We're pregnant with baby number 7 and need inspiration!

[babynumber7]

Righteo, have name changed for this because I want to give my other DCs names and don't want people in RL to be able to identify me by them and read some of my other, more personal posts!

DH and myself have just discovered we're pregnant again, we thought we'd give it one last shot and if it happened it happened and if not no worries.

Well we're thrilled to pieces but a bit stuck on names! having 6DCS already we've used up a lot of our favourite names!

So far we have:
DS1, Archibald Edward (Archie) 16
DD1, Christabelle Edie Jocasta 15
DD2, Ottilie Violet Grace 11
DS2, Hamish Rupert 7
DD3, Antigone Lila Rae nearly 3
DD4, Flossie Isabella Rose 1

so does anyone have any wise suggestions? we quite like Fabrizia, Seraphina, Delphi, Yveline, Ivy, Regan, Kitty and Isolde and for DSs Xerxes, Apollo, Oberon (king of the fairies connotations though, maybe too cruel?) Caspian, Ptolemy, Horatio and Titus.
But none of these seem to REALLY grab us.

Have just remembered another that i like........Hephzibah........(Eppie) shes the girl in Silas Marner.....(do you see a pattern here?)

Ah yes, "Eppie in the coal hole" Actually that is quite a cool name, we might think about that for our potentially female puppy (I like far out names for pets, but we were struggling with any for female pups).

No suggestions I'm afraid but I'm with Jemart wish my DH would agree to something a bit more unusual/fun/pretty

Just out of interest babynumber7, why do your boys have 2 names, but the girls have three? Curiously, my parents did that (2 boys, 2 girls) too.

I aqree with BoffinMum. My middle name is very possibly unique (it was the only recorded instance of it when I wrote to Noris McWhirter in the '80s to find out if me or my sister had the more unsual nam), and it has certainly broken the ice at job interviews. One interviewer told me that he had got me in to ask about my name. I got the job too.

Now then, out there names -

Boys - I like Caspian and Horatio, but they don't grab me. Ptolomey - YES! Ignatius? Clovis? Eliezer? (There was one at school and I thought it was fab even then). Ambrose? Also, really like Lysander.

Girls - Love Kitty and Yvelin from your suggestions. How about Zilah?

I knew a boy from school had the middle name Horatio.
When one of the boys found out from the register he was teased throughout the rest of school:
Horatio Fellatio

You should think long and hard about some of those names. You are naming a child, not a puppy dog after all.

Has nobody realised yet that the op is trolling?

Why go to so much trouble

uracelle - I don't see why you think that? The op is not the only person ever to have 7 children and whilst the names are uncommon they are all perfectly reasonable names. Personally I wouldn't have spelt Christabel as the op has but I don't that's grounds for execution

There's another thread proposing Cy as a name and nobody has accused that poster of trolling.

Hmm...... I read the OP and for some reason thought "troll" aswell uracelleH. My appologies if you are not OP!

Thank you, bikerunski. I now feel understood.

I thought troll too but didn't like to say.

It was the strange combination of names and middle names rather then the unusual nature or number of names.

I have no suggestions but i have to just say I LOVE your childrens names.. love love love em !

well done you

PS Horatio was my bumps name last time, its a good name not a cats name..* glares at TomNook and shouts Dont you watch CSI. TSK.

We aren't trolling, and to be honest what would the point of this thread be? I know you get trolls who post inflamatory views or quite unlikely or upsetting scenarios but we're asking for baby names... creature teacher, I don't see how our choice of name combos are any more strange than thousands of other peoples?

Thank you to everyone who has given us some wonderful suggestions though!

ps, Nooka, there's no particular reason why the girls have three names and the boys too, just seemed to flow better and we could think of more girls names we wnated to use

I love some of these names
Also love;
Jago (Cornish for James)
Isambard
Cassiopeia
Epifony
Constance

Jonty (Jonathon)

I thought of Isambard tonight, whilst watching Paxman on "The Victorians" and I came on here to suggest it only to see that Stitchwort has beaten me too it.

Victor
Kingsley
Quentin

are my other boy suggestions. I find boys names more difficult than girls.

Have just thought of another couple:
Willoughby (actually put into my head by a BabyName scoffer)
Wilhelmina

no sweatheart, twas at the op. i mean really. xerxes abd antigone

dont want to be identified.... yer 'avin a giraffe love

...takes money...and kisses

Watch out for originals of names like Iphigenia (slaughtered by her dad), Cassandra (prophetess of Troy whom no one believed) and Regan (King Lear's nasty daughter).

I like an unusual name myself; tho frankly as the OP says, some of her names are hardly so out there now - who blinks at Archie, Hamish and their sister Flossie? (tho Antigone is less common...)

As usual, I have on destructive comments, no helpful ones

Custy, I know the sheer volume of my children and definately their names WILL identify me, so I name changed from my normal posting name.
Clary, we know some of the origins of names are a bit dodgy (if memory serves in greek mythology Antigone is the product of incest - albeit unintentional - between her father/grandfather and mother/sister) but we LOVED the name and it's not a big deal once the baby is named and people get to know him or her!

Ladidadi, Isambard is on our ever growing list, thank you! (he could always be Sam if he wants something simpler later in life)

KerryMumbles, that wasn't really very constructive was it? And quite frankly rather rude.