Please help with boy and girl names!

[Plutostar787]

Very early but please help with boy or girls names for hopefully dc 3.

These are names we like to give you an idea, none seem to be quite right! Any other suggestions that we may like would be appreciated. Trying to avoid anything overly popular.

Boys
Robin
Reuben
Austin
Felix
Otis
Miles
Raphael (I actually love this but dh isn’t sure)

Girls
Isla
Marnie
Heidi

Thank you!!

Jesse
Toby
Rory
Jonah
Finn
Dylan
Seth
Jasper
Rafe
Rudy

Cassie
Gracie
Orla
Connie
Sasha
Lois

Rex.
Rowan
River
Cooper
Gabriel
Jude

Nancy
Bonnie
Eva
Isabelle
Molly

Oooh I love Marnie!

Isla is becoming so popular!

Evan
Euan
Jacob
Caleb
Dexter
Max
Eric
Nathaniel
Jethro
Gabriel

Olive
Freya
Helena
Esme
Fearne
Ruby
Imogen
Zara
Cora
Cara
Estelle
Leah

Alexander
Rufus
Philip
Milo
Gabriel
Max
Julian

Stella
Connie
Emma
Jasmine
Greta
Louisa
Holly

Rufus
Maxim
Nathaniel
Ivo
Jago
Macsen
Hugh
Xavier

Xanthe
Sylvie
Rosalie
Coralie
Gaia
Cora
Clara
Viola

Loving Marnie and Heidi.

My fav boys names are
Isaac
Aidan
Aaron
Evan

Austin is a beautiful name. I love it. I have a very elderly relative named Austin and he is a lovely man.

I like all your names apart from the boys names beginning with R. Others are lovely. Girls names all gorgeous but if you want to avoid overly popular names that rules out Isla.

Boys

Raphael. Definitely. Raphaels grow up to be gorgeous. Trust me

I also like:

• Freddie
• Gabriel

Girls

My favourites are:

• Rebecca
• Rachael

I love your boys list, I might add Luca, Leo, Felix, Otto, Nathanial (nn Nate). As others have said I’d avoid Isla if popularity bothers you. Maybe Iona, Nina, Fern or Hazel. Marnie is cute, maybe Cassia?

Thank you all so much for all the suggestions.
I’m going to add Gabriel, Dexter, Nathaniel, Rowan, Rafe and Max/Maxim to the list!

I find girls so much harder. I think I’ll cross off Isla. My reservation with Marnie is that I feel like it should be short for something but I’m not sure what! I quite like Fern, Iona, Cassia and Helena so will add those!

@NiceLegsShameAboutTheFace I think Raphael is such a gorgeous name, if only I could persuade DH!

Elijah
Rafferty

Sylvie
Maisie

@Plutostar787 if you want to avoid anything overly popular I'd personally suggest you get a list of the top 100 girl and boy names and avoid them.
Your girls list is lovely Marnie and Heidi are both lovely and Marnie especially is so underused. I love it. I bet a totally different nickname than you anticipate will organically develop with that name. Martha, Audrey, Verity Clementine, Felicity, Margaret (Maggie), Jemima and Cleo and Greta and Lucy I love too.
I'd suggest avoiding the whole Reuben, Roman, Rowan tranche of similar sounding names. My baby daughter is called Rowan and if I'd realised how popular the name has got (look at the graphs and it's still rising fast) at the same time as names like Roman then, nice as the name is, I'd have avoided it. She's in a small nursery class with 2 Romans. I predict the names will date badly.
Rafe on its own if pretty unusual but it'll probably be Raffy day to day and there's increasing numbers every year of Ralph, Raffertys and Raphael's about. Raffy feels a very up and coming nickname, so I'd probably avoid it (though it's not yet in the same league as names booming like Roman/Rowan and so on)

Austin would be a really good choice as it's been falling in numbers for a few years now so is very underused but such a lovely name. I really love Miles too.

On our list, and we chose out of this for our boy/girl twins were:

Claudia
Camille
Eurus
Gabriella
Honor
Hester
Evangeline
Anastasia

Maxwell
Miles
Alexander
Harrison
Harry