Hi there. DH and I are struggling to pick a name as we have VERY different tastes. We have some time yet but I thought I'd ask for help sooner rather than later.

My mom died when I was little and I'd love to use her name Laura, but DH has a small family with only two cousins and one of his cousins names is Laura. She didn't have a problem but my DH says it's 'taken". So we decided we would use Laura as a middle name for a girl and Laurance for a middle name for a boy. The trouble is finding a first name to go nicely.

For a girl we both like the name Paige but Paige Laura just doesn't really go. We also like the name Nola but Nola Laura sounds even worse. I thought of naming her Laura Paige and then using her middle name but DH thinks that's weird.

For boys my DH is in love with the name Duncan but I'm not that keen. He gave me a small list of names and the only one I liked was Ian which is just ok, though it doesn't sound that bad with Laurance.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Our last name has 5 syllables and 14 letters (starting with Con) so DH is dead set on shorter names.