Names I like... suggest alternatives?

[detachablehoof]

These are names I love but can't use for various reasons (either got one in the family or know of one in our friendship group, or husband has vetoed, or sounds wrong with our surname!). Would love to hear suggestions along similar lines :)

Girls:
Audrey
Victoria
Alexandra
Olive
Antonia
India
Erica
Pandora
Vera
Madeleine

Boys:
William
Charles
Leonard
Edward

And on our maybe list...

Girls:
Amelia (dh suggestion, too popular for my liking but it's the most sensible thing he's come up with so far 😂😂)
Marnie
Daisy
Matilda
Heidi
Margot

Boys:
Ernest
Morris
Hugo
Bernard

Imogen

Girls: Gracie, Eloise, Mable
Boys: Barnaby, Sebastian, Max

Boys:

Frederick
Albert
Elliot
Francis
George
Louis

Girls:

Cleo
Ivy
Iris
Louisa
Isabella
Caroline
Lydia

For girls

Neve, Nina.

For boys

Sebastian, Theodore, Felix

Girls:
Violet
Penelope
Elodie
Lydia
Imogen

Edith
Andrea
Juliette

Walter
Emmett
Douglas

Isabella
Thomas

Hazel
Marigold
Marianne
Esther
Nancy
Martha

Clarence
Victor
Dorian

Boys:
Jonathan
Jasper
Thomas

Susannah
Francesca
Christina
Elizabeth

Matthew
Andrew

Girls

Lena
Romana
Flora
Jessica/Jess
Tessa
Odette
Florence
Jemima
Clarissa
Valerie
Helen/Helen/Elaine
Eloise
Amy

boys
Elliott
Darwin
Hugo
Barnaby
James
Paul

Adrienne
Georgia
Claudia
Vanessa
Cora
Philippa
Gabriella
Ingrid
Lauren
Emily

George
Frederick
Albert
Thomas
Arthur
Vincent
Simon
Anthony
Alexander
Fraser

Thanks all! Definitely got a few new ideas to add to the "to discuss" list. Names are so hard! Wish the baby would arrive with a shortlist 😂 and also wish DH could come up with better ideas than his mum's / colleague's names...!

Matilda
Otillie
Florence
Primrose

Hector
barnaby
jasper

I would add Helena to the above girls’ names.

Evangeline
adelaide
Astrid

Lucien
Ezekiel
Percy

Aphra
Beatrice
Cecily
Gaia
Hermione
Imogen
Louisa
Ramona
Vita

Benedict
Edmund
Gregor
Raphael

Sorry if these are already mentioned!

Dorothy (Dottie)
Harriet
Imogen
Odette
Evelynn
Alba
Margot
Primrose

Jemima
tabitha
rosalind
caroline
clementine
clara
helena
theodora
dorothy
josephine
juliet
henrietta
roberta
willa
daphne
louisa
beatrice
georgina
harriet
claudia
camilla

henry
leopold
arthur
edmund
edgar
walter
wilfred
douglas
alexander
frederick
nicholas
george
ernest
louis
roland

Girls: Roberta. Clara. Mirabel. Francesca. Cornelia.
Boys: Alexander. Julian. Sebastian. Sidney.

Girls: Aurelia, Meredith, Merryn, Marina, Iris, Emilia
Boys: Lawrence, Alasdair, Julius, Richard, Samuel

I had William and Edward on my list - and quite like Charles too. I tend to like very classic, timeless boys names - others on my list were James, Alexander, John, Thomas, Samuel, Michael and (wildcards as possibly a bit less timeless) Nathaniel, Maximilian and Hugh.

Antonia is on my girls list (I like India and Madeleine too)- others on my list are Claudia, May, Juliet, Helena, Cassia, Lara, Elizabeth, Verity, Eve, Isabel, Anna and Marina (nn Marnie?)

Don't fret, OP. Once you meet your lovely baby it'll be easier to decide on a name.

Lots of good suggestions here, and I'll add:

Adeline, Selena, Veronica, Juniper, Dana, Robyn, Jessamine, Virginia, Abigail

Roderick, Richard, Alaric, Marlowe, Zachary, Gilbert, Lionel, Mark, Jeremy.

Miranda
Rosalind
Anna
Allegra
Andrea
Flora
Laura
Cressida
Cassandra

Jasper
Miles
Conrad
Henry
Hugh
Ralph
Giles
Alexander
Lawrence