What do you think of these names? (Brand me harshly with your hot iron of judginess)

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First baby, DH won't agree on anything apart from Alice... I don't love it but I'll use it. I tried to compromise by nick naming her Alice and having Alison on the birth cert. Not an option apparently.

I wanted Lydia so badly

Anywhooo, what about middle names? Things I've considered are

Helen (my Mum's name)

Posy (love it, loved the book as a child. Thanks to the other OP)

Diana

Delphine

Athen

Any ideas? What do you think of them?

Even ahh yes, the lovely Diana Ross

Alice is awful - ' a lice'

Athena Helena
Delphina(delphi) Helena

If your dh approves of song names there's a truly terrible song with Lydia

m.youtube.com/watch?v=gx4fCnp2eT0

But a great one with Alison

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cnS_5JY0LAQ

I see you have Diana and Athena - I also know an Athene. My favourite Ancient Greek name is Ariadne.

Delphine is the only one that works with Alice.

But I don't really like any of them

Diana is a lovely name, underused but classic. It would be refreshing to hear of a baby Diana!

I find Alice rather stuffy TBH.

Diana Lucy
Diana Juliet
Diana Penelope
Diana Zoe
Diana Beatrice
Diana Coralie
Diana Willow
Diana Charlotte

Lydia is lovely! Alice is nice. Not a fan of Alison.

Helen: I love this name!

Posy: nice.

Diana: very nice.

Delphine: it's nice,

Athen: prefer Athene or Athena.

Alice Diana Helene?
Alice Helene Diana? Lovely names and naming her after your mother and grandmother is a lovely idea.

Helen is lovely .

Please. No to Lydia. Agree with others. Clamydia. Know of two girls who had this ALL the way through high school. Please don't do this!

However.

DH won't listen? Is he pushing first baby out of his foo foo? Sorry, but this is bs. The mother gets final say imo. You have to love their name. You're their mum!

Alice is much nicer than Allison. Allie/ Lissy are lovely nicknames imo. Perhaps he would like Alyssia as well?

I like Alice Lydia. If you want one of the other middle names, I'd strongly suggest two middle names as the names on your list don't flow that well with Alice. However Alice Josephine would be lovely and you could still call her Posy as a nickname.

Shame you don't like Alice - I think it's
a great name! Of your others I love
Helen and Diana - classic and cool, not overused these days but everyone will be able to spell, and lovely links to your family.

whenever I have a conversation with (some) people around my age (41) and mention the word Alice, I invariably hear 'who the fuck is Alice?'. Smokie (who covered the song), has a lot to answer for! That said, I would like the name if it wasn't for this.

Good you're getting your option back on the table.

Funnily, my DP loves, loves Lydia and I'm not keen. (Also think 'slutty one from Pride and Prejudice, like a PP).

We could swap?

As you're Spanish, what about Alicia?

Alice and Diana are both nice. If you bode your time you might find DH softens after he see the emotion and your epic struggle in the birth.

Softly softly catchee monkey 😄

Bide
Bloody autocorrect

I suggested Lydia to my husband and he snorted and said there was a girl at school called Lydia and they all called her chlamydia Lydia!! Put me right off!

Alice is very cutesy and pretty Alison seems quite harsh and bossy.

I really like Helen as the middle name, it's meaningful and goes nicely with Alice.

My hamster is Artemis, therefore you should name your baby after her

I like Alison, but prefer the Allison nn Ally spelling from 'The Notebook'

Enough of this nonsense that your DH refuses to entertain any name other than Alice. Glad you've had a word with him. Diana is lovely, FAR nicer than boring Alice.

And I also think Alison is nicer than Alice.

Alice is a great name.
I don't like any of your others very much, of them Lydia is best.
You could consider Lucy, Lara, Lily if you like Alice. My brain seems to have got stuck with L names

Love Posy. I really wanted it for one of my two girls, but dp was having none of it.

I don't like Alice but do like Lissy as a nn (though that is prob Melissa)
I do like Alicia, Alise and Elise though.
I like Lydia very much. Sorry, that doesn't help you.

Like Helena rather than Helen.
Not keen on Posy at all.
Diana, nope, too
Athen is interesting but not with Alice

So not helpful. Sorry.

But I would say you both have to compromise. So:
If you have to give up Lydia he has to give up Alice.
You will end up with a name you are both just okay with but both don't love but that's the compromise.
I gave up Joshua and Hugo. Partner gave up David and Max. Ended up with a ubiquitous but compromise name.

"hot iron of judginess!" made me laugh thank you!

I love Alice, it's gorgeous and classic. I also love Posy - but not sure if it befits the next Prime Minister so could you find something else that you could then have Posy for short? Like gasp Persephone but not that is it's a bit pretentious! Pandora maybe? Although as a middle name Posy is fabulous.

Lydia....dustbin (as has been said)
Diana - too old fashioned, ditto Helen but Helena is nice.
Athen - eh? How about Athena?

Hope you are closer to a decision!

Love Alice.

Hate Diana and Athen/a.