Anonymous wrote:I want a Charlotte and Dorothy (grandkids I guess, because my baby days are over)…nicknames Lottie and Dottie

Okay while I would never do this to my actual children because I know how it looks, I too have a fondness for name pairs that have rhyming or cutesy nicknames that go together. I think I also just have a thing for really cute nicknames because in my mind that's what people call them as babies. So yes, a very grandmother vibe here. Some of my favorites:

Margaret & Penelope (Daisy & Poppy)
Josephine & Genevieve (JoJo & Gigi)

I want a Charlotte and Dorothy (grandkids I guess, because my baby days are over)…nicknames Lottie and Dottie

Odette

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Anonymous wrote:I like Gemma and Hadley for a girl.

I like W names for boys:
Weston
Winston
Wesley
Wallace
Wendell

I like Hadley too. My daughter has a friend with this name and she has a unique last name too and it has really grown on me.

I like unisex names too- Riley, Sydney, Morgan, Cameron, Spencer, Blake, Ryan. Also I learned recently that Hadley is unisex too.

PP you quoted and we have very similar tastes. I like unisex names for girls.

My DD is Haley (also unisex but more feminine these days) so I will never have a Hadley- oh well! lol

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Anonymous wrote:Jonquil

I know it sounds a little out there but I just love it, for either boy or girl

Can you try to explain how it sounds? How it’s pronounced?

Like the flower. John-Kwill although I like a little shhh sound at the beginning so it sounds more like “Shawn-quill”

Oh my word. Moms, PLEASE do not saddle your DC with a surprising pronunciation. If you like a floral name, great. Pronounce it like the flower. Do not say that you “like” It a different way that’s not supported by the phonetics.

I'm just picturing 11-year-old Jonquil telling her teacher, "No, it's pronounced Shawn-quill."

Anonymous wrote:I like Gemma and Hadley for a girl.

I like W names for boys:
Weston
Winston
Wesley
Wallace
Wendell

I like Hadley too. My daughter has a friend with this name and she has a unique last name too and it has really grown on me.

I like unisex names too- Riley, Sydney, Morgan, Cameron, Spencer, Blake, Ryan. Also I learned recently that Hadley is unisex too.

Boys: August, Bennett, Benjamin, Samuel, and Welles

Girls: Claire, Jane, Grace, and Maren

The names I like the most for now:
Atlas, Boaz, Arlo, August, Louis
Summer, Ada, Ina, Margaret, June, Kendall

Girls: Bridget, Elizabeth, Veronica, Cecilia, Claire
Boys: James, Christian, William, Edward, Michael

Allegra was the name of Lord Byron's (the nineteenth century poet) illegitimate daughter by Mary Shelley's stepsister.

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Anonymous wrote:Marzipan

Porcelana

Allegra

Stevia

Blake (pronounced Buh-la-kay)

Gyn (pronounced Gin)

Um, in case you didn't know, Allegra is an actual traditional name. Not just an allergy med. Not sure why it's on this list of obviously snarky names.

I knew an Allegra! She was so nice and a kind person. I always thought her name fit her beautifully.

Ciara (pronounced like the female version of Ciaran)
Storey
Margaret (nn - Greta)
Penny
Clara

Boys names -
Joseph
Gregory
Christopher

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jonquil

I know it sounds a little out there but I just love it, for either boy or girl

Can you try to explain how it sounds? How it’s pronounced?

Like the flower. John-Kwill although I like a little shhh sound at the beginning so it sounds more like “Shawn-quill”

Oh my word. Moms, PLEASE do not saddle your DC with a surprising pronunciation. If you like a floral name, great. Pronounce it like the flower. Do not say that you “like” It a different way that’s not supported by the phonetics.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Marzipan

Porcelana

Allegra

Stevia

Blake (pronounced Buh-la-kay)

Gyn (pronounced Gin)

Um, in case you didn't know, Allegra is an actual traditional name. Not just an allergy med. Not sure why it's on this list of obviously snarky names.

Yep. I had a good friend in high school named Allegra (I went to high school in the early 90s) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "The Children's Hour" also mentions a girl named Allegra.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44628/the-childrens-hour-56d223ca55069

Anonymous wrote:Marzipan

Porcelana

Allegra

Stevia

Blake (pronounced Buh-la-kay)

Gyn (pronounced Gin)

Um, in case you didn't know, Allegra is an actual traditional name. Not just an allergy med. Not sure why it's on this list of obviously snarky names.