yup it's another saddo "what do you think of these names?" thread :-)

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Hi Girls,

Thought I would distract myself from worrying about the small size of my Bump until I see the midwife tomorrow by asking you your thoughts on these options...

We don't know the sex, so it's Kinder Surprise Also we have a seriously weird 3 syllable surname that starts with T. So we're going for short, punchy names with a max of 2 syllables:

Boy:

Dexter
Fillan
Rowan
Tate

Girl:

Faye
Hazel
Cara
Rose

Fintan or Finbarr, and call him Finn

Or Ronan, not Rowan

boys' names I think are a bit unusual but not daft (I don't like all of them, but that's not the point!:

Killian
Christy
Finnian
Finlay
Carrick
Kerry
Kay
Kim
Felix
Liam
Aran
Jago
Tym an
Rudy
Rufus
Kian
Lawrence
Rhodri
Brendan
Bracken
Saul
Seth
Jasper

Shock DH has taken great exception to my comment and come up with the following which in the Traditional Manner I don't like that much

FRASER - old man?
HEATH - baaaaaad karma
CAMERON - too common
AARON - possible...
GERARD - old man?
JED - sounds chavvy?
LUKE - pah
LEO - aaaah, Baby Blair
JACOB - possible...but very popular
DALZIEL - pronounced DL apparently. See he's as mad as I am

I LOVE the whole Finn, Finbar thing but we have two sets of good friends, one with a DS called Finn, the other, Flynn

Ned is totally out up here as it means Chav

I like Fraser, it's a nice gentle name and would suit an adult as well as a baby...and it reminds me of "fraise" which means strawberry

I like every one of those names!

Favourites probably Rowan and Hazel.....

Or maybe Tate and Cara??

Or any of the others??

Girls all lovely, don't care for the boys

Rowan is a fab name for a boy (dd2 would have been Rowan if she'd been a boy); I don't like the other boys' names.

Faye is lovely. Hazel and Rose are nice enough but rather too popular. I don't like Cara.

Cara and Tate make me think of potatoes.

Like Rose, Hazel and Rowan -all plant names too

Rowan and Rose for me. Don't like any of the others in the OP, sorry.

i meant I LIKE rowna, Hazel and rose too.

not that that they reminded me of potatoes too!

sorry, spellings gone all cod

Martin or Brendan?

like: Rowan, Tate

and Faye, Hazel

rowan is gorge

for girl i love cara

Hi BB. I really like Merric . It has a really nice sound to it, and I like the meaning too.

DH and I have agreed on Jethro or Jethrine

Boy:

Dexter - quite like this
Fillan - who?
Rowan - don't like this, can't get the image of Rowan Atkinsons rubbery face out of my mind when i hear it ...
Tate - don't like this

Girl:

Faye - i actually quite like this, but around these parts people often say that something is 'fay' when they think its horrible/foul (??)
Hazel - don't like this
Cara - really like this, very pretty.
Rose - beautiful name and very underused as a 'first' name.

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Love Dexter (was on my shortlist but vetoed by DH - think it would go well with DS's name - Devon) also like Tate.

Not too keen on girls names - Rose is best of the four

Boy:

Dexter - bit trendy for me but nice sound
Fillan - never heard of it
Rowan - love Rowan (rhymes with cow) for a girl but not for a boy)
Tate - dont like

Girl:

Faye - don;t like
Hazel - hmm, retro, think I like it
Cara - oh yes
Rose - oh yes

Like all the girl names but don't like any of the boys names on the initial list.
I do quite like Merric though.

I like all of them! My least favourites are Faye and Hazel.