Lucas, Gabriel for a boy, girls, well have no clue - give me some more please?

[pavlovthecat]

These are the names we have, now I like them well enough, but they are not grabbing me.

I will tell you some of the names I really actually like, but that I am not going to call my child if its a boy, as they are a bit 'out there' and maybe you can help me come up with some names I might actually like.

Boys
River
Bracken
(don't say rowan as everyone does, I don't like it!).

Girls
Scout. That is it. Its the only name I like.

My DD is called Isabella, but mostly referred to a as Bella.

noooo I do not like Beau. All I think of whenever I hear that is that Eternal Beau china!

Please you weren't upset by my post as just trying to be honest!
Do you think you could use Scout as a middle name if you love it so much and find something else that you like as a first name? I'm only suggesting it as I think you have to imagine yourself with the name you are proposing for you DD. Honestly, I would much rather be Isabella than Scout.
I do really like Lucas and Gabriel- I don't think they are dull at all.

Please you weren't upset by my post as just trying to be honest!
Do you think you could use Scout as a middle name if you love it so much and find something else that you like as a first name? I'm only suggesting it as I think you have to imagine yourself with the name you are proposing for you DD. Honestly, I would much rather be Isabella than Scout.
I do really like Lucas and Gabriel- I don't think they are dull at all.

Where I live I only know one Gabriel (and I love it, and would have had it had a) DH agreed and b) there been a chance of our DCs looking remotely angelic) but what seems like loads of Lucases.

It also makes me think of Mr Lucas from Are You Being Served (ie a lech).

Scout is nice-and-all-that (and I often call my DD Scamp) but IIRC it is, even in To Kill A Mockingbird, a nickname, rather than a name. As I say, I may well be wrong - 'tis a long time since I read TKAM - but if I am right you run the risk of forever being judged as "the mum who gave her DD a trendy name from a book without bothering to read it."

balloon - you are right, it is a nickname, her name was actually Jean Louise Finch. But I don't like either of those names!

Nicknames are ok though these days aren't they? Jack is a nickname, or rather was, but is not the most popular name. I don't mind whether people might think me intellectually defunct!

peppa - not offended at all

Nope I don't like Beau either. Wasn't it Eternal Bow? My mum used to have loads of it!

I have seen it written as Bow and Beau. It was horrendous, I recall you could get it on everything, towels, curtains, pellmets bed covers, plates cups and all kitchen ware. no offence to your mother mind!

I always thought that the nickname Scout came from the character's behaviour: watchful, innovative etc. So not what you can bestow on a newborn whose character you know little about. (My DS1 is bright enough but staggeringly unobservant. A bomb could go off and 40 minutes later he might say: did you hear a funny noise? A few minutes ago? Imagine the embarrassment if he's have been called Scout or something similar.)

Ramona - reminds me of Ramona the Pest, who in my head looks like Scout from TKAM...

It was around the same time that all teenage girls had duvet covers, make up cases etc with sad-eyed Pierrots on iirc!

lol you have a point. does not notice even when slapped in the face with it? I can see karma might play a part and not give me someone with intiution ability to sense her surroundings at all.

Like calling your child Ebony and having a blue eyed, blond haired child!

I watched Ondine by the Royal Ballet the other night.

Ondine?

no. don't like Ondine.

My nephew is Bo. Suits him very well.

Hmmm. Your boys names are...interesting

Scout. How about some more Southern Gothic names? Harper
Lena
Eudora
Bess
Ada
Leora
Stella
Blanche

Romola
Ottoline
ottilie
Cornelia

Other one syllable names:

Wren
Gwen
Blythe
Briar
Fay
Kaye
Faith
Fern
Fleur
Greer
Hope
Maeve
Maude
Nell
Pearl
Ruth
Skye
Tess

This is going to be soooooooo hard isn't it, don't like any of them, sorry!

I am not sure why I like Scout, or DH either. It just sits well on our tongues, I can imagine a girl being called Scout. But its not necessarily a need for one syllable words, in fact the thing I like about DDs name is the flow as it has lots of syllables.

I guess I want something not to common but not too pretentious, or hippy, or embarrasing for the child. Something that will be able to grow with them as an adult. I am not sure scout would be good as a 35 year old woman's name.

Hmmm. I have to say, Scout doesn't sound like a proper name to me - and I am not a traditionalist. It sounds like a nickname - something you'd call your little girl, but not her real name, iyswim. It also has slightly...how shall I put it? - loopy, try-hard celebrity-ness about it, like Fifi Trixabelle or Moonface Pilot or whatever they're called.

Could you use it as her middle name and at least give her a chance of a 'roper' name

Harper is cool, in my opinion. Just thought of it, never have before. I like...

p.s. I have a Bella, too

Mrshattie - but what though ?!!!!! I am stuck, that is the problem

Oh, but Mae is nice. We both like May.

Stupid me, can't even spell it right twice in one sentence! We would spell it Mae.

Mmmm. Don't like Harper at all.
I like Mrs M's suggestion of Wren for a girl - Bella and Wren sound nice together.

My brain - MrsMattie I called you Mrshattie I know you are not Mrshattie Maybe I should go to bed and get back up again later. Its been a long day already!

Mae is lovely - maybe getting a bit popular though (can't really comment as the mother of an Isobel!!!!).

oh is it popular?! Darn. I liked it after being a fan of My Neighbor Totoro. Shame.