Any suggestions?

A family from my church are expecting their fourth child after Christmas and were puzzling over names at a recent meeting, so I told them about Nameberry and said I would ask for suggestions from all of you lovely people.

Their three older children are Oona, Esme and Otto, and they won't know the gender of the baby until the birth.

We live in England and they have Irish roots, although it is not important to them to honour those roots. They would like to avoid another German name, or one beginning in E or O.

They would prefer a two-syllable name ending in a vowel sound.

Any suggestions? Currently they are considering Sorcha (for a girl) and Hugo (for a boy). The last time I mentioned the name Hugo to an American I recieved a very strange look, so I feel I should mention that it is a perfectly ordinary name over here (in fact, I know three)!

Lets Oona, Esme, Otto, and

Girls - for now

Anja - might be too close to Oona
Ayla
Ara
Aura
Bela - pronounced bay-lah
Cara
Capri
Cora
Chloe
Clio
Cameo
Dana
Delia
Drea
Daphne
Darby
Daisy
Dorie
Flora
Ida
Isla
Irie
Ivy
Juno
Jetta
Kira/Keira
Lilou
Lana
Leia
Lara
Lila
Lela
Lola
Mara
Marla
Margo
Mari
Mia
Maya/Maia

I'm American and I adore the name Hugo :)

As for name ideas, I know its very popular where you are, but Isla would definitely fit in that trio. More ideas that have not been mentioned:

Esme, Otto and Oona

Cleo
Cora
Dora
Flora
Iole
Leda (LAY-dah)
Leta (LEE-tah)
Lila/Lilah
Maeva
Mira
Nia
Nola
Peta/Petra
Rhea
Sophie
Zilla

twinkle wrote:A family from my church are expecting their fourth child after Christmas and were puzzling over names at a recent meeting, so I told them about Nameberry and said I would ask for suggestions from all of you lovely people.

Their three older children are Oona, Esme and Otto, and they won't know the gender of the baby until the birth.

We live in England and they have Irish roots, although it is not important to them to honour those roots. They would like to avoid another German name, or one beginning in E or O.

They would prefer a two-syllable name ending in a vowel sound.

Any suggestions? Currently they are considering Sorcha (for a girl) and Hugo (for a boy). The last time I mentioned the name Hugo to an American I recieved a very strange look, so I feel I should mention that it is a perfectly ordinary name over here (in fact, I know three)!

Fun! :-) What cool names! :-)

Oona, Esme, Otto and...

Ailsa
Calla
Daphne
Ivy
Isla
Lola
Mireille
Phoebe
Ruby
Saoirse
Stella
Tessa
Vera
Willa

Arlo
Asa
Alexei
Benoit
Darby
Dougray
Harvey
Leo
Laszlo
Milo
Murray
Theo

My apologies for repeats! :-)

Good luck to your friend! :-)

P.S. I love Hugo.

Sorcha and Hugo are wonderful names!

More Names:

Girls
Aiko - a Japanese name
Anya
Calla
Delia
Freya
Gemma - love
Isla
Keira
Lila
Maya
Mira
Nina
Nola
Pippa
Selah
Tova
Tula
Vera
Willa - soft
Zia
Zuma - a beach in Venice, CA

Boys
Aldo
Arno
Bruno - love
Carlo
Cosmo
Django
Fargo - I wouldn't use this in America, but in Britain, it might be kind of cool. Of course, I wouldn't know.
Ivo
Kenzo - a Japanese name
Micah
Milo
Noah
Paolo
Remy - love
Rocco
Roscoe - love it
Viggo
Vito

They are just the cutest names together, heres a few suggestions apologies if there's repeats.

Girls:
Ali
Ava
Della
Lila
Mira
Peta
Kara
Luna
Ada
Jaya
Tia
Veta
Rhea
Cleo
Mika
Elodie

Boys:
Milo
Louis
Arlo
Archie
Rory
Kai
Enzo
Nico
Rio
Theo
Shia
Joshua
Eli
Levi
Iggy

Thank you all very much! I put your suggestions to them today, and they loved several of them! (Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately as it means that I could use them in the future, they couldn't be swayed to three of my favourites, Ivy, Luna and Selah.)

Their list, as it stands, now looks like this :
Boys :
Hugo
Louis
Milo
Cosmo
Leo

Girls :
Sorcha
Petra
Anya
Freya
Ailsa
Isla
Hebe (inspired by the suggestion of Phoebe)
Flora
Margot.

They will probably take a selection of names with them to the birth, and decide once they have seen him/her - of course, I will keep you all updated!

Just for interest's sake, the middle names are fixed, and they are not worried about the flow of the names - it will be James Patrick/Patrick James or Louisa Margaret/Margaret Louisa, depending on the fn picked. They are all family names, I believe.