At a complete loss with names, help!!

[violetcuriosity]

Morning, expecting our second daughter and we cannot agree on a name that we love. The names we have we both like but think are quite common at the moment. Please, please give me some ideas!

This is the list at the moment-

Iris
Eden
Emilia
Eleni

Thank you!

We've just had our first baby, a little boy, however if he were a girl his name would've been Heidi. We also liked Ava, Seren (I'm Welsh), Harper, Indy, Penelope and Hope

I see you like names beginning with 'E', my sisters favourite girls name is 'Ember' which is still quite unusual

Iris - ok
Eden - dreadful
Emilia -nice but will get Amelia a lot and some will misspell it as Emelia, which is awful
Eleni - ok if you are greek. Is it EL-enny, El-ENNy or Elainey?

Hi op, Emilia is best off your list.

For other E names how about:

Emmie (love this)
Evie (maybe quite popular)
Erin

My cousin recently had a baby girl and she called her Estelle which I thought was a really pretty name.

Leonie
Emma
Iona
Carys
Amber
Elspeth
Nia
Marnie
Lucy
Seren
Alice
Madeleine
Ivy

Ella
Emily
Estelle
Elodie
Erina
Ebony
Erica
Evelyn
Edith
Esther

Celeste
Sian
Annica
Laurel
Tamsyn

Hazel
Amelie
Fern
Mila
Everly
Cecelia

It's eh-LEN-ee as far as I know :) Such a pretty name.

Erin
Erica

@TheBirdintheCave Eleni should be pronounced El-AY-nee

Eleni is lovely if said properly but you’d be correcting people all the time.

Eilidh
Eloise
Erin
Eveline

Aerin
Leonie
Elin
Ivy

Eleni is beautiful

I've met 2 Eleni's (both Greek) and it's pronounced Eh-LEN-ee

Freya
Tilly
Meredith
Maria
Polly
Evelyn
Soren
Trinity
carla

I know one, and she's greek and says it as El-ENN-y, but I think people will say it to rhyme with Melanie, or as Elainey.

Wren is beautiful
River is cute for a girl too!

If you change your thinking from ‘common’ to ‘popular’ it changes your mindset in my experience. Names vary in popularity and are popular for a reason!

I prefer Lois to Iris
Emma or Anna or Anya

Faye!
Elora
June
Mabel

I’d pronounce Eleni as Eh-Lenny too, but then I grew up with a lot of Greek Cypriot girls and this is how they pronounced it. I love Leni as a nickname personally. Iris is one of my favourites at the moment. I quite like Eden but think it may be a bit of a marmite name, particularly on Mumsnet. I’d drop Emilia off the list, it’s basically just Amelia which bores me to tears at this stage.
Maybe Nina or Cleo for suggestions?

Iris - lovely but done to death
Eden - nah, naff
Emilia - - lovely but done to death
Eleni - I like it! But she'll end up one of 6 million Ellies so I wouldn't..

Lois
Linos
Carys
Annis
Ethelyn
Jocelyn
Adela
Estella
Isadora
Alicia
Verity
Ismene (is-me-nee)
Ione (Eye-oh-nee)
Ianthe

Love Iris, Eden and Eleni

I know two Elenis who both pronounce the name ‘El-enn-ee’

I like Eleri rather than Eleni, but ideally you'd have welsh connections for Eleri