Why do we hate most girl names...

[toadandfrog]

Dh and I can't agree/find a name we actually love.
These are ones he doesn't hate but has said don't feel like first names, and the ones I don't immediately hate.
And im sure he's only keeping a few for my sake

Elowyn

Mairwen
Odelia
Adoette
Adalia
Alianna
Elliana
Mariela
Alethia
Maeve
Freya / Maea
Medeina
Moryana
Astraea
Arabella
Mariam

We have a Madeleine. I like longer names like this, ones that make you go huh, clearly they own their own ponies and luncheon at the tennis club...
Please help!

Davina is actually pretty pony club 🤪

Madeleine & Emmeline
Madeleine & Genevieve
Madeleine & Esther
Madeleine & Sylvie

Primrose
Penelope
Seraphina
Ottilie
Olivia
Francesca

Elowyn - isn't it Elowen?
Mairwen - Mare-wun?
Odelia - Delia is nice
Adoette - is it a name?
Adalia - no
Alianna - no
Elliana - no
Mariela - isn't it Mariella?
Alethia - Alicia with a lisp
Maeve - at least it's a name
Freya / Maea - Freya yes, Maea no
Medeina - ???
Moryana - ???
Astraea - ???
Arabella - yes
Mariam - isn't it Maryam?

Most of them are awful.

Madeleine and her twenty sisters ..

Elowen
Ellen
Ellinor
Alizee
Philomena
Victoria
Aster
Henriette
Rosanagh
Odette
Cosette
Isabeau
Araminta
Arietta
Allegra
Bridgette
Stephanie
Elouisa
Pomeline
Camilla

A lot of them are quite wafty, OP. They remind of a few women I was at uni with in the early 90s who wore crushed velvet maxi skirts, burned joss sticks and played Kate Bush a lot.

Madeleine is lovely and I really like Elowen from your list, but only spelled like that.

I have a name that sounds like I owned ponies as a child or my parents were part of the landed gentry. (Neither of which apply) I detest it. Pick something shorter and prettier, take it from one who knows, your daughter will thank you for it. That said Madeleine is nice. Eloise is pretty and sounds similar to names on your list.

Astrid?
Emmeline?
Saskia?

If you like Madeleine then I think you need something fairly classic - these are all a bit Disneyprincessa footballers daughter - or trailer park, in reality.

Eg

Genevieve
Verity
Juliet / Julia
Claudia
Imogen
Francesca
Emmeline
Eloise
Helena
Harriet
Serena
Philippa
Adelaide
Rosanna
Cecily / Cecilia
Cassia
Susannah
Saskia

Or if you want a bit more floweryness

Cressida
Fenella
Allegra
Paloma
Octavia
Daphne
Perdita
Seraphina
Tamara
Ianthe
Estella
Georgiana
Clementine
Arabella works here
Alicia (but only produced Ah-liss-ee-ah, if it’s Ah-lee-sha then we’ve left the pony club)

I do like Maryam though, and also Marianne - but they are too similar to Madeleine really

I like longer names like this, ones that make you go huh, clearly they own their own ponies and luncheon at the tennis club...

You mean like the royal family? The names they use now and historically, Elizabeth, Mary, Alexandra, Charlotte, Anne, Louise, Beatrice, Victoria.

Those are the types of names that truly posh, people use. The poshest family in the country.For example.

You seem to be after Nouveau riche frilly names.
Evangeline
Genevieve
Araminta

Actually Genevieve and Araminta are v pony club, although the latter so much so it’s a joke.

The Royal Family take from a v narrow list of names, but the UK upper classes have often liked a bit of flounce, especially for girls, although the OP has mixed it up with Disney

Delphine
Odette
Davinia
Annabel
Amabel
Francoise
Francesca
Nanette
Hermione
Evelyne
Emmaline
Gabriella
Gabrielle

Thank you so much for the suggestions, going to propose some to dh and see where we land!

Just remembered Loralie. Lor-ra- lye.

Or Anoushka?

I had a beautiful friend as a child called Thomasina.

Not long, but I think Madeleine and Iris.

Ottilie
Susannah
Tabitha
Felicity
Tallulah

Josephine

Louisa

Genevieve

I aimed for multi syllable and a bit French sounding but shorten to solidly middle class British.

Perdita
Andrea
Laetitia
Violette
Rosina

Well im just 'Lucy' but I owned ponies when little and still do .
Also have lunch wherever I fancy.

Fizzy /flick (felicity)
Clara
Esme (esmerelda)
Pippa
Hatty (harriet )
Saffy ( sapphire)
Tilly / matilda
Sophia
Emelia
Those are my more posh horse friends
Then there is
Sophie
May
Louisa
Carly
Emily
Becky
Layla
Audrey
poppy

Xx

A lot of the names on the list are really weird, made uppey, and a far cry from 'ponies, and luncheon at the tennis club'..

How about
Eloise
Alexandra
Harriet
Juliet
Winifred
Philippa
Alicia
Leonora
Louisa
Seraphina
Penelope

The made uppey ones are the opposite of posh. Irregular spelling is the giveaway.

Davina is a very pony club name!

If you want a horsey name then how about Clarissa or Bill?