I keep being told my name choices are silly

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DC1 on the way and people keep telling me my girls name choices are silly! They're all my favourite names and have been for years. DP likes a few of them.

Thoughts please?...

Girls (middle name will be Jane, Valerie or Emily):
Harvie
Hazel
Jordan
Aurora
Olive
Maxie

Boys (middle name will be Kenneth, David or Harry):
Leo
Lukas
Harvey
Finn

My SIL asked which out of 2 names I liked and why. I told her my favourite and why I didn't like the other name.

Massively regret that now. She chose the other name.

I learnt my lesson. I'll never again give an opinion on a name, just nod and smile.

Your choices are absolutely fine. It's not like you want to call your DC Sex Fruit or Number 16 Bus Shelter (first one rejected, second approved - truefax.

I'd stop talking about names with people in real life. People often seem to think they've got a say in what the baby will be called if you share short lists with them, so will happily try to put you off names not to their taste. Generally, people are much more polite after the baby has been born, and will try much harder to keep negative opinions to themselves.

Origin of the name Maxine Maxie as NN?

Modern feminine form of Max, a short form of Maximilian, which is a compound name composed from the Latin names Maximus (greatest) and Aemiliānus.

www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/maxine

Nothing too terrible on that list. Though Maxie and Harvie are borderline silly. And the strange spelling of Lukas.

I like you toadgirl

Hopefully the Katie Price/Jordan connection will have faded by the time your DC is a bit older. Hopefully, she will have gone from our TV screens by then

Trouble is, with ANY name, you could suddenly have an awful reality star with the same name pop up and become famous after your DC has been named. Nothing to be done about that.

I like you toadgirl

Aw, thank you

Someone always has a bad name connection don't they?
I couldn't have a Rosie because of a horrible girl at school, but I know it's a lovely name.

Absolutely!

I remember my mother saying to me years ago that Myra as a name totally feel in popularity in the 60s and beyond because of the Hindley connection. Shame for those already called Myra, of course.

Maxie is the only silly one - Max(or I personally like Maxwell) is nice for a boy though.

Hazel is also lovely. And none of the others are ridiculous.

I'm only here for ideas

FELL in popularity.

Harvie is nmsaa - harley isnt either but it is prettier.
Maxie is risky. Becauese of pad. What about Trixie
I love Hazel

Hahahah god forbid being a Myra...or Adolf

Hazel and Olive are lovely

YOu are right everybody has an opinion on a name .

Hopefully the Katie Price/Jordan connection will have faded by the time your DC is a bit older.

My cousin's daughter has the middle name Jordan. This was before the celebrity that is Jordan even existed. Jordan (aka Katie Price) hit the media about 2 years later. My cousin (well to do head teacher) was not best pleased with the chavy associations with her DDs name

Harvey is an English family and given name derived from the Breton name Huiarnuiu, derived from an Old Breton first name Huiarnviu, derived from the elements hoiarn, huiarn (Breton houarn) meaning "iron" and 'viu' (Breton bev) meaning "blazing". It is related to Old Welsh Haarnbiu.

Saint Hervé (Saint Harvey), 6th-century Breton saint
Harvey Brown (officer) (1795–1874), American military officer
Harvey Brown (philosopher), British philosopher of physics at the University of Oxford
Harvey Bullock (writer) (1921–2006), American television and film writer and producer
Harvey Campbell (football player), Canadian football player
Harvey Cox, American theologian
Harvey Cushing, pioneer of neurosurgery
Harvey Einbinder (1926–2013), American physicist and author.
Harvey Fields (1882–1961), American politician
Harvey J. Fields (1935–2014), American Reform rabbi
Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright
Harvey Samuel Firestone (1868–1938), founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Harvey Gantt, American architect and democratic politician
Harvey Goldsmith CBE, English performing arts promoter
Harvey Grant (born 1965), American basketball player
Harvey Keitel, American film actor
Harvey Kurtzman, American comics creator and editor
Harvey Kuenn (1930–1988), American Baseball player, coach and manager
Harvey Bernard LeBas, American politician
Harvey Lisberg, British talent manager and impresario
Harvey Locke Carey (1915–1984), American lawyer and politician
Harvey M. Lifset (1916–2005), New York politician
Harvey Mandel, Innovative American guitar player
Harvey Martin, American football player
Harvey Mason, American jazz drummer
Harvey Mason, Jr., seven-time Grammy Award winning American songwriter
Harvey Milk, American politician
Harvey Pekar, American alternative comics writer
Harvey Shapiro (musician) (1911–2007), American cellist
Harvey Shapiro (poet) (1924–2014), American poet and editor of The New York Times
Harvey Washington Walter (1819–1878), American lawyer and railroad business executive
Harvey Weinstein, American film producer, co-founder of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_(name)

Maxine
(from Wikipedia)

Maxine Andrews (1916-1995), member of The Andrews Sisters singing trio
Maxine Audley (1923–1992), English actress
Maxine Brown (country singer) (born 1932), American country music singer
Maxine Brown (soul singer) (born 1939), American soul and R&B singer
Maxine D. Brown, American computer scientist
Maxine Carr, convicted of perverting the course of justice in relation to the Soham murders (not to be confused with Maxine Moore Carr / Maxine Waters below)
Maxine Elliott (1868-1940), American actress
Maxine Hong Kingston (born 1940), Chinese American author and Professor Emerita
Maxine Kumin (born 1925), American poet and author
Maxine Mawhinney, a newsreader on the BBC News 24-hour television channel
Maxine McKew (born 1953), Australian politician and journalist
Maxine Nightingale (born 1952), British R&B and soul music singer
Maxine Peake (born 1974), English actress
Maxine Sanders (born Arline Maxine Morris, 1946), prominent Wiccan
Maxine Sullivan (born Marietta Williams, 1911–1987), American jazz vocalist/performer
Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr, 1938), American politician
Maxine (wrestler), Stage name of American former professional wrestler, model, and former WWE Diva Karlee Pérez
Sofia Maxine Q. Ramos, Filipino writer

toadgirl I love Harvey maybe I should save that if I have a boy, thank you!

Given Name JORDAN

(You could spell it JORDYN or JORDANNE if you want to be different to Katie P)

GENDER: Masculine & Feminine
USAGE: English, Macedonian
OTHER SCRIPTS: Јордан (Macedonian)
PRONOUNCED: JAWR-dən (English) [key]
Meaning & History
From the name of the river which flows between the countries of Jordan and Israel. The river's name in Hebrew is יַרְדֵן (Yarden), and it is derived from יָרַד (yarad) meaning "descend" or "flow down". In the New Testament John the Baptist baptizes Jesus Christ in its waters, and it was adopted as a personal name in Europe after crusaders brought water back from the river to baptize their children. There may have been some influence from the Germanic name JORDANES, notably borne by a 6th-century Gothic historian.
This name died out after the Middle Ages, but was revived in the 19th century. In America and other countries it became fairly popular in the second half of the 20th century. A famous bearer of the surname is former basketball star Michael Jordan (1963-).Expand Name Links
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VARIANT: Jordon (English)
FEMININE FORMS: Jordyn, Jordana (English), Jordana (Macedonian)
OTHER LANGUAGES: Jordanes (Ancient Germanic), Iordan, Yordan (Bulgarian), Jordaan, Joord (Dutch), Jourdain (French), Yarden (Hebrew), Giordano (Italian), Judd (Medieval English), Jordão (Portuguese), Jordán (Spanish)
SAME SPELLING: Jordan

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Not keen on unisex names like Harvie or Jordan - others are ok.

It's quite rude of people to say they're silly. I think the best thing to do would be to keep quiet and then just announce the name when the baby is born.

Who cares anyway? It's your baby, not your mother or MiL's. They chose their kids' names so just choose what you like

I'm with SpeakNoWords
We've got names set aside for baby but have told no-one as we don't care what people think and don't want anyone jumping on us.
Go with what you both love :-)

Spelling Harvey differently for a girl does not make it a girls name. I know a girl with a traditionally male name with a trendy spelling who just gets a lot of What? Sorry? HARVIE???? And she's in her 20's.

No to Jordan, for reasons stated.

I don't like it, personally, when people give their kid a name that is of itself a nickname instead of giving them the proper name and then having them be known by shortening, it smacks of not having understood it isn't an actual name. Maxie would be fine if her actual name is Maxine.

Hazel is nice and Lukas, k or no k

Harvey and Finn are nice names but unfortunately aren't so much "common" ie chavvy as have hit a saturation point were there will be at least one in your kids year and every other year at the school, if not several

Is Harvey really that popular? I've never come across a single one.