Help- name suggestions please!

[HollyGolightly4]

I'm due my first baby (didn't find out sex!) in March and we're struggling with names. DH is a lot more relaxed and thinks we'll look at the baby and know, I remember how long it took to name the dog and want some ideas 🤣.

We seem to b picky and don't like (to be clear, don't like for our child, lots of these names are gorgeous but I just can't see myself parenting one)

1. Names ending in the ee sound (Lilly/Alfie etc)
2. Names ending in a vowel sound in general actually (Layla/Noah etc)
3. Old fashioned names (Dorothy/Stanley etc)
4. Long names that can be shortened (Victoria/ Alexander etc)

I do like Celtic heritage names, which is our background (Maeve/Cian etc)
I also like strong sounding names with consonant endings (Elliott/Erin etc)

Anyone fancy a challenge and like to offer some suggestions?

I like Corinne, I hadn't thought of that one.

Too many school memories of multiple Jade/Claire

You've also hit on both mine + dhs grandmother's name, but that might cause problems if we went with one and not another!

Seren
Ffion
Lois
Iris
Gwen
Hugh
James
Taig
Liam
Bryn

Aidan
Adam
Max
Tristan
Robin
Finn
Fintan
Angus
Patrick
Caelan
Angus
Thomas
Emmett
John
Eric
Conrad
Cormac
Evan
Owen

Seren
Roisin
Harriet
Edith
Merryn
Bronwen
Siobhan
Niamh
Robin

Rowan
Elowen

Magnus
Miles

Meredith
Declan

Luke/Lucas
Rachel
Carys

Ellen
Gretal
Bridget
Jane

Clive
Victor
Paul
Ned

Amy
lucy
molly
polly
holly
heidi
phoebe
elsie
ivy

isla
martha
lorna
laura
anna
bella
ada
ava

mabel
florence / flo/ florrie
edith
violet
olwen
alice
Iris

Katherine / katy / kitty
charlotte / Charlie / lottie
Henrietta / etta
harriet / hattie
clementine / clemmie

henry
leonard / Lennie
oliver / olly
wilfred / wilf
frederick/ Fred / freddie
daniel/ danny
joseph / joe
rory
toby
oscar / ozzie
patrick / pat / paddy
jamie
brody

Thanks for the suggestions - quite a lot of vowel endings there and names that can be shortened!😆

James is my favourite boys name but we can't use it 😭.

Some gorgeous suggestions here - thank you. I've mentioned a few already, but love Emmett and I do think boys names are harder.

Oooh, Declan is intriguing!

I like Luke and Lucas- but they're already taken in the family!

Carys is beautiful.

See, I really like Ned, I think it's adorable but DH told me it historically stands for 'non educated delinquent' in Scottish education!

Carys is beautiful. It's so dated and doesn't even sound or look nice. It's like Karen or Tracy.

I like Declan.

Ned - I'm with your DH on this one.

@NamingNoNames interesting take! I feel like Karen definitely has other connotations and Tracy is just so 70s. I'd never choose either 😆

Carys is Welsh and means beloved I think, so a bit more heritage there. Each to their own though! I'm not sure I can envision my child being called Carys having said that.

@HollyGolightly4 , Carys and Dylan are 1960s names and I don't think it's a coincidence they were popular at the same time as Karen and Darren.

Carys doesn't really have much heritage (Love+ys). It was a recent name that fitted in with the fashion. Dylan does have heritage but so does Gareth.
They don't seem like baby names.

it still does!!

One to totally rule out @MiddleAgedDread 😆

Erin
Robin
Tamsin
Grace
Seren
Beth
Kate

Ewan
Reuben
Jacob
Reece
Matthew
Michael
Rowan

Bronwen is the correct spelling Welsh for a girl

Harriet

@Lemonbam , Macs and Iain aren't Welsh either, are they? Macsen is.

Ciaran

Ruadhan