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?

When we were expecting DD1 - first baby - I had a multitude of delightful girlie names lined up like Miranda and Lucinda and Belinda. DH wanted Carol or Alison or Stephanie. WTF???? We ended up with Jessica purely because it hadn't been mentioned yet and one of the nurses we used to see agreed that it was nice.

Men!

I like it

Sofia, elena, Zoe are quite nice (but I'm keeping my favourites to myself just in case its a girl!)

BBC published top 10 names for newborns yesterday

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Loads of nice girls names, but what about BOYS!!! We are really stuck with them.

we are looking for something completely unreligious, simple, not too popular or standard, has to work in German (Swiss) and English... any ideas????

OK what did I do wrong when I entered the link????

try again!

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Doh!

My half-Swiss friend called her baby boy Luca, which I like.

Just had a flash of inspiration
Martha Rose

Derek, Barbara, Pat and Roger

They will be the next set of names to make a fashionable comeback, mark my words

Don't forget Audrey and Clive.

there's a LOT of lucas in norf london.

Luca is a nice name, but too popular here at the moment (I think it is no. 1 for boys and has been for a few years). Also I have a personal reason (or mistake) to give it a miss......!

Rose is nice (for a girl), not convinced about Martha.

I know a Liberty and Portia. My dd is Rachel but I love the name Libby.

Ooh, I like Flo. What about Flora? Or Emeline? (another suffragette name). I like Miranda too.

Ha ha at Suzywong. My dad was called Derek and dp believed me for about 5 minutes when I said if this one was a boy I'd really like to name it Derek in his memory. Dp squirmed but was so tactful as he explained why he wasn't keen, bless him!

Yes Jan, Clive aswell and I see you missed out on Carol, that'll be a teen fave in 15 years, you just wait and see

This thread might help you, Leogaela - SenoraPostrophe wanted a name that would work in English and Spanish - lots of suggestions and I assume many would be OK in German too. (She ended up with Lucas though!)

Carol was one DH wanted. And Christine! LOL!

dh wanted caroline (apologies to any carolines..) - it was his cat's name when he was a little boy, ffs!

How about David, Leogaela? I have a Scottish friend who lives in Germany and her son is David. (Her daughters are Elizabeth and Catriona - that wouldn't work in German though!)

Caroline is OK actually!

oh gawd, really didn't mean to offend, just Caroline wasn't for me...

(it was more to do with it being their cat's name..)

It's funny though how Carol and Christine are not OK and Caroline is (except when inherited from cat obv!)

For babies, I mean (hastily added before I offend somebody!)

oooh i quite like martha