For my gap year, I travelled to Australia to work on a stud farm with a lady named Wendy. She was expecting her 3rd child and after collecting me from the airport was discussing names on the drive home. Idiot girl here said 'just so long as you don't name her Gwen-do-lyn (like Rowan Atkinson would have said it, iyswim). Turns out Wendy was short for Gwendolen, which was also her grandmother's, mother's AND daughter's name. It was also the name of her foundation brood mare, her favourite dog and her horsebox.
I quite like Gwendolen now but the memory still makes me feel ill.
Names I think beautiful- Leonora, Rosalind, Dorcas, Alice, Elisabeth, Marianne, Juliet.
My autocorrect replaced Dorcas with Doncaster, so that's probably out.
For boys I love Alexander, Hamish, Ludovic, Roland, Torsten, Benedict. Didn't use any of them though....