We've found the name but scared of people's reaactions

[Joeybee]

Baby #2 is due in October. I already have a son, Stanley.
I'm fussy with names
Nothing in top 50
Nothing with strong R or W sound (clashes with surname)
Not ambiguous to say/spell
Vintage or classic name
Has nickname options.
Middle name will be Elsie

So after a LOT of researching a name came to me out of nowhere. It's very unusual and a vintage girl name. I love it and Husband does. However when I look it up on websites, it seems to be a name people either love, or hate.
So now I'm doubting myself.
Do I just go with the name that feels right, and that meets my criteria and brace myself for a few possibly insensitive/negative comments OR just go back to the drawing board again?

@ceecee32 I actually chuckled !

Your baby, your choice. F everyone else. Unleash your post baby hormones on anyone who has anything shitty to say.
Our choice for DC2 is a bit marmite and I'm already preparing myself for MIL standard shite /unnecessarily negative reaction.

I know an Araminta - But everyone calls her Minty. She's four

It's an awful name. Really snobby and the total opposite to Stanley but this is why not everyone has the same name. Different tastes. If you love it, go for it.

It’s a lovely name.

My 7yo declared the other day that we were to call her Araminta now. We just went with it, I assume she's read it in a book. I don't think it's as rare as you think! I quite like it.

Only come across it in "Araminta's Wedding", a children's book by Jilly Cooper.

Don't know if that helps or not.

There's a writer/journalist called Minty Clinch, presumably she's an Araminta.
hope your surname won't make the same assonance as Ms Clinch's

I love this name. I know 2 Minty's.

Great names - only thing I'd say was that one's vintage upper class and the other vintage working class - so you may get some "upstairs downstairs" comments or alike!

Very hooray name. Are you?

I also remember it from Moondial. I quite like Minty as a shortening.

I actually really like it, and I love Minty as nn. Go for it!

My OH has a cousin ages around 3/4 named Araminta nn Minty. I wasn't sure about it at first but you get used to names pretty quick. I really like it now!

Araminta does not go with Stanley at all!

I don't think it goes with Elsie. Too many vowel sounds.

Have to agree that as much as I like the name, it's literally polar opposites from Stanley. I'm struggling to think of two names more worlds apart, in fact. But still, if you love it, why the hell not?

How about Allegra? I think araminta is fine, probably would grow on me.

I second the ‘upstairs, downstairs’ thing.

ceecee32of course it's not a made up name. It is a real old name. Use op OP if you love it, it's a perfectly acceptable name. Not to everyone's taste but then nothing is.

Not ambiguous to say/spell

It is exactly this. Please don't call your child this name.

It does not go with Elsie.

If you do call her this name, please don't tell people beforehand.

I like the name but it does not go with Elsie.

Stanley is a timeless name which much like George/Edward/Thomas/Arthur transcends all classes and times. Fantastic name.
Araminta is a beautiful, feminine name and goes perfectly with Stanley. Great names, well chosen. We have a DS with a traditional name like those I mention above and a DD with a pretty and feminine name. Go for it.

It sounds beautiful. Unique, quirky, classy. Go for it. Worst comes to worst and your daughter herself doesn't like it (as could be the case for any name really), there are lots of nicknames, as you suggest.

I LOVE the name Araminta!