Traditional but not boring

[Endofmytetherfinally]

Please help. Looking for something with 1/2 syllables. Easy to spell and pronounce but not too common. Not sure if we're having a boy or girl yet.

I like George, James, William etc but now there's likely go be 2/3 in their class. For girls I quite like shortened versions of classics ie. Maggie for Margaret or Betty for Elizabeth but same issue.

Please help.

Olive
Isolda
Joy
Hazel
June
April

Stanley
James
David
John

So we found out we're having a girl! Very excited. Trying to find a name we like as much as our first one. DH has point blank said no to anything beginning with H as well as Maggie / Betty.

Bess
Meg
Jill
Tess
Ann
Ruth

Mary
Louise
Sara
Ellen

Johnathan, Peter, Matthew, Michael. Strong, traditional names, not often used these days. For girls I like Jane, Jean, names like that, but too short I suppose.

Polly
Lorna
Esme
Lila
Faye
Gwen
Leah
Pippa
Sylvie
Nina
Bridget
Tamsin
Sally
Daisy

Jonathan is ok, Johnathan isn't, and OP is expecting a girl.
I like Jane.

Congratulations @Endofmytetherfinally!

So it’s no to H names, Maggie & Betty so how about:

my original suggestion of Margot ❤️

plus some others, kind of grouped together ones I think have a similar vibe.

Georgia/Georgina/Georgiana (nn G, Gigi, Georgie)
Chloé
Sophie
Catherine (nn Kitty/Katie)
Lilian/a (nn Lili)
Zara
Eleanor

June
Joanie
Jean/ Jeannie
Jane
Sadie
Dorothy (nn Dottie)

Mabel
Martha
Althea
Athena
Seren
Alora
Freya
Lena
Allegra

Congratulations op!

Polly
Clara
Stella
Rosie
Martha
Hester
Hebe
Phoebe
Freya

I love Maria for a girl. Traditional, not overused and very pretty

Marcus
Matthew
John
Peter
Alistair

Lorna
Gemma
Stella
Eloise
Jennifer

I love the name Emmeline. Very traditional but not common.

Also Evangeline is lovely. Evie for short potentially

Where would we be without you, Kirsten, where would we be! A thousand thanks.

Boys:

Do you like 1960s trad names like Simon, Christopher, Nicholas, Timothy, Matthew, Mark, Jonathan?

Similar girls' names: Josephine, Penelope, Jacqueline, Caroline, Charlotte, Rebecca, Susannah, Alexandra, Katherine, Elizabeth

Arty names like Oscar, Felix, Tobias, Edmund etc
Girls versions: Beatrice, Hero, Rosamund etc

I think Julia is lovely too

Rowan
jasper
otis
spencer
leonard
eric
evan
wilfred
louis
albert
stanley
charles
ernest
vincent
robert
ivor
edmund

mabel
clara
nancy
pearl
ellen
winnie
cora
audrey
enid
martha
edith
norah
esther
flora
minnie
joni
penny
nell
tess

Boys
Thomas
Jonathan
Daniel
Max
Toby
Matthew
Alex
Cameron
Hugo
Edward

Girls
Alicia
Eloise
Rebecca
Laura
Jasmine
Rosalie
Zara
Flora
Fleur
Genevieve
Juliet

Peter
Henri
Edmund
Philip
Albert

Freya
Rosamund
Vivian
Fleur
Isabella

My grandmother was Ellen nn Nell Nellie

Polly
Annie
Violet
Nellie

Sidney

Connie, Alice, Saskia, Frances, Frida, Delilah, Emma, Imogen, Ione, Iona, Iris, Mary, Martha, Penelope, Rosalind, Vita, Winnie, Zoe.

Okay, if you want a traditional but not overused girls name I third (fourth?) Julia. I'm lucky enough to be one and I've always liked it, but was the only one in school and have only ever met a few other Julia's over the years (of differing ages to me). Yet it's Shakespearean, used by the Bronte's , Austen, Dickens, mentioned in the Bible too apparently ... it even has a quite nice "meaning" if that matters to you.

Susannah, Josephine, Helena, Louisa, Lydia, Victoria, Anna, Eleanor (last two too popular now?) have a similar feel I think. I really love pp's suggestion of Jane too as it has so many lovely literary and historical namesakes but like similar Mary it has fluctuated in popularity a lot so some might view it as slightly old-fashioned now (or not).

Meredith
Serena
Cecily

Love some of these new ones and agree Julia is a great name, just happens to be hubby's first love.

I love Anne and Ellen and feel both are hugely underused. I really do not like frilly names and these feel classically beautiful.