What do you think of Arabella?

[weakhorse]

What do you think of Arabella as a girl's name? It's listed on Mumsnet's Baby Name Finder.
just canvassing opinion after my previous post
thanks

[oohlaalaa]

posh and frilly

[pirateparty]

Love it but it is 'posh'.

[Pinkjenny]

Like it.

[smashingtime]

Beautiful! I would have chosen something similar myself for dd but had some unfortunate family connotations so I couldn't.

It is posh but in a good way!

[valiumbandwitch]

Nice buuuuuuuuut, Ara or Arry isn't a nice nick name. I like Bella though.

I'd prefer Christabel which is equally posh but with its feet more on the ground somehow.

[qwerty123]

Love it.

[MamaLazarou]

Horsey

[WiiUnfit]

It reminds me of Arabiatta, the spicy sauce... sorry!

[MelinaM]

I don't think it's posh, just rather frilly and quite girlie.

[Karbea]

Lovely name.

[MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic]

It's my middle name and I loathe it (sorry!)

[Strictly]

Reminds me now entirely of himwho thought it was ok to cheat on his wife 6 weeks after having a baby with a 16 year old...

Normally I thinks it's very very posh but now I think when people off Eastenders are calling their DD's it it maybe going to the other way

[Maybeitsbecause]

Frothy, frilly. Not great.

[NorbertDentressangle]

Too horsey and jolly hockey-sticks

[Trinaluce]

Bullied me at school, so I'll never use it...

Nice enough name though, even if my personal experience is somewhat biased against it.

[kangers]

what about annabella? Or annabelle? Less precocious?

[Cutiecat]

I think it is too snooty. Whilst considering Beatrix herself-

[lurkerspeaks]

A bit Rah.

I was almost called it and am eternally grateful to my Father for intervening.

[brightcopperkettles]

Not a fan - for some reason conjures up images of a female version of Dudley Dursley (from Harry Potter).

[cowboylover]

I think its really lovely!

But when I posted my options many comments where my choices where 'frothy and frilly' so thats just my style apparently

[daisybear]

i love it..... but doesn't go with my surname so we can't use it

[JanMorrow]

I love it. So what if it's "posh", a very pretty name.