Soon to be born!

[lookingatlife]

My favourite names, but my husband has vetoed some of them! We don't know what we are having. We are a Spanish-Irish couple which should explain some of the names. Would love some other suggestions to put to my husband. He is not very good at suggesting names! Thank you.

Emilia
Noelia
Lydia
Cordelia

Fionn
Julian
Felix

Maya
Valentina
Sofia
Gabriela
Anna
Rafaela
Lucia
Maeve
Erin
Orla

Carlos
Arlo
Hugo
Antonio
Declan
Liam
Patrick
Finn
Rory

Love Lydia and Julian.

Juliana
Mariana
Alicia
Luisa

Oscar
Sebastian
Theodore
Tobias

They are all beautiful. Stand at the bottom of your stairs and shout the names to upstairs and see what ones you like the best. (As you may in the future be doing that a bit 😂) Also have a think to what you/their friends might naturally shorten their name to and make sure you like that too.
I adore Mateo, Rafael, Antonia

I love Emilia and Lydia and like Felix and Julian.

Lots of lovely suggestions above, my favourites are

Maya
Isla
Elena
Lucia
Gabriella
Liliana

Rafael
Sebastian
Matteo
Max
Rio

I'd be inclined to go with more Spanish type names that are recognizable everywhere, and avoid letters that are pronounced differently in Spanish and English. No J, C, Ch, Sh, ll, or th names, for instance. Maybe names that are still a nod to the Irish heritage but would be easy to pronounce.

Ava / Eabha
Alvy
Fia
Fiona
Finola
Nora

Anton
Liam
Oscar
Dara (Darragh spelling if you prefer)
Fintan
Enda

Spanish / easy for Spanish family:
Alma
Catalina
Sofia
Maribel
Isabela
Estela
Ana
Mariana
Frida
Vera
Dalia
Elena
Beatriz
Viviana
Antonella
Ariana

Spanish Girl Names:

• Carmen
• Elena
• Isla
• Nina
• Antonia

Irish Girl Names:

• Roisin
• Cara
• Nora
• Alana
• Briana

Spanish Boy Names:

• Alejandro
• Daniel
• Tomás
• Benjamin
• Luis

Irish Boy Names:

• Liam
• Oscar
• Sean
• Ronan
• Flynn

Combos:

• Elena Roisin
• Isla Roisin
• Carmen Alana
• Briana Carmen
• Nora Elena
• Oscar Luis
• Liam Benjamin
• Sean Tomás
• Daniel Sean
• Alejandro Flynn

Orla
clara
leona
cosima
tallulah
rosalie
nora
tara
alba
mariposa

hugo
jude
xavier
elio
gabriel
max
zachary
rocco
tobias

Thanks! These are great 😊 if anyone has any other ideas would love to hear them

Carlotta for a girl

Daniel for a boy

@lookingatlife
are you the Spanish or the Irish half of the couple?

Just in case you are not aware, both Lydia and Noelia sound very dated in Spain. Both names were very “in” in the 70s and early 80s. In fact Noelia is a very mid-70s girl name. There was this song “Noelia” by singer Nino Bravo. He was killed in an accident in 1973 and for a few years Noelia was a very fashionable name. As there have been Noelias before and after, the average age of Spanish Noelias is 30-something atm but it is a name that screams born in the 70s.

you can check average age of baby names in Spain and geo distribution here (official source, statistics office).

https://www.ine.es/widgets/nombApell/index.shtml

Thanks.

I'm actually Colombian but Spanish speaking. I like Noelia, but have been outside of Colombia for so long that I don't know how it sounds there! We won't be living in a Spanish speaking country, probably. We will actually be moving to a French speaking country soon so a name that works in English, Spanish, and French would be amazing.

My cousin (Spanish) married a French woman and they live between London and Madrid with visits to the French family. Their children are Isabella and Nicolás and the names work very well in the UK, Spain and France.

Thank you! Isabella is too close to my name unfortunately!

I think all the names on your list are beautiful!

Other ideas
Maria
Christina
Daniela/Daniella

Pascal
Samuel
Tristan

Then look at saints names that have multi-national variations - for example, George, William or Nicholas, Sophie or Caroline or Mary.

Nico
Luz
Finbar
Aoife
Caoimhe
Fenton
Oisin
Connelly
Quinn
Ignacio
Iris
Leni
Luke
Franklin
Freddie
Nuala
Theo
Inmaculada
Sky
Lyon
Xiomara

Zio
Rowan

Lydia and Julian

Rupert
Evan
Kurt

Zelda
Sylvie
Coral