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Opinions on the name Joella?

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Nautical · 14/11/2015 23:02

NN would be Ella :)

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PurpleDaisies · 14/11/2015 23:04

I don't like it at all, but I like Ella as s name in it's own right. To me Joella sounds like you made up a new name because you couldn't decide between Jo and Ella. Sorry!

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Annunziata · 14/11/2015 23:05

It isn't a name.

People would be forever going 'Joanna?'

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ShatnersBassoon · 14/11/2015 23:06

It sounds like a naff house name.

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LaceyLee · 14/11/2015 23:06

Sounds like a hillbilly name. Ella on its own is nice though.

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Nautical · 14/11/2015 23:09
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annandale · 14/11/2015 23:13

I tend not to like obvious feminisations of male names (I know most of them are, but still) even though I have one myself - so I'm not keen on Nigella, Wilhelmina, Thomasina or Joella despite liking Nigel, William, Thomas and Joel.

Johanna? Sian? Jeanette?

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TheNumberfaker · 14/11/2015 23:16

It's as much a name as Jayden or Taylor any other American import. Couldn't use it myself.
Why not just Ella?

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RollingRollingRolling · 14/11/2015 23:16

I like it.MN has a wierd obsession that it is terrible to have to correct people saying your name wrong/having to spell it. I have always had to spell out my first and last name, and it's never bothered me and I like that I wasn't one of 50 girls in my class with the same name.

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KateBeckett · 14/11/2015 23:21

Reminds me of a lovely friend of mine Smile

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ClareDeLoon · 14/11/2015 23:22

Love it, would have used it for DS1 had he been a girl Smile NN would have been Joely though

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Foamshrimp · 14/11/2015 23:24

Don't like it at all sorry

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steppemum · 14/11/2015 23:26

sounds very country and western to me.

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Zampa · 14/11/2015 23:29

I don't mind the name itself but isn't it a hair lightening cream?

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PurpleDaisies · 14/11/2015 23:30

That's jolene Zampa.

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cranberryx · 14/11/2015 23:33

Sounds a bit like Zoella to me...

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Zampa · 14/11/2015 23:34

Thanks purple ...

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celtictoast · 14/11/2015 23:38

For Ella as a nickname I'd go with Elodie, Elizabeth, Eloise, Eliza, Isabella.

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IoraRua · 14/11/2015 23:39

Very country and western. It sounds like it belongs in song also featuring blue jeans, a truck, a Stetson and beer. Oh, and Jesus.

Not into it.

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goldglittershitter · 14/11/2015 23:40

Sorry. It's awful. Joelle is nice, but when u put that letter a on the end it just cheapens it?

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Crazypetlady · 15/11/2015 01:15

Not keen at all sorry.

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FabergeEggs · 15/11/2015 02:33

No.

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millionsmom · 15/11/2015 03:14

It's a lovely name! But I have a great friend called Joella, so that may be why I think it's lovely.

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mathanxiety · 15/11/2015 03:54

I like it too. I think it has a lovely sound to it. I wouldn't shorten it.

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MitzyLeFrouf · 15/11/2015 04:15

'Joella, you'd better not be in that trailer gettin' up to no good with Jimmy Bob Crockett. Lordy I'll whup your behind girl. Now get out here and help me get this pig out of the mud'

That kind of vibe......

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Eminybob · 15/11/2015 04:20

My first though was Floella. As in Benjamin.

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