Sophia, Clarissa. Clara or Iris? Please help!

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toomanydoughnuts · 04/08/2010 13:48

I love the name Sophia but am a little worried that its so popular every second girl will be a Sophie or Sophia. I've enjoyed having a fairly unusual name so don't really know if it gets annoying having to always be Sophia X or blonde Sophia or so on.
Other options are Clarissa (nn, Cleo), Clara, Iris.
Opinions please!

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toomanydoughnuts · 04/08/2010 14:30

Thanks for all your views - very helpful. seems as if Clarissa isn't so liked - must be one of those ones you either love or hate.

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hatsybatsy · 04/08/2010 14:24

you have quite similar taste to me - with the exception of clarissa!

dd was v nearly sophie but we decided against as too popular round here.

iris is lovely but there are a fair few of them here too now - so i would probably go for clara which is v original

mamaloco · 04/08/2010 14:07

A lot of Clara around though.
Clarissa is nice

randomimposter · 04/08/2010 14:00

Clara and Iris are my favourites of your names.

BosomForAPillow · 04/08/2010 13:55

Prefer Sophia to all the others. Don't think it's that popular.
Second choice Cleo without the Clarissa full name.

Jaybird37 · 04/08/2010 13:54

Sophia is lovely, but does seem pretty popular at the minute. It would not worry me hugely, and certainly my DS does not mind having a common name in the least.

I greatly prefer Clara and Iris to Clarissa or Cleo.

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