New shortlist - boy + girl

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So baby is imminent (38+6 today) and we still haven't pinned down names, but at least the list has reduced massively.

Criteria: baby is half Dutch/half English, we live in NL but obviously I want the name to work both places and preferably elsewhere too. Surname is 'van...', sibling is Vera.

Girl: Livia, Lydia, Lana, Sylvia
Boy: Vincent, Francis(cus), Bernard, Rollo

Girls names are fine

Boys name are really old fashioned especially Bernard (Rollo / Rolo is a chocolate sweet)
Vincent (Vimney is picking up in popularity here)

Bernard was my late dad's name.

I know what a Rolo is . The name is Rollo, like the Viking (or King Rollo, the 70s cartoon).

Vincent and Francis are lovely.

I like Lana best of the girls names (though I think they're all nice.)

Also, Vera is gorgeous! Sadly vetoed by my DH.

I know! Vera is so perfect (the name and the child ) that we're REALLY struggling to come up with anything half as good for DC2.

I feel like Lana has a similar vintage vibe, but I'm just not quite sold.

My favourites are Lydia and Francis.

Vera and Livia are lovely. Prefer Liv to Livia though.

Greta? It has a similar vibe to Vera.

I like Vincent for a boy, but I think Vincent van... and Vera van... is a bit matchy. So the one I like "next best" is Bernard.

Oh, love Lana too.

Vera and Francis Bernard
Vera and Lydia

I love Greta but in Dutch, g is pronounced like the -ch of 'loch', so then it's pronounced differently in the 2 languages which I'm not keen on.

I do like Lana but someone pointed out to me what it spells backwards and it put me off...might be something to consider.

Vera and Sylvia sound lovely together.
I also like Vera and Francis.

Vera and Frances (Fran) is lovely too.

Stick with the name's you have on your list try not to be swayed by someone else's personal opinion, they are lovely names. From your girls I think they are all sweet Sylvia/Sylvie is very on trend, Livia is a good choice may get misunderstood for Olivia though, Lana is Lovely and wouldn't have any pronunciation or spelling issues, Lydia is a sweet biblical name gaining in popularity. For you boys I think Bernard is gorgeous if people can have Alfred, Archie and Wilfred why not bring Bernard back it has the saint connection, cute nickname Bernie and of course your father's name in it's favour, Vincent again Saint's name and Painter's, francis(cus) lovely name again with good history backing and food nicknames, Rollo is a bit more daring but again reminds me of such names Arlo, Milo so why not?
My top choices from your list would be
Boy:
Francis Bernard
Girl: Sylvia/ie (don't know if you've thought of middle name but a lovely Dutch name is Marika/Marieke) both options go lovely with sibling Vera, good luck with your choosing

Sylvia goes very well with Vera. I like Vincent, Francis and Bernard, but not Rollo.

Vera and Bernard!

And for a girl:

Vera and Sylvia

Sylvia and Rollo.

I like Lydia and Vincent best, but also like Lana and Livia

No clear favourites! Interesting. Seems like we're on the right track, at least. I'm sure we'll know as soon as we see that little face

Livia or Vincent. Love them both & really dislike all the others! Lydia makes me think of Chlamydia, Lana is lovely apart from the unfortunate fact that it's Anal backwards. Sylvia just isn't my taste & makes me think of an overweight 50-something. Francis is OK (mainly because of Kevin Spacey & House of Cards) but Bernard & Rollo are beyond awful. Sorry!!

All the girls names are very nice. Lena? Agnes? Agatha? Cecile? Imelda?

Really really dislike Rollo (sounds like a joke name to me, doesn't go with Vera, and conjures up images of a clown or someone enormously fat!) but really like Francis or Bernard. They both sound good with Vera too.

I'd go for Silvia or Rollo (Dido's brother is called Rollo, the one in Faithless).have you considered Lyra? I love Lyra (and wish I'd used it).

Just not rollo

I like Bernard very much. I agree with another poster that Vera and Vincent would be too match.

The girls names I'm less keen on, probably like Sylvia best. What about Saskia - that's a lovely Dutch name which people know in English.

Out of your names, I love Livia and Francis, and Sylvia is lovely. I prefer Lara to Lana myself.