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Love Coralie. I know a Cora, short for Coradina!

Lucinda from your choices although will it get shortened to Lucy?

But Cora is the most loveliest. It is certainly not popular where I am from. Not a single Cora that I know of.

Bloody Downton!
One syllable surname beginning with M (think James from Top Gear!) so one syllable names don't sound right. Hubby has suggested Rebecca & Anna/Anastasia...

I like Catrina and Lucinda, and their nn's. Cora is also pretty. What is your surname (or at least first and last letter and no. Of sylables), as the flow of the name makes all the difference!

If you like Cora, what about coralie?

Similar, but I know a mihaela 'mihai-eh-la', who goes by miha

I really love Cora !

I love Cora too.

I like Cora but it's getting popular due to Downton Abbey so will be easily dated.

Ok
Yes
No
No

Lucinda is my favourite from all your choices

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Thank you for your thoughts. Michaels and Clarissa have been ruled out.
What do you think of Cora? I've always liked it but apparantly its getting quite popular now, although I don't know any.

I think Lucinda is beautiful. I would just be worried about it being shortened to Cindy.
If you go for Catrina spell it how you like! If you live in England and spell it Catriona you will have a lifetime of No its Cat-reena not Cat-re-ona!

I love Clarissa and Lucinda. Lucinda was my top name for DD but DH didn't like it so she is Annabel.

Love the first two.

I'm afraid I'm not keen on any of them, particularly Michaela.

What about:
Louisa
Lucia
Lois
Clara
Camille
Camilla
Cate with a C
Marina
Miranda

If you choose it please spell it Catriona. 'Catrina' looks wrong.

I'm not keen on Clarissa though I don't know why .
Lucinda is ok.
Michaela seems a little clunky.
Catriona is my favourite.

I think they're all great underused names - not sure why they would be 'pretentious' (pretending to be what, anyway?).

My favourites are Catrina, Lucinda and Michaela. I'm least keen on Clarissa for some reason. I'd think most people (esp outside the UK) would find the pronunciation of Catrina much easier than Catriona, so I'd go for the former.

I think Lucinda is a lovely name.

Isn't Catriona the Scottish spelling?

Really, CatriOna is pronounced Catrina? I honestly had no idea! Wonder where that derives from...

Meant to write Catriona but also like the Katrina spelling. I'm not that keen on Michaela so glad most of you agree! Lucinda is my current favourite. Any other suggestions of classic/pretentious names welcome! ;-)

Well I really like Michaela and Catrina though my iPad wants it spelt Katrina. I don't like the way Clarissa sounds and feel like I should like Lucinda but don't.

It's still pronounced Catrina. Educate yourself.

Yes- Is on our 'maybe' list.
Yes- Love this name. Would use it if we didn't already know one (an 18yr old), she went to a comp in Sarf London & didn't get any stick for being pretentious.
No- I don't like the male names with an 'a' tacked on, the Michaela I know has the nn Micky.
No (I've known 2 Katrinas and they both didn't like their name...so it put me off it).

And why would you want to add an O to Catrina? I much prefer the sound of Cat-rina.