Game of Tops...

[MynameisLove]

Post the following:

1. Top 10 names you'd use for boys
2. Top 10 names you'd use for girls
3. Top 10 names you love but won't use
4. Any names you've had name envy about from friends/family

Boys
Matthew
Daniel
Luca
Ashton
Ryder
James
William
Zachary
Otto
Ayrton
Paul

Girls
Delilah
Phaedra
Elizia
Sophia
Emma
Kerry
Joanna
Tamar
Katerina
Lilia
Layla

Top 10
Pax
Patrick

Hecate
Penelope
Deborah
Sarah

Patrick
Michael
Francis
Thomas
Owen
Anthony
Ianto
Nathaniel
Daniel
John

Sarah
Marion
Eleanor
Rebecca
Kathryn
Iris
Naomi
Ruth
Nina
Therese

Annika
Octavia
Nova
Macey
Julian
Charlie (don't like Charles and have inherited my mum's snobbishness on what counts as a "proper" name)
Evita
Xena
Xavier
Maximilian

Girls (in no order)
Lara
Violet
Audrey
Anna
April
Isla
Alexandra
Sophie

Boys (in no order)
Owen
Stanley
Tom
Elliot
Finley
Ivor
Ewan
Alexander
Patrick

Names I love but won't use:
Hero
Juno
Thor
Soren

That's about it really

Boys:
Vincent,
Johnny,
Rocco,
Giovanni,
Eli,
Leonardo,
Robin,
Felix,
Axel,
Fox.

Girls: (I haven't used my daughts names which are my favourites too!)
Camilla,
Victoria,
Maeve,
Alexandra,
Marigold,
Cherry,
Maria,
Rosemary,
Anastasia,
Beatrix.

I dont really have any names I wouldnt use!

I would of loved to have used Maria, but my sister talked me out of it! My OH wasnt that keen anyway but it's because she wanted it for when she has kids Haha.

Names I envy:
.DDs best friend called Beatrice.
.Friend with DD called Frankie
.Another friend with a DD called Lisa! Just loved it thought it was so cute.
.we really wanted to use Rosemary but I have a cousin called Rose and I thought it would get confusing.

@MyNameHasBeenTaken, you know someone who has called their child Hecate?! Blimey!

Top Ten Girls in no order

Seren
Evangeline
Lara
Tansy
Rosa
Saskia
Raia (an old friends name, pronounced Rye a)
Eleanor (Nell for short, DDs name)
Christobel
Annalise/Annaliese

Top Ten Boys

Gabriel
Geraint
Ivo
Theo
Frederick, Freddy for short
Toby
Ben
Edward, Ned for short
Alaric
Ellis

Boys:
Laurence (Laurie)
Rufus
William
Otto
Adam
Torin
Gabriel

Girls:
Juliet
Anya
Greta
Iris
Honor
Rosa
Rowan
Cleo
Tabitha

Clover (although this verges on being ‘love but wouldn’t use’)

Love but wouldn’t use:
Gaia
Indigo
Sylvia
Frida
Aster
Linnet
Calypso

Cassian
Auden
Darwin
Magnus

I don’t have 10 for each but:

Boys:

Joey
Ruairi
Mason
Ronnie
Jonnie
Logan
Tommy

Girls:

Harper
Ivy
Piper
Aurelia

Names I wouldn’t use:

Holly (would have been DS’s name but my cousin has used it now)
Harry (SS’s name)
Ptolemy (for obvious reasons)