Hi all, we are halfway through this pregnancy and do not know the gender. My partner and I have very different tastes on names but do sometimes meet on a name we like. However for boy or girl, neither feel just right! Please could you help with adding to my list in case I’m missing some. I’ll put names we both like, names just I/partner like and ones we have vetoed to help.
Boy names my partner likes but I don’t
Magnus
Marius
Boy names I like but my partner doesn’t
Colby
Brody
Roscoe
Rhys
Radley
Atlas
River
Conrad
Cormac
Connor
Callum
Cohen
Boy names we both like but don’t necessarily feel like the one
Lachlan
Caleb
Elijah
Felix
Rafe
Miles
Names we vetoed for different reasons
Maverick
Hendrix
Silas
Cyrus
Cedric
Jude
Joel
Cillian
Lowen
Otto
Lyle
Declan
River
Remi
Mason
Edward
Reuben
Roux
Asher
Archer
Alfie
Girl names I like but partner not keen on
Piper
Reese
Mabel
Maple
Juniper
Story
Remi
Girl names we both like
Cora
Winnie
Astrid
Amelia
Sienna
Éala
Elowyn
Girl names we have vetoed
Orla
Phoebe
Erin
Mila
Heidi
Milena
Maeve
Lydia
Esme
Ottilie
Cecelia
Margot
Eira
Ivy
My partner doesn’t like any name that is a thing (eg. River). I really like names that have a nature vibe or meaning. We don’t want a name that is really popular, we live in UK for place context. Thank you!
Rafferty
Ronan/Ronin
Tobias
Jasper
Emrys
Heath (a wire but not obvious)
Callan
Caelan
Eamon
Hugh / Hugo
Fraser
Fletcher
Xander
Westley/Wesley
Sebastian / Bastian
Gideon
Elias
Lucian
Aurelian
Jude
Have you tried out [name_f][/name_f]: [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Otis[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Curtis[/name_m] / [name_m]Kurtis[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Lucas[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Myles[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f]- maybe spelling it with a y may change a like to a love [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Milos[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Marcos[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Maximus[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Memphis[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Morris[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Mathias[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Louis[/name_m] / [name_m]Lewis[/name_m]
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I find girl names harder [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Caroline[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Jacqueline[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Eliza[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Chelsea[/name_f]
[name_m]Julian[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Julius[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Leon[/name_m] (‘lion’ is a nature-adjacent meaning, right?) [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Roman[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Eli[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Lyndon[/name_m] / [name_m]Linden[/name_m] (nature name, but traditional enough that your husband might not mind it [name_f][/name_f]- there’s [name_m]Lyndon[/name_m] B. [name_m]Johnson[/name_m], for one) [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Lorenzo[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Armand[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Rafael[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Elias[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Zachariah[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Timothy[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Peter[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Harvey[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Adrian[/name_m] [name_f][/name_f][name_m]Frank[/name_m]
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[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f] (nature name that isn’t a word ) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Sylvie[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Elise[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Leonie[/name_f] (again, means ‘lion’) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Rosalie[/name_f] (flower names count as nature names, but [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f] isn’t an [name_f]English[/name_f] word, either) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Rosalind[/name_f] (originally meant ‘gentle horse’, but has since picked up another meaning in another language [name_f][/name_f]- ‘beautiful rose’) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Lily[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Rosemary[/name_f] (a herb, but used as a name often enough that it comes off as different from other word names) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Lucy[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Marianne[/name_f] / [name_f]Marian[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Madeleine[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Eva[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Vera[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Gabrielle[/name_f] [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Adelaide[/name_f]
(Replying to my own post because editing it automatically removes the hyperlink)
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[name_f]Eliza[/name_f] would be a good one, too.
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Also, I definitely got carried away with the ‘nature name but not exactly’ thing, but how about [name_f][/name_f]-
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[name_f]Marina[/name_f] (‘of the sea’) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Mariana[/name_f] (legitimate name, but can also be a reference to the [name_f]Mariana[/name_f] Trench) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Zipporah[/name_f] (‘bird’ [name_f][/name_f]- note that this may be seen as typically Jewish, so if you’re not, you might want to ask around a bit before using it) [name_f][/name_f][name_f]Ginevra[/name_f] (doesn’t have a nature meaning per se, but is an Italian name associated with ginepro[name_f][/name_f], the Italian word for ‘juniper’. You can find a [name_m]Leonardo[/name_m] da [name_m]Vinci[/name_m] painting of [name_f]Ginevra[/name_f] de [name_f]Benci[/name_f] with a juniper bush in the background, playing off her name.)
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[name_m]Ashton[/name_m] (unisex name, but I think of it as masculine because that’s how I’ve seen it used. It means ‘ash tree town’)
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[name_m]Lorenzo[/name_m] (which I suggested above) means ‘from Laurentum’, and the place name Laurentum is probably derived from the word for ‘laurel’. [name_m]Lawrence[/name_m] gives the same meaning.
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