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Help pick a girls name from my list!

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Rival28 · 28/08/2010 10:39

Amelie

Jemima

Annalee

Mirabelle

Greta

Anya

Thanks for your opinion.

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MamaMimi · 28/08/2010 23:20

Anya - short and sweet.

Easy to spell/pronounce, unusual but still a proper name.

EightiesChick · 28/08/2010 23:18

Jemima is nice and not too popular yet.

Amelie not bad though personally I prefer Amelia. Nice shortenings to Amy or Millie.

I know an Aine and it is pronounced Onya when that form and spelling are used.

jem1980 · 28/08/2010 23:07

Jemima is my favourite - traditional yet cool, but not too popular.

sungirltan · 28/08/2010 19:29

anya is unusual.

mirabelle is brilliant!

amelie has got a bit erm...popular 'round here.

DuelingFanjo · 28/08/2010 19:25

Greta.

sedgiebaby · 28/08/2010 19:22

Mirabelle

Cher87 · 28/08/2010 19:18

I love Annalee, very pretty and Anna is also prety if it gets shortened. Definatly something she could grow up with :)

londonartemis · 28/08/2010 16:36

I think Amelie is a beautiful name.
Second choice Anya and Jemima.

AFAIK Aine - is pronounced Onya. It's Anne in Irish, I think.

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Rival28 · 28/08/2010 16:30

Thanks for all your comments.

Meadow I do like christabel but have a brother called chris so have ruled it out!

Seems that nobody has voted for Annalee and seeing it on here in black and white has made me like it less.

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PYT · 28/08/2010 16:14

Greta and Anya are both lovely

jellybeans · 28/08/2010 14:07

Amelie

nickelbabe · 28/08/2010 13:26

ooh, you learn something new every day!

I only thought this because my friebd at uni was an Aine and she was convinced that Anya was just a bad spelling (probably because people would do that all the time)

and now that you say, Aine is more "onya" sometimes, isn't it? my Aine was liverpulian, so she said "ann-ya"

and now I know the origin of Anya, I'm putting that spelling into my preferred name.

meadowlarks · 28/08/2010 12:28

Mirabelle is nice. Do you like Christabel?

belgo · 28/08/2010 12:15

Annalee is too much like analy. Sorry.

What about Annelise?

anyabanya · 28/08/2010 12:15

Oh, actually, now I am thinking about it, the Anastasia diminutive might also be 'Nastya'. (Don;t recommend that one though!).

off topic.....

Anoushka is lovely too.

anyabanya · 28/08/2010 12:14

Anya is Russian diminutive for 'Anna' or 'Anastasia'.

Love the name Anastasia, one reason why my NN is such.

KristinaM · 28/08/2010 12:13

yes Anya is the familiar form of Anna

AFAIK a Russian women would be called Anna formally, Anya by her friends and probably Anoushka by her DH or close family.

skidoodly · 28/08/2010 12:09

nickel - actually depending on dialect, they can be pronounced the same, but that would have spoiled my Simpsons allusion
Is this Homer Nixon any relations? Unlikely sir, they spell and pronounce their names differently

But they're not the same name, they just sound similar/the same.

Áine is a name of ancient Celtic origins. Anya AFAIK is a Russian diminutive.

Cortina · 28/08/2010 11:56

Mirabel (prefer this spelling) is my favourite.

anyabanya · 28/08/2010 11:55

ahem. Anya. Grin

Tillyscoutsmum · 28/08/2010 11:53

Greta

nickelbabe · 28/08/2010 11:50

does it really??? Shock
Grin I think the Aine spelling is gaelic.

skidoodly - they sound the same to me! but then /i'm quite simple in my head Blush

catherinedenerve · 28/08/2010 11:40

Ooooh! Well, in that case it's fine. Confused Is it?

skidoodly · 28/08/2010 11:35

Anya and Áine are both spelled and pronounced differently.

They are not the same name.

catherinedenerve · 28/08/2010 11:34

Anya and Greta

Sorry Nickelbabe, I wouldn't use the Aine spelling for Anya because it means groin in french!

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