Cool yet classic names

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Hello!

Just into the second trimester and seeking inspiration for names. We're not finding out the gender. We have many more ideas for girls names than boys (and have been through every possible boys names we can think of!!). The below boys names are the ones we don't hate, whereas the girls we actively love.

Ideally we want names that are recognisable, not 'weird' and easy to spell - but that there aren't loads of.

If we like these, what else might we like?

Girls:
Romilly (DH's fave)
Alice
Sadie (my fave)
Pip / Pippa
Josie

Boys:
Edward (know this would be common)
Henry (and this!)
Kit (my fave)
Miles (DH's fave)

Thank you in advance xxx

Girls:
Romy
Elise
Romany
Eunice
Rhona
Alyssa
Jocelyn nn Joss or Josie
Elsie

Boys:
Nils
Seth
Saul
Vaughan
Niles
Heath
Silas
Hector

Philip / Pip
Joseph
Joss

Marnie
Darcy
Everly
Saskia
Leonie
Eliza
Aster
Stella
Honour
Etta
June

Ivan
Asher
Sullivan
Jesse
Nate
Jonah

Lucille
Bette
Doris
Corinne
Ursula
Betsy
Cleo

Scott
Richard
Broderick
Kirk
Morgan
Samson
Cary
Rex
Dudley

Elodie has similar ish vibe to Romily

For a boy I love Jay/James

Girls:

Sidonie
Sybil
Eartha
Edie
Anais
Anoushka
Blanche
Agatha
Scheherazade
Guinevere
Tabitha
Vendela
Viveca
Paulina
Vanessa
Samantha
Miranda

Boys:
Finbar
Blake
Marlon
Otis
Amos
Norman
Roland
Roy (Royston)
Ray (Raymond)
Gregory
Atticus
Spencer
Marcel
Dashiell
Cormac
Hubert
Howard
Denys

Girl:
Mallory
Veronique
Cordelia nn Cord
Celeste nn CeCe
Bryony

Boy:
Joel
Stanley
Warren
Jago

Alexandra
Miranda
Rosalind

If you like Kit, you might like fellow medieval nicknames for Edward (Ned) and Henry (Hal) which are less popular than the full versions - and there is also James (Jem) and Charles (Cal). Also perhaps Hugh, Edmund or Ivo?

You also seem to like nickname style names (especially for the girls) - so perhaps Nell, May or Sylvie? Cecily, Romola, Bryony, Jessamine, Rosamund or Beatrice are other names your choices remind me of.

Kit is nice , though I think of it as short for Christopher
I think William is a classic name ( Known as Bill )
Dominic
Sebastian

Anna
Claire
Philippa ( Pippa )
Clarissa

Romilly is much nicer than Sadie, I’m with your DH.

Clara
Celeste

Quentin
Marcus

I like Pippa if short for Philippa, and Sadie as nn for Sarah, and Josie for Josephine
Romilly I think is on the fussy side, and Alice just too flipping common

Jessie (Jessica)
Nell (Eleanor)
Robin
Zoe
Stella
Frankie/Francie (Frances)
Nancy
Lois
Ines
Cleo
Juno
Edith
Bea (Beatrice)
Hatty/Hetty (Harriet)
Libby/Beth (Elizabeth)
Margot
Flora
Elspeth
Verity
Cecily
Felicity
Chloe
Phoebe
Thora
Freya
Adelaide
Marianne

Miles is great, I like Kit but only as nn, Edward/Henry lovely but yes so many of them...

Edwin, Rufus, Kester (Scottish form of Christopher, Kit is a nn), Patrick, Francis, Guy, Hugh, Nathaniel, Jonah, Jethro, Jerome, Jesse, Silas, Seth, Saul, Edmund, Edgar, Casper, Jasper, Cassian, Gideon, Hector, Tristram, Linus, Jonas, Julius, Lucian

Austin
Jerome
Daniel
Angus
Saul

Natasha
Cora
Lillian
June
Octavia

Boys
Kim
Ray
Quinn
Guy
Lex

Thank you everyone - some wonderful suggestions here. Many we had already discussed and discarded as only one of us likes (Beatrice, Cordelia, Hugh) and among the suggestions there is also both our first names and our surname which otherwise I would love for a boy's name. Love the other medieval choices (Ned and Hal are amazing!)

We're going to go through all the suggestions in detail together and hopefully build our lists out a bit.

X

Edward (Ned)
Alice (Lally)

Jasper