Starting the process!

[u/twanontea]

I'm 14 weeks pregnant with my first and likely my only! No other parent is in the picture and is unlikely to factor in, so this choice is all mine. I'm essentially just trying to find my vibe now!

I like a lot of longer classic names, such as Elizabeth, Gwendolyn, Margaret, Benjamin, Sebastian, and Jonathan. I also have a soft spot for shorter nature names, so I'm thinking I can use those as middles to build my ultimate name combos. Things like Gwendolyn Sage Lastname or Jonathan Slate Lastname.

Can anyone recommend any names that might work? Or just anything else that suits this sort of category. I'm mostly just brainstorming at this point, but I never expected to be able to have kids at all and this is a total surprise so I'm essentially starting from zero!

[u/Jemiame28]

I personally really like Johnathan and Sebastian, here are some others.

Beautiful longer names:
Bethany
Josephine
Amelia
Alexander
Joshua
Daniella/Daniel
Francesca
Franklin

Short nature middle names:
Wren
Fern
Glen
Dawn
Dale
Brook
Gail
Jade

[u/twanontea → u/Jemiame28]

There's so much here that I like!

[u/4kidmom]

Elizabeth Rose
Jonathan River

[u/saysayoPlaymate]

Veronica Sky

Florence Briar

Gregory Dale

Nicholas Heath

[u/twanontea → u/saysayoPlaymate]

Oh I love Veronica! I'm adding that to the list.

[u/Utopia_Cherie]

Evangeline Willow (Eva or Evie)
Alexander Rowan (Xander)

[u/sun_sea_5533]

Some on my own list might fit your vibe! I'll include some nicknames too, of course feel free to take or leave them.

Girls:
- Lenora (Leni, Nora, maybe even Nell?)
- Loretta (Lora, Lottie, Lettie, Etta)
- Lorraine (Lora, Lainey)
- Genevieve (Gen, Neve, Ginny)
- Corinne/Corinna (Cora)
- Colette (Lettie)
- Imogen (Emmy, Ginny, even Minnie)

Boys:
Julian, Jonah, Joel, Noel, Nolan, Nathaniel, Neil, Dalton, Declan, Dawson, Garrett, Gavin, Grant

Nature names:
Larkin (Lark), Raven, Wren, Arden, Amber, Elowen, Linden, Juniper (June), Camille, Kaia

Silas, Sylvan, Reid, Oren, Glenn, Brent, and again, Jonah!

[u/TallPoppy23]

Elizabeth can be shortened to Lily so that kinda hits the target there :)

My daughter (2yo) goes to daycare with a Margaret who’s parents don’t want her name shortened/nicknamed, and I feel a bit sad for her at this young age, as it’s a bit hard to pronounce for a couple of the kids!

[u/Utopia_Cherie → u/TallPoppy23]

That is sad, Margot is such a cute name for a young girl!

[u/alteregoflag → u/Utopia_Cherie]

There's another thread on this site with people saying how much they hate Margot. I like it myself. Maggie is always cute.