39 weeks and no name! Panic starting... Please help me!

[FlirtyThirty]

Ok...so I am due next week and have been/am manically busy with various things! But I'm now beginning to panic that DH hasn't given possible baby names a thought (he's thinking he'll maybe do so this weekend...?!) and that I really don't have any firm favourites of my own.

I know that we can wait til after baby is born to do this, but I'd much rather know before the birth what our shortlist is...it WILL make me more relaxed! For a pretty laid-back person, this naming game is actually becoming a major source of stress for me. Silly but true.

So...was wondering if anyone could help with any suggestions - first and middle names please!

The kind of names I like are 'real' names, ideally slightly more unusal but not wacky, and quite strong names:

I'm not really into cutesy names, flower names or abbreviated names as first names:

GIRLS
Eloise
Francesca
Madeleine
Maria
Miranda
Zara
Alexandra
Elizabeth
Josephine
Sorrell
Marisa

BOYS (middle name will be Michael)
James
Cameron
Leo
Alexander
Finlay
Isaac

Thanks for any suggestions ladies!

GIRLS

Marina
Flora
Rosa
Orla

BOYS
Jacob
Fraser
Rufus

But I like all of yours too. One of them is the name of my DS (with Michale as a middle name too!) so I am biased.

From your list the ones I like are (in order of preference)

GIRLS Elizabeth Josephine Alexandra Francesca BOYS

James
Alexander

from your list i like

francesca
elizabeth
alexandra and LOVE Sorrel

and James and Alexander

Girls what about

Laura rose
Abigail elizabeth
Hannah Katherine
Sophia Grace
Megan Victoria
Ellen
Louisa
Alicia/alice

From your girls list I like:

Eloise
Francesca
Madeleine
Miranda
Alexandra
Elizabeth

I would also suggest:

Harriet
Penelope
Ruth (although I notice that you tend to favour longer names)
Georgiana
Rosamund
Verity
Clara

I like all of your boys names but I'm not sure of Isaac Michael as a combination.

I would also suggest:
Angus
Edwin
Hugh/Hugo
Gregory
Oscar

Girl ideas:

Tamsin
Rosanne
Meredith
Meryl

I like Eloise, Zara, Josephine and Francesca

Boy ideas:
Justin
Laurence
Francis
Harvey

Love Alexander though but one of my close friends beat me to it.

My favourites are:

Francesca
Alexandra

Finlay
Isaac

Eloise and Finlay

I also like Finnian,Flynn,Noah
Caitlin,Ruby,Eva,Ava,Clara,Cleo

HOw about Marianne i love that name...? friends of ours called their DD Ariana - thats quite pretty.

please not eloise....all i hear is that awful song.....

Leo Michael sounds best IMO

Beautiful list! You have nothing to be nervous about... lovely choices!

A few middle name possibilities:

May
Erin
Lynn
Fe
Grace
Renee
(With 'M', I like alliterative first and middle... e.g. Miranda May, Madeline Marie)

Clement
Stephan
Heath
Lane

Oooo, I LIKE Sorrell - that's lovely - I'd have nicked that if I'd seen it before my DDs were born! Also like Elizabeth - strong, simple name. Not keen on the others - sorry.

I like Alexander very much but there are a lot of them about. Really like Cameron - has a similar feel to other boys names that I like - Fraser and Vaughn.

I like:
Elizabeth
Eloise
Zara
Alexandra
Maria

in that order

and Isaac for a boy (not keen on others)

I like Elizabeth and James best from your list I think. Isaac too.

I also like Marianne, Patrick, Alastair, Edmund.

Oh, and Alec, but not Alex, oddly enough.

Don't panic! DS was 6 weeks old before he had a name!!

We finally decided on 2 possible girl and boy names, wrote them down and said that's final, the day I went into labour with ds. Don't worry - at least you've got a long list of possibilities.

Oh, ladies, thanks so much for your input...some lovely comments and alternative suggestions. I feel a lot more relaxed now.

HAve decided to put aside work for the day and spend a bit of time making a list of first/middle combinations which I can give to DH to consider.

I had hoped he would compile his own list but that's not to be and time is sort of running out (or so it feels)...plus, the poor man is actually incredibly busy!

Am sure we'll come up with something...and perhaps I should be focussing more on labour an the days afterwards!