We’re got a third on the way, and are really struggling with boys’ names. For girls we like Marigold, Maud and Pearl. We are not finding out the baby’s sex, so want to have a couple of boy’s names ready as well.
Edith is sometimes Edie and Douglas is sometimes Doug or Dougie.
Our surname is 5 syllables long (double barrelled) and starts with an N. So we don’t want a name starting with E, D, or N. We like names which are instantly recognisable, easy to spell, but not that commonly found (we thought Edith was less common than it’s turned out to be!), and fairly old-fashioned. We also like names with a recognisable diminutive that we will use interchangeably with the full version.
Names that we like but can’t use include Gerald, William, Grover, Donald, Raymond and anything with ‘bert’ in it.
Any suggestions?