The Serious name lovers thread!

So I guess I'll get things rolling :)

I'm so freakin picky it's not funny lol. I love tradional names. I prefer them to only be one or two syllables and I'm not a fan of unique spellings. For our girls we went with Hazel Ada & Esme Lily.

So for our next baby my top two names are
Stella Rae for a girl or
Beau for a boy but I can't seem to find a middle name that sounds good with Beau.

Also on my short list
girl -
Estelle, Lucy, Maggie, Ruby
Boy -
Noah, Jerome, Rex

Edited by lisa85

I like the traditional names as well

We have Ruby Louise and Lewis James

Lisa what about Beau James ?

I really liked Jeremy but DH vetoed and for DD I was really keen on Veronica could be shortened to Ronnie. But its didn't suit her

I really like Mae as well

I adore the name James cause of my Grandpop but can't/won't use it cause of another family member.

Same as I like the name Dave but would never use it cause it's my Dad's name.

Cause DH & I have different names we wanted our kids to have different names but ones they won't hate like we have! Although Cooper is quite common now days!

I love the names Caitlyn, Catriona, Joshua, Lachlan, Sara, Claire, Eileen, Finn.

I'm sure I'll think of more!

We like traditional names but not popular ones.

We've also had lots of pets with proper people names that puts me off ever using them on the kids. ie; Max, Rufus.

I also like names that translate well into adult hood. ie: James/Jamie, William/Wil
Our girls picks are Catherine or Poppy. Poppy came about cause I'm due around the 11th of November.

I hate alternative spellings too, Jackson I like Jaxon just make me think the parents can't spell.

Growing up with an unusual name that I hated, and am forever correcting the spelling or pronunciation.

There are a lot of Grandma and Grandpa names around at the moment some work some don't.

I went to school with a girl whose Dad got her and her sisters name from the obituaries.
DH and I go to the cemetary every ANZAC day we were having a look around the gravestones for inspiration too.

Oooh I love talking names too! I'm finding it really really hard to find a boy's name this time round, but we'll get there in the end I spose

I'm also a fan of traditional-ish type names and not a huge fan of random spellings of traditional names. Last time I was in Australia there was a kid in the playground called Banjo and on one of our recent visits home to NZ I heard a mother calling her son Turtle..... each to their own though!

For my own kids, DH and I like Irish and Scottish names because of our family heritage. I think girls names are far easier to come up with, there are so many more options!

I love names like James and Daniel but we can't use them because I have close family members called James and Daniel (same goes for nearly every other traditional boy's name around! Lots of boys in our families).

Oh yeah I meant to say, my cousin is Beau and his middle name is James. I like the name Beau too!

I hear ya on traditional Irish and Scottish names for boys, especially when boys were automatically named after their father / grand father there isn't a lot of variation.

I also like royal names they're also reasonable common so no troubles with spelling.
We're not christian however some biblical names are nice.

I've found it interesting that my friends with popular names themselves have given their children more unusual names. My friend Rachel named her girls Aaliyah and Delta.

Our names list for our boy includes Finn (DH's favourite), Eli, Emmett, Dashiell, Jethro, Akiva, Asher, Ezra, Matteo, Luca and Reuben.

When we were looking at girls names I loved Callia, Eva, Evangeline, Aisling, Lelia, Faye, Willa and Stella.

I've had to add Ruby to my short list now lol I loooove it! Beau James is quite good. It's almost impossible to find anything to go with Beau. I suppose I don't have to give a boy a middle name but the girls have one so for the sake of uniformity I don't think I could do it

I have always wanted Rex as it's my Dads name but DH hates it so Beau is my next fav. Fo awhile I loved Noah Dean but Noah is really popular at the mo so it's put me off a bit.