For the girls list, I’m going to take a “his and hers” approach and see what you brilliant Berries can help me come up with. I’m always putting together massive lists of names to be shot down, so this time I’m going to start with HIS list and see if we can come up with something that I can love instead.
DAD LIKES:
[name_f]Emily[/name_f]
[name_f]Kathleen[/name_f]
[name_f]Rose[/name_f]
[name_f]Lucy[/name_f]
[name_f]Astrid[/name_f]
[name_u]Dagny[/name_u]
[name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_f]Aria[/name_f]
[name_f]Aurora[/name_f]
[name_f]Seraphina[/name_f]
[name_f]Hazel[/name_f]
[name_u]Seren[/name_u]
[name_f]Alice[/name_f]
[name_f]Felicity[/name_f]
[name_u]Ruby[/name_u]
[name_f]Violet[/name_f]
[name_f]Celeste[/name_f]
[name_f]Penelope[/name_f]
also likes but says they are inseparable from their book/source:
[name_f]Esmeralda[/name_f]
[name_f]Hermione[/name_f]
[name_f]Zelda[/name_f]
MOM LIKES:
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgia[/name_f]
[name_f]Iolanthe[/name_f]
[name_f]Oriana[/name_f]
Iselda
[name_f]Unna[/name_f]
[name_f]Scarlett[/name_f]
[name_f]Roxanne[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosamund[/name_f]
From his list, I like [name_f]Seraphina[/name_f], [name_f]Esmeralda[/name_f], [name_f]Aurora[/name_f], [name_u]Dagny[/name_u], and [name_u]Ruby[/name_u], but there’s a reason they lost out last time we had a baby girl. I was really hopeful about [name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] because I thought it might bridge the gap between our styles, but he HATED it. He thinks that [name_f]Georgia[/name_f] might grow on him in time, though. He says [name_f]Iolanthe[/name_f] is alright but would have to have a less complicated nn, and “not Io who got turned into a cow.”
Our other girls are E v e A n a s t a s i a (nn E v i e) and D u l c i n e a T e s l a (nn D a i s y). When we named them, well for the first one I just happened to nominate a “normal” name and then we magically found a middle name we both loved as soon as we picked up the name book. The second girl’s naming was ceaseless drama and we ended up compromising with a name from my list with a name from his as the nn; and then we searched ad nauseum until we came up with a middle we both loved. We also have three boys named C a s p i a n, Z e p h a n, and P e r e g r i n e (nn P i p p i n).
Help? I don’t know how to reconcile these differing styles a third time. EDIT: We may have happened upon the real problem. He says my names are “just too much.” Aha! Well, intricate names are my favorite, and I tend to think most of his names are boring. Maybe the challenge is to find “interesting” in less than four syllables?
EDIT: Thanks to Berry suggestions, these names have been approved by both Mom and Dad to go on the “consider” list.
Constance, possibly with nn Annie (props to @davisellu) (nn props to @auroradawn, via email)
Petra (@ciottolo)
Delphina (@larkub101)
Katya (@jj1010)
Rilla (@mousehouse7), possibly as nn for Marilla or Amaryllis
Along with:
Georgia
Amaryllis