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Despairing of this baby naming business. How on earth do people do it?! Husband bombarding me with ridiculous suggestions all the time and is equally rude about my ideas! He had vetoed:
Lois...Family Guy
Etta...Ate a what he asked ( but he likes Jetta which is the name of the new Vauxhall 🤨)
Ida.. Cider
Ada...frumpy
Lily...wimpy
Elise...like love apparently.
He is driving me nuts. Any ideas which are in a similar vein that might get past him?

Lice not love

Cora, Eliza, Tessa?

To be fair, I'm with him on much of what he has said.

What are his "ridiculous" suggestions ? Might help us suggest soemthing in between.

What about you both having a long list stuck on the fridge or somewhere in your house you can look at them, and see if, after some thought, you can each grow to like one or two off the other's list, or if one or two inspire you or remind you of another, compromise name ?

Oh no, I especially love the name Elise. Jetta is a ridiculous suggestion, I see what you’re up against if all his picks are like that. By the way it’s actually a Volkswagen and isn’t new, they are ridiculously popular in the US judging by the number parked on my street right now. But you do need to find a name you both love. It seems like you like short, vintagey names so how about:
Alma
Eliza
Clara
Ivy
Lucy
Nora
Violet
Anna

Elsa
Cora
Nella
Clara
Honor
Alma
Lara
Eva
Flora
Annie
Lucy
Nora
Della
Polly
Rosa
Sadie
Vera
Willa
Alice
Mary
Rose
Mabel
Nancy
Anna
Sylvie
Iris
Martha
Hazel
Frida

Love Jetta.
Zelda
Maisie
Cara
Poppy
Maria
Alina
Rosalene

What does he like?

Dulcie
Maya
Sadie
Lola
Jessica

Emma
Imogen
Stella
Juliet
Larissa (Lara)
Seren
Zara
Olivia
Holly
Victoria
Naomi
Amber
Hannah

I'm not keen on Elise, I prefer Elisa. Elise is a car - loads of trouble usually serious.
Jetta - also a car, VW back in the 1980s.
I like your husband's thinking though.
Of your list, I would choose Lois.

Eloise instead of both Lois and Elise.
Aida instead of both Ida and Ada.
Elisabeta instead of both Lily and Etta. (Lily can be short for Elizabeth anyway. Loads of other combinations - Lisbeth. Elspeth, Betty, Lilibet, Isabel, etc, etc)

Aida like the opera is quite nice as is Elisabeta

He likes Jean Phyllis Zed Dixie Pixie and Jetta. I don't. We both agree on short and vintage rather than modern. His ex who he really dislikes is Alma and I had a brief teenage thing with a French boy called Jean which I know is pronounced differently but just NO!
Today we discovered we both like the sound of Vera....but we couldn't could we?

He likes Jean Phyllis Zed Dixie Pixie and Jetta

Wow! what a mix. 2 x real 'old lady names' and 3 "made up" names (I know that will wind up MNers, , but I suspect most people know what I mean).

To me Vera absolutely fits with the other names that my elderly relatives had (and I'm old for a MNer - so I'm talking about people who would be 85 - 120 ish). All of these names are back in fashion now....... Iris, Daisy, Reggie, Alf, Stanley, Edith, etc.etc. so, although I personally think of all those names as being horribly old fashioned, I'm guessing people having a baby now are another generation removed, and love them. It's the way things go round in circles

Joni

I like Vera. Its time has come around again. Or you could have derivations like Veronica or Verena?

What about Verity? Little bit like Vera??

How about
Mabel
Mina
Zelda
Cora
Stella
Grace
Margot
Edith
Hester
Joan - I really like Joan but it’s also my racist great aunt’s name so it’s a no for us!

Good luck - my DH is also much better at poo-pooing my names than coming up with any himself!

How about Vita?