help - girls names needed

Hi, thanks for reading.
I'm after opinions and suggestions...

We have a little Ashton James and he's going to get a brother or sister. We're good for a boys name (are loving Marcus Alan atm) but are having trouble to find a special girls name.

The shortlist is Emily Grace and Elizabeth Joy (she would be Lizzy)

BUT DH has basically told me the only name he likes is Emily and he can't imagine any other name for his daughter. Now i like Emily but that's just it, like. I don't feel its the ONE for our bub. He'd probably capitulate to Elizabeth in the post birth haze (and his wife who just pushed that bubba out glaring at him lol). But i want a name we both love.

My other 'thing' against Emily is that it is a very popular name and I'd prefer a less popular but not strange name iykwim.

Other names that he's said he "likes" are Lily, Sophie, Amity (i love this one), Mila and Imogen. But i think he just said that to make me shut the baby name book and pipe down for 10 mins.

Anyhoo, after that rambling preamble. I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a name that would go with Ashton (Ash) that is pretty but not overly 'out there'?

thanks for all your suggestions, each one will be read out to DH whether or not he likes it!:wall:

obviously i like elizabeth(because i am one). i never liked being called lizzy though. hated it actually.

i like sophia.
i love imogen.
and lilly. i have been known to be called this at times.

ps congrats on your pg

Imogen is beautiful :)

Mia
Ava
Layla

Can you both go through the baby book?

When we were thinking of a name for DD1, I went through the baby book, wrote down every name that I liked or loved, and then gave the list to DH for him to cross off names. If there weren't many on there, he was going to go through the book. Obviously any that we had on both our lists became names to be used.

Unfortunately, the only name we got from all that was DD1's middle name - Addisyn... lol... DH came up with Mehkelti all on his own :)

Oh - and we had a pretty big list for DD2 as well, but when she came out she didn't look like any of the names on there, so we thought we'd take a night to sleep on it, and then the name Eden came to mind when I was watching her sleep at 5am :)

So even if you don't agree now, it might just come to both of you after she gets here. :)

thanks arimeh. that's basically what i've done. read out every single name i've highlighted out of the baby book.... three times! and he still just says no to all of them (except that little list of maybes) and then ends it with Emily. "i really like emily" aarrrggghhh men!

Imogen is growing on me. Maybe if i start now, i'll have enough time to wear him down... lol. you KNOW what i mean ladies... just harp on about it til he becomes used to it and decides he loves it too! mmmmwwwaaaahhh

Grub

If one of these bubba's was going to be a girl we were going to have

Eliza Grace (so a short name like Emily and also a shortened version of Elizabeth)

As we will be having no more babies, I'm a bit sad I won't get to use is :(

Since it seems you might like 'E' names I'll mention a few that were on our list:

Eva
Evie
Elise
Emelia

Good luck!

After having three boys its been hard trying to find a name for a little girl. Hubby and I used to watch Jnr Master Chef and absolutely fell in love with the little Sienna on there so on the couch one night, we both looked at each other at the same time and said, how about Sienna? LOL so that was it for us. I do also really love Lilly, Amelia or Emelia (sort of like Emily), Grace and Laila or Layla. One of those will be our little girls middle name...just not sure which one yet.

Lol Grub you should see the list we had written out for girls names ;) DF hated nearly every one of the ones I chose and ditto for me with him :) so it was back to the drawing board. We have finally decided on Phoebe Rose for this last bubs but the others on our list were (and be prepared lol)

Temperance
Maeve
Raine
Annie
Olivia
Elizabeth
Annabelle
Alina
Keely
Bethany
Larena
Taryn
Kirby
Millie
Shelby
Kadee (loved this one but to close to our other kids names)
Miriayan
Hannah
Zali
Mallory
Rose
Poppy
Brianne
Amalie
Abigail
Elouise
Imogen
Isabel
Leyna
Phoebe
Rayna
Sadie

Hope some of these help you out

oooh thanks girls there's a few more to take to him.
I should add that Amelia was once the top of our list but it got the ole heave-ho after my best friend named her daughter Amelia Jane (which was our name completely! but she didn't know it at the time lol).

love Evie and love nearly every name on your list chody lol. Darn this is so hard!

suppose it's not the end of the world if i agree to Emily (as i DO like it) and it's really popular hey? Maybe i'll just call her Millie which is super cute. hmmm .... The balance between making your partner happy and making you happy!

keep the suggestions coming tho lovelies...

oh the other name which I would absolutely use in a heartbeat but DH hates it is Cleo. Love it! not strange but not common. Men!

Haha, I'm glad you like the names I mentioned....it seems we are back to the list actually. I thought we had it sorted (Elise) but now DH isn't sure. I'm going to start another thread about it.

Good luck!

I like Imogen Grace, she could be Immy for short, and it gels nicely with Ashton :)

Well think Evie is a pretty cool name :D
I always loved the name Emily but unfortunatly i married into a name which so does not match - so Evie it was!

How about Elise that derives from Elizabeth !

I came across the name Evalie today, I thought it sounded pretty.

Just thought of Erin !

whoops double post

Im just going to do a list so if i repeat a name thats already been said i apologise :)

I have 5 girls, most of them have names that u might find a bit too unusual but i will tell u them anyway.

Ebonee Grace
Sapphire Vienna
Briella Oriaan
Serenitee Annaliese Zayvia
Chardonnay Olivia Janaye

In addition to this other suggestions i have are

Elise
Ava
Emmerson
Addison
Amali
Amelia
Amelie (to be a bit different to Emily)
Chanel
Armani
Ocean (oh she arn)
Charlotte

I hope u find the name that gives u that excitement factor u are looking for :D