Penny for your thoughts

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These are just some of the names on my list. Others are far more "run of the mill" i.e. Sophia, Ava, Benjamin etc.

Girls:

• Arabella
• Josephine
• Clara
• Tallulah
• Bianca
• Leonora
• Delphi
• Seraphina
• Greta
• Juno
• Lavender
• Seren
• Piper
• Lilith

Boys:

• Aldous
• Griffin
• Miles
• Desmond
• Roscoe
• Evander
• Gilbert
• Otis
• Wilbur
• Redmond

Honest opinions welcome!

I love all your girls names...except for Greta and Juno.

I dislike all those boys names...Otis is the best of a bad bunch.

Don’t go with Greta - Greta grotbags!

Lavender will be shortened to lav. Kids will have great fun with it.

Love love love Clara and Otis

Love Miles and Seraphina from your list.

Clara and Seren - lovely names
Not keen on other girls names

Miles and Otis on boys list.

Juno and Griffin

• Arabella - Like
• Josephine - mmm could be cute or fusty, not sure. Would raise eyebrows where I live
• Clara - nice, safe
• Tallulah - not for me. My 3 year old thinks it's the best name EVER though.
• Bianca - I love it but for me the association with Eastenders is too strong
• Leonora - adore this
• Delphi - Not sure
• Seraphina - a bit much for me
• Greta - see Josephine
• Juno - a wee bit too cool for me
• Lavender - LOVE it, love the Lavender character in Matilda. But I agree it is wide open for "lav" shortening and general air freshener associations
• Seren - nice
• Piper - not for me. Big no.
• Lilith - no. Sounds puritanical or something to me but I do quite dislike "th" sounds

I vote Desmond nn Des but it does feel quite brave and you're talking to someone who likes the name Dennis too. I'm quite rubbish at boys' names.

I've been trying to persuade dp on Aldous after he suggested Huxley (we have very different tastes in names...).

Evander is my favourite from your boys names and Leonora my favourite from the girls.

From your girls I like Arabella, Juno and Piper. Not sure they all carry well through to being an adult though?

Not overly keen on many of the boys names , Miles is the best of them imo. Although you have evander on there, Evan is one of my fav boys names ! But not evander.

Also if you're in Scotland (which I assume you aren't) definitely not Rosscoe - that's basically what all Chavy boys named Ross get called here lol

I really like Miles, Wilbur and Otis from your boys list. I like Seraphina and Tallulah from the girls.

Regina I like Evan too, but with the surname Lee it sounds too close to "heavenly".

Not in Scotland haha!

I thought this thread was going to be about the name Penny

I really like Miles, Gilbert and Wilbur.

Not a fan of any on your girls' list, though.

My favourite is Serpahina, also quite like Seren, Piper and Arabella.

Juno is nice but reminds me of the film, ditto Bianca with Eastenders. The only girls names I dislike is Lavender and Delphi.

Honestly I really dislike most of your boys names, however they are probably not to my taste as they seem to old fashioned to me. Miles and Gilbert is awful though, closely followed by Desmond.

I do quite like Evander and Otis is alright.

I love Delphi and Griffin

Piper and miles

Love Juno Stern & Roscoe.

Seren!

Josephine and Miles are great

Piper, Clara and Otis

Miles is the only one i like.

Love Sarah and Otis. Also really like Griffin!

Seren not Sarah!

I really like Otis and not really a fan of the girls names probably piper is my favourite.

When I hear Bianca I just hear it being shouted in Eastenders 😬😬

If your surnames Lee, I would probably scrap Wilbur in case it gets shortened to Will and you end up with a Will Lee.

I love Delphi, in fact I like most of your girls names.

Boys names aren't really my taste, but don't think any are problematic.

You do have quite a range there - maybe a case of waiting and seeing what he or she looks like? (although to my mind, they all look like winston Churchill anyway... So maybe not 😁)

Actually, I think tallulah Lee is a bit too many L's and maybe a bit of a mouthful?