Fight over names.. Whose are better, mine or his? Juniper or Jane...

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Ok, my top 3 girls names:
Juniper
Evangeline
Lilias

DP's:
Jane
Violetta
Constance

Compromise seems hard

I like your husband's list.

Hmm, I don't think I'm keen - I'll check with him though.
I've been saying Jane Surname aloud, and it just sounds so drab

Juniper Jane sounds like a middle-aged woman who loves gin a bit too much ...

Lilias is unusual, I've only ever met one. I like it.

Of the two lists I really like only Constance. Jane is okay, but a bit bland.

I've never met a Lilias/Lillias - I really want to

Other than Jane they actually seem quite similar. It feels like there must be some names you and DP would agree on if you keep looking. How about:

Cecily/Cicely
Vivienne
Jessamyn (or Jessamine)
Rosalind
Emmeline
Verity
Romilly
Hebe
Peony
Bryony
Lavender
Laurel
Meredith
Marianne
Miranda

What about Clea?

Pronounced Klee-ah

IMHO the problems with virtue names is that child could quite easily be the very, very opposite of said virtue. Making it quite comical!

Grace turns out to be a lumbering clumsy accident-prone oaf.
Constance is fickle and changes friends/hobbies at the drop of a hat.
Hope is a pessimist who sees the glass half-empty.
Joy a real misery-guts.

and so on.....

minipie That's very odd - DP has just said he 'would consider' Rosalind! If he's not a Puritan, he's definitely a stuffy Victorian at heart.

I LOVE Laurel and Hebe

Laurel and Hebe

Just not together though - Laurel & Hardy?!

I also really like Sorrel

Rosalind is nice

I also like Rosalie. :)

Laurel and Hebe...
Daphne?

Flower names and Virtue names... Well, old-fashioned names are currently very "trendy"... ;)

I know a lovely Rosalie, I just think the name feels like 'hers'

Ceinwen?

Pronounced Kine-we

It's my great grandmother's name. My a great grandfather was called Islwyn. Can anyone tell my ancestry?

Aggh - Kine-wen. Not Kine-we!!!

Juniper = gin. I can imagine kids saying jumper at school.

It sounds really nice!

I just don't ever think of the gin thing, so meh. I don't think one can get too bogged down in what kids at school might say. My name was ok, my red hair wasn't...if they're going to be nasty, they will be.

Just no to Jane not keen on January not sure why as other month names are ok.....

Rosalind is good, is not the same as Rosalie

if not Clementine how about Celeste ?

inspired by the other thread going - Marigold?

Lauren rather than Laurel (uninspiring plant really)

Isn't sorrel a Xmas fruit cake or a Jamaican drink?

Coralie, Dahlia, Viola, Flora, Aminta, Mirabelle, Rosemary, Daphne, Marigold, Lavender, Margaret, Primrose, Laurel, Iris, Amaryllis, Aster, Calla, Saffron, Zinnia, Anthea, Arcadia, Arden, Cosima, Cressida, Acacia... (Ok, not all of those are flower names... )

to me, sorrel is a herb, but no doubt also a drink and some kind of cake...

I like both lists actually. But i like names you don't hear every day. They become so blah to my ears.

I think Jane would be a waste of such great alternatives. But nice as a middle name.

My favourite is Constance. So ive been zero help 👍

Sounds like he likes Victorian/Shakespearean. And you like nature/North London .

A few that might meet in the middle (some already suggested)

Cicely
Bryony
Daphne
Xanthe
Ariadne
Estella
Fleur
Lilian
Hermione
Juno
Iris
Seren
Sienna
Marina
Linnet