Boys & Girls shortlist

[LFH1990]

Hi everyone, our first baby is due in a few weeks and we’re having a surprise; just after your opinions on our shortlisted names please?

Boys: James, Jack, or Henry
Girls: Autumn, Amy, or Lydia

Our surname begins with an H and is 3 syllables.

Thanks 😊

I love James and Henry, although personally I wouldn’t choose HH so that would rule out Henry for me.

Lydia is beautiful, and I’m ambivalent about both Autumn and Amy. Autumn is a bit of an outlier to the rest of your name choices.

I like them all a lot except for Autumn. Like the PP I would question H with a H surname.

Your boys names are all fine if a little boring, my choice of the 3 would be James

Autumn seems an odd choice for a Winter baby IMO, Amy is nice enough but feels a bit dated (very 80s/90s). Lydia therefore gets my vote.

I think the H name is longer so would be fine?

Henry Haveland or Henry Hamilton is fine. Henry Hume or Henry Hay don't work as well.

James or Henry for a boy and Lydia for a girl. Autumn is okay but both Amy and Jack are a bit overused - though I did like Jack (for John) for many years before I had children and then it became really popular.

James - love
Jack - a bit too boring and common for me at the moment
Henry - nice enough, if it sounds nice with your H surname?

Autumn - not a fan of word names
Amy - lovely name but seems a little dated these days
Lydia - quite nice

I love the name James so would go with that for a boy, but maybe consider a few more girls names! Although Amy and Lydia are perfectly nice I think, if you're set on these three x

Love James (I have one and it's a great name)

Not keen on the girls names. Ones we considered were Elizabeth, Catherine, Cerys, Eleanor and Penelope.

All lovely names. I personally prefer Aimee to Amy but still a good name however it's spelt.

James and Lydia.

Jack and Lydia are lovely names

James or Henry and Lydia or Amy for me.

Henry for a boy. Autumn is different to your other names but I love it- didn’t used to but met a lovely little baby called Autumn and I’m converted!

James or Lydia

James and autumn

James and Autumn.

Lydia or James. Henry is nice but depends how well it goes with your H surname.

James or Lydia - both lovely, not too overused and will work well with a 3 syllable surname.

Henry is grand but a bit overused, Amy is OK but a bit nothingy. Jack has been done to death for 20 years. Autumn is awful (sorry).

I like all your names

If I had to order them I'd go Jack, Henry, James
And
Lydia, Amy (though I prefer spelt Aimee), Autumn

James and Lydia - lovely. Could be characters from Jane Austen, could be modern. Timeless and classy.

James & Lydia

James and Lydia