Names We Don't Hate

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Hi! I'm due in June and I've always loved names and naming, so I'm happy to find this community.

We want to use family names for middles: Furey for a boy, and a variant of Jane/Joan/Joanna/Johanna for a girl. (My middle and my mom's middle is Joan, but I don't really like it enough to pass it on, so I was going to twist it a little.) Our frontrunners right now are Samuel Furey or Ivy Johanna.

The other names we're both thinking about are:

Girl
Alice
Cassandra (Cassie nn)
Celia
Felicia
Georgia
Greta/Gretchen
Juliet (Julie nn)
Lydia
Ruby
Thalia

Boy
Asher (OK, my husband hates this, but I keep hoping he'll change his mind.)
August
Elliot
Gabriel
Grant
John/Jack
Zachary

Any thoughts on any of these? And do you like Ivy Jane or Ivy Johanna better?