baby names

B and I, in a typical girly fashion yes, you are girly, B have always talked about what we plan to name our respective child(ren) if/when we have them. We discovered a disturbing? well, no, I don't think so... trend among my names that the girls tend to have really simple names, either with the long-'e' sound in the last syllable or ending in an 'a' (well I think they're cute and sweet, :] ) whereas the boys tend to have rather ancient classic, refined, and tend towards presumptuousness? pomposity? haha old English-types with prominent 'L' sounds names

Here's my current list, in no particular order alphabetical order. Of preference, I mean:

• Girls:
• Abby (short for Abigail)
• Aeris/Ariel
  
• Ali (short for Allison)
  
• Alice
• Allegra
  
• Annie (for Anne or Annabel? Annalise?)
• Ava
  
• Beth (shortened from either Elizabeth or Bethany)
• Carys/Keris (is that even short for anything?)
  
• Celia
• Daisy
• Dani (although I don't know if I want the 'official' name on the birth certificate to be 'Danielle', though...)
• Delia (short for Cordelia or Delilah)
• Elise/Eliza/Elena
• Emily
• Gillian/Jill
  
• Hallie/Haley (what would that be shortened from?)
• Layla/Lola
  
• Lily (short for Lillian? dunno, don't really care either way...)
• Maddy (short for Madeleine; such a cute little-girl name, :] )
• Maggie (shortened from what? Magnolia? Magdelena? haha)
  
• Mimi (shortened from some 'M' name, I suppose; haven't really thought about it...)
• Noelle
  
• Jane
• Susie/Suzie (although I'm not terribly fond of 'Susan'-esque 'official' names... )
  

• Boys (haha, I have a feeling my son's going to either love or hate his name for being so different):
• Alister/Alistair (shortened to Ali)
• Calvin
• Caspian (Scout's honor, has nothing to do with the fact that I think the character from the movie adaptation is hot; the movie just got me to thinking that it actually isn't half bad a name; after all, neither 'Peter', 'Edmund', 'William', 'Ben', nor heaven forbid Skander made the cut)
• Colin (shortened from Cornelius; yeah, I know it doesn't exactly shorten correctly, but I'd hate for him to be teased with a nickname like 'Corny', and I'm not terribly fond of 'Neil')
• Eriol
• Ethan/Evan
• Jules (short from Julian? or fine on its own)
  
• Liam
• Lucas/Luca
• Max (for Maximilian? hmm... I dunno)
• Milo
  
• Nigel
• Noel
  
• Orion
• Phinneus/Phinnaeus
  
• Rowan/Ronan
• Thaddeus
• Vaughn
  
• Virgil (although I worry that middle-school/hihg-school tauntings of 'virgin' might be undue, negative peer pressure; actually don't care either way about the original Virgil, just like the name, haha)
  

• Cats:
• Soba (for a gray or seal-point)
• Spot (for a calico somehow, a cat with a dog's name amuses me)

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Actually, this list came out to be longer than I had originally thought, haha. At least I've somewhat narrowed it down from tons of other baby names? And I haven't really given much thought to the names' meanings yet either (I guess I should, huh, or run the risk of the kid getting some weird meaning like mine, C = 'lame'...WHAT?)