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Can you help me decide if I like this girl's name?

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DoodleAlley · 19/01/2013 09:40

So we've been merrily going through this pregnancy without much thought that the product of it might need a name!

I tend to mull over names and then work out if I like it or not. Most I'll start out liking but then realise its not the name for us.

Except for one name that I can't decide if I love it or am completely not fussed.

So what do you think about... Moira?

Just general impressions if you heard it even if you wouldn't choose it would be appreciated. And is it too closely linked to the newsreader of the same name?!

Thank you!

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Bella88 · 19/01/2013 11:55

Moira is a cold, tweedy knickered kind kind of name.

Mara or Marielle are much more pleasing I think.

PPT · 19/01/2013 11:53

www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mina

PPT · 19/01/2013 11:53

I have a relative who is called Mina-think it could be another contender for you- same beginning and end sound... and it means 'love'... big ahhhhh!

www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Mina

LadyMargolotta · 19/01/2013 11:50

Not pretty. Prefer Maude and Mara.

DumSpiroSpero · 19/01/2013 11:48

My gut reaction was yuk, tbh, but the more I think about it, the more I think it could be one of those names that once you attach it to a child would really grow on you.

It's not something I'd go for personally but I can think of lots worse and as a few people have already pointed out, Moira Stewart isn't a bad namesake!

CailinDana · 19/01/2013 11:45

Moira is a pretty common name in Ireland, although it's spelt Máire. It brings Irish school textbooks to mind for me I'm afraid! Not a bad name though. If you like it, go for it.

weegiemum · 19/01/2013 11:44

I like moira (had a primary school friend with that name)

Morna is lovely (my dd1s middle name - means beautiful)

WeAllHaveWings · 19/01/2013 11:42

I like Moira as a name and like more traditional names like this. (I'm Scottish so maybe that's why!).

Have known 3 Moira's in work over the years and their names really suited them. Haven't heard any children called it recently so that makes me like it even more, traditional and not overused.

ChippingInNeedsSleepAndCoffee · 19/01/2013 11:42

I don't like it.

AlienReflux · 19/01/2013 11:40

I like Mara, and lara, but not Moira, sounds too old womany to me

KnightBusRider · 19/01/2013 11:38

First of all I though NO! but then I thought of a little toddler called Moira and thought awwww.

I still don't think i could use it though.

TotemPole · 19/01/2013 11:38

The won't do that with Peters & Freds because there are plenty of other people to associate the name with.

TotemPole · 19/01/2013 11:37

Myra isn't a common name, so people associate it with the one very infamous person they know of.

They won't that with Peters & Freds because there are plenty of other people to associate the name with.

RiaOverTheRainbow · 19/01/2013 11:34

I quite like it, makes me think of Peter Pan - Wendy Moira Angela Darling :)

MadStaringEyes · 19/01/2013 11:29

Myra Hindley doesn't bother me. I was born in the year of the last official investigation.

Nobody bats an eyelid at the million Rose's and Fred's being born. You wouldn't think twice about Harold, Ian, or Mary.

mrsjay · 19/01/2013 10:32

god when I had dd2 the spate of Mirrins it took over It is a strange sounding name far to many Rs especially for scots it goes on for days mirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrin Grin

flatbellyfella · 19/01/2013 10:31

Moira is a nice name, I went to school with a girl called Mira & that was quite a common name back then.

MarmaladeSkies · 19/01/2013 10:31

It's a very unattractive name.

carbondated · 19/01/2013 10:30

My window cleaner has a dd called Mirrin. I thought it was so unusual and pretty. I like Mara too. But as uppermid says, it's not what other people think - if you like a name then I wouldn't let people put you off using it unless you were thinking of Hitler for a boy or something.

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DoodleAlley · 19/01/2013 10:30

One syllable surname

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Lafaminute · 19/01/2013 10:27

I liked Mara but thought it meant bitter - which mput me off. Ditto for Myra after Myra Hindley. Moira is pretty though....and you know, your child will make the name lovely too. My friend called her son a name I thought was god-awful at the time. He's such a lovely boy that I would - 10 years later have loved the name for my son: totally converted!

TotemPole · 19/01/2013 10:26

What about Mia?

DoodleAlley, how many syllables does your surname have?

mirpuppet · 19/01/2013 10:23

One of my least favourite names.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 19/01/2013 10:22

I don't mind it but I of a Victoria wood sketch where the Moira in it was a bit posh and called herself Mwah-rah :o

TotemPole · 19/01/2013 10:22

Go on to Google and type Moira, the first in the(very short) list is Moira Stewart. So even Google agrees that that's who Moira is.