Baby girl name - impossible

[Indigolds]

DH and I are expecting our first baby, a little girl, next month. We are finding picking a name impossible.

We don't mind but also don't really want to use these names

• Ruby
• Amber
• Summer
• Anna
• Leah
• Maya
• Elena (Eh-lay-nah)

I think we want a name that evokes a feeling of warmth and adventure. Basically we have a concept for a name but not a name!!
We don't want anything too out there but nothing too popular either. Just an established well known name that's ideally not top 30-50.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!!

Wow, didn't realise until reading this thread how absolutely wild we were choosing a name for our daughter before she was born!

@sel2223 , what you did was outrageous. Has she called Childline about it?

We were expecting a baby. We should have spent 9 months thinking, 'We'll just wait until the baby turns up then we'll start thinking what name she or he looks like."

Has Liberty been suggested yet? That has a sense of freedom.

I feel totally outrageous 🤣🤣

It took us that long to agree on a name, if we waited she'd have been nameless for months poor thing

Gosh, I love the vibe you're going for - warmth and adventure is a gorgeous concept. Amber, Ruby and Summer all really work for it. But I LOVE previous poster's suggestion of Ember. And someone said Sienna which fits. I can't think of any more immediately but I wonder if lists of paint names (e.g. burnt umber, saffron yellow, sienna etc) might be a good place to look. Or warm colour jewels and precious stones like amber and ruby... jasper, for a boy would be a good one. Spices? Or places? India, maybe? The Indias I've known have been warm, hippy, adventurer types.

Yes, we did with dc2. I remember seeing him and thinking he doesn’t look like an x . Dh agreed so we ended up reversing his intended first and middle name, so instead of xy Smith, he became yx Smith.

@roshi42 , OP's baby was due in April.

@Teacupsandrollups , yes. DN didn't look anything like any of the names on the shortlist. The baby was given a vintage name that was unusual at the time but is far more popular now.

Pippa
Matilda
Joan
Dora
Alison

Oops! Zombie thread. I'd love to know what they went for in the end!

Stella
Nancy
Daphne
Sienna
Vita
Leonie
Lara
Carly
Josephine
Mirabel
Alanna
Tessa

How about:

Catherine - Cate, Kitty
Lois
Alanna
Anneke
Cressida
Lola
Zena
Alison
Nancy
Mary
Eloise
Ellen

Me too! @Indigolds please come back and tell us 🙏 😁

Zombie thread