Names - Inspiration for those of us that are struggling - what have you/are you calling yours?

[Hopeitwontbebig]

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Pick your favourite country and google it for names e.g. Greek girls/boys names

we have
Adam David
Hannah May
Chloe Alexandra

Also have picked out
Luke Jesse
Bethan

DS is Yusuf which is Arabic for Joseph...if we had a little girl, would have called her Sumayah Jeehan or Layla Rose....

We have Harriet who is often known as Hattie, and Edward who is Eddie or Ed.

I have 2 dd's

Ellie Pippa (pippa after my dads name Pip)

Hattie Alice (Alice after dh gran whi's 93!)

but Hattie was picked night before c-section when we had said Jessica from day 1 shocked alot of people and 20 weeks later my mum still hates it!!

For boys we had
Joe
Jack
Thomas
Fletcher (dh's fave)
Freddie

Other girls name considered
Isabelle
Charlotte
Jessica
Freya
Katie
Lucy

x post maxbear have never met another Hattie hurrah we are not 'weird' and we debated on Harriet for birth certificate but opted for Hattie (nightmare to buy anyhting with her name on though!)

I love Ruby, but couldn't have it with our surname. DD was very nearly Claudia, but we changed our minds at the last minute. If she'd been a boy we would have called her Edward and shortend it to Ted DS2 was very nearly Hugo, but it just didn't suit hime when he was born. At the moment I think Vincent, possibley shortend to Vinny is a cool name.

I like the name Hattie.

If I had another girl I would have
Cecilia
Florence
Kitty
Elizabeth (Betty maybe)
Clementine
Frances

For boys I like
Jesse
Sonny
Michael
Felix
Finn
Max (maybe)
Fred
Johnny

(dh would insist on Tom or Elizabeth )

jessica may

barnaby george

also liked william, darcey, harrison & molly

I like

Boy
Peter
James (DH's middle name!)
Andrew

Girl
Isobel
Christina
Martha
Maria (my middle name!!)

Still I've got until Christmas.. and it won't be called Noel or Holly lol.

Well, if you haven't had it yet, I wouldn't worry about it. Decide when it's born. Can't understand why people have to do so much before the birth these days.

My three are:

DS1: Caelan Elliot
DS2: Tate Timothy
DD: Carys Faith (born four weeks ago)

I also love:

Ephraim Dean
Frances June

We have :
DD1 - Evie Lauren
DD2 - Casey Mae

We also liked Thea and Mia (but have niece called Tia so that went out of the window)also loved Isla and for boys we were having either Jude or Finlay (Finn for short).

Be warned - lots of Evie's about ! Didn't notice so much before we had DD1 but now there seem to be lots - think it was quite a popular name a few years back

We're due twin girls in a few weeks and are thinking of:

Angharad
Ceinwen
Francesca (Fran)
Freya

Hopeitwontbe, from your list I love Orla.

Is there a more subjective topic? It's such a personal choice, don't you find. One person's Jeremiah is another person's Chantelle.

My wife and I decided upon a rule that when we come up with a name we have to imagine shouting it across the playground. If it sounded like we were calling a pet dog, the name was instantly discarded.

Which means, although we're not religious, we've ended up with what are traditional religious names on our list. Matthew, Simon, Mark, Peter, Jesus etc

We just have to pick on now...

Cheers, Ian.
The Expectant Father

i like
vaughn for a boy but DP has said def not
so instead elliot for a boy

we like micheala for a girl

Girls:

Juno, Orla, Ola, Vivi, Evie, Eva, Lola, Cia/Kia, Dominicia, Freya, Kia, Mimi, Misty, Mia/Mya, Raine, Una, Astraea, Jana, Luna, Lily and Lauren.

Our favourite girl's name was Ava but we gave it to our lost angel

Boys:

Xavier, Isaac, Neo, Saul, Jacob & Ethan.

.... still feel we haven't found the ONE though

Ds is David John (not very original, family name) and dd is Anya Louise.
But for a boy I love Cillian and I really wanted to call dd Kitty, hubby wouldn't have it!!

running the names Dominic or Eloise round in my head for the next one....can't get that Damned song out my head

Hey MrsMc - looks like we are thinking along similar lines for girl's names - there's a few of my faves in that list!

Can I do a quick hijack actually and ask what the general consensus on Lola is? Do you think the whole Charlie and Lola thing means it has become a bit too popular? I don't know any others in my town, but just wondered about everywhere else. DP and I both really like it, and it goes well with our DD1s name, so it is a serious contender. Thanks, hijack over!

I like Lola