JillJill32's baby name shortlist

[JillJill32]

Here's the shortlist of baby names I'm considering that I generated with Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder. Let me know what you think.

Boys
Alistair
Blair
Douglas
Tom

Girls
Annabel
Inez
Megan
Robyn
Rose
Alistair0

oops obviously the alistair in the girls section is out of place...

J

OMG - my list is scarily accuate...two out of three of the names I have used were generated and two of the boys names it came up with up I love (although I am unlilely to have a boy or get them past dh)

BTW i like Megan and Rose and Alister

I like....
Douglas
Tom

Annabel
Megan
Rose

Blair is my fave,
and Inez or Rose for a girl.

Boys: I like Thomas, with nn Tom, best.

Girls: I like Annabel adn Rose best

Bair always makes me think of Timmy Mallet on the Wide Awake Club playing the word association game. At the end he always said "and look at the camera and go blerrrr!" but the blerrrr sounded like blair!

Alastair
Inez

Rose and Tom

Girls, I like Megan, Rose and Annabel

The only boys name I like from your list is Tom.

Tom is my favourite for boys. Blair is very Tony Blair. Douglas and Alistair sound like middle-aged men.

I love Rose. Def my favourite. You see it all the time as a middle name but not very often as a first name. So pretty and timeless.

Megan is lovely but it's been so popular that it's become a bit blah, and it's past its heyday too.

Inez... I would expect a Spanish person.

I don't like the 'y' in Robyn, the name looks somehow both downmarket and mumsy. (I prefer Robin for a boy as well, although I would rather use Robin on a girl than Robyn).

Annabel has always looked like two names (or parts of names) jammed together, it's a bit Sloaney for my tastes, though certainly not a horrible name.

I like Rose and Alastair.

Tom or Annabel

Inez and Douglas both adorable

Annabel or Annabella is two parts of names jammed together - Byron's name for his wife Anna Isabella. I have just postulated on another thread that Amabel is the Hebrew original, but I'm probably being thick and mistaken.

I am probably also being thick, uncultured and mistaken if I say that an Inez might well spend her entire time in this country correcting spelling/pronunciation of her name.

I too think it's Robin, even if it's a girl. Like Robin. Like Rose. Like Tom and Alistair.

Didn't know about Byron's wife, bellissima, interesting! I think the name is older than that, though - wikipedia has turned up an Annabella of Scotland b. 1433 and I do remember reading somewhere that its history is mainly Scottish. Maybe it has two origins - one as a Scottish name and one "name-jam" one popularised by Byron?

As for Amabel, I think it comes from the Latin for "lovable"...