First time poster and apologies for the long message! We’ve just found out we’re expecting early 2021! It will be our first and we’re so excited! I’ve put together a list of boys and girls names.
Do you live in [name_m]Wales[/name_m] or [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] by any chance? I notice that a lot of your names have Celtic origins. I love almost all of your girl names, and the ones I don’t is just personal taste which isn’t relevant. With boy names, I like most of them, but [name_m]Sorley[/name_m] just sounds like sore to me. Another thing to watch out for is pronunciation, if someone isn’t familiar with Celtic names (ie you don’t live in [name_m]Wales[/name_m], [name_f]Ireland[/name_f] or Cornwall), they wouldn’t know where to start with [name_m]Ruairidh[/name_m], [name_m]Ossian[/name_m] or [name_f]Iona[/name_f].
Suggestions for boys:
[name_u]Reggie[/name_u]
[name_m]Efan[/name_m]/Evan
[name_m]Harry[/name_m]
[name_m]Jacob[/name_m]
[name_m]Vaughn[/name_m]
Girls:
[name_f]Rosalie[/name_f]
[name_u]Seren[/name_u]
[name_f]Eira[/name_f]
[name_f]Siobhan[/name_f]
[name_f]Lola[/name_f]
[name_f]Nora[/name_f]
[name_f]Maia[/name_f]/Maya
I LOVE [name_u]Jude[/name_u], [name_u]Rudy[/name_u], [name_m]Ruairidh[/name_m], and [name_u]James[/name_u] from your boys list! [name_m]How[/name_m] are you pronouncing Raiffe? If it is the same as [name_u]Rafe[/name_u]/Raphe, one of those spellings might be easier. Personally, I would want a longer name with [name_u]Rudy[/name_u] as a nickname. I think [name_m]Huw[/name_m] would work well anywhere, but you might have some pronunciation issues with [name_m]Ruairidh[/name_m] and [name_m]Ossian[/name_m] if you’re not living in the UK. I’m not a fan of [name_m]Sorley[/name_m]. I just can’t get over ‘sore’ being in there.
For girls, my favourites are [name_f]Freya[/name_f], [name_f]Phoebe[/name_f], [name_f]Iona[/name_f], [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u], [name_f]Maisie[/name_f], and [name_f]Matilda[/name_f]. Your girls names all seem easy to pronounce to me, and the only ones I could see people perhaps struggling with are [name_f]Iona[/name_f] and [name_f]Lilias[/name_f]. To be totally honest, the only thing you might really want to consider is how popular some of these are becoming, because all these names are really lovely!
I second the suggestions of [name_u]Evan[/name_u]/Efan, [name_f]Eira[/name_f], and [name_u]Seren[/name_u]. I’d also add in [name_m]Ivo[/name_m] and [name_u]Taliesin[/name_u] for boys, [name_f]Rhiannon[/name_f] and [name_f]Eleri[/name_f]/Elleri/Ellery for girls, and Calon for either (although this does sound more masculine to me)!