Your favourite given names?

If my eldest had been a girl he was going to be Melanie, still like that name. Second would of been Erin and I still like that too. Lucy is another.

I transcribe census/bmd records and every time I come across the name Keziah I always think that's pretty.

I love the name Petronella! I also like Amaryllis.

I love this thread! Girls' names are so poetic and lovely to say out loud.I like reading them all.

Honks= yonks

I had a doll I called Petronella. No idea why .I like names that have been in the family for honks but the young ones don’t. One of my grandchildren is Lyllie, I quite like that.

My granddaughters are Lily Xanthe and Xenia I love their names. I never liked my name I wanted to be called Heather when I was young.

Stephanie & Ruth for me.

Marie.

Dilly I live in a Melbourne suburb. We are lucky we get quite a lot of lovely birds, especially parrots ?

Claude and Mable

Girls: Cordelia, Lucinda, Coralie.
Boys: Lucas and Cuthbert

Definitely Alexandra. I don't have daughters or granddaughters, when I suggested it for all of my DGC it was turned down in any case. DGGC perhaps?

nanna8 where do you live? What a pretty bird, the most I get with any colour are robins!

Rosella is a well known brand of soup over here. It is a lovely parrot, crimson and blue . This is a young one in our back yard

Louise

Rosella

So many pretty names, both for boys and girls. Naming babies is delicious, I remember the stacks of baby name books I had with folded pages for all the ones I liked. I gave both my sons plain names (I like simple one syllable names for boys) but if I’d had a girl I would have gone for frothy and feminine. However the boys names listed here I would have put on my list if I’d thought of them when I was pregnant!

Jamie
and
Louise

My Dad’s Christian name was Denyer, most people shorted it to Den and assumed he was a Dennis, my nephew has it as a middle name.

Lucia Rose---one of my GGC.

Lesley---one of my D's middle name. Her dad was Leslie.

Jocelyn, was the choice for our third child, but he, was not the right sex!
Still love the name though.

Poppy Rose - my GD’s name

Freya. I just love that name. I had 4 girls but I was going to call a boy Jeremy which I liked at the time but since Jeremy Thorpe I became less enthusiastic. I like Isla too and have a great granddaughter called that. One of my grandchildren is called Emily, I like that,too. One of my grandsons is Leif. He hated it until he grew up but now he loves it.

Caroline

Annabel

Arabella (would I dare?)

Lydia

Tessa , Charlotte , Tilly