Opinions please? Our top 3’s

[gonewiththepotter]

I’m still early doors pregnancy but just starting to think about names a little and looking for some opinions.

We haven’t found out gender.

Boy:

• Arthur
• Henry
• Alexander
• Charles

Girl-

• Alice
• Emily
• Clara
• Lyra

Any opinions welcome but please don’t be ‘nasty’ about any as they’re all on the table currently

• top 4’s

Charles and Clara.

I love Alice. From the boys I like Alexander and Charles but they're all very popular if that bothers you.
Girl's suggestions:
Eliza
Eloise
Mary
Beatrice
Florence
Anna
Boys:
Joseph
Patrick
Peter
Douglas
Lawrence
Daniel

Arthur and Alice are my favourites from your list, but they're all lovely!

I like all of them but I have a Clara so obviously I’m biased but I love her name
Alexander is really lovely too

1-Arthur is on the top of my list, but it is a family name and I am that type of person
2-Alexander is a strong name
3-Henry another good name
4-Charles Prince Charles isn't my favourite royal so gets the bottom vote

1-Alice is lovely
2-Lyra different and I like it
3-Clara very cute
4-Emily not very fond of

Congratulations OP!

Your style of name is similar to mine...great minds!! I like all of your boys names. I do think though that you’d have to be a very ‘cool’ little boy to carry off Arthur as it’s a proper old man name.

I like your girls names too. Is Lyra to be pronounced like Liar-a or Leera? ( I’ve heard both). I think it’s prettier written down than spoken if that makes sense?

Alice / Emily / Clara all beautiful.

All lovely with the poss exception of Lyra which seems out of line with your other classics? Some great suggestions from @Tillygetsit above, also maybe Rose?

And for boys, Sam(uel), Ben(jamin), John(ny)?

😬 thank you all so much - this is distracting me from my horrible nausea/cervical stabby pain that’s stopping me sleeping 😭

Arthur is my DH’s FAVOURITE boys name (also a family name @whirlwinds) and I think I would have to go to some length to change DH’s mind! 😂 Although Henry is a close 2nd! I also associate Prince Charles so aren’t keen on Charles!

Alice was always my first choice but Lyra (to be pronounced Liar-a) is different and unique. We also loved the northern lights books growing up!

I’m loving the suggestions @Tillygetsit

Tbh our biggest hold back on some of those gorgeous names is that they’ve been used already by our friends and family. Rose-Florence-Eloise-Anna-Lawrence-Daniel...all taken I’m afraid 😂😂

We also loved Elizabeth, Charlottte and Louis but also taken by friends recently x

Alice is lovely, Lyra is awful.

It’s ok for me as I’m mid 20’s but DH is in his 30’s and there’s lots of babies being born atm. His cousin is actually due another in Sept so we’re holding our breath to see what else gets taken 😂

Do remember no-one owns a name :) unless it is a HIGHLY unusual name and it's the name of someone you, your DH or DC will spend a lot of time with then use it

All nice. Arthur is my fave 😀😀, also really like Henry

Girls, Clara and Alice, both lovely. Emily is very popular, Lyra I am less keen on.

Arthur is no longer an old man name btw, there are quite a few toddler Arthurs about (I was way ahead of the curve)

All fine, all very common at the moment. Super safe choices, and there will be many others of similar ages with same names. Apart from Lyra which is the northern lights name.

Emily is nice and I like it but has been done to death for the past 20 odd years. That said it is not as popular as it was back in the early-mid 2000s.

Really not keen Lyra. Alice is ok, I can't say I am wild about it (sort of falls in the Emily category for me).

Favourite is Clara.

All your boys names are inoffensive (and I mean that in a good way!)Arthurs seems very popular these days, as does Henry. I like Alexander but not really a fan of Alex.

I probably vote for Charles, I wouldn't care about the Prince Charles connotation, its not like you have a daughter called Camilla

All are nice and similar in style apart from lyra, which stood out on your lists as a different style. Then your pronunciation of it liar-a is not somethijg that rolls easily off the tongue. Where does that liar-a prinunciation come from?

My ds has two alexanders in his class. One is alex and one is xander.

😂 DH announced the other day that he really likes Arthur because it’s ‘so unusual nowadays’ and I gawped at him. He looked quite distressed when I filled him in about how popular it is (understandable so as it’s very nice) he was miffed but it hasn’t put him off.

😂 I had a bit of a giggle to myself as DH is occasionally quite ‘hipstery’ whilst claiming he’s anything but.

I love Clara from the nutcracker movie growing up (animated version) but would be tempted to use Clarissa and shorten to Clara as would like to give options.

I have a name that is both a stand alone name and a nickname of a longer name and grew up with people always elongating it ... and me having to correct them 🙄

Alexander

Clara

Alice and Arthur top and Alexander and Lyra second. I like all your girl names. I'm not keen on Charles (but love Charlie).

I think they are all lovely names & you won't go far wrong with any of them.

Lyra is actually in the top 100 uk names so more popular than you think! It’s pretty though. And with the tv adaptation coming up I would expect it to get even more popular.
I like Alice, Clara and Alexander out of your names