I don't like any girls' names :( she's 5 weeks.

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I honestly don't think I can use any. I don't like any. I'm always a bit 'meh' when I hear any suggested.

Grace is my absolute only 'maybe', but I'm still not keen DH said he will use Gray as a NN and I'm so against that.

Maisy is a potential 'maybe', DH would use May as a NN and I'm more accepting of that.

Maisie Grace
Lucy Rose
Kacey May
Grace Louise

Heidi

Yes to Maisie Grace.

What do you think of the ideas OP?

What are you calling her at the moment? I assume you must have some form of pet name for her after 5 weeks.
Anything you could form a real name from?

Nancy
Cara

Kay
Katie
Fay
Ivy
Amy
May
Eadie
Alice
Claire

Unfair the comments about having had 9 months to think.

I think May is a lovely name in its own right and if you like it why not go with that?

There's also names like Esmae which you could shorten to Mae

Who are these posters who think struggling to find a name is some sort of moral failing??

I think people just find it bizarre to have had a baby for a whole 5 weeks and not have given them a name. Everyone you meet will ask their name, and be bemused that they don't have one.

I don't find it a moral failing of any kind, if I had to define it I would say perhaps it seems disrespectful to the child to not have named it, as if you haven't given it the status of a person yet. Just a personal opinion.

Can't believe nobody's suggested April yet...

My daughter is Mia, she often gets called Mimi.

Too tired to think of other names now but I do like Esme which I think was mentioned by someone else

Truly unisex name?

Robyn
Peta
Ashley

Or something like Clea or Thea which is more unusual.

I do like Grace though.

Faith Elizabeth
Patience
Amy Victoria
Lynzee
Katherine Ann
Winnie
Rose
Fleur
Constance
Bernadette
Briny
Felicity

Clarissa
Charlotte
Evelyn
Harriet
Henrietta
Germaine

Oh come on, what makes your baby so precious? You are completely over-thinking this and trying to be clever.

Just give her a name.

Choose some maybes and stick a pin in the list?

Anya
Betty
Cordelia
Della
Elsie
Fern
Gwyneth
Hattie
Imogen
Jocelyn
Kate
Leonie
Mary
Natalie
Orla
Penelope
Queenie
Rosanna
Stella
Tess
Ulrika
Viola
Wendy
Xanthe
Yvonne
Zinnia

Layla
Sophie
Emmie
Elouise
Freya
Faye
Milly
Molly
Anna

Is there anything more you can tell us about the names you tend to like OP? :)

We have Azariah, whose name never gets shortened to a nickname. DH and call her Monkey.

Sofía, which we knew would have a lot of nicknames...we call her Panda/Pandy

The nicknames came about as their personality emerged.

Do you want a name that won't be shortened to nickname?
Music/books/films you like may offer something you may like?

"What makes your baby so precious" fgs bibbity The op baby is precious 🙄

It took me 6 weeks to name my ds.. we didn't know his sex before he was born and decided to wait until the baby was born. Then we couldn't agree.. it happens

So what do you call her? Baby? I can't imagine having a real life baby in my house and not giving her a name - mine were all utterly different and complete personalities from the day they were born so the idea of them being nameless for 5 weeks is really odd to me.

Won't bother offering suggestions of names because that won't help. you and your dh need to decide on a name. Like now. Sit down and write out 6 names you could live with. Ask your dh to do the same. Then look and see if there is any overlap in the 6.

Also tell him (and you) that nicknames are off the table for now (and they should be - picking a name on the basis of a nickname is contrived. He could name her Grace, call her Gray and then everyone in her school calls her Gracie.

And finally - a suggestion I said I wouldn't give - Sylvia or Juliet.

Go for a boys name then.

James
Michael
Dylan

What names - any names, boy, girl, unisex - DO you like?

Do you have a nickname for her?

Does your DH have a strong preference for a name?

Any family names you can use as her official name, then just address her by a nickname of your choosing?

Hope you found your baby girl a lovely name OP. 😀

What did you call her OP?

I wouldn't worry about what your DH calling her something you don't like, give it a few years and you'll have no control over what she shortens it to or calls herself! My DD had a pretty girls name and then due to an epic mispronounciation at 2 years old that has stuck she's called something at home that would have horrified me when choosing... it just doesn't matter now!

Names like Grace :
Amity
Faith
Verity
Constance Nn Connie
Hope
Charity
Harmony
Clemency/Clementine

Or
Ann/e meaning Grace
Annabel/le

Have you chosen yet, OP? I found it odd naming my dcs when they were born, felt silly calling them a name as they just looked like babies, not grown up names! I think Maisie, nn May is lovely and she will grown into whatever name you pick. May is a popular middle name but I don't know any with May as a first name. Good luck