Now I just have 20 weeks to change my mind...

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My husband and I aren't planning to find out the sex of our baby, so it was important to me to have names chosen for either sex pre-arrival and for both of us to be in total agreement (my dad tentatively agreed to the name my mom picked out for me and then added the feminine derivation of his name to it while my mom was passed out post-partum and it's made life irritating ever since!)

We had no problems with a boy's name, but we've spent the past 4 weeks unable to reach an agreement on a girl's name - until last night!


BOYS
Patrick Edmund
Ian Patrick
Judah Edmund
Noah Edmund
Jonah Edmund

As much as I share my husband's love of Celtic names, they don't really flow with our very Germanic last name. Though I love Judah, my Jewish ancestry is a few generations back; Noah is way to popular around here (and will always be a General Hospital name to me) so Jonah was a nice balance of classic/religious, not trendy, and different enough but not "created." Plus we both just liked it without having to explain our reasons to each other.

GIRLS
Isabella Catherine
Rory Catherine
Veronica Grace
Cordelia Violet
Cordelia Nalani
Cordelia Suzanne

Rory is really too short balance with our 4-letter surname; Isabella - though we both loved it equally of all the names - is WAY too popular; he loved Veronica, but I'm not a nickname person and I really dislike "Roni"; and Cordelia was a hard sell (I love it for "King Lear," "Anne of Green Gables" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" reasons) for him.

He didn't care for Cordelia aurally (he wanted to make sure people pronounced it "COR-DE-LEE-UH" and not "COR-DEAL-YUH" - but as a Suzanne who's been called Susan more often than not, I told him to give up that dream) and he felt that people would assume it was a "Buffy" namesake and laugh. Um, most of our non-internet friends/family couldn't name the cast of Buffy if money was on the line - so I think we're safe there. Once I got him to agree, I said that he could pick the middle name - no arguments. He suggested Violet (which I love but again - the trendy thing) and Nalani. Um. Hmm. Welsh First Name plus Hawaiian Middle Name plus German Last Name? Why not throw in an Arabic third name to get that total United Nations feel? At last he suggested my name as the middle name, since a boy would have his. It's very "Gilmore Girls," but I like it. :)

So it will either be Jonah Edmund or Cordelia Suzanne. WDYT?