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Names like Ada?

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johendy · 30/11/2014 15:45

I have come to really like this but DH isn't so sure. Can you suggest other names of a similar 'style'?

Not too popular though, I have a popular name and 3 close friends have the same name, so I want to avoid that. For that reason Ava and Mia, which have been long time favourites, are out.

Thoughts?

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Castlemilk · 02/12/2014 13:38

Ada, Ava, Eva, Evie - all so similar, so popular right now, almost exactly the same sound... and I don't think they'll stand the test of time at all. There's so little to them - just a couple of vowel sounds. They're the current craze, once people see past them - they will be gone.

Short, snappy... and actually interesting:

Tara
Merryn
Juno
Thea
Bibi, for Beatrice
Tessa
Zena
Flora
Sylvie

SurfsUp1 · 02/12/2014 08:46

Tara
Cora
Amy
Ruby
Esther

CrispyFern · 01/12/2014 18:42

Oooh or Nina.

CrispyFern · 01/12/2014 18:41

Veda.
Or...
Edie.

CrispyFern · 01/12/2014 18:40

Edith.

CrispyFern · 01/12/2014 18:40

Alma.

Groovee · 01/12/2014 18:39

I've worked with a couple of Ayda's I the last year and they really suited their names.

AuntieStella · 01/12/2014 18:38

Aïda, Ayesha, Linda, Belinda?

Thelovecats · 01/12/2014 18:35

Greta or Zita

MiddletonPink · 01/12/2014 17:46

I dislike Ada, Ivy, Edith Evelyn, so so much. They're ugly to me. So many prettier names for a girl.

Florence
Cordelia
Lucinda
Eliza
Alice
Henrietta
Harriet
Vita

Sophronia · 30/11/2014 20:14

Anna
Alix
Alice
Adele
Audra
Clara
Calla
Isla
Lara
Lila
Lia
Mara
Maya
Maia
Mila
Milla
Nora
Nina
Nia
Orla
Pippa
Rosa
Ria
Thea
Willa
Zara

divingoffthebalcony · 30/11/2014 19:12

It IS rather an old lady name though, and I say that as someone with a three year old Ada. The main feedback I get is from elderly people saying it was their mother's or aunt's name. "All these old names coming around again..." Grin

northernmummeh · 30/11/2014 18:26

I love Ida

Not enough Idas these daysSmile

Mrsgrumble · 30/11/2014 18:23

Ada is gorgeous!

Edith
Maude
Martha

Varya · 30/11/2014 18:22

Anna
Eloise
Ella
Annalee

avocadotoast · 30/11/2014 18:18

I love Ada, we can't use it though unfortunately.

I also like:

Iris
Rose
Edith (which I never would have considered, but someone I used to work with called their daughter it and it worked so well)

PotatoQueen · 30/11/2014 17:58

Ivy
Etta
Isla
Martha

SunnyBaudelaire · 30/11/2014 17:51

Beryl
Maud
Irene

squoosh · 30/11/2014 17:43

Hilda
Brenda
Doreen
Marjorie

Shlurpbop · 30/11/2014 17:40

I desperately wanted to call my daughter Ada , it was always the name I had in my head for a daughter.
Unfortunately, my marriee surname did not go with Ada at all so it was not to be :(

BreeVDKamp · 30/11/2014 17:37

Obv Farrah, NOT Farragut haha!!

BreeVDKamp · 30/11/2014 17:36

Short and snappy 2 syllable:

Zoe
Norah
Chloe
Cleo
Farragut
Violet
Noelle
Tamar
Erin
Marnie
Nova
Merryn
Lois
Zara
Amy
Hazel
Astrid
Portia
Juno

^^ most of the 2-syllable names from our list, if we have a girl in may she'll be Adelaide (if I get my way ;) ) probably nn Ada

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johendy · 30/11/2014 17:31

Thanks all. I never really thought of Ada as Granny Chic, which is how lots of these sound to me.
I think it's the short snappy, 2 syllable name I like.

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BeginnerSAHM · 30/11/2014 17:20

Love Clara.

EmilyCHN · 30/11/2014 16:27

I LOVE the name Florence.. but with our surname.. it'd be very very cruel..
(Think lady of the lamp who was a nurse!) I am expecting and if enough people on MN think it's actually ok to call our daughter Florence Nightingale I may reconsider.. but for now she'll be Clara .. What say you?