My name list - number 362!!

[VAB]

Hello,

Not due til October but love thinking of names - my husband is next to useless he just looks through the baby name book finding the silliest names known to man. Men!

Anyway here is my list (for now) - thoughts? Oh and I am Dutch (although lived here a long time now) so that explains some of my choices. I find boys names hard!!

Girls

Astrid
Saskia
Freya
Claudia
Heidi
Belle
Ingrid

Middle name = Verity

Boys

Dylan
Jude
Joel
Jacob
Isaac
Billy
Samuel
Leo
Caleb
Sebastian

Middle name = Jordan

Although some of these have had the 'no-no' from daddy - we'll see!

[MarshaBrady]

oh it's old!

[MarshaBrady]

Astrid, Heidi and Claudia are my favourite for girls.

And

Sebastian and Jude for boys.

[mathanxiety]

What did you choose, OP? See this thread started a while back...

[mathanxiety]

Girls

Astrid -- love
Saskia -- love
Freya -- like a lot (but v. popular)
Claudia -- ok
Heidi -- don't like
Belle -- like a lot
Ingrid -- like a lot

Boys

Dylan -- ok
Jude -- like a lot
Joel -- don't like
Jacob -- like
Isaac -- love
Billy -- like if nn for William
Samuel -- love
Leo -- love
Caleb -- don't like
Sebastian -- ok

I love your middle names.

[jellybeans]

Astrid LIKE IT
Saskia LIKE IT
Freya OK
Claudia OK
Heidi NOT KEEN
Belle LIKE IT
Ingrid DISLIKE

Middle name = Verity NOT KEEN

Boys

Dylan LIKE IT
Jude NOT KEEN
Joel LOVE IT
Jacob LOVE IT
Isaac OK
Billy OK
Samuel LOVE IT
Leo LIKE IT
Caleb LIKE IT
Sebastian DISLIKE

Middle name = Jordan DISLIKE

[dizzydixies]

load of nonsense re Saskia being chavvy

and Dylan a dog's name

[Zondra]

Astrid gets my vote (my lovely 10 year old daughter's name).
All the girls names are gorgeous that you have on your list.

I love Caleb from the boy's names.

[VAB]

Ahh just remembered the other boys names... Dexter. Which I have liked for a long time but fear it is a bit too trendy at the moment.

[Ondine]

Astrid - I really like it, über chic. But not faddish.
Saskia - I think in England at least this name has gone to the chavs.
Freya - I like this as well, it's quite popular though. Personally I'd go for Astrid.

Dylan - It's a dog names imo.
Sebastian - Very nice.

[becklespeckle]

Lovely list! I love Freya best of your girl's names and Jacob (followed very closely by Leo) of the boy's ones

[BlackEyedDogstar]

What a lovely list!

I LOVE Astrid am considering this for my October dd (but have no Nordic reasons to choose it but hey ho)

My ds is Leo so love this too obviously.

Saskia

Claudia

also like a lot

[jeanjeannie]

LOVE Saskia - gorgeous. My DD2 is called Verity, so that's a good choice too!

Really like Jacob and Isaac - not keen on the rest, but then again, I'm useless with boys names!

[VAB]

Thanks all!!

Hmmm it's so hard and everybody likes/hates some names - can't please everyone...

Sat down with husband last night and he is just useless!!

We ended up with:

Astrid (which is my middle name)
Saskia
Freya

Dylan
Sebastian
and one other but I can't remember!!

My absolute favourite for a girl would be Claudia Verity - but he really doesn't like it. Silly man.

[cheekster]

All lovely names

Id go with

Samuel Jordan

Belle Verity

but could easily pick all of them

[Gattina83]

ALL gorgeous have 17 children!
Freya is a fave and i know a really cool fashionable beautiful Ingrid, Heidi might not be taken seriously as a business woman, i don't think Belle sounds right with Verity (imo).
Not keen on Jordan with the first 4 on your list, although i like all the names, Billy Jordan sounds cool and Samuel Jordan
Boys are definately harder!

[slowreadingprogress]

Astrid, or Saskia - both lovely

Leo by far the best of your boys names!

[LaDiDaDi]

Claudia Verity or Leo Jordan imo.

[Thunderduck]

Girls

Astrid Hate
Saskia No
Freya Love
Claudia Love even more.
Heidi Like
Belle No.
Ingrid It's ok.

Boys

Dylan Nice but too common.
Jude Not a fan

Joel Love
Jacob Love
Isaac Like
Billy No
Samuel Love
Leo No
Caleb It's ok
Sebastian Love

[janeite]

Girls' names are all fine, except Saskia which I really don't like. I like Belle best but prefer Isobel.

Boys' names:

Dylan - like it
Jude- like it
Joel - reminds me of Billy, so am put off
Jacob - love it
Isaac - love it
Billy - don't like it but like William
Samuel - fine
Leo - not fond
Caleb - hate
Sebastian - love, love, love but hate Seb

[jellybeans]

Astrid LOVE IT
Saskia LOVE IT
Freya OK
Claudia OK
Heidi DISLIKE
Belle OK
Ingrid DISLIKE

Dylan LOVE IT
Jude HATE IT
Joel LOVE IT
Jacob LOVE IT
Isaac LOVE IT
Billy OK
Samuel LIKE IT
Leo LOVE IT
Caleb LOVE IT
Sebastian DISLIKE

[Deemented]

I like names that are unusual, but not completely well... demented

I have a Ciaran, Brennan and a Brogan. For this one i really like Roan, Wynter, Verity, Mali and Marnie for girls and for boys i like Carson, Jethro, Fenton and Malaki.

[Dumbledoresgirl]

LOL at me picking your FIL's name. But I do think there are nice, traditional and not much used names out there for boys, similar to Robert.

I had great difficulty naming my children something traditional with no associations as I had taught for many years. I still feel uncomfortable with my youngest son's middle name because it was chosen by dh but was also the name of a particularly weedy child in a school I taught in.