3 syllable names - please help

[Amanda78]

I am due in just over a week and can not decide on names. We do not know what we are having so need help on both boys and girls names please!

I already have DD - Annabelle.

Ideally I would like a name with 3 syllables (hence the use of Annabelle for dd) as our surname is short.

Boys and girls suggestions please.
At the moment I like Eloise for a girl and Matthew Thomas for a boy - I know Matthew is only 2 syllables!!! Really not keen on Sebastian, Christopher, Cameron or Alexander (no offence) and Jonathan is OK.
We do have an Irish connection but then also looking for something that works with Annabelle i.e something traditional.

Any help, much appreciated.

Thanks

My sister named her little girl Ariadne, greek name apparently, I think it's lovely and also has you 3 syllables! I love Elliot for a boy, never been able to useit as we have 4 girls!

Good luck.

Gabrielle
Marion
Gideon
Fenella
Emily
Susannah
Jennifer

Imogen
Amelie
Tabitha

Benjamin
...

Sorry, always struggle with boys names.

Eloise is very nice.

Off the top of my head:

Timothy
Adrian
Solomon
Benedict
Jonathan
Peregrine
Roderick
Joshua
Zachary
Julian

Vivian/enne
Catherine
Diana
Eleanor/Elinor
Eliza
Georgina
Harriet
Imogen
Juliet
Lucinda
Miranda
Melissa
Natalie
Ottoline
Philippa
Rebecca
Tamara

Benjamin

Joshua

Christian

I love Eloise

Abigail

Eleanor

Jennifer

Emily

Bethany

Maria

Rebecca

Amelia

Annabelle is lovely.

Sister names imo, Juliette, Vivienne, (spelling variations, both good matches to Annabel I think) Beatrix, Lydia, Eliza, Jemima, Claudia. Eloise is nice and matches Annabel well imo.

Brother names
Julius, Dominic, Nathaniel, Bartholomew, Malachy (Irish), Barnaby, Gregory, Thaddeus Frederick.

From what's aleady been suggested for boys I love Gideon.

I wouldn't go with Nicholas. Too many Ns and Ls with Annabelle. Jonathan is ok, but you could end up with Annie and Jonnie. Lovely in a simple way individually but not together.

Bethany
Isobel
Jennifer
Katrina
Olivia
Sophia
Jessica
Larissa

Benjamin
Cameron
William
Oliver
Gregory
Zachary

Oliver

Abigail
Susanna
Rebecca
Beatrice
Miranda

...those were the names on my shortlist for girls. (I have two girls, and used one of those names!)

Nathaniel
Samuel
Gabriel

We too have a short, one syllable surname and our dd1 is called Annabel .

Like you, we wanted a 2 or 3 syllable surname that wouldn't be shortended (to a 1 syllable one) and chose to name our ds Quentin.

Good luck with the birth!

William.

Deanna
Eliza
Imogen
Isobel
Claudia
Amanda

Jemima?
Claudia?
Allegra?

sorry - am rubbish at boy names!

Jessica
Imogen

Nope too late for my brain to work...

I have the same problem very short surname so all 3 DDs have 3 syllable names glad to see two mentioned on here

we have
Abigail
Talia
Bethany

wanted Elodie but DP didn't like it

Amelia
Emily

would have had Elliot but no boys

Eleanor
Victoria
Emily
Madeleine
Imogen
Helena
Sophia
Isabelle

Barnaby
William
Sebastian

There was a Lucinda in the births this morning. I thought of you and your 3 syllable challenge!

But I think Juliette or Vivienne would match better.

Clementine
Jemima
Oliver
Frederick (Freddie)
Samuel
Jacoby
Anthony

Frederick or Gregory would give you a nice English Tennis player theme.

Virginia for a girl

or Christina? I really dislike the name Christina.

Elizabeth - i know its 4 syllables but it works with Annabelle. As do Harriet & Imogen. Except Amanda, Annabelle and Elizabeth might be too many vowels

definitly not Clarabelle

Rhiannon
Rebecca

Erm, will think about boys names..

I think Eloise is gorgeous with Annabelle, so I think you should hang on to that one.

And for boys, erm....

I can only think of Gabriel but that is to many 'l' endings with Annabelle.

Benjamin has already been suggested (always shortened though), errr....

I'll try to think of some more.

(there ought to be a baby book or website which arranges names by number of syllables!)

I think that the Babycentre website allows you to search for names by number of syllables.

MELANIE is a fantastic name