O/T - baby names!

We would also struggle with girl names as we can't think of any that we'd really like or would go well with our surname which starts with a vowel and most girl names end with a vowel so would sound a bit weird...

For a boy it was going to be definitely Vlad Michael but since, my OH's granddad died and he now wants his granddad's name for a boy as he was really close to his granddad: Kenneth (Kenny).

He likes Sara for a girl but I am not keen at all...

Not that we are planning on children but we decided on

Megan for a girl

Dillion for a boy

have no idea what we'd do if we ever had two of the same sex it took us days to decide these 2!! we used the vito aka the friends episode I really like Cassie for a girl

Mr Flow wants to call our children 'Number 1, Number 2, Number 3' and so on...hmmm?

I already have 3 daughters, they are Rebecca who is almost 18 and Iona and Amanda who are almost 14 (theyre twins)....if i ever had a boy i would have called him Nathan but its never gonna happen, im tooooo old. (its my birthday tomorrow ill be 38 eeeek!)

As a midwife ive heard some right crackers....pocahontas (im not kidding)...ocean.....and the best one so far was jemimah lulu

As gross as this may sound - I have just read this, Cricket bride, and promptly wish I wore Tena lady! LOL!!!! This never ever happened to me in my whole life! The email address did it!!! How many people I know who ...do little @ their companies!!! Oh I still have tears of laughter on my cheeks...?

My OH is right: how easily entertained I am!

? My OH is called Alex and is insistent that any children we have are named a variant of Alex: Alexis, Alexa, Alexandria so forth. That way he only has to remember Al.

My OH and I have only agreed on one name so far, which is Florence for a girl, you have to think about what the names can/will be abbreviated to and luckily we like all of them: Flo, Florrie, Flora etc.

Other names I like are -

Boys - Ned, Stanley, Arthur, Isaac, Bruce, Barnaby.

Girls - Sophia, Lottie, Elsie, Betsy, Lotta, Eva, Nancy, Tilly, Beatrice.

My main concern when naming children is that one day someone will say "My dog is called that!!!!"

My ex-SIL was called Kelly, which was also the name of my first dog. Every time someone mentioned the sister, all I could think of was the Staffy ?

She was a bit of a dog though.

BrideBrat- Love most of yours too and are also on my imaginary list

Particularly Arthur and Elsie

I had one Nanny called Lily and another called May. I loved Lily-May until 1. Lily got really popular again (I'm just contrary) and 2. all my girl second cousins started getting named "Holly-May", "Lauren-May" etc.

When I was 18, I had a boyfriend called Jake Algar. Fact.

OH and I have decided on Nathaniel- Nate for short.

Girl's wise I like Anastasia- OH not so much but as it will be me pushing the baby out I get final say on names ? (unless OH can think of a girls name I love)

Love your girls names, so cute!

avintagebride- i like your boys names, i've got a little boy called Theo Oliver was also on our list! My other little boy is Lucas

We are set for girls she would either be Leah May (would like to spell it Lia) or Evie May (Evie is getting really popular) I also like Rosa but H2B not having any of that.

For a boy my OH like Joseph, where as i like Ethan, Eli, Issac, Noah so boy we may need to argue but he will have Thomas as his middle name.

We are going to have a year off after the wedding before we think of kids we have moved house, gone on holiday and got married in 12 months and we need to save some pennies.

Some beautiful names on here, ladies!

VP - sorry, love! Hope you're ok now! BTW, not as funny but I know a girl called Kelly who married a Nick Kelly - she did take his name, brave girl. Kelly Kelly.

My 2 are called james and lee

Hopefully, me and OH will start trying after our wedding too, but have 2 names for a girl, and canot agree on boys names...

Ours girls name is Addison, and Mheeka (Really unusual)

My choice for boy is Tyler or Harley, his is Bobby or Charlie.

Lets hope we have a girl first too lol x

Great thread and some lovely names...

I had a dream a few weeks ago that I had twins, a boy and a girl and I named them Madison and Michael. Since then the name Madison sounds really appealing to me, although I've always loved Mackenzie too...

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My niece is called Madison! It was going to be her name but shortened to Madi, but it doesn't suit her, Madison does though lol! lovely name

My nephews are called Brandon & Tyler and me and OH keep winding my mum up saying we'll call our kids Brendon & Taylor just to really confuse her!!

I hated having an 'unusual' name growing up... I've met a fair number of people with my name now (not always spelled the same way) but anyway it made me determined to give my children fairly traditional names.

For boys I like Thomas, Jack.

For girls I like Ava, Grace, Lily, Rose.

Have you noticed (me included with Olive) that alot of old fashioned girls names are seeming to be re-born? I think its lovely

Me and my OH will be trying soon after we get married and have discussed names. We're Welsh and OH first language is Welsh as is his family so we'd like Welsh names. We've decided to go for Tomos Dafydd Jones (Tom-moss, Davith). We haven't decided on girls names yet but our fave girls names are Gwenllian, Bethan, Catrin, Seren.

For a boy, Dimitri... for a girl, Iahelle...

"*sniff* can someone hand me a wedding napkin? i feel tears coming"

Our baby names at the moment are Ethan and Isabelle

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I really like Milla for a girl and Jasper for a boy ?

I love Noah for a boy and For a girl Lilly or Rose

I can also confirm the Snow White baby in liverpool. She must be at least 13 by now!!!!

OH and I are Welsh, although I'm Welsh speaking and he is not. I'd like names that are definitely Welsh, but that are easy to pronounce. I wouldn't want to put them at a disadvantage if they went to live or work away from Wales!

I love the idea of keeping names in the family. My Mamgu (grandmother) is called Megan and I'd like to use that as a middle name. My mother's maiden name is Lewis and OH's brother's middle name is Lewis, so I'd like to use that too.

My favourite girl's name is Leah, but pronounced the Welsh way of Lei-ah. I'm afraid if I chose that name, people would automatically pronounce it Lee-ah, which is not what I like.

For girls - Lili Megan, Hanna Megan, Seren Haf (Seren means Star and Haf means Summer, but they are not thought of as hippy names as they might be in English!)

For boys - Lewis John or Lewis Anthony (John is my dad, Anthony is OH's dad), Noa

Gosh!

Gosh! Maybe there related! theres not many Algar's on this eath! hehe

I love the traditional names like Harry, Edward (Ed), I love Joshua but it's my nephew's name for girls I adore Isabelle, OH likes Sofia. Hopefully this time next year I'll have a bump to actually pick a name for

I am the proud owner of a Basil and Monty. I got all the usual unimaginative jibes for Basil at first but frankly, none of his peers so much as raise an eyebrow. Also I can't imagine calling either of them anything else. They are both little characters - almost a double act, and they have made their names their own if that makes any sense. As for girls there are so many I love but to think my favourites at the mo are either Dorothy or Edith. I have a daughter Emily and two other sons Harvey and Edward. So I guess my taste in names is quite varied.