Help! DD due in under a week. Which of these are likes, maybe or bin?

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Hi,

desperetely need help my brain has completed overloaded with names now having gone through the top 1000. Husband has vetoed all of my top 30 😭so left with these back up ones. However, have now spent so long debating names that I just don’t feel anything for any of them anymore and dd due in 3 days.

Possible names that we have not both vetoed are

Maeve
Flora
Cecily
Tessa
Clementine
Faye
Arabella
Anna
Melody
Imogen
Oriana
Meredith
Serena
Allanah
Allegra
Camilla
Alice

I like Anna, Faye and Imoge
Hate Allegra sounds like a 1970s car.

I like a lot of those names. I also can’t believe your DH vetoed 30!
They’re all lovely - if you’re not feeling it, maybe wait and see how you feel when the baby arrives, she may look like a particular name. You don’t have to decide immediately.

Aww I really like Tessa and Serena I don't like Allegra or Melody the rest are OK. You will find her name wait till she's born.

I like most of them! I’d avoid Allanah as I think you’ll face spelling issues (and your other names are nicer, in my personal opinion) and Oriana as I think she’ll spend her life saying “No, Oriana, not Ariana”.

Flora, Cecily and Tessa are lovely!

Love

Anna
Tessa

Ok

Maeve
Meredith
Alice

The rest are far too frilly

Melody and Imogen are beautiful names!

My original list had lots of names like Charlotte, Sophie/Sophia, Bella, Rose, Grace, Maya, Sienna, Louisa, Isabella, Eva, Amelia, Esme, Thea etc (love Freya but can’t have due to close friend have daughter with same name) . He is not a fan of the “popular and overused”. I’ve taught for years so generally just went with names where I had a positive association and think of the name in relation to kind/ funny/ sweet girls etc

My original slightly more niche ones were Elise, Juliet, Rosanna, Elodie, Briony, Iona, Cressida . Again for the reasons above- I have really positive associations with them due to having taught lovely versions over the years.

I think by the time I’m down to my 40th or so choice I just feel a bit meh about them all now. I suppose this is partly because I haven’t ever imagined using them to be honest. I just didn’t realise anyone could feel so strongly against so many names!

Your DH has vetoed your list, what was on his list?

Favourites - Cecily, Alice, Flora

ok - Anna, Tessa, Serena

meh - Allegra, Faye, Arabella, Camilla

prefer Clemency to Clementine
Dislike Maeve, Melody, Oriana, Imogen, Meredith, Allanah

Oh I love Elise (and Eloise) and Briony/Bryony. Iona is pretty but poss too much scope for “I own a…” jokes.

I think what is popular and overused varies hugely… lots of your original “too popular” list, I know only one or zero of, and I know quite a lot of kids. (sophia/sophie though…there are loads!)

Just to add to the above equally I don’t want the fact that I now feel a bit tired of the name debate with DH to result in me missing out on giving dd a lovely name just because it wasn’t one of my original ideas or end up burdening her with something awful because I am in a rush to just settle on something! This is why I thought feedback from people that are not dh would be helpful. Very grateful for all the ideas and suggestions.

Of your list, I like Meredith, Flora and Alice.

I agree with the previous poster that Clemency is nicer than Clementine, which is a bit "floral".

If you want further name suggestions, if I was having a girl, this would be the present shortlist

• Elowen
• Matilda
• Jean
• Christabel
• Leonora
• Margaret
• Margot
• Eliza or Liza

Maeve might suddenly be very trendy following sex education?

I'm not pregnant but I already know I'm naming my daughter (if I have one) Lyra. I've loved the name for years and I've never found anything I like more... It might work for you and your DH :)

Rather than Thea, if you like this, could you go with Althea or Alethea and have Thea as nn?

I love Alice or Maeve. The few I have known over the years have been lovely.

I can’t believe your husband has vetoed your favourite 30 names! I think I’d go back to the first thirty names you chose and pick my favourite from them. Bella is very popular at the moment, seems every baby I’ve heard of recently has Bella in her name. But your other top names are lovely.

Has your husband come up with any names himself? What’s on his list?

I've always loved Meredith x

Melody is the only name I dislike. The others are lovely.

I would not spell Allanah like that. I would use the usual Alanna or Alannah. Otherwise all nice.

My favourites are ..
Camilla
Allegra
Alanna
Cecily
Arabella
Anna
Alice
Serena

I like Arabella, Anna, Meredith, Allegra and Camilla.

From your list I love Clementine. That was on my list. Also like Meredith and Allegra, and what about Elodie instead of Melody.

I think Anna is a lovely classic name.

Maeve (sounds harsh)
Flora (margarine)
Cecily (bit wet)
Tessa (ok)
Clementine (overly popular right now)
Arabella (precocious sounding)
Melody (precocious sounding)
Imogen (nice)
Oriana (P&O cruise ship)
Meredith (precocious sounding)
Serena (tennis)
Allanah (no)
Allegra (sounds like a 70s car)
Camilla (oh dear no)
Alice (ok)

These are mostly his list I am just a lot slower to veto!! As otherwise we are not going to have any left…… The only hard vetos I have used are for Madeleine (as I can’t shake the McCaan association and just see that poor girls face in my minds eye). I also vetoed Constance as he didn’t want it to be a shortened to Connie and I just can’t imagine saying Constance 50 x a day. I also vetoed one other as when I googled with our last name a v adult video web page came up as the top result - a real shame as I otherwise liked the name 😂🙄

my original ideas ( which he did not like) were

more popular options like :
Charlotte
Sophie/Sophia
Bella
Rose
Grace
Maya
Sienna
Louisa
Isabella
Eva
Amelia
Esme
Thea etc

He is not a fan of the “popular and overused”

My original slightly more niche ones were Elise
Juliet
Rosanna
Elodie
Briony
Iona
Cressida .

I have taught for years so went with names I associate with really lovely girls.

names I love but can’t have due to v close friends and family are:
beatrice
felicity
georgia
eliza
freya
selena (checked with friend about considering Serena and she is happy with this and is v blunt & honest)