Ava or Ada?

[Ponderingpercy]

Hi all, I'm looking for a girls name. I don't have much criteria only not too unusual and I'd like it to be pretty/feminine. I love the name Ava but worry about it being so common. Could I get people's opinions on Ada? Thanks in advance 😊

[Tenness]

I love it. Beautiful name.

[xJune88]

I wanted to name dd Ada but DH didnt like. I think its gorgeous, Ava is too common x

[AverageMummy]

Love Ada - my husband wouldn’t go for it.

[DoctorAllcome]

Ada is a great name. One of the great female scientists & a top british mathematician was Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. Her first name was actually Augusta but she went by Ada. She worked with Charles Babbage on the first ever computer made.

It is a beautiful name.

[NoSauce]

I think Ada is absolutely awful. Harsh sounding and dowdy. I don’t see the appeal at all with it.

[bridgetreilly]

Lovely and the connection with Ada Lovelace is a good one, too.

[SoftBlocks]

Sorry, don’t like Ada even with the Ada Lovelace thing.

[user1493494961]

Sorry, I also dislike Ada.

[Ponderingpercy]

Aaah a total mix of opinions 😂 I love it but my husband doesn't really like it. Thanks for all the feedback!

[MikeUniformMike]

Ava is overused and I'm not keen on it at all.
Ada is a progamming language.
There are thousands of other names you could choose from.

[ongranaryplease]

Ada is beautiful

[elliex1]

Love love love Ada xx

[FairfaxAikman]

I love Ada, was too of my list for a girl but DH vetoed.

[Chitarra]

I prefer Ada to Ava. Or how about Ida?

[MooominMamma]

Love it.

[EssentialHummus]

There are two in my social circle, and I hear others at playschool etc, so increasingly popular I think. But I like it.

[AdaColeman]

Ada is a fabulous name!

Ava was extremely popular three or four years ago.

[DramaAlpaca]

Ava is nice, Ada isn't.

[dementedpixie]

Ada is an old lady name. I prefer Ava. I dont know anyone with either name

[Kokeshi123]

They are both perfectly pleasant names, but picking Ada over Ava because you don't want a really popular name might backfire, because a) a lot of other people will also want "a slight variation on Ava because I like Ava but it is too popular" and b) it's a name featured in a popular TV show at the moment. So you might find a lot of Adas when your daughter goes to nursery. And really popular names are fine, but not if you don't want a really popular name!

[Astronica]

I much prefer Ada.

[Ponderingpercy]

There are some good points here, thanks. I'm finding it really difficult to even consider any other names 🙈

[8by8]

Adaline?

[SallyWD]

I like it but prefer Ida.