Please, tell my wife that her names suggestions are awful!

[Demainsdeslaube]

Hello everyone!

I am 5 months pregnant, and my wife and I are having a hard time agreeing. After weeks of "arguing", we decided to forget about all the previous names suggested before and make a new list.
I absolutely hate all the names she wrote down :

• Bradleigh ( her favourite)
• Dallas
• Paris
• Lisandry
• Helen ( The only one I like)

Whereas my favourite names are:

• Romy ( She likes it but not love it)
• Dahlia
• Neva

She is so sure, those are pretty names. Pleaaase help, she'll be reading all the comments!

Congratulations! I don’t like your original list but your new list is lovely!

Love Maude, Clementine, Elise, Eleanor, Eloise, Helene.

I like Romy and Romleigh too

Or the opera or Manon Des Sources.

I'm sorry- but they all sound awful! I prefer traditional names x

I prefer Helena, would that work? Helena or Romy and see how she looks.

We have a similar issue and are going to have to go with our compromised name.

Wow! So many rude and intrusive comments. Congrats on the pregnancy! I love Elodie, Maude, Clementine (No a on the end. It’s already a long name.) Romy, and Elise. (I went to school with an Elisa and she was a bully.) You can take the A from Clementina and put it on Helen. Love Helena.

I know someone that called their daughter Zoe when she was born, then changed it just before they went to register her. I honestly think that they went through a whole baby name book, got through to Z, then didn't find something they "loved", and just got stuck at Z.

There was a name that they loved, but her best friend had a daughter of the same name, so she didn't feel that she could use it. She spoke to the best friend who said "don't be daft - if you love it, use it!", so she did!

I also know of someone that called their son Zinzan. Maybe they had the same dilemma as my other friend!

@Demainsdeslaube I see you've agreed that you might need to start again. I think of names considering the child at all ages - toddler, teenager, adult. That's where Helen falls down with me. I just can't picture a toddler Helen.

I do like some of the classic names that were previously seen as old fashioned. Ava (I know this has been done to death in recent years), Ada, Emily, Maude, Agatha, Amelia, Aurelia.

I have a friend who called their daughter Adeline, or Addie for short, which I think is lovely.

Good luck finding something you both love!

Oh gosh OP, your wife’s name choices are awful! (Sorry OP’s wife.) Like really, really, really bad. Possibly the worst name list I’ve seen on here for a long time because usually there is at least one name I like or could tolerate! But Bradleigh is soooo chavvy, Paris and Dallas have a cheap porn star vibe, and the other name just seems made up. Your list is much nicer. I love Romy, quite like Neva and while I don’t really like Dahlia, it’s definitely tolerable.

How about Iris - same ending as Dallas and Paris? Juno or Alba? Kind of unusual like your wife’s names but also feminine and … not made up? Sienna, Florence, Roma? All cities but less porn star sounding than the others.

These are nice. I liked Helena but only pronounced Hell-a-na not Helen-a but that may or may not bother you.

there is a little girl in my daughters class called Elisa but people seem to struggle and she gets called Elsa or Elise. It’s a lovely name though.

Lois fits with your list.

If you both like Helen, why don't you just go with that?

What area of the U.K. do you live in that this could possibly be true? Is it some kind of troglodyte white backwater?

In cities names are fully multicultural.

Your last list is full of beautiful names. Personally think Clementina is too much, but can see the attraction. And Manon is a lovely name too. Not sure why you wouldn't use it, people would recognise it as a name?

I LOVE Romy or Neva. I really dislike all the others including Helen (sorry).

Just seen your update.

Your revised list is much better.

I would pick Maeve, Helena, Emma or Manon, which would be perfectly fine in the UK.

If your wife is French, tell her that the first four names on her original list would cause your child similar problems to being called Kevin in France.

That name isn’t just a tragedeigh, it’s chighlld abyewse

Be prepared for some of the suggestions to end up here

God parts of this thread really are a shame 🙄

OP I very much like your previous consideration of Emma and it goes nicely with your names as well. But also I do quite like Carter for a girl so maybe best I don’t comment 🫣

Maude is ace.

Maple? Gwen? Joanie (again a good mix of your names!)?

Non, Kevin is popular in France along with Liam, Arthur, Ethan, Lucas…

I love your choice of Romy, there was a beautiful German actress named Romy

And I really like the name Helen. (Your wife’s choice but you like it - I think you said.)

I’d choose Romy Helen as first and middle names.

I haven’t RTFT so apologies if it’s already been suggested:

Sorry op, you are probably sick of suggestions but I've thought of a few more.

Ilaria
Adele /Adela
Yvette
Iris
Bethany
Annette

Dahlia?

like the movie star that was brutally murdered and chopped up?

Try for a traditional name. Helen is lovely, and can be Helena or Eleanor/Ellinor if you like (all the same name). The others are ok but liable to cause your future DD a problem at school and later (original spellings are never a good idea, either: you and the DC will spend all your lives spelling it).

What about Claudia or Claudine?

A baby girl and bradleigh?

like Bradley?

Romilly? Helen is a nice name but quite different to all the rest. But it's classic (for you) and she likes it so is that not the obvious choice?

Josephine
Severine
Sabine
Adrienne

?

I like Romy, the others are pretty awful.