Torn with these two names

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My DH and I are expecting DD in about 4 weeks and I’m torn between the two names, he likes both so is no help 😫😫
Adelaide Grace or Ellis James
I know Ellis is traditionally a boys name but I knew a girl called Ellis and she was just the most beautiful person and James is after my brother I didn’t like Jamie and I’m not concerned about it being feminine.
But I genuinely love Adelaide Grace as it’s not very common but I worry about it being too out there to be considered sensible!
TIA

Absolutely love Adelaide Grace!

Adelaide Grace sounds completely normal to me and very lovely and not wacky or ‘too out there’ at all unlike - north, kitt, klay, saint, dream, Stormi, lazer, dusty rose, reign, bear, apple, blue, or Kulture. All celeb/footballers children who I think have had silly made up names. They are in my top 15 names I’d never ever use even if you paid me billions.

Personally not a fan of giving girls boy's names!

You need to think about your baby and their life when they aren't a baby. You might not care about them having a masculine name but they might care.

I personally had the opposite problem. My daughter had a super feminine name (Luna) but was very masculine by nature. She hated her first name but luckily had a more gender neutral middle name that she could go by. If her middle name had been yet something like Daisy she would have been fucked. Same is true with your second name, two masculine names will screw her over if she is super girly. Choose one and then give her a neutral middle name.

Adelaide James?

Are you aware of the comedian Elis James? Just reminds me of him.

I like Ellis James 😌

I like Ellis James, grew up with 2 girls named Ellis :)

Adelaide Grace

I know a girl called Ellis- it’s lovely

Ellis with James is too much for a girl. She’ll have to live with it not you,

So Adelaide Grace.

Both are lovely, but prefer Adelaide Grace. You could wait until you meet her to decide, we did this with dd.

I know a girl called Ellis and a girl called James. I think they both sound a bit 1970s to me though.

Adelaide James

Ellis Grace.

Ellis James (I also know a lovely young lady called Ellis)

Remember it will be HER name, not yours. She will not thank you if you give her a boy's name, just because YOU love it.

Adelaide Grace is nice (Grace a bit ubiquitous). Adelaide is fairly unusual but it's a lot less 'out there' than giving a girl a boy's name (and I know this has become a thing lately, but I honestly don't believe the children will be thanking their parents in a lot of cases).

If you like Ellis so much, how about Elise?

Wait and see which one suits her.

Having woken up a bit more I wouldn't use James as a Middle name for Ellis. Anyone seeing it written down will assume boy and she'll spend her life explaining she's a girl. Ellis is fine but needs a feminine middle name.

I wouldn't call a girl Ellis James. She'll get called Ellie of which there are millions. And it's a boys name, I know three.

Love Adelaide.
Would pick Adelaide James.

I agree with pp that Ellis is fine, but Ellis James is too much.

Ellis Grace or Adelaide James would be possible.

Love both!

Adelaide Grace is gorgeous.