Does anyone care to critique my lists please ?

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DD is Matilda/Tilly. I also have a dsd, Scarlett.

Current not so short lists for dc2 are:-

Girls

Florence
Daisy
Stella
Beatrice
Martha
Phoebe
Heidi

Boys

Fergus
Fraser
Alexander
Seth
Finlay
Rufus

I would be grateful for your thoughts and any other suggestions

It is rather cool isn't it ? What's on your girl's list then ? I'm convinced its a girl...

Girls

Florence - lovely and goes well (Tilly and Flo?)
Daisy - lovely
Stella - lovely but not sure it goes
Beatrice - love it but not allowed it in this house (Tilly, scarlett and Bea is lovely)
Martha - Gorgeous name but too similar to Matilda?
Phoebe - not keen
Heidi- not keen at all.

Boys

Fergus - not keen
Fraser - not keen
Alexander - like it
Seth - not keen
Finlay- like it - fave of your list
Rufus - not sure.

Hmmm, let me think.

DS1 would have been Hazel or Willow
(nature names, sorry)
We knew DS2 was a boy so never got very far with girls names. I think we had Nuala lined up.
I'm a fan of Jennifer, Josephine, Lilian, Eris.

I have a few out there new age type names up my sleeve, but you won't like them, so i'm not telling you.

I like Josephine (but would probably end up Josie which would no doubt annoy you ). I also like Francesca, Constance and Fearne but dh doesn't. Jennifer is a great name (its mine ).

Roll on 20 week scan when we can at least hopefully concentrate on one list !

Thanks again all

Bonus points for me then!
Fearne/Fern is fab.
Shortened nicknames with -ie's are fine in the DB rulebook

Girls

Florence OK
Daisy LIKE IT
Stella OK
Beatrice NOT KEEN
Martha OK
Phoebe OK
Heidi NOT KEEN

Boys

Fergus NOT KEEN
Fraser OK
Alexander OK
Seth LIKE IT
Finlay LIKE IT
Rufus NOT KEEN

I like Josie.

Girls

Florence - don't like, also fairly popular.
Daisy - love, but would suit a small child
Stella - makes me think of sugar rush...
Beatrice - nope don't like.
Martha - Like. I think it goes with Matilda.
Phoebe - Like. Goes with Matilda & Scarlett.
Heidi - Like. Don't care about kerry katona.

Boys

Fergus - love love love.
Fraser - mmmm its okay.
Alexander - okay but very popular.
Seth - love.
Finlay - okay but quite popular.
Rufus - not very keen.

Girls

Florence- Lovely. Florence speaks several European languages and when she whips off her specs is quite stunning. Her French artist husband calls her Florrie
Daisy- No, Daisy is too worried about getting her taffeta dirty and she doesn't like to get greasy helping her Daddy clean his new bike
Stella- Excellent name. Stella takes no prisoners but has a romantic side she only shares with a few people
Beatrice- I love this, tis dd's middle name but I don't think it suits all children. Beatrice has to be elegant and worldly (which my dd is not btw)
Martha- so cute, but not with dd1's name and it's too of the moment
Phoebe- she's sweet but she's not your dd
Heidi- No, she shotputs at the weekend and doesn't like reading for pleasure

Boys

Fergus- yes, yes, yes, but he has to be cool and effortless
Fraser- nooo, the freckly specky one out of Byker Grove
Alexander- It's alright but it's just not special enough
Seth- This one, this, pick this one, it's simple, punchy, brilliant. Your ds would be a Seth
Finlay- It's nice but it isn't Seth
Rufus- Brilliant, really good name and second choice if Seth doesn't suit

I love baby names, more so as I won't ever need them. You have excellent taste.

Beatrice, Martha, Phoebe all lovely

Fraser, Seth and Finlay all lovely

Florence
Heidi

Fraser
Alexander

I love Beatrice and Rufus from your list

i like daisy, martha and alexander

Florence- love this and goes well with Matilda
Daisy- v pretty but perhaps a bit 'cute' compared to the other names
Stella- okay
Beatrice- lovely, as with Florence.
Martha- nice- do you want another M name?
Phoebe- v nice
Heidi- not too keen on this one

Fergus- okay
Fraser- not keen
Alexander- okay
Seth- okay
Finlay- okay
Rufus- love this.

I would choose Florence or Beatrice from the girls list and Rufus from the boys list.

How about Clara, Cordelia, Iris, Ada, Estelle, Louisa, Lucy, Evangeline, Alice, Imogen, Theodore, George, Gregory, , Hugo?

I really like all your choices with the exception of Heidi - Kerry Katona's kid is called Heidi if you get my drift.

I like all of your girl's names. Heidi, Martha and Daisy not quite so much as the others, though.

The only one of your boy's names I like is Alexander.

Girls

Florence - Love but dislike 'Flo' - reminds me of an old gossipy washer woman

Daisy - Love for a child but doesn't suit anyone over 12

Stella - Hate, very hard name IMO and the wife beater larger is a real put off.

Beatrice - Like and also like 'Bea'

Martha - No

Phoebe - Really like

Heidi - No.

Boys

Fergus - I hate this name, makes me think of Fergie the lurgy for some strange reason

Fraser - Nice but need Scottish roots IMO

Alexander - Alex is way too popular and Im not keen on unisex names (or nn in this case)

Seth - Love it and would be on our list but we live in a region where 'TH' becomes 'F' and I couldn't live with Sef.

Finlay - I know too many

Rufus - Awful

Don't like Phoebe, one of DD's friends gets called Pubey at secondary school

All the rest are

My favourites by far are Florence, Stella and Fraser. Lovely choices imho.

I like Florence, Daisy and Beatrice for a girl and Alexander, Seth and Rufus for a boy.

LOVE florence - so many nick names - Florrie flossie flossie floops floppy jo - endless amusment - goes well with tilly
Stella nice
B nice

All boys are nice apart from Fraser.
You do have excellent taste

Please be careful of Seth - I couldn't say th until I was nearly 10 - and practically nobody in my ds's Kent primary school can. Seth would be Seff to 90% of his classmates. Ds's friend Ethan has the same problem!