Comments on my shortlist please

[libertybear]

Namechanged as some people on here know me and I only want strangers' reactions on the names. Here's our shotlist - any comments? (be nice please!)

girls Christina Annabel Ruth Constance Pippa boys

Michael
Leo
Rob in
David

I seem to have messed up the underlining

I will try that again.

Girls - Christina, Annabel, Ruth, Constance, Pippa

Boys - Michael, Leo, Robin, David

Girls - Christina love
Annabel, like
Ruth, don't like
Constance, love
Pippa - prefer a full name as Philippa.

Boys -
Michael, love
Leo, don't like
Robin, love
David love

All good names except Pippa.

Love Ruth, Constance, David, Robin.

Annabel
Constance
Leo
Michael

Christina- not keen really. Seems a bit sensible shoes and 3 bed semi in the suburbs.

Annabel- Very pretty name and lots of potential for nicknames but suffers slightly from popularity, especially against the similar Isobel/Isabelle contingent

Ruth- good, strong, beautiful name

Constance- Great name. Constance is feisty and headstrong

Pippa- nickname and a horsey one at that

Michael- okay, not going to set the world on fire

Leo- no but I don't know why

Robin- I dislike this too, but possibly because it's unisex, albeit with a different spelling

David- good solid name, but again doesn't stand out as anything special or remarkable

I like Annabel, Pippa and Leo

All OK, but Phillippa and Robert, with Pippa and robin as shortenings, I think.

Love Constance, but just to warn you, it was on my shortlist for DD and every time I mention this she howls with outrage and says she would have left home by now if I had called her it!

If you like Christina and Annabel, what about Christabel?

All good. Faves are Ruth, Pippa and Robin (although you'd have to be happy with Rob as abbreviation, which I wouldn't be).

Like Michael and Leo

Robin sounds like it should only suit boys, but i know a Robin who is an old man and it really suits him. and the other Robin i've known for 20 years since teenage-dom and it's always worked.
he's never been a Rob.

I love Christina

Like Constance (Connie)

Like Leo and David

Love Ruth
Like Pippa

Love Robin
Like Leo and David

Christina - not keen
Annabel - OK
Ruth - OK
Constance - OK but I knew someone called Connie and all her male friends made up a rude nickname for her
Pippa - love this

Michael- not keen
Leo - love
Rob in - not keen
David - not keen

Love Ruth, like Pippa

Leo is lovely from your boys list

My favourites are Ruth, Michael and Robin.
Christina is nice too.

Constance is a bit hard to say - it's that "nst" bit which is a bit clumsy - so it feels a bit prissy to me.

Constance and Leo

Love Ruth, like Constance and Christina

Not keen on your boys names (Michael ok)

Leo & Annabel

Thank you - so pleased not a chorus of hating them all. I thik we are veering to Constance for a girl (it was dh's great grandmother's name as well) and Leo for a boy but boys are hardest as I love David but maybe it is like calling a boy Brian or Colin - ie men in their 40s, not babies

Love Constance and Pippa
Like Robin

I like:
Constance (love), then Annabel (v pretty)

Leo or Michael

Lovely list of names. If I had to choose I'd go for Pippa or Annabel, Leo or David.