I name this child...

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I know you all love these ones! My daughter is due in February, and she is, so far, nameless. By this stage, ds had had his name for ages, but am finding a girl's name much more of a challenge. I want something reasonably distinctive, with some history to it, and perhaps a little glamour too.
Dh has sternly vetoed my first choice, Angelica. His favourite names are Frances and Olivia, which I like....but are they 'the one'.
Other names in the frame include Nina, Edith, Livia, Lucy, Elizabeth, Catherine, Phoebe, Mia and Viola.
Any more for any more?

there were loads of susans in my year at school, and carolines, helens, sarahs....

i know a 5 yr old helen, there are v few of them about.

julie was a biggie in my year, and susan, helen, ann...

i know a 5 yr old norma!

My kids names were picked before they were born - really struggled with boys names though and decided upon Adam as my dd was learning to read and write at the time and thought it would be easy for her!!

can we do boys' names too please.....

boys are hard. noah? oliver? solomon?

lockets

Norma!!!! that's bad!

Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon, John, Jeff??? (Parker?)

Thomas, Gordon, Henry, Percy, James, Bill, Ben...Diesel???

robbie for a boy

That's a good website.... how about these for names

1. Ema Polynesian Female beloved
2. Kaimi Polynesian the seeker
3. Kaula Polynesian prophet
4. Lana Polynesian Female to float
5. Ulani Polynesian cheerful

I like the Scottish ones too Nailpolish-Finlay is lovely but my dh didn't like it. I knew a couple of Ramsay's as well, but my dad has a ramsay ladder in his loft

there are a million Finn's around here - and Finlay's

lol fimbo!!!!!!!!!! ramsay ladder

and according to that website in 1998 Derek was the 71st most popular name for boys in Germany!!!!

what about Kirstie - great scottish girls name (and my dd2's!)

Melanie
Melissa

girl names i'd be thinking seriously about if it weren't for blinking DH (and, actually, his surname, which is already pretty fusty): Violet, Nancy, Lilian

Names DH would go for if it weren't for blinking me:
Venetia

boys names are a cinch by comparison. one frontrunner from the moment i weed on the stick.

and lockets, you keep posting it!

Bakedpotato-My Mil is Violet and hates it with a passion especially as people try to shorten it to Vi which is even worse in her opinion. Then of course there is Violet Incredible (who has secretly started to live with us in the guise of my six year old dd!!)

yes, i can see abbreviating violet, which is bound to happen, would be problematic. but oh, such a lovely name

Not forgetting Violet Elizabeth Bott ("I'll thcweam and thcweam until I'm thick!")

How would Maxim for a boy sound in the UK at the moment?