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!

I’m really surprised that your wife has put Helen along with the other names as it seems completely different. Is it of sentimental importance?
good luck and hope you come to an agreement.

Presumably "neva" is some variation on "nevaeh" (heaven backwards) ?

Just don't. It's not original, and it's not big or clever ;)

Isn't romily a type of lettuce?

Oh goodness, please name the baby Helen, it’s the only nice one on either list!

I love the name Romy. All the others are awful. The least awful on your wife’s list is Helen, but that’s very drab/boring in my opinion (and very very different to her other suggestions!).

Maybe go back to the drawing board and keep looking.

I like Helena, Emma and Elisa. Manon would be OK if you live in Wales, but probably not in England.

Kevin was briefly popular in France among people from the same kind of social class that might think it was a good idea to call their daughter Bradleigh in an English speaking country. Being called Kevin in France is now a source of embarrassment. The other names you list aren't really equivalent, especially Arthur and Lucas. It's possible that Liam and Ethan might eventually go the way of Kevin. But Kevin is its own phenomenon. Google it.

Romy is the least awful, but Boris and his current wife have just used that, lol. Don’t like any of the rest, sorry.

I like Helen.

I know a girl called Roma (I love the name Roma, it suits her really well) which is similar to Romy.

But, yeah, it's not my favourite list if names. Sorry, OP. 🙈

I really like your revised list!

She might as well just call the child Chav with that list of names.
If you do her favourite at least spell it Bradley so the kid doesn't spend its whole life correcting people.
Only one on there that's nice is Helen.

Gosh they’re all dreadful.

The only one I like a bit is Romy but I know of 3 others and they’re all delinquent children!

Are you trying to be different? If you are please try to consider that perhaps your need to be different is overriding how important a name actually is to a child/person. Sometimes being less different makes you stand out more when a name is concerned. Especially with todays trends.

A similar name that you might like but is a little less offensive in my opinion is Remy.

I like Helen and Dhalia is ok too
sounds like something out of Greek Goddess fables mythology to me.

Bradleigh ( her favourite) - awful, bad spelling of a boy's name
Dallas - might work as a middle name
Paris - male name in greek mythology
Lisandry - too close to misandry and lizardy
Helen - lovely, much nicer than Helena

Romy - not keen
Dahlia -Day-lia or Dahl-ya?
Neva - nev-uh, neeva or nay-va

Manon is a popular name in Wales.
Maude and Barbara are fab

I don't even like Helen... no offence to the Helens on here. But it's just a name I associate with a woman in an office eating a yogurt and complaining about HR...

Congratulations 😊

When you ask I suppose you have to accept honest opinions and for me anyway they're all awful with the exception of Bradleigh (prefer Bradley) & Helen (prefer Ellen)

I've got a Bradley but he is a boy and named before Brad Pitt became famous. Helen or Helena sounds nice.

Paris, Dallas and Lisandry, awful.
Helen i Like. More so Helena.
Romy is okayish, a bit bland. And Dahlia is awful also.

These names are much nicer than original list

My daughter´s best friend is Manon, we´re in Spain. She´s 5. Much better than Dahlia, Dallas and the rest.

If you like clement for a boy, what about Clemmie? I know a little Clemmie and at first I wasn’t too keen if I’m honest, however the name suits her perfectly and she’s an adorable little girl

Please call the wean Helen. Only decent name on the list(s).

Dd is Romy (to rhyme with homie- sorry I'm not a native speaker, so I hope it makes sense). I obviously love the name. It is a contraction of her two (longer) names and not stand alone in our case.

Hi & congrats on the pregnancy!

I like Helene & best. You are more than likely to come across kids with way more unusual names than these. Emma is fine but it sounds like you both like names that are a bit unusual. Manon is beautiful, but my consideration is that kids may shorten it to Man & tease her.

& Roma best, that should say.