baby names!

[WittgensteinsBunny]

I'm 37 weeks and wobbling about all of our name choices, with DD we were so sure, and I just can't "settle" on a name this time! DD is Elodie (we are not French - although some french in my family way, way back

• just my all time favourite name) and I'm not too worried about a matchy-matchy name. But I guess her name indicates what we like. We don't know the sex of the baby.

Here are our short lists:

Boys:
Fabien (pronounced the French way, rather than the socialist society way) - I really love this name but am worrying that it's a bit poncy / will be mispronounced.
Caius
Cassius
Corben

Girls:
Beatrix
Lucille
Seren

Any other suggestions? I feel like I've gone round and round and round...

If you can't stand the alternative pronounciation I'd skip it. It will be a pain to correct and you might come across as a bit tight.

Cassius is beautiful and so is Seren.

I love Corben and Lucille.

Fabien - nice name and I don't think poncy. You'll just have to keep telling people which pronounciation you prefer.
Caius - more pronounciation issues here. Will it be 'Keys' or 'Ky-us' or 'Guy-us'?
Cassius - perfectly good name, just not my personal taste.
Corben - usually a surname?; reminds me of the Scots word 'Corbie' (= crow or raven). But if you like it, go for it.

Beatrix - great
Lucille - really pretty. Will you say 'Loo-seeyul' or 'Liu-seell'?
Seren - lovely name and meaning and understandably popular. I also like the (unrelated) 'Serena'.

Fabien is definitely my favourite if your boys names.

I love Beatrix. Lucille is pretty- much nicer than Lucy. What about Lucia? Not keen on Seren but like pp's suggestion of Serena.

Celeste
Estelle
Simone
Astrid

I love Fabien.

Fabien - It's a good name, but it is poncy to ask that it be pronounced the French way when you're not even remotely French.
Caius - nice
Cassius - nice
Corben - too surnamey

Beatrix - what do you call a woman who can balance a pint on her head?
Lucille - ok
Seren - lovely

Love love love Corben. Go for it!

I like all the girls names and I like Fabien but I prefer it spelled Fabian.

Corben and Lucille would be my top choices from that list.

Seren is on my girls list, too

Love Cassius, not a fan of Corban.

I like Fabien and Corben. How about Conrad?

Seren is the only name I like from your girls list. How about Meredith, Rhiannon, or Kerenza/Carenza?

Yy to Fabien being poncy & prone to mispronounciation. Ditto Ciaus.

Prone to misspelling too, scarychicken

We wouldn't be insisting on saying it with a french accent. Just saying Fab-ee-un rather than Faye-bee-an, hence using the french rather than british spelling. But after talking to DH we've decided the mispronounciation thing will probably get too irritating. So I reckon that leaves us with Cassius and Corben. DH is leaning toward Cassius (nn Cas) and I think I am too.

Girls names still undecided. We love Lucia too. So I'm adding that back to our list...

How about Florian?

I love Lucille.

I'd say I like Cassius with Elodie...lovely name.

I like Cassius and Beatrix the best

Ha ha, yes!

Tremolo me too. I love the name Beatrix and I think we'd use nn Trixie. It goes well with our chosen middle name too. Cassius and Beatrix are definitely looking like our front runners now. Just 19 days until edd....

Love Corben and Seren

Love Corben, reminds me of the film The Fifth Element (awesome film)
And I really like Lucille, very nice