What’s your favourite name?

[PurpleSpottedLeopard]

Hello,

We’re really struggling to even create a shortlist of names for our baby so I thought I’d ask for some inspiration! So in the hope that one jumps out at me what is your favourite name?

We haven’t found out if we’re having a boy or a girl so both boys and girls names are very welcome.
Thank you :)

William
Edward
Thomas
James

Rosalind, Rose
Meryl
Louisa
Seren
Esther.

Frances
Lucille
Kate

Reuben
Benjamin
William

Look through your family tree - grandparents, great-uncles and aunt, cousin's middle names etc
Royal family names - Philip, Elizabeth, Michael, Alice, Victoria etc
Biblical names - OT, NT, saints' names

What names sound good with your surname, and which don't? Is your surname a really common?

Do you want something that's currently trendy, or do you want something that's always in use but never wildly popular.

Do you want a long first name or a short one?

I prefer names of one or two syllables and am not keen on all the vowel-heavy names that are currently popular, and generally prefer names that are used in full

Tabitha
Tess
Nell
Martha
Margot

Tobias
Xander
Ned
Seth
Amos

Clara
Celeste

Quentin
Reuben

Hebe
Jocelyn
Roberta
Adaline
Hannah
Benjamina

Jeffrey
Tobias
Rufus
Zachary
Barnaby
Benedict

Dominic
Hugo
Lysander
Coen
Henry

Meriel
Imogen
Honor
Genevieve/Vivienne (they feel very similar to me)
Verity
Prudence/Patience (again they have a similar feel)

Martha
Constance
Beatrice

Tom
Rory
Nioclas
Nathaniel

Marina and Lysander

Adelaide and August

Thank you all, lots of names to think about. Choosing a name was one of the things I was so excited about but it’s really difficult!

Ambrose
Jago
Frieda
Bonnie
Tess
Magnus
Sylvester
Sylvia
Sylvie
Jonathan
Cassie
Saskia
Guy
Barnaby
Jonty
Elowen

Stanley
Malcolm
Murdo
Struan

Mavis
Edith
Phoebe

Henry
George

Girls names:
Dovie
Faye
Emelia
Luella
Zella
Lettie/Ettie
Dylan

Unisex names:
Noa
Bodhi
River
Blaire
Ember
Briar

boys names:
Nicholas
James
Flynn
Eddie
Charlie
Otto
Silas

Excluding own kids….

Casper

Clover

My personal favourites

Girls
Amelie
Annabelle
Arabella
Clara
Cerys
Carrie
Emma
Emilia
Elora
Freya
Genevieve
Hannah
Heidi
Isabella
Juniper
Jemima
Kathleen
Kitty
Lucy
Matilda
Martha
Ottilie
Phoebe
Polly
Primrose
Posie
Rosanna
Rosalie
Rosie
Sophia
Sadie
Wren
Zara

Boys
Isaac
George
Theo
Charlie
Thomas
Harry
William
Teddy
Caleb

My taste is fairly classic / boring, but tbh, I work in schools and meet more Arianas and Islas than Elizabeths these days!

Girls:

Catherine
Josephine
Alexandra

Boys:

Patrick
John
Gabriel

Raoul
Volodymyr
Elton
Duncan
Charles
Ganymede

Lulu
Donna
Hazel

Elodie
Lily
Maisie
Isla
Anya
Flora
Ada

Oscar
Arthur
Seth
James

I always loved Polly for a girl

Cora / Cara / Clara
Lila
Dana
Nola

Callum
Joel
Leo
Davin
Emile

Maria, Josephine, Lucy, Clara, Rebecca, Eloise, Aurelia, Teresa, Eliza,
Elliott, James, Benjamin, Samuel, Benedict, Kieran

Rose
Camilla
Eloise
Catherine
Deirdre
Sally
Bridie
Patrick
Lloyd
Hector
Quentin
Michael
Samuel
Alexander

Clara
Florence

Quentin
Raphael