Advice? Anyone?

[iqsi.livejournal.com]

My brother called and woke me up at five in the morning with what he considers to be the best news of his life, that his wife is pregnant. And it's a girl on the way.

He's already decided her first name should be Yelena, after our oldest sister, whose death I don't think any of us have ever really gotten over. But he's stuck on middle name ideas. His wife is sort of leaving it up to him, because she knows the whole Yelena thing is non-negotiable and saying the wrong thing can make him shut down on this topic. So I thought I'd post here and gather up some suggestions for him.

His last name (and mine, obviously) is Ledeno. So fill in the blank here. Please? I want to help him out and prevent him from going with a dorky middle name. This is a man whose first cat was Asparagus. We cannot afford to take chances here.

New girl name list

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Well not new but I've added a few names to my list and I wanted to know what you guys thought of it! I know many of these names are a bit 'weird' but I speak mostly latin based languages (primarily french and spanish) so that's why some may be spelled a bit differently and stuff. Also, there is an abundance of Italian names on the list because I am mostly of Italian heritage. 

Aurora
Arwen - yeah yeah I'm a big geek so sue me... probably will never use it but it's on here.
Cecilia - this could easily be on my top 5 right now. 
Celestina
Clara
Elena - this name I will be using no matter what. In my family the naming tradition is on the women's side and my first daughter will 100% be named <first name> Elena.
Eliana 
Eowyn - see Arwen.
Esther
Evelina
Ginevra - no, not because of Harry Potter but it's still a sweet reference =) 
Lidia
Lucia
Luna - Front contender for a while now but this would have my child named Luna Elena which sounds gorgeous in Spanish but English is my second most used language. 
Lucrezia
Romana 
Valeria - meh, not a name that drives me wild. 

Eve is a name I L.O.V.E. to infinity and beyond but ONLY in English and that makes me a sad panda. 

wdyt guys? got any names to suggest? any names you hate? lemme have it peeps!

BTW - I looove suggestions because this list is pretty short and I'd like a more complete one just one thing: I dislike names that mean anything to do with 'God'. I don't mind names from the bible but names that mean 'god's grace' or anything similar I cannot swallow. 

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[iqsi.livejournal.com]

I hate to post again so soon, but I'm in the library, where some sort of preschool graduation thing is happening. Names are on the chairs. I was going to do a sweep just to see what the local trends were, since no one's arrived yet and they needed help setting up, and then I saw it.

Qatherynne.

I cannot form snark or recall the other thirty chairs and names set up. I checked several times. This is not a fever dream. This is happening.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[gregariouspeach.livejournal.com]

Robin & Ray are expecting their third daughter.

She will join Rose & Ruby. 

What do you suggest? 

Do you think they should stick with R?

They've been searching for months so I am pretty sure they've looked at all the standard R names.