Completely torn between two 'boring' names!

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I'm beginning to panic a bit as we still haven't settled on a name for our baby girl- and I'm desperate not to wait until she's here to decide (so please don't suggest that as an option!)

We love both Emily and Alice. I've always loved Emily and that's the name we settled on at first and started using it to refer to bump. But I felt that we hadn't tried hard enough to explore all options and after reading the whole baby name book I thought Alice was nice. My husband prefers Alice too (although he does like Emily).

So we settled on Alice thinking it was slightly more underused and I got very excited about it. But we keep on accidentally referring to her as Emily still and I can't help but feel in my gut I prefer the name Emily?

So which do you think? Emily or Alice?

Emily

Emily (but only because it is also one of my favourite names, not because it is in any way objectively 'better' than Alice. They are both nice and both very similar in style and feel).

Emily.

Emily.

Go with your gut

I prefer Emily

I prefer alice. Love Alice Cooper, Alice in wonderland and also have a lovely family member with the name

Alice

Alice.

I prefer Alice. I think you should keep both names as options and decide when she arrives.

Alice.

Or Emily Alice?

Alice

Get a coin.

Heads: Emily
Tails: Alice

Toss coin.

Just before you look at which way the coin has landed, see if you are secretly hoping for a particular outcome. If so, that is the name you choose.

If not, let coin decide.

I prefer Emily. Imagine shouting each one about 5000 times a day. Which appeals more?! 😆

Emily Alice they go quite nicely together

Emily Alice

Or

Alice Emily

You've always loved Emily and were settled with it before you thought about other names so I would go with it. I think they're both lovely names and wire similar, but I prefer Emily too.

are similar, not wire.....

I like both, I'd probably go with Alice if it were me but you clearly love Emily so go with that!

FWIW even though it's apparently very popular there isn't a single Emily in my daughter's school year and there were none in her nursery class either. There are so many names to choose from now that even the popular ones aren't that common, it's not like the 90s when there were four 'Sarah's in a class.

Both lovely names not boring at all. Hard to choose but would probably go with Emily.

Both nice but I prefer Alice

Emily!

Why not wait til you meet her?

We had just two names for our second daughter, and when we saw her the first time she really suited one of the names and not the other. We have no regrets!

Emily Alice (Alice as middle name)

We had two names and chose one immediately when she arrived.