this is my 3rd 'what do think you of this name' thread...somebody help me!

[mabel1973]

I am eternally grateful to anyone who can be bothered to look at this...I am getting bored with it myself

DH and I have now reached a stalemate.
the only names we can agree on are Nancy and Lola.

neither of them really do it for me, but are the least awful of DH's choices and the only ones that he likes of my choices.

Is lola getting too popular now?

Nancy is a derivative of Anne (originally of Annis), but has been it's own name too for a while. Lola is not (as yet) a name in it's own right.

I think you should go on looking to be honest. You both need to feel happy about what you choose. Could you try going through a baby naming book and pulling out a longer list? That's what my parents did (first my father crossed out the names he really didn't like, then my mother did the same; then they both wrote lists of the names they did really like, and shortlisted from that. I have friends who did the same and were reduced on only one name though )

I like both names.

A friend recommended the name Nancy to me as she reckoned it was ageless and classless and so would never be a handicap! Lola, I think, is very cool but in this neck of the woods it is overtaking Ella and Maia as the name most likely to be attached to the little moppet sipping organic pear juice in the park. There have been other threads about it, I'm sure.