who wants to speculate on willkat's first child's name?

[darleneconnor]

I know they've only just got engaged but an heir and a spare will be on their way soon enough.
My first thoughts are:
George/ georgia
Arthur
Alexandra
Edward
Elizabeth
Matilda
Jane
Victoria
Diana
James

[valiumbandwitch]

What about Anna (as it's part of Diana) would that be too cheesey?

[freesias]

if it doesn't arrive till august/september 2012 they could always consider olympia as one of it's 4 names would also be a nod to prince phillips greek heritage

[valiumbandwitch]

oooh Olympia is lovely.

I suggested Olympia on the thread for posh spice so hope PS doesn't 'steal' Kate's baby name.

[antshouse]

Britainii.

[Romilly70]

First born will be probably be sovereign as they will probably have abolished primogeniture by then, in line with the rest of europe.

So a future Queen Victoria sounds like a lot of pressure...
My favourites are

Maud
Alexandra
Charlotte

middle names as said, Diana, Elizabeth

Boys names are difficult as they all seem to be used up
I would go for

Arthur John Michael Phillip

(john was princess diana's father)
surname would be Wales - as prince william has sewn on his flight suit - "Will Wales"

[Ponders]

you missed out Charles, Romilly - that'll need to be in there somewhere

[MultiTaskerMum]

I like Horatio ;)

[freesias]

romilly surname will be mountbatten , when phillip married elizabeth there was an agreement that windsor would be used as the children's and grandchildren's surname but that his surname would be used for the great grandchildren . i may be mistaken on this but i'm 99% sure i've heard this on the radio or in the press at sometime.

[Ponders]

From Wiki:

'Although Royals do not tend to use a last name, in the instance of a marriage, for example, Prince William's last name is Mountbatten-Windsor. This is the surname of all descendents of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II excluding females who marry.
The name Mountbatten-Windsor derives from the Royal surname Windsor, decided in 1917 by George V. Before this, the Royal surname was technically Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, but due to anti-German sentiment after WWI, the decision was made to change the royal surname to Windsor.
In 1960, the Queen and Prince Philip decided to create a surname for their direct descendants, incorporating the surnames 'Windsor' and Prince Philip's previous surname, 'Mountbatten'.
Therefore, Mountbatten-Windsor is the surname of all male, and unmarried female descendants of Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II including Charles, William and Harry.'

[Ponders]

I suspect he uses Wales because Mountbatten-Windsor is

a) a mouthful
b) a giveaway

the \link{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William_of_Wales\Wiki piece} also says his friends at St Andrews always referred to him as Steve in case any press were listening

How about Prince Stephen?

[EdithWeston]

Given today's news perhaps Nausica?

[CheerfulYank]

I think it'll be Arthur or Albert for a boy...maybe Matilda or Alexandra for a girl. Elizabeth in the middle of course. :)

[CaliBee]

Maybe its twins....hence the sickness.

[LynetteScavo]

Alice or Matilda

Albert (known as BertieI would always snigger at Prince Albert >) or George. Or maybe Joseph.

If Edwards son wasn't called James I would have gone for James.

[JugglingWithPossibilities]

Alice Elizabeth Louise ?

And/or !

Arthur William George ?

[FivesAndNorks]

said this on the other thread but I'm going with Arthur or Victoria

[MaryChristmaZEverybody]

I said this on the other thread.

Alice Elizabeth Catherine Diana, or some combination thereof.

NOT Charles, Philip, George, Edward, Andrew or any of the cousins. Which leaves only a few.

Arthur or Ethelred, maybe

[DontmindifIdo]

I'm finding this rather difficult, I'm due in June, so as she's supposedily only 2 months gone, I'll have this DC a month before Kate has her's. Whatever she picks will shoot to the top of the baby name lists, if I accidently get the smae name it's likely there'll be 2-3 of the same named DC in their class. And they'll have a lifetime of "yes, like Prince/Princess X, no I wasn't named after them, I'm actually older."



I hope she goes with Alice or Arthur, neither work with our surname. She can have those.

[FivesAndNorks]

but andrew would be where they met :o

[FivesAndNorks]

DD would have been an arthur (maybe...doesn't really work with our surname) but is an alice

[LimeLeafLizard]

just seen this thread. They had better not use Alice as it is MY CHOICE!!! (baby due Feb) and I don't want DD to share it with a princess for the reasons DontmindifIdo says...

Hands off Kate and Will, I got there first.

[happybubblebrain]

Boring.