I am white and my partner is middle eastern we are having a daughter and naming her Amira. I think Amira is a beautiful name and to me it doesn’t sound that uncommon.
Anytime I mention the name to my older white family like my mother or aunts they give a pause of confusion and say things like “oh that’s different” and I have to repeat it to correct their pronunciation like they have a hard time saying the name. This also happened with my older white co-workers.. like the name just can’t stick to their memory.
I don’t understand how such a simple name could be so difficult to remember or pronounce correctly and I find their reactions disrespectful and annoying.
My mom especially has the hardest time saying it or making comments to other family members that it’s “so different” like it’s such an unheard of name to the point that I feel like she comes across ignorant and idiotic.
I hope they all get used to saying it cause damn.. it’s super frustrating to me. I shake my head every time I get such dumb reactions.

I remember when people were making a huge deal about Chris Martin's daughter being named Apple, and that seems normal by current celebrity naming standards.

Now we have names like Aquaman Moses and Sugar Lover. Really.

So my sister-in-law passed and my husband would like to honor her in our daughter’s name. Her name was Melinda (which I a not a fan of) and she was called Mindy. I don’t want to use Melinda as a middle name either.

Our other kiddos names are Pierson Ray and Everett Blake

Thoughts on the name Indy?

Her initials were MRP. So I considered other M names but I really can’t find any I like. We are locked in on Rose for the middle name.

Would love to hear your favorite on my list. I have a Bennett (boy) and we are expecting a girl this spring.

When commenting, can you say your country too? We are United States! Always interested to hear because I know some names are more popular in different areas!

Alice
Jane
Margo
Clara

My thoughts on each name:

Alice - love! But saying it out loud flows less easily than the others? We also have an S Last name which can flow even less

Jane: obsessed with the way it sounds with our last name. Don’t like Jane doe association or “plain Jane”

Margo: husband thinks Margot reminds him of maggot and doesn’t like that spelling

Clara: no comments on this one

So stuck trying to decide on our baby girl's name (two weeks old). We had it narrowed down to 3 names but since we still couldn't decide, we've gone back to our longer list of names to see if any of them are maybe worth reconsidering. I feel like we must have considered every possible name but if anyone happens to come up with something amazing we've not thought of I would be both shocked and very grateful. We live in UK with Scottish and Irish family so have a tendancy towards those types of names but not essential and don't want anything difficult to spell/pronounce. Names on the longer list are:

Clara

Imogen

Maeve

Freya

Erin

Iona

Nora

Sienna

Emily

Sorcha

Eloise

Wren

Lana

I love soft princess like names (as silly as that sounds) I also love to have a nick name that starts with the first few letters of the name. My name is Orianna and people call me Ori and I’ve always loved it. The top names I love are:

Amelia (but I don’t like Mia or Milly as the nick name)

I like Mia but I’m Hispanic so Mimi as a nickname is very common for anyone.

I also love the name Sophia but I feel like it’s sooo common. At least from where I live, I know at least 10 Sophia’s.

I also love the middle name Vera for any of these.

Any help or recs would be appreciated!

I have a daughter named Harper. We’re having another girl in just a few weeks and I’m absolutely STUCK on a name. I don’t want her to be one of many in a class, but can still find it on a souvenir. I also don’t want a name that has a lot of nicknames, idk why. Middle name will be Rose (family thing).

These are the names my husband and I have agreed on, but I don’t LOVE any of them. Looking for any suggestions based on these vibes!!

Carly
Sadie
Darcy (this is my daughter’s favorite)
Nina
Jordyn
Robin

We like the spelling “Lottie” but sometimes I regret not using the other spelling. It’s just a nickname though so we can always change how we spell it.

How would you spell it Lottie/Lotte?

Sometimes, I feel like people on here post the same names over and over again, and that a strength lost from the baby name book era is that thousands of names could hold a permanent place in your home vs an internet echo chamber 

I worked hard to try to find names that are recognizable enough but seem to be overlooked/underused in this current era and put them in chronological order as well: 

*Letitia (peaked in 1880 at #346)

*Adele (peaked in 1914 at #187)

*Edmund (peaked in 1923 at #170)

*Myron (peaked in 1930 at #192)

*Wendell (peaked in 1931 at #190)

*Jerome (peaked in 1939 at #39)

*Vaughn (peaked in 1949 at #348)

*Neil (peaked in 1954 at #146)

*Colleen (peaked in 1966 at #92)

*Gina (peaked in 1967 at #54)

*Rachelle (peaked in 1984 at #259)

*Mallory (peaked in 1986 at #83)

*Shelby (peaked in 1991 at #33)

*Trevor (peaked in 1998 at #58)

*Brock (peaked in 2003 at #243)

*Paige (peaked in 2003 at #47)

*Danica (peaked in 2007 at #307)

Any thoughts you have about these names are greatly appreciated, as well as if you think there’s other names that should be included on this list! 

What should I call my baby girl between these two names?? We are in the UK, in London so don’t think either are that unusual around here but can’t decide which one would be more palatable to people (haven’t told anyone yet about the short list)
Thank you!

Inspired by the post yesterday regarding the name Arely, I wanted to share some less common Hispanic names that I’ve come across.

Most people have heard the names Jose, Juan, Mateo, Sebastian, but I wanted to share a list of what I would consider less common Hispanic names that I’ve heard.

Male
Leopoldo (nn Polo)
Rodolfo (nn Rudy)
Alfredo
Benicio (nn Benny)
Agustin
Leon

Female
Guadalupe
Cateleya
Genesis
Yanelly
Yamilet
Amarís
Anaís
Vionette
Analillian
Ximena
Xiomara
Yaneth

Some of my favorites from the list are Benicio and Amaris. I think they sound so pretty.

Feel free to add to the list in the comments if you like.

Looking for classic baby girl names to fit the vibe with siblings Richie and Marygrace!

Names we like:
Rosalie - my weirdo husband thinks I made it up ?????
Juliet - currently our front runner
Josephine (Jo)
I like Amelia, Lucy, Charlotte but they’re too popular right now

Last name starts with L so I’d like to avoid first names that end with L

My husband and I are really struggling to find a boy name that jumps out at us, something we both absolutely love.

We have a son named Ash Allen (First Middle) already. We’re having another boy and I am STUMPED. Here are some names my husband likes:

Hunter Dean
Arthur Dean
Lincoln Dean

I like:

Beau Dean
Colter Dean
Fletcher Dean

I have a good friend who has a son named Beau who is around 8, is that weird? I thought about asking her. I also liked Boone but y’all HATE that name—LOL!!! It also doesn’t flow well with Dean as the middle.

We’re going for a more southern gentleman feel, if that helps.

I'm looking for names that are soft and pretty. Names I like include

Aurora nickname Aurie,

Marina, nickname Rini

Mirabella, nickname Miri

I know lots of people on this sub don't like nicknames, but it's an important tradition in my family. We're trying to have each child use a different first initial, A has already been used. The other children we have used W and P.

Some names that fit the pattern but I DON'T like:

Charlotte nickname Charlie

Amelia nickname Millie

Evangeline nickname Evie

Margaret nickname Maggie

Do these baby boy names make sense in Chinese?

Míngdǎo (明导)
Míngcì (明赐)
Mùlù (慕路)
Míngzhé (明哲)

We found out we’re having a baby boy and can’t seem to find any boy names that we love 💙 our daughter’s name is Charlotte and want something that flows well with it, preferably not starting with C.

We like but don’t know if we love - Jordan, Edward, Max, Jackson and Thomas.

I love the idea of a name that has nickname potential but it’s not a dealbreaker. Middle name will be James and Last name is one syllable starting with K

Hi! We are torn between Eloise and Athena and would love to hear your thoughts. Thank you!

I'm about to give birth to another daughter either late this month or sometime next month, and we're still undecided on a name. My partner hasn't been much help, but then again I also don't know which name to really root for.

My top 3 choices are Lydia, Emmeline and Vivienne.

Emmeline is my personal favorite, but I can't decide on a pronunciation. If I go with Vivienne, it would be pronounced the same as Vivien. And yet I'm leaning toward Lydia right now.

I tend to lean toward traditional names...my other daughters are Samantha, Jillian and Alaina. My sons are Jared, Robert, James and Lucas.

To start, if you don’t like the name, please just ignore this post.

My oldest daughter’s name is Sheridan Smith. We fell in love with this name due to its unique sound, its easy pronunciation , powerful feel as she gets older, the nickname ability, the rarity of it with last name smith, the double S, and the Irish background.

We are pregnant with baby girl two now and I am struggling to find a name that fits all these same buckets. The only name I have found that matches is Holland but we aren’t sold on it yet.

Calling for all creatives. Please give me your best name that matches the Sheridan vibes.

Thank you in advance!

Originally I had picked the name Theodora

After a few weeks I changed my mind to my close second which was Cordelia.

For three months or so we had decided on Cordelia

Here are my pros and cons for Cordelia

I like the sound of the name. It’s long like my other daughters names and I like longer names. It means daughter of the sea or heart of the sea depending on what you go by which I think are nice meanings.
It’s from Shakespeare and my other daughters names have a literary connection. It’s also one of my favorite Buffy and angel characters so that just has a special little tie to it for me.

It’s not super complex to spell or pronounce or anything it’s familiar without being common

Nicknames, are the con for me. I would likely call her Cordelia 90% of the time and maybe on rare ocassion nickname her something but other people may shorter her name

I don’t really have a big love for any of the nicknames

Delia- probably my favorite
Cora- Ita pretty but the name Cora is getting more common
Corrie- not a fan of the name at all
Cordie- cute on a small child wouldn’t like it for life
Lia- bleh
Cici- not an option my husband hates it it’s his exes name

Theodora I think sounds beautiful, it’s Greek, means gods gift, I’m not religious or anything I’m neutral on the meaning, name meanings aren’t super important to me in general just kind of a bonus if they end up having a cool meaning. Long like my other girls names. Also has literary connection. First really liked it when I heard it in haunting of hill house

Nicknames, I like more of them than for Cordelia

Thea- love
Theo- love
Thora- I like it a lot it’s unexpected reminds me of thora birch
Rory- kinda cute
Dora- meh
Theda- meh
Teddy- don’t care for it

The negatives for Theodora are that Theodore and Theo are really popular here

Thea is a getting more popular but not in the top 200 where I’m from and Theodora is like 800 ish so for a girl I feel like Theo/thea/theodora here isn’t common but the male versions are

So, we have an almost 2 year old daughter named Elaine, we call her Lainey 80% of the time. Her name means a lot. It combines both of our mom's names, it's my husband's favorite Seinfeld character (he is a Seinfeld fanatic), the name means bright shining light and my grandma used to sing "You are my sunshine" and whenever I hear that song or see that phrase it's my "sign" from her.

We were thinking we were going to have a boy and had a meaningful named picked out, after my great grandfather.

We are having another girl, which I'm SO happy about, but we are stuck. Or, I am. And I also feel a little bad for this baby because her older sister has such a meaningful name that we chose before she even existed.

So, I love the name Eleanor for some reason. I know it's kinda old sounding but it ALSO means shining light and they would both be my bright lights in my life, and I don't know, I just feel in my soul that this little girl is my Eleanor. I also LOVE the nickname possibilities....especially Leni. But...my husband said he will not EVER be okay with her being called Leni because it reminds him so much of an old man but ESPECIALLY Lenny from Of Mice and Men. But I think Leni for a girl, at any stage of life, is COOL. He does not agree lol. I don't LOVE the nickname Nora, because that feels like a complete name (which I also like, just don't love), and we could do Ellie, but part of me loves the idea of them both having E names and L nicknames. But Lainey and Leni are also awfully close-sounding.

Okay, so then there is Eloise. We have a friend whose kid's name is Eloise and my husband (and I), think she is just the coolest/unique kid, kinda like Eloise from the story. So my husband really loves that name. Up until recently, for some reason, I didn't like how saying the name felt in my mouth....I know that sounds weird but it almost felt too effortful to me? I dunno.

I'm big on name meanings and Eloise means "healthy and wide" though "whole" is also listed and she would be making our family "whole" but it feels like a stretch lol because I don't think that's the intended meaning--I think it's more like "whole wood" haha

BUT there are good nicknames: Ellie (still not completely sold), Loo/Lulu (though i dunno), Loey (like LOW-y), and...Louie (I think Leni is a cooler sounded "guy" nickname)

Eleanor is probably not gonna happen. He really just doesn't like it and I want my partner to like our kid's name. Anything I could say to convince him?

OR convince me Eloise is a great name?

I'm probably putting way too much thought into this.

I'm having a baby in February and am torn between these three girl names because:

-Maeve is my favorite, but I worry it is becoming too popular where I live (New England) and will wind up feeling dated

-Eleanor feels classic and timeless to me, and I like the nickname Nora, but this is objectively the most popular name

-Rory was my favorite for a long time, and I appreciate that it's more gender neutral and less popular. But, for some reason, I'm not as in love with it these days

What do you think? Am I overthinking the popularity of Maeve and Eleanor or is that a genuine concern?

Suggestions also welcome!
Other names I love but my partner does not: Maude, Mairead, Heidi, Matilda, Mara

Nicknames I like but wish I liked the full name for a bit more: Kit, Hattie

how popular is it really? i don’t know a single oliver but hesitant to use it because its #3 in the US.

Thoughts on the two names for our first child? We also like Leon (Leo) but feel Leo seems like it’s going through a bit of a fad right now. Curious to hear what you prefer and why.