Rate my names please

[teaandcrumpets35]

Very early days for me but I feel like I'm going to struggle with names a lot this time. There a a few like that I like but none really stand out to me as being the one. Can I have your thoughts and maybe some other suggestions please?

Juliet
Freya
Maria
Erin
Daisy
Rosie

Rowan
Finn
Alexander
Jude

Thank you

I love Daisy :)

My top 2 boy names from that list are Alexander Jude :) both great names! If I had to choose one, it would probably be Jude! I feel it suits both a little child, to a full grown adult!

From your lists I like Erin and Alexander best! Lovely names.

Some suggestions:

Beatrice
Daphne
Elodie

Lois
Phoebe

Felix
Jasper
Oscar
Robin (or Robyn for girl!)
Timothy

Agree, I like Jude a lot but there is another in the family which puts me off a little bit.

I really like Freya, Alexander and Finn.
Not a fan of Erin, Maria or Juliet, they seem very dated to me. Daisy and Rosie are ok but a bit cutesy.
Rowan is ok but there seems to be a lot of talk about it on here so I suspect it could be really popular in that age group. I really dislike Jude.

Juliet - Boring
Freya - It's ok
Maria - Only if you have Latin heritage
Erin - Very blah
Daisy - Love it!
Rosie - Love this one too

Rowan - Its ok, kind of feminine though
Finn - Nice
Alexander - Love it, but maybe too popular?
Jude - Would assume it was short for Judith

Juliet meh
Freya overused
Maria nice enough
Erin quite like, best of your picks
Daisy not a grown up name. Dislike.
Rosie Rosa would be great, Rosie is babyish.

Rowan very overused, not keen.
Finn pet name. Fintan?
Alexander BRILLIANT
Jude hate Jude.

Tamsin
Edith
Nina
Verity

Robert
Conrad
Torin

Freya 🥰 I'd personally spell it the Norse way with a silent j (Freyja) as she was the Norse god of love ❤️ absolutely love that name!

I love Alexander for a boy 😁 I feel like it's got so many options for shortening it depending on how DS feels growing up, eg: Alex, Xander, or the full Alexander if he prefers

Good luck and congratulations!

I love Daisy and Rosie, in fact your girl list is really nice
In terms of your boy list -Rowan is my baby girl's name. Word of warning is that it gets shortened to Row even when you ask people not to (so depends if you like that shortening - I don't) and it also continually gets misheard for Roman (which is fastest rising boy name) and also Reuben. Remember also that Rory, Ronnie, Robyn- all those names are top 100 and fast risers so it blends in with them quite a bit and has a very trendy feel which is something I regret.
I like Alexander best from your boy list as it's such a classic.

I like Erin from your list and Beatrice and Robert from the other lists. Those three are on my list too.

Juliet - Lovey , feminine sounding name
Freya - I like it
Maria - ok but sounds abit boring
Erin - cute, individual
Daisy - abit too cutesy but nice
Rosie - ok

Rowan - Lovely, for a boy or girl.
Finn - nice
Alexander - not sure about this one
Jude - I like this one alot

Thanks everyone really appreciate the comments even though in the end I guess it boils down to personal taste.

Beatrice is another wonderful suggestion.

Juliet - nice, underused
Freya - pretty but feels a little dated
Maria - not keen, feels a bit religious
Erin - love
Daisy - but twee and cutesy
Rosie - much prefer Rosa or Rose, or possibly Rosalie

Rowan - love, though actually prefer it for a girl
Finn - love. How about Fraser?
Alexander - meh
Jude - like

Maria is nice, not very popular at the moment either. Daisy is awful, I always think of a cow (the animal), although I’ve never met a nice Daisy either!

My favourite combinations are:
Freya Erin
Alexander Jude

Juliet - lovely, classic
Freya - love this too
Maria - okay
Erin - okay
Daisy - like this
Rosie - like it, but prefer it as a short for Rosalind/Rosamund

Rowan - I know it is a boy's name but recently have only seen it used for girls
Finn - like this
Alexander - love this and lots of nn potential (which could be a positive or a negative!)
Jude - the Obscure, depressing book which colours my perception of this name. Have encountered it IRL more often as a short for Judith than as a boy's name (even though I know it is the latter)

Also considering Marianne as an alternative to Maria.

Love Marianne so much @teaandcrumpets35

I like Juliet and Rosa rather than Rosie. I also like Jude. It’s all personal taste though. I wanted an uncommon but proper name for my DS (now 24) and chose something not even in the top two hundred but in the last couple of years it’s become increasingly popular. Same happened with my DN name. You can’t control popular however much you try.

Also thought it couldn’t be shortened. What did I know? 😂

@sorryforswearing agree you can't always predict which names will be popular , some really do boom from nowhere (like Harper after Beckhams picked it) but vast majority of names you can predict if they're on a big upswing because if you go on the dark greener website it shows you a graph of the last 25 years of official statistics for the name. If your DS is now 24 then dark greener website wouldn't have been around then. Now though, if you type in a name like "Dorothy" you can see it's growth and it won't be a huge surprise to see the name Dorothy in the top 100 in a few years. People will say "wow Dorothy -it's boomed from nowhere"- but that's not true if they check the statistics. (I know I need to get a life!)

Dorothy vs Harper below.

names.darkgreener.com/#dorothy

names.darkgreener.com/#harper

Thank you bloominglovely. That’s really interesting. Never heard of it. Just going to have a look.

It's interesting isn't it. I'm not overly bothered about popularity. My dc has a name that has been in the top 10 for years. I just loved it so I was always going to use it.

This time I feel the same, just want something that I love.

Yes so sorry I went off on a tangent. I wasn't aiming the popularity discussion at you @teaandcrumpets35 - sorry for going off topic

Beatrice is lovely but Marianne pips it for me

@bloominglovelyorange not at all, it's really interesting how names come back around again. I remember everyone having a Jayden about 10 years ago but you don't hear it as often these days.

I like all your girls names, especially Juliet. Least favourites are Daisy and Rosie which feel like nicknames to me, Rosie in particular. I think all the Rose names are lovely so would go for one of those and use Rosie as a nickname. Rosa is my favourite but I like Rose, Rosalie, Rosemary and Rosanna a lot too.