ANOTHER baby names thread - DH says he will abide by majority view

[MrsTulkinghorn]

DH and I both have our fav names chosen. We like each other's choices but like our own more. We cannot decide whose choice to go with. If there is a clear majority for one of the names below DH says we should go with the majority.

So which do you prefer:

For a girl:
Anna
Matilda

For a boy:
Reuben
Samuel

Anna and Samuel get my votes.

Matilda and Reuben both a bit middle-class London for me sorry!

matilda and samuel

anna & reuben get my vote but as said before i do like tilly. The rest of the family wanted samuel for my youngest ds2 but its so popular 3 in my ds1 class ) he will just be sam (surname) also i kept hearing about peoples dogs called sam.tbh its a difficult choice to make with all the hormones ,i would leave it a few days after the birth to make decision,its so emotional that a name my dh had hated for 9 month he decided to change his mind in theatre as soon as ds2 was born & agree to,but i couldnt be a total cow & take advantage of situation so said "no lets think about it" so he was "baby" for 10 days ,which other may of found odd but gave us a chance as a family to pick the name he suited.

Matilda and rueben.

Anna

Hmmm.

Reuben I think, just because there are so many Samuels...

All nice names, prefer Rueben to Samuel though, I know a Ruben (no e) and he is often called Ruby, never thought of Ben.

Anna
Samuel
Just my VHO

I love both Anna and Matilda

I would have said Samuel hands down, but I know the most gorgous, amazing boy called Reuben.

I've known 3 Reuben's and they have all been very calm, caring, talented people.

Matilda and Samuel

(If DB3 is a girl I woould love Matilda but DP won't let me )

Anna
Reuben

samuel and anna

All nams nice, but my preferences are Anna and Reuben (strangely the names of the children of two good friends).

Anna and Samuel

Anna (although biased, 'tis my name too)

Samuel (although relatively common, lots of lovely shortened versions)

HTH X

Matilda

Rueben

Lovely!!!

Was about to post when noticed thread was started in June. What did you decide in the end? (If you ever see this again? )

Anna and Samuel

Matilda, Reuben.

Oh yes FF - didn't spot that as only read OP!

You are awake at this time of night! So does anyone know what she called DC?

Who's awake at this time of night?

Anna and Samuel

Matilda

Don't really like Samuel. I like Reuban but it reminds me of 'I saw something nasty in the woodshed'. I would choose it over Sam umless your surname is Starkadder.

Matilda
Samuel

I would chose Mathilda and Samual simply because Rueben sounds awful if you can't say your 'r's