Oh I DO love talking about baby names :)

[Minque]

Poppy, Violet, Thomas and Patrick are my faves from your list!

[BlackRose]

Love talking names!! My opinions on your suggestions below:

Matilda - love but quite common
Harriet - no
Stella - no
Violet - don't mind
Nora - no
Rose - love
Olivia - love but too common

William - love
James - love but recent cousin called their baby boy James
Thomas - love but my ex was a Tom and also Thomas the tank engine has ruined it for us
Benjamin - love
Spencer - oooo new one for me and love
Callum - love but a cousin is named callum
Ethan - no
Jacob - no
Simon - no
Patrick - no

[grub17]

Matilda - i think it's cute but seems pretty popular thesedays, which for me is a turn off
Harriet - love it ... but i do think of that line from Miss Congeniality... Dirty Harriet lol
Stella - love it!
Violet - love it too, suggested it for dd but Dh wasn't a fan... men!
Nora - not a fan
Rose - as a middle name veyr pretty
Olivia - have a friend of this name and she's so sophisticated and gorgeous! so love the name

William -always loved it
James - dh's name, ds's middle name
Thomas - my grandads name but dh wasn't a huge fan. i would have named ds that otherwise
Benjamin - lol i see a theme here... another immediate family member's name!
Spencer - LOVE LOVE love this name.
Callum - meh not a huge fan
Ethan - see callum
Jacob - cute but i don't love it
Simon - mmm sorry not a fan, i just think of that horrid simple simon ryhme, which the child woudl probably get.
Patrick - yeah, anotehr possible for us! lol

What about Paul for your boys' list? it's classic and strong name? I really like cooper too but my dh's reaction was "isn't that a surname'' pft!
We have an Imogen, maybe that would go for your girls list?
You obviously have a very classic taste
Oh, another name i thought you might like.... it's a bit 'old fashioned' is Tess? I love Tess and Meg as names, DH hated them.

gee if I could get full naming rights like you do you lucky thing!!!

[sangie]

Lucky you having full naming rights! Love most of your names and our list for both DD and DS had quite a few of those on there!

My favourites from your list are Olivia, Stella, William and Ethan (DS is Ethan so I'm a bit biased lol!).

Other names on our list were Alyssa, Genevieve, Ivy, Eva, Sophie, Hannah, Lucas, Zac, Hamish, Daniel.

[Aimz]

I have a feeling full naming rights will be revoked - "come on Amy, I didn't ACTUALLY mean it"

I'd love some more suggestions - especially for girls.

I absolutely LOVE Penelope. But it's my brothers fiance's name, and while I ADORE her, I couldn't use it.

From everyone else's suggestions, I love Meg, Eve/Evie, Sophie/Sophia (can't use either though), Poppy and Imogen I LOVE but my ex-H loved that name so much so I'd feel weird using it.

I absolutely LOVE Rose as a first name, but would probably use it as a middle name (Matilda Rose is my all time #1 favourite name). However, middle name will likely be Catherine, after DP's sister who passed away as a baby.

Other names I'm throwing around are:

Grace
Florence
Charlotte (although it's very popular!)
Lucy
Josephine (I LOVE Jo or Joey as a nn)
Pippa (although I'm not mad on Phillipa and have a thing about using nicknames as full names IYKWIM)

Boys are way too hard. So many to choose from, so many combinations, but I don't have my heart set on any! Isn't that always the way?

[Rowellen]

I have a feeling full naming rights will be revoked - "come on Amy, I didn't ACTUALLY mean it"

I'd love some more suggestions - especially for girls.

I absolutely LOVE Penelope. But it's my brothers fiance's name, and while I ADORE her, I couldn't use it.

From everyone else's suggestions, I love Meg, Eve/Evie, Sophie/Sophia (can't use either though), Poppy and Imogen I LOVE but my ex-H loved that name so much so I'd feel weird using it.

I absolutely LOVE Rose as a first name, but would probably use it as a middle name (Matilda Rose is my all time #1 favourite name). However, middle name will likely be Catherine, after DP's sister who passed away as a baby.

Other names I'm throwing around are:

Grace
Florence
Charlotte (although it's very popular!)
Lucy
Josephine (I LOVE Jo or Joey as a nn)
Pippa (although I'm not mad on Phillipa and have a thing about using nicknames as full names IYKWIM)

Boys are way too hard. So many to choose from, so many combinations, but I don't have my heart set on any! Isn't that always the way?

I don't see a problem with naming a child a name that is a nickname. A lot of nicknames have become names anyway. I like Pippa as a name better than Phillipa. I like Josie as a nn for Josephine.

I'm not a fan of Grace personally. Lucy's nice.

Hazel
Evelyn
Caitlyn
Esmae/Esme
Nancy
Nina
Miriam
Talia
Mali/Marley
Estella/Estelle