Seriously hard and very frustrating. My SO and I will have a nameless baby of we ever have a daughter. We can agree on nothing.
I like [name]Delilah[/name] but he hates it. He likes [name]Starr[/name] I hate it. He likes [name]Lilith[/name] which is okay but no name screams this will be your daughter’s name. Which is frustrating even though we’re 3-4 years away from having kids, because within 20 min we had THE name for a son.
I have:
[name]Elodia[/name]/[name]Elodie[/name]
Síofra
[name]Delilah[/name]
[name]Avery[/name]
[name]Rain/name (middle name only)
He has:
[name]Lilith[/name]
[name]Starr[/name]
[name]Skye[/name]
[name]Snow[/name]
[name]Angel[/name]
[name]Jane[/name]
Any ideas? I’m at a complete loss and can’t find anything that we both seem to like or a decent middle ground.
I think [name]Jane[/name] [name]Elodie[/name] would be a lovely name and a good compromise. I think [name]Jane[/name] is a simple and beautiful, underused name. I’m debating using it as a first as well, although right now I have it as a middle.
I had the exact opposite problem. My girl name was solid in my mind long before I ever became pregnant. I was so sure I was having a girl that while I had boy names I liked, I didn’t bother thinking about how they worked together or with the last name or anything. The time immediately following my ultrasound was spent in a bit of a panic.
I love Síofra and [name]Rain/name off your list.
And [name]Lilith[/name] and [name]Jane[/name] off his.
[name]Angel[/name] I only like for a boy, I’d prefer a feminine variant like [name]Angelica[/name]/[name]Angelique[/name]/[name]Seraphina[/name], etc. for a girl. Honestly though I think Síofra is the more interesting choice for a girl.
Síofra + [name]Jane[/name] makes me think of names related to [name]Jane[/name]/[name]Jeanne[/name]/[name]Janet[/name] (which are all related to each other) and influenced by Irish/Welsh/Scottish: [name]Si[/name]ân, Siobhán, and Sinéad.
And [name]Jane[/name] itself I think makes a cool first name for the ethereal Síofra, as it grounds it a bit and gives it a sleek and simple start because Síofra isn’t phonetic at all and likely to trip many people.
I find [name]Jane[/name] more interesting as a first than as a middle, and its actually at this point, I believe, less popular than [name]Delilah[/name] in the US which is at about #172 and climbing. [name]Jane[/name] was down at #368.
I am not keen on [name]Delilah[/name] (not just because of its popularity, honestly) but I do like [name]Lila[/name], [name]Dahlia[/name], [name]Delia[/name], and [name]Dinah[/name]. I also like [name]Kelilah[/name] though it doesn’t rhyme with [name]Delilah[/name].
He won’t give me a reason for his dislike of [name]Delilah[/name] although he mentioned The Plain White Tees song “Hey There [name]Delilah[/name]”. Other than that I’m clueless. Right now we’ve “agreed” on [name]Lilith[/name] [name]Summer[/name], with [name]Summer[/name] being an honoring name that will most likely be the middle name of our (first) daughter unless I can convince him that [name]Suvi[/name] is an acceptable alternative.
He said earlier that Síofra is cool and he would use it because he loves the meaning, mischievousr elfish. I worry about pronunciation problems if I through it up front. It’s pronounced SHE-fra and I’m not sure how many Americans would say it right. Plus I’ve been told it sounds like She-ra from the He-man cartoons which I’ve never seen so I don’t know if that’s a good or a bad comparison, but I’m pretty sure she was the villain
She-[name]Ra[/name] was the princess heroine, if that helps.
I knew how to say it but I’m a name-nerd with a Gaelic-mad husband. 
[name]Lilith[/name] [name]Summer[/name] is pretty. [name]Lilith[/name] Síofra would be too though.
I don’t watch it even though I have cousins who were in love with the show. I’m trying to gauge how people would say it by asking my friends but they look at me like I have 5 heads when they see it.