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Opinions on the name Joella?

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Nautical · 14/11/2015 23:02

NN would be Ella :)

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cranberryx · 14/11/2015 23:33

Sounds a bit like Zoella to me...

PurpleDaisies · 14/11/2015 23:30

That's jolene Zampa.

Zampa · 14/11/2015 23:29

I don't mind the name itself but isn't it a hair lightening cream?

steppemum · 14/11/2015 23:26

sounds very country and western to me.

Foamshrimp · 14/11/2015 23:24

Don't like it at all sorry

ClareDeLoon · 14/11/2015 23:22

Love it, would have used it for DS1 had he been a girl Smile NN would have been Joely though

KateBeckett · 14/11/2015 23:21

Reminds me of a lovely friend of mine Smile

RollingRollingRolling · 14/11/2015 23:16

I like it.MN has a wierd obsession that it is terrible to have to correct people saying your name wrong/having to spell it. I have always had to spell out my first and last name, and it's never bothered me and I like that I wasn't one of 50 girls in my class with the same name.

TheNumberfaker · 14/11/2015 23:16

It's as much a name as Jayden or Taylor any other American import. Couldn't use it myself.
Why not just Ella?

annandale · 14/11/2015 23:13

I tend not to like obvious feminisations of male names (I know most of them are, but still) even though I have one myself - so I'm not keen on Nigella, Wilhelmina, Thomasina or Joella despite liking Nigel, William, Thomas and Joel.

Johanna? Sian? Jeanette?

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Nautical · 14/11/2015 23:09

It is a name... www.behindthename.com/name/joella/comments

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LaceyLee · 14/11/2015 23:06

Sounds like a hillbilly name. Ella on its own is nice though.

ShatnersBassoon · 14/11/2015 23:06

It sounds like a naff house name.

Annunziata · 14/11/2015 23:05

It isn't a name.

People would be forever going 'Joanna?'

PurpleDaisies · 14/11/2015 23:04

I don't like it at all, but I like Ella as s name in it's own right. To me Joella sounds like you made up a new name because you couldn't decide between Jo and Ella. Sorry!