Lorelai, Clara, Mariska, Larissa, Lalia

[sodoyouaccept]

Can I ask what your opinions are on these names (they all sound fine with surname)?

Lorelei
Clara
Mariska
Larissa
Lalia

[Rhubarbgarden]

I like Clara. The others are too fussy for me. And Lalia is too close to labia.

[toomuchpurple]

Lorelei - really like it
Clara - The nutcracker and Back to the Future. I'm not sure about it
Mariska - don't like it
Larissa - really like it. You could also have Clarissa
Lalia - I like it actually.

[lurkinginthebackground]

Lorelei- Hard to pronounce, although once you get it, probably ok. Sounds too much like L'orel (or however you spell it!!!)
Clara - like very much
Mariska - not keen
Larissa - like this know a girl called Larissa.
Lalia - not keen.

[blueberryink]

Larissa or Clara.
Or as toomuch said have Clarissa then you get both.

[Yourefired]

Clara is lovely.

[MelinaM]

Clara is lovely

The others are rather frilly and a tad 'American' in sound.

[sqweegiebeckenheim]

Love Lorelai, although biased as Gilmore Girls fan.

[letspickgoogleberries]

Don't like Lalia or Mariska.
Any of the other 3.

[Cereal]

Clara or Larissa.

[CurwySwide]

Clara is lovely; don't like any of the others at all - too frilly/fussy, sorry.

[comedaygoday]

Like Clara. The others are too fussy and frilly for my.taste.

[LydiaWickham]

Clara. Pretty but works just as well if she ends up being the CFO of a FTSE100 company...

[LaTristesse]

Lorelei - I'm warming to this a lot recently, may be the hormones though...
Clara - pretty, a bit Sound of Music, but I like it
Mariska - a bit whiskery to me
Larissa - I quite like this, quite unusual without being weird
Lalia - A bit genital for my liking (labia etc)

[kat2504]

I love Lorelei (also Gilmore Girls fan!) but much as I love the name I would not actually use it in real life myself. Clara is nice, Larissa sounds ok, I like Marissa too.

[ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs]

Clara with the reserve name of Larissa. I know two girls, one is Clara and she is lovley ,the other is Larissa and she is horrible.

[Crumbletopping]

Clara my favourite by a long way.

[sparkle12mar08]

Clara by a mile. The rest are awful to me.

[birdofthenorth]

Clara or Lorelai. I love Marilla too, might be up your street? Or Marissa.

[BlueChampagne]

Clara - but second Marissa.

[MmeLindor.]

Clara

Lorelai comes up a lot on MN baby names and I always say the same - it is the name of a rock in Germany where all the tourists go to oooh and aaaaah. The name of a poem/song/fairy tale about a woman who sits on a rock and lures sailors to their death on the crags.

Anyone in Germany would laugh at the name Lorelai being used. It is like naming a child Rock of Gibraltar.

[mathanxiety]

I love Clara. I don't like the frilliness of the rest.

Prefer Lara, Mahalia, Marit and Eliska to Lorelei, Lalia and Mariska

[pilates]

Clara is def the best,

Don't like the rest.

[Haberdashery]

Clara and Larissa are my favourites. The others sound a bit too frilly/fussy. Lara and Clarissa are also really nice.

[TryLikingClarity]

I love Clara as it is the name of a dear friend of mine, always had it on my possible list of girls names :)

I have to say that I totally LOVE the name Lorelei, but hadn't realised I loved it till I saw this thread!!! Am off now to write in on my list of possible names for our as-yet-not-conceived DC2.

From what I remember Marilyn Monroe's character in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was called Lorelei.... I might be wrong though...

[Teapot13]

Mme Lindor and TryLikingClarity already made my points about Lorelei I see Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a character whose name I would not want my daughter to share plus I just don't like it.

Larissa - really like this; classic and feminine with a classic nickname (Lara)

Lalia - never heard of it, but I love Leila and it doesn't suggest genitalia.