Girls names

[lj2245]

His new suggestion is Judith. We are never going to agree on anything!!

I think the problem is that we have very Scottish accents and a lot of names like Lilly don't sound quite as delicate and pretty when we say them. They are also said differently by people here and as much as we could call her Emily or Claire, everyone would resort to slang and would call her Emuly or Cler. I Suggested Lauren as a combination of both of our names and he hated it, then I realised it would also fall foul to slang here anyway and everyone would call her Laurn.

 

[StillPraying]

Are you wanting a Scottish name?

 

[lj2245]

Are you wanting a Scottish name?

I would prefer a Scottish name but there are lots of Scottish names such as Eilidh and Adaira in the children of my immediate family already.

From his list I'm saying Dh would prefer an English name lol.

 

[housewifey]

So coming up with names for 2 boys was easy. We have Shaun Alfie (middle name after his grandfather) and Alexander Thomas David (all names after family: my grandfather, my father and Dhs grandfather, FIL)

Anyway. We can't agree on ANY names for our little girl. We have been through a thousand baby names books and similar. I make birthday cakes, wedding cakes etc and see a lot of names every day. We have each drawn up lists of every name we like.

My list:

*Ellis
*Carlie (my sister is Claire and this is made from the same letters, my other sister is Carol and it's similar sounding so it seems perfect as a first or middle name)
*Alyssa
*Callie
*Millie
*Poppy
*Annabelle (Anna for short)

His list:

*elizabeth
*victoria
*Rosie
*Lillian
*Emily

We haven't come across a single other name either of us like and neither of us even remotely like any of the names on the other's list. We can't even agree on a middle name. His mum keeps asking us to give the baby her name (Geraldine) and we are both agreed that we don't want to give our baby that name and have told her so. We don't have a great stock of other family names to draw from. DHs only grandmother was called Margaret (which we dislike) and both my grandmothers were called Mary but unfortunately this is also my mothers name and I don't have a relationship with her at all so wouldn't want to name my child after her. None of them (including my MIl) have a middle name other than one of my grandmothers who had the middle name Jane. I like this as a middle name in her memory but DH hates it and any variation.

We are stuck.

My favourite from your list is Ellis and off of your OH's list is Rosie. I don't know what your surname is obv but do you really need a middle name? We couldn't find one that made her name sound as nice without it so we just didn't give one (I don't have one either so it was no big deal for us) so she has a short name first name 5 letters surname 4 letters

 

[lj2245]

So coming up with names for 2 boys was easy. We have Shaun Alfie (middle name after his grandfather) and Alexander Thomas David (all names after family: my grandfather, my father and Dhs grandfather, FIL)

Anyway. We can't agree on ANY names for our little girl. We have been through a thousand baby names books and similar. I make birthday cakes, wedding cakes etc and see a lot of names every day. We have each drawn up lists of every name we like.

My list:

*Ellis
*Carlie (my sister is Claire and this is made from the same letters, my other sister is Carol and it's similar sounding so it seems perfect as a first or middle name)
*Alyssa
*Callie
*Millie
*Poppy
*Annabelle (Anna for short)

His list:

*elizabeth
*victoria
*Rosie
*Lillian
*Emily

We haven't come across a single other name either of us like and neither of us even remotely like any of the names on the other's list. We can't even agree on a middle name. His mum keeps asking us to give the baby her name (Geraldine) and we are both agreed that we don't want to give our baby that name and have told her so. We don't have a great stock of other family names to draw from. DHs only grandmother was called Margaret (which we dislike) and both my grandmothers were called Mary but unfortunately this is also my mothers name and I don't have a relationship with her at all so wouldn't want to name my child after her. None of them (including my MIl) have a middle name other than one of my grandmothers who had the middle name Jane. I like this as a middle name in her memory but DH hates it and any variation.

We are stuck.

My favourite from your list is Ellis and off of your OH's list is Rosie. I don't know what your surname is obv but do you really need a middle name? We couldn't find one that made her name sound as nice without it so we just didn't give one (I don't have one either so it was no big deal for us) so she has a short name first name 5 letters surname 4 letters

My mother gave my 2 sisters a middle name each and my brother got 2 so I always felt a little annoyed that she couldn't be bothered to come up with one for me. I know it's silly and it's definitely more a reflection of her bad parenting than anything else but I still wouldn't want to miss it, just incase lol. A middle name will be easy once we agree on a first name

 

[StillPraying]

We're opposite. We do family names as middle names. My husband has decided on MaryEllen after his grandma but most of the names I liked really don't go with that! Lol
what about doing Elisabeth instead of Elizabeth?

 

[lj2245]

We're opposite. We do family names as middle names. My husband has decided on MaryEllen after his grandma but most of the names I liked really don't go with that! Lol
what about doing Elisabeth instead of Elizabeth?

It's not the spelling I dislike, it's the name. I don't want my kid to be called Lizzie and I know my husband well enough to know he would call her that.

The names on either of our lists are out. As are every other name we have come across. What was fun with our boys is becoming a nightmare with this baby I know she's going to end up with a name neither of us is 100% happy with but my husband is just being so stubborn. Every time I suggest a name he says no, half the time before I've even said it. It's like he is refusing to consider anything else because I don't like the names on his list.

What annoys me even more is that Annabelle was originally his suggestion and when I said I liked it and we tentatively agreed on calling her that, he said he no longer likes it. His Step Brother has just announced that they are calling their baby Annie (due a month after us) and that put him off too. I don't care about silly films that would be forgotten about in a years time so that wouldn't put me off and while it's not my favourite name ever, I was happy to at least have a name we both liked

 

[StillPraying]

Ugh I know how you feel, as there are certain names I like but wont do because of the nicknames I despise. I was worried about that with my DD (Caroline) as I didn't want her to be called Carol or cara or anything like that. So far we haven't had that problem, and we did name her the day she was born lol
I get the whole Annie/Annabelle thing though because my niece is called Audrey and my husband kept suggesting Aubrey. No. no way.
I just look up names every day and ask him to rate them now.

 

[lj2245]

I was worried about people giving my son Alexander terrible nicknames so we gave him one, Alex, that we like. A family friend does call him Wee Eck (scottish nickname for Alexander) but I don't mind that

 

[lj2245]

Turns out we both like Madeleine but both feel it's....somewhat tainted :/

 

[StillPraying]

Tainted? I love the name Madeleena but husband said no =(

 

[lj2245]

Tainted? I love the name Madeleena but husband said no =(

Yeah there's a girl in the UK who was abducted from her holiday apartment around 7 years ago while in Portugal on holiday and she's still missing. It's still in the news a lot and everyone has heard of her and her name is Madeleine. As soon as anyone mentions the name it's automatically who you think of.

 

[StillPraying]

Oh we had that same problem with a case here in the US about a woman named Casey accused of murdering her daughter Kaylee. I actually considered Kaylee for my DD and that's what everyone would bring up.
Lovely name though, maybe if you tweak the pronunciation or spelling?

 

[lj2245]

Oh we had that same problem with a case here in the US about a woman named Casey accused of murdering her daughter Kaylee. I actually considered Kaylee for my DD and that's what everyone would bring up.
Lovely name though, maybe if you tweak the pronunciation or spelling?

Nah its definitely back to the drawing board!

 

[mummy2o]

I like quite unique names so these would be near the top of my unique Scottish names.

Malvina is the first that pops in my mind.
Moira only met one of these.
Gavenia
Donella

As for Madeleine if you both like it, go for it. Just because the McCann went missing, children won't be aware for a long time and by then she'll probably have a nickname by then.

 

[MUMOF5]

I've got a Madeleine, she's 4 and a half, so it was a lot fresher in everyone's minds back then. I've never associated it and can't say it's ever been mentioned, but it was my Nan's name, so the name for me has a strong association to that rather than to Madeleine McCann.

 

[StillPraying]

I like quite unique names so these would be near the top of my unique Scottish names.

Malvina is the first that pops in my mind.
Moira only met one of these.
Gavenia
Donella

As for Madeleine if you both like it, go for it. Just because the McCann went missing, children won't be aware for a long time and by then she'll probably have a nickname by then.

Are these names all pronounced the way they are spelled?

 

[lj2245]

I like quite unique names so these would be near the top of my unique Scottish names.

Malvina is the first that pops in my mind.
Moira only met one of these.
Gavenia
Donella

As for Madeleine if you both like it, go for it. Just because the McCann went missing, children won't be aware for a long time and by then she'll probably have a nickname by then.

I would say those are maybe anglicised versions of Gaelic words but they're not Scottish names. Scottish names would be in Gaelic. Moira is very common and I know at least 5 of them, all of them over 40. It's also not Scottish lol. Mhairi (pronounced Vari) is the closest name I'm aware of to that.

 

[lj2245]

I've got a Madeleine, she's 4 and a half, so it was a lot fresher in everyone's minds back then. I've never associated it and can't say it's ever been mentioned, but it was my Nan's name, so the name for me has a strong association to that rather than to Madeleine McCann.

If I had a family member with the name I'd definitely be more inclined but the handful of people I've mentioned it to have looked at me in horror. DH is dead against it now.

I think I might just divorce him and not give him a say, be much easier haha

 

[elensmile]

I love name Rachel, so cute )