I'm 35 weeks pregnant with dc2 and although we seem to have quite a few boys names we like, girls names are much more of a problem. Our 18 month old dd is Ava Rose and our surname begins with M. Ideally we'd like a relatively uncommon name - mind you, we thought we'd found that with Ava (funnily enough I really didn't like it until she popped out and then it just 'seemed right') and now it turns out that the name is becoming more popular with every second!
I'm a big fan of not having any sort of pattern to siblings names (ie, I'd rather not have another beginning or ending in A). I am also not a fan of using an obvious nickname as the whole name, I'd like to try and find a 'proper' name I like even if the nn was the one we used by default.
At the risk of being told we have terrible taste, these are our measly ideas:
Esme
Elizabeth (Bess)
We really like Nell as a nn but not sure about Helen/Eleanor/Elena as full version.
We also like Claude as nn but don't like Claudia/Claudine/Claudette.
Help!
To make matters worse, dp and I both teach in a girls school so most names we come up with already have a connotation attached to them!