I love Daphne & jasper but DH hates them, alternate suggestions ?

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I like slightly unusual names if possible.

My fave is Daphne but DH has put his foot down. What names are similar?

I also love lorelei.

Names I kind of like
Daisy (suggested by dh - this is ok)
Candace
Blythe (clashes with out surname)
Claudia

Boys
Jasper
Duncan
Blake (although Blake lively has ruined this for boys a bit imo)
Conrad

Dh has vetoed them all :( daisy is ok but I love Daphne so much. Dc2's sex will remain a surprise

We already have a james (after Ddad) but the names don't need to match at all.

Bill and Doreen.

Nancy and Rudi

Iris and Will

I do love Daisy!
What about Delilah?
Blaine instead of Blake?

Delphi?

Delphine?

I do not think you can name a child something one parents hates you just need to talk more I quite like Daphne but that's not the point it is not an awful name but it doesn't matter how much you love Daphne if the father hates it rather than thinking it is ok then it is a non starter, DH will probably go for something that he thinks is ok even if he doesn't love it
I had a name I really liked but DH didn't so I just came up with some more ideas her name was his idea originally I thought meh/ok when first suggested but it kind of grew on me then I thought no actually it is quite cool before she was born; now I think it is just her and suits her brilliantly
what names does DH like?

Delilah
Cynthia
Sabrina
Carmen
Serena
Posey
Phoebe
Magda
Carina
Katrina
Leonie
Lara
Vita
Soraya
Marguerite
Blair
Sabine
Macy
Sage
Juniper

Blaise
Logan
Jared
Travis
Tristan
Dominic
Cole
Eric
Evan
Austin
Mason
Cameron

I have a colleague with a daughter called Blaize. I think that's epic.

Daphne sounds like an aged aunt.

Like Daisy, hate Candace, Claudia? Meh. Jasper is a cat, Duncan...no....Blake is ok, and Conrad the Barbarian.

Genevieve
Peony
Rosalind
Mabel
Ivy
Bluebell

I've always struggled with boys names, sorry!

Conan was the Barbarian! To mr, similar to Daphne would be
Esme
Phoebe
Dinah
Vera
Sylvia.
I quite like Blake from your boys names.

Bonnie and Rufus

I also know a Blaise but he is a boy, very cool name I think. Don't know the history of it but the familys other child has quite a traditional middle class name so it surprised me that they had gone for Blaise.

Margot
Astrid
Nate

I like Daphne and Jasper too.

What about...

Phoebe
Adele

Jonah
Felix

(Blaise is a boy's name, btw. It's French.)

What names does your DH like? He's vetoed all yours so what suggestions has he made?

Clara
Florence
Camille

Quentin
Dominic
Magnus

Dorothy/Dorothea
Aphra
Audrey
Adela
Cecily/Cecilia
Caroline
Cora
Dinah
Esther
Flora
Felicity
Genevieve
Gloria
Helena
Isadora
Jemima
Julia
Juliet
Jacinta
Jessamine
Josephine
Lydia
Lucille
Louisa
Margot
Miriam
Mara
Martha
Marianne
Philippa
Penelope
Rosalind
Rowenna
Ramona
Rosanna
Sylvie
Susannah
Selina
Theodora
Vivienne
Vera
Willa

Felix
Douglas
Miles
Asher
Elliot
Fabian
Nicholas
Gideon
Hector
Jonathan
Lawrence
Robin
Marcus
Patrick
Damon
Ivan
Peter

I really like the name Lorelei.

Other suggestions:

Leonie
Laurel
Evelyn
Autumn
Ava
Eden
Dulcie
Elsie
Lorna
Willow
Scarlett
Natasha
Erin
Lois
Kaia
Lucia
Elodie
Harriet
Georgia
Hannah

I really like Blake and Conrad on your boys list.

Elliott
Ellis
Marcus
Elijah
Otis
Myles
Dominic
Dylan
Quinn
Cooper
Hudson
Reid
Ronan
Fraser
Remy
Rory
Caleb
Isaac
Lewis

Dahlia?

I like all your boys' names except Blake.
Not keen on any of your girls' names, including Daisy, sorry.

Astrid
Sadie
Imogen
Rosalind
Phoebe

Daphne is a beautiful old name from Greek mythology! How about another old Greek name?

Persephone
Calliope
Niobe
Acantha
Cynthia

Or a more Roman one? I have a huge love for the name Sylvia.

Thanks guys, Dominic, Douglas and Rufus sound good. Also Astrid and Penelope are cool. I tried Magnus with him but he doesn't like names outside of our heritage which I think is silly. We have Scottish heritage so that's why I like Duncan (family name)

DH has suggested Annie or Thomas, perfectly fine names but not my cup of tea at all. He likes chloe which is ok.

I like Quentin but he doesn't like names that might be "posh" (he said no to Rafe which I don't really think of as anything really).

One question - is Casper a ghost? I really really love it and don't think the ghost connotation is too bad, maybe Kaspar is less ghost-y? Do kids even know about that nowadays?
I like Scarlett but is that quite popular nowadays? Dh would never let me but I love Katie-Scarlett as in GWTW.

Persephone is good butbunsure if people would mis-pronounce it.

Also Percy has just popped in my head.

Casper is ok, not too ghosty these days. Or Caspian. Or Cassius.

Scarlet is not too popular at the moment.

I love Percy for a little boy, but I'm not sure it's that cool for a teenager or an adult man! I don't like Percival. You could just about use Percy as nn for Casper though.