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Husband has vetoed all my names

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auberginefrog · 05/02/2017 10:56

Can I have some help? I'm trying to think of names for our second and neither of us like each other's names. Can you suggest any along these lines that don't end in an 's' sound as it won't go with out surname

Here's my list (all rejected so far by DH)
Adelaide
Anneke
Hazel
Valentina
Marsaili
Eilidh
Juno
Elspeth
Felicity
Elena
Ailsa
Ailish


Oscar
Ethan
Christopher
Finlay
Fraser
Frederick
Peregrine
Caleb
Harvey
Solomon
Samuel
Lewin
Oliver
Murray
Murdo

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BlueChampagne · 06/02/2017 13:48

Oops, see Eilidh has already been vetoed. How about Fiona?

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Composteleana · 06/02/2017 14:00

Ariana
Elinora
Karina
Marianne
Romily
Anouk
Cleo
Marisol
Niamh
Manon

Laken
Senan
Evan
Johan
Torin
Felix
Rufus
Reuben
Lloyd
Rupert

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WLMcI · 06/02/2017 14:21

You seem to like the Scottish names and old fashioned or Biblical names with lots of vowels, so here goes!
Girls alternatives:
Adeline (Addie for short--very traditional in my SIL's family in the American South)
Elinor / Eleanor / Eleanora
Beth
Isabel
Isla (popular, I know)
Helena
Nadia

Boys:
Ewan or Ewen
Owen
Kane (my brother's middle name as it's a family name) or Cain (obvi Biblical)
Lochlan
Brodie (was on my list but my DH says eeewww!)

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Pipilangstrumpf · 06/02/2017 14:23

Love your suggestions especially Valentina and Elena!

How about

Antonia
Clara

Quentin
Rafferty

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buttercup54321 · 06/02/2017 22:26

Timothy
Nicholas
Camerton
Carlton
Grantley
Marcus
Eliza
Josephine
Beverley
Georgina
Natalie
Heidi

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Brollsdolls · 06/02/2017 22:33

Adeline (Addie)
Eliza
Nora
Nina

Noah
Ben

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Sugarpiehoneyeye · 06/02/2017 23:23

So what does he think now OP, and yourself, anything you've seen, that you like ?

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auberginefrog · 08/02/2017 13:13

Wow thanks! Haven't checked back for a few days and some of these suggestions are lovely! On maternity leave from Friday so will sit down at the weekend and make some choices....

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Puremince · 08/02/2017 13:43

Both his boy suggestions are Scottish and both can be surnames. You've got Finlay, Fraser, Murray and Murdo on your list, of which only Murdo isn't also a surname so I think Scottish and surnamey is the way to go for a boys name.

Duncan? Ewan? Innes? Scott? Campbell? Alexander? Douglas?

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Puremince · 08/02/2017 17:32

Sorry, not Douglas or Innes, because they end with an "S"

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Pogolphin · 08/02/2017 19:03

Alexandra
Duncan
Adaline
Hector

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ElvenMoonwings · 19/02/2017 16:21

If you can't agree, each choose a name you like and use both - he can use his choice and you, yours. That's only fair.

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