No, Edna and Ethel are beautiful names, and very feminine. I cringe when I hear that female babies today are given masculine-sounding names like Blair, Tracy or Brooklyn.
Yes, he is a doosh, and not creative. Those names are 100% made up, fabricated, and with no link to family past or present.
We also have acquaintances who named their daughter Denali. Please note they live in TX and have zero link to Mt. Denali - never been there, never seen it. Anyway, their next daughter comes along and they named her...wait for it....
McKinley.
Those parents are dooshes too!
I am old school. There are 2 places to look for the name of your next child, IMO: Your family tree, and the Bible.
It's all fraught with potential missteps. Heck, I have a black kitten and I proposed "Zulu", and got hateful, unsupportive glares, so I said "Well I guess Mbutu is right out, then?", in my best Monty Python voice.