Had our gender scan...

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We’re having a boy and a girl... Yay!! We’ve ‘paired up’ a few names and would love to know your favourites, as you’ve been such a big help so far... Which is your fave boy’s name and girl’s to go with it? Thanks!

B: Dominic
G: Elodie, Florence, Imogen, Margot*, Penelope or Phoebe

B: Elias
G: Beatrix, Cecily, Felicity, Florence, Imogen, Margot, Penelope or Phoebe*

B: Elijah
G: Beatrix, Cecily, Felicity, Florence, Frances, Imogen, Margot, Penelope or Phoebe*

B: Sebastian
G: Beatrix, Cecily, Edith, Elodie, Felicity, Florence, Frances, Margot*, Penelope or Phoebe

B: Zachary
G: Beatrix*, Edith, Emmeline, Florence, Frances or Margot

*Too much with an older brother, Theo? I guess they would be Margot & Theodore officially, NNs Mari, Maggie, etc & Theo so is it not that bad? I think Maggie may be a stretch as a NN though? We’ve been trying to think of what possible shortened forms can come from the names we like and not getting much with Margot.

**Too many ee sounds together?

Dominic and Florence

You have great name on your lists and for your older DC.

Boys - I love Dominic, Elias, Sebastian and Elijah (I teach a lovely Elijah.)

Girls - Elodie, Penelope, Frances (my DGM's name) or Cecily (I love this name but it's in my address.)

You definitely don't need to worry about them all having o's in their name. That is WAY over-thinking.

@bridgetreilly I know, someone pointed it out and it just got me thinking as I know I’m an over thinker lol. I also blame baby brain for missing out names on the list lol... Zachary & Imogen is also a possibility.

I absolutely love Imogen. Phoebe and Margot.

I would add Gabriel and Raphael to your boys list (although Dominic and Sebastian are great names).

I'm thinking you have such a lot of amazing names to use that you may need to have more babies 😂

@WildCherryBlossom Oh gosh, I think five is enough for us... This was supposed to be our fourth and final so we’ve already got a bonus baby lol.

I totally understand. Twins at the end = quite lot of childten. I've given some of the leftover names to pets 😁

@WildCherryBlossom I can imagine going for one more and ending up with seven next time lol. We’re definitely doing that... I’ve talked DH into a “small pet” to use Elwood. Maybe we could get some fish lol.

Elijah and Imogen

Sebastian and Phoebe are the best pair out of your choices imo.

Elias and Felicity
Elijah and Phoebe
Sebastian and Frances

Sebastian and Florence are my favourites

Sebastian and Frances or Imogen

So, do you think we should nix Elodie and Margot from our girls list? Any others that clash/don’t ‘go’ with our LOs’ names?

I like Elijah and Cecily, or Sebastian and Cecily :) I like a lot of your names though. And congratulations on your news!!

I would go for Sebastian or Zachary for boy, and Felicity, Beatrix or Emmeline for a girl as I feel they fit well with your other childrens names.

Congratulations!

For your girls name, don’t use Beatrix, Phoebe or Cecily....your daughters have got really pretty names, and of your twins list, the three I mentioned are quite....indelicate?? They sound so grumpy and beige next to Aurora and Violet (sorry, but because the first girls have such beautiful names!)

Phoebe is really overdone in my neck of the woods...

I will be so jealous of you if you have a Dominic as it is my most favourite boys name in the world! Unfortunately DH didn’t feel the same way but we another lovely boys name instead. Felicity is fabulous. How on earth can Cecily or Phoebe be “indelicate”??? They are incredibly beautiful and classic.

Zachary and Florence

I really thought out of our girl options, Edith and Frances would be thought of as the least delicate lol. I’ve seen Cecily described as too frilly - I don’t really get either end of the spectrum from it really. Cecilia is much more ‘frilly’, IMO.

I don’t really get it from Phoebe either and I’ve only ever met one so it seems more unusual to me... The names we like do seem to be far more popular in England however. That being said, I think DH likes it more than me... I think now we know the genders, it may be easier to narrow things down? We’re going to go through the list again in a bit and see if we can do that.

I guess, I understand Beatrix sounding a bit - harsher? because of the -X ending but DH likes that and also said no to Beatrice lol.

@Sessy19 Also, don’t be sorry for your opinion! I want honest ones - good or bad :)

I like Elijah and Frances. Beautiful. Congratulations!

We’ve nixed Dominic & Elias... Dominic as I don’t love the NN Dom & Elias because we simply prefer Elijah. We’re still mulling over Sebastian with DD1’s name but do love it a lot.

For girls, we’ve nixed Elodie for sounding too close to Letty, Margot (sniff) because it’s too close to Theo & Phoebe because I don’t love it as much as our other choices. We’re also still mulling over a few other of the girls names but for nit picky reasons... I think we need to do that to get this down though. They are Edith, Emmeline, Felicity, Florence, Frances & Imogen which doesn’t leave many if we do nix them lol.

What lovely names OP. Seb and Penelope for me :)

Elijah and Felicity