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My husband and I are extremely picky Virgos. We started discussing baby names before we even moved in together 10+ years ago. I'm basically saying it took us 10 years to come up with names we liked, and then we went and picked something completely different. I'd always been convinced I'd have two girls then a boy, so imagine my surprise when the sonogram said "penis". Anyway, Henry Leonard is almost two and we're trying to get back onto the baby bandwagon for round #2.

We picked Henry because it's a more traditional name, and also because it's French as well. My husband and his family pronounce it the English way, my family and I the French way (ahn-REE). His middle name is the Anglicized version of my grandfather's name (Léandre, which my husband can't pronounce to his own satisfaction).

We know for the next one we want to stick with something a little more traditional, preferrably still bilingual, with a middle name from his side of the family, so either Grace or Marion for a girl, and Melville for a boy (neither one of us is keen on Roger). For the record, my side of the family was blessed with Florilda and Euphemia and Donald (our last name is MacDonald), so none of those is a contender.

So I'm looking for ideas, please! I find it almost impossible to find boys names that I like. Girls are far easier! :D

Just to give you a notion...

Jacqueline
Lydia
Hazel
Beatrice
Katherine (but my husband hates this)
Melanie (my husband's surprising suggestion this morning)

Robert
Simon
Aaron
Malcolm (Reynolds *cough*)

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Alexandre/Alexander
Julian
Ambrose
Sebastian/Sebastien
Christian
Jasper
Steven
Matthew
Nicholas
Theodore

Are you TTC or already pregnant with #2?
Edward

We'll be TTC soon. We're trying to pay off our last bit of debt first, which should be done in a few months. Not pregnant yet, but considering it took over two years for me to get pregnant, I'm not holding my breath that it'll happen immediately.

I like Matthew, Theodore, and Edward, but I fear the Twilight association with the name. I like Edmond too.

i don't think the edward association is much of a problem. when i meet kids named edward, i don't automatically assume their parents to be twilight fans, even though i'm still considered to be in twilight's main demographic age-wise.

Josephine Grace
Amelia/Amelie Grace
Cassandra Grace/Cassandra Marion
Helena Grace/Helena Marion
Eve/Eva Marion
Camilla Grace
Margaret/Marguerite Grace
Miranda Grace
Stella Marion
Rosalie/Rosalind Grace/Rosalie/Rosalind Marion
Diana Grace/Diana Marion
Mary/Marie Grace

Peter Melville
Isaac Melville
Stephen/Etienne Melville
Nicolas Melville
Adrian Melville
Francis/Francois Melville
Louis Melville
Christoph(er) Melville
Gabriel Melville

Edited 2012-11-30 13:58 (UTC)

Louis came to my mind first!

Oliver/Olivier
Charles (Charlie)
Dean

Andrew/Andre
Oliver
Daniel
Jeffrey/Geoffrey
Philip
Raymond

Andrew is my husband's name, and Daniel is a very common name in his family, but I like Philip/Philippe and Oliver/Olivier.

My daughter is Vivian, named for my late grandmother. You could spell it the French way, Vivienne, and it sounds good with both Grace and Marion. We have friends in France that we visited this past October, and I love the way they said "Vivi-enne!" - not much different than the English, but noticeable.

My boy vote is Jerome (French) or Jeremy.

I love Beatrice or Hazel paired with Henry!

taking~

thanks so much for sharin~!

I was never too fond of Beatrice until I read a book recently where that was the main character's name and she had everyone call her Tris, which I thought was a cool alternative nn to Bea.