Baby name battle

[littleredfish]

Lurker finally popping in for help. I'm due with our 3rd in February and we're team green again. DH and I are very different in our naming styles. Me being more classic names. Him more modern/made up names. He named our first and I named our second. I like their names because they are on my children, but in a do over #1 would probably have a different FN. We have Ken.zie Jacq.ueline, and Elo.ise Eve.lyn. the middle names are family names.

This time we have our boy name which is my boy pick from our first; Re.id Clay.ton (middle name is a family name again) but coming up with another girl name is a battle. Here is a mishmash list of our current names. You will probably guess who's picks are who's. We need help, if this is another girl we're at a loss. Middle name not picked yet, I want to use Una (family name) but he does not.

Deidre
Clare
Madeline
Laurel
Isobel
Siena
Bellamy
Aya
Austen

[joy]

Ditch Bellamy and Austen. Just forget they exist.

Dierdre is great! Laurel is one of my favorites.

[reginaphalange]

First of all, I'm swooning over Eloise Evelyn and Reid. From your list I like Sienna, Isobel, and Laurel.

I suggest Greta, Norah, Lydia, Valerie, Lucy, Stella

[bromios]

One of my absolute favorite people in the world ever is a girl named Austen. That said, take it off the list. And take Bellamy far, far away. Madeline and Isobel are the best. Suggestions:

Ariadne

Beatrix

Clara (like Clare, but so, so, so much better)

Corinna

Dafna

Danae

Frances

Freya

Ginevra

Iona

Iris

Johanna

Julia

Lenore

Livia

Lyra

Mira

Marisa

Natalia

Noelle

Petra

Sabina

Selah

Thea

Valerie

[helenahhandbasket]

I don't like Austen, Aya or Bellamy.

Suggesting
Bianca
Ara
Catalina
Willa
Nina
Lenore
Zara
Adelaide
Sylvia

[dreadpiratebuttercup]

Madeline and Isobel are the best of the bunch. Throw Austen and Bellamy far, far away.

[icedtea]

Isobel and Madeline are lovely. Deidre is nice. Not a fan of the rest.

Other suggestions (apparently I can only think of "ah"s today):

Freya
Isla
Thea
Lydia
Nora

[seamonster]

Toss Bellamy, Aya, and Austen. Deidre, Madeline, Clare, and Isobel are may favorites of your list.

Suggestions:
Aoife
Briony
Sabrina
Thalia
Tabitha

[Deleted]

Keep:
Deidre
Clare - although I prefer Claire or Clara
Madeline - popular, but stil lovely
Laurel
Isobel

[billyhorrible]

I hope you get to use Una, that's a great name. Agree with tossing Bellamy, Aya, and Austen. Personally I'm not a fan of Claire and I like it even less spelled Claire.

Isobel is my favorite of the ones listed.

I'd also suggest Belinda, Anya, and Jane.

[littleredfish]

So from the comments I got him to drop his list. In exchange I agreed to drop Clare and backing off on Madeline for now because he says it's too popular and I'm afraid he'll try to make it speshul by adding Ys like Madylyne or something rediculous.

Now we might narrow down the first name by the middle name. We're set on using a family name as a middle name. So with the remaining Deidre, Laurel and Isobel (and Madeline if I can make him love it). These are the family names we have to work with. I feel like this is driving our list too....Una, Cynthia, Nancy, Ethel, Clina, Althea, Muriel, Betty (but this is also my MN).

Here are the male names too if you see anyway to add a feminine twist to them. I was trying to play with this last night because the female family names left are quite old fashioned and out of his comfort zone: Richard, Paul, Clayton, Charles, Alan, Walter, Clarence (where I tried to tie in Clare).

See any good FN-MN combos there?

[ottertails]

From Paul you can get Paula, Pauline, Paulina. From Charles: Carla, Charlotte, Charline, Carole, Caroline, and Carolina/Karolina. The only one I know from Alan would be Alana. Clare would work for Clarence, but I think you could also get Ren/Wren from it too (which works well in the middle). Pity you can't use Una.

Laurel Ren/Wren
Laurel Pauline
Laurel Charline
Deidre Carolina
Isobel Clare
Isobel Ren/Wren

If you are still open to idea (if not, ignore):
Ada/Adeline/Adelina
Magdalene/Magdalena
Zinnia
Ivy
Linnea
Cassandra
Bridget
Juliet/Julie
Viveca
Cecilia
Heidi

[Widget123]

I like ottertails suggestions for additional middle name options. Of the middle names you have listed, I think I like Althea best.

I would rank your remaining FN in this order
Laurel
Isobel
Madeline
Deidre

[littleredfish]

ottertails, I'm totally still open to suggestions. I have a secondary list running of suggestions from here that I'm trying to get him to look at and consider. Mainly because I still really want to use Una

[dreadpiratebuttercup]

Isobel Una is my favorite combo. Gorgeous. I think using a masculine name as is in the middle spot would be fine with a name like Isobel.

I do love Isobel Charlotte though, to put a feminine twist on Charles.

[SweetDee]

I like both Laurel and Isobel (though I think you'll have to deal with a lot of misspellings of this- may not be a dealbreaker?) and either would work well with Charlotte. I love the sound of Laurel Clare.

Would it be too much of a deviation from the family name to use Luna somewhere? Maybe that'd be more palatable to your husband?

[hangry]

Love Laurel!

From your initial list Laurel Nancy is the only one that sounds ok to me.
I also like Laurel Clare

[icedtea]

Jan 3, 2017 13:34:58 GMT -5 dreadpiratebuttercup said:

Isobel Una is my favorite combo. Gorgeous. I think using a masculine name as is in the middle spot would be fine with a name like Isobel.

I do love Isobel Charlotte though, to put a feminine twist on Charles.

This.