This is embarrassing but I love the name Kaylee. I'm a huge Firefly fan.

I wanted Adele for my daughter's middle name. Still wish that's what it was, honestly, but DH was a hard no. Said it would be the equivalent to naming a kid Beyonce. I get what he was saying but I disagree - Beyonce is the only Beyonce, Adele is an actual regular name - albeit with a current very famous person attached to it this decade.

Beck
Ronan

Anonymous wrote:I love some of the really aggressively Irish names with weird pronunciations: Ciara, Cian, Aislinn, Aoife

DH would never go for something like that, and it's probably too much to give a baby the burden of having to tell everyone how to pronounce their name.

I also love a lot of the nature names people have mentioned

Same. I have some Irish ancestry (but doesn't every white person) but not real direct connections. Would have felt like a poser, but I liked:

Niahm
Mairéad
Seamus

A friend's daughter is Kallie. Not short for anything, starts with a K, also a pet name, all things DCUM frowns on. But every time I hear it, I just love it. So simple and cute.

Anonymous wrote:I love some of the really aggressively Irish names with weird pronunciations: Ciara, Cian, Aislinn, Aoife

DH would never go for something like that, and it's probably too much to give a baby the burden of having to tell everyone how to pronounce their name.

I also love a lot of the nature names people have mentioned

Agree. I really wanted a Moira... we compromised on Maura.

DH was set on naming a girl Kayleigh, which sounds very Teen Mom/trashy to my ear. Luckily we had boys.

Evangeline. Just too much of a mouthful especially with our last name (and I dislike the super-common nn Evie).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Names from my baby name list that DH didn’t like or didn’t go with our last name or were weird based on our ethnicity, etc

Sabine
Nadia
Natasha
Selene
Selah
Hero
Hera

Damien
Wyatt
Ronan
Archer
Asher
Felix
Sawyer
Carl
Victor
Vincent

I love your girl names- our daughter is one of them

pp why not share what the name is? Why be so coy?

Anonymous wrote:Guinevere
Mabel
Miranda
Viola
Tatiana
Athena
Phoebe
March
Daphne


Just all too much.
But I looooove them.

I agree on some of these, but I think Miranda and Phoebe are terrific names (Miranda is one of my very favorite girls names and I could not use it for a very unique-to-me reason and it made me sad). I also think Daphne is growing on me. It is a lot of anemic but I think I might be someone who just likes a lot of name.

I love some of the really aggressively Irish names with weird pronunciations: Ciara, Cian, Aislinn, Aoife

DH would never go for something like that, and it's probably too much to give a baby the burden of having to tell everyone how to pronounce their name.

I also love a lot of the nature names people have mentioned

Anonymous wrote:I love Penelope but it's too over the top for real life (and I hate "Penny"). Also like Eliza, which isn't ridiculous but sounded pretentious in the "yell it across a playground" test.

I love Penny! Also Pen and Nellie. One thing I love about Penelope is that it has a lot of good nickname potential.

And I don't find Eliza pretentious at all. I had a good friend named Eliza growing up.

Mallory
Octavia
Faith

Eammon
Addison (for a boy)

I love Mabel and DH was on board until my siblings turned him! DD (now a teen) is so thankful that happened!

We were planning to name our first DS Maxwell, but had a delivery room change of heart. All three of our kids now also think that was the craziest name choice.

Guinevere
Mabel
Miranda
Viola
Tatiana
Athena
Phoebe
March
Daphne


Just all too much.
But I looooove them.