DH and I are at a total stalemate with girl's names for DC2 (due July), altho we're sorted for a boy's name and I'm starting to hope we have another boy just so the name isn't an issue!
The couple of girl's names we partially-agreed on have issues with them which mean we probably can't use them (Violet is the name of a much disliked relative of his and Delilah semi-rhymes with our surname). The only one still on the table is Clementine but we're not absolutely sure in the way we are with the boy's name we've chosen.
I adore frilly girl's names such as Aurelia, Angelica and Arabella (they don't actually have to begin with an A too tho!) whereas DH can't bear them. He doesn't actually seem to love many girl's names but his fave is Matilda, which is not my kind of thing at all (and the nns Tilly etc really aren't.)
As DH isn't likely to ever go for one of the frilly names I adore, I've decided I might as well try to talk myself out of the idea! I've realised that I wouldn't want to choose a lovely, long name if everyone (including us) just shortened it to a nn anyway, unless I also loved the nn - and there's not actually many nns that I do love.
I'm keen to know if you've got a DD with a long name and whether you almost always use a nn?
I guess ideally, we'd find a one or two-syllable name we both loved and wouldn't tend to be shortened but all the ones we like are now too popular for us to want to choose (e.g. Lily, Rose, Ruby) as we'd prefer a name which isn't in the top 50 or even 100 ideally.
HELP please!