Thoughts on top 4 names

[Milliekate38]

For a girl -
we like Ebony , middle name rose
second choice Paris ( no middle name ideal)

boy - Tristan
second choice Bradley ( although I’m not 100%)
also like lex ( just lex not short for anything)

to go with sibling Caleb

please let me know which you like best or another suggestion thank you

Isobel is lovely.

How about Eloise or Celeste.

Tristan is great

Not Ebony or Paris

Colour names:
Amber
Violet
Rose (Rosamund)
Scarlett
Pearl

Place names:
Georgia
India

Isobel or Celine are lovely. PP's suggestion of Clara is gorgeous. Also Carla.

I agree about Tristan and the girls names you have

How about as more modern

Harper
Arminta
Claudia
Alma
Ernestina
Camille
Thora
Lark

Constance and cassie as a nickname

Tristan is an excellent choice. Everything else you've suggested is totally awful.
If you want a far classier girl's name beginning with E, it has to be Eloise.

I know a 50 year old Emony

I like Lennox

Rose is the most done to death middle name in existence. Please don't saddle her with such a dull name.

I really like Tristan, Ebony is really pretty too - what about Briony?

If you like Ebony then I really like Eben as an alternative boys name.

I'd go Alexander/Alexis for boy/girl and have Lex as a nn.

Caleb and

Hannah
Leah
Sarah
Keziah
Rebecca
Eliana

Those would be my suggestions

How can you possibly choose a solid name like Tristan whilst at the same time contemplating a common and past it's sell by date Bradley? As for Ebony and Paris they connjure up The Only Way is Essex.

Is Lex a boy’s name? He’d be called Lexi which to me is a girl’s name

Isabelle/Isobel is lovely

I like both of these suggestions op.

Tristan or Rose.

Ebony is quite quite in a way but I think pp are right in saying CalEB and EBony sounds a bit like Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee.

I like classic names so I'd suggest Tristan James, but there are a couple of posters who will now wade in and say James (and Rose) are overused, but I don't think that matters for a middle name. Middle names are either for a particular meaning/to honour someone or to flow well with the first name,, which I think Tristan James does.

ETA I don't like Paris. If someone has to use it, I'd prefer it on a boy to keep the classical allusion.

Good choice with Tristan. Goes so well with Caleb which I love.
How about
Nina
Freya
Ruby
Melody
which I think go with Caleb

Love Tristan Ross or Tristan Lex

Ebony Rose is sweet but Ebony said in the same sentence as Caleb is a tongue twister, sorry, it's not good.
Paris is not a name I like.

Other ideas ..
Emma Rose
Felicity Rose
Bonnie Rose
Carys Pomeline
Rose Pomeline
Dimity Rose
Dominica Rose
Anneka Rose
Alanna Rose

That’s not a great list of names tbh. The girls in particular are awful. I feel sorry for your future daughter.
Tristan is ok. Bit Home & Away in 1992 but it’s the best of a bad lot.
Bradley is a similar vibe. I’m not keen at all sorry.
What about..
Emily/Emma
Sophie/Sophia
Ruth
Amelia
Joseph
Elliot
Noah
Samuel

I'm glad you’ve said this as we were thinking James as a middle name ( it’s my other half’s middle name ) and yes Tristan James does goes well and if it’s a boy it will be that . So glad that decision is made .

As for girls names we are still very stuck so going to take some time to re think , we do like Isobel but we are not sure we love it enough so will consider other names too.

James as a boy's middle name is like Rose as a middle name for a girl.

Tristan James is lovely op.

You will see the next post after yours was exactly as I had predicted: in came the much-anticipated James is boring/overused comment!

But I think it is popular for a reason: it is a nice name that complements other names well, and if you have meaning behind it in your case, then all the better. It would be my first pick with Tristan.

@Calliopespa , But I think it is popular for a reason:
It's popular because it's the current 'go to' middle name for boys.

A lot of my friends have the middle name Anne and like one of them said 'why did my parents bother?'

Loads of my friends from my era have James as a middle name. I think it was just, if not more, popular when I was a child, as it was when my dc were babies.

Most of the boys I grew up with in the 80's were Sam and Nick (Samuel and Nicholas) and there must have been so many Samuel James and Nicholas James BC at our local registry office.

All names I like though.

I don’t really like Ebony or Paris, but Rose is one of my favourites.
Isobel Rose is a beautiful name
Ayla and Celine are ok but don’t love them.

Maybe Serena or Selina?

I love Tristan, definitely better than Bradley

Anne was more my mum's generation (possibly prompted by Princess Anne?) but tbh I also think that flows well as a ,middle name too. Probably due a resurgence.

Louise was a common middle name for girls when I was young, along with Jane.