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Etta or Frances

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Loola24 · 04/05/2017 09:47

So I have 4 weeks left and it's getting a bit of a worry that we have no name.
It changes constantly but these two names have stuck on every list and keep coming back up so I'm guessing these are the two I must love.
Husband says I'm over thinking and just need to pick! He loves both.

Thoughts?
Etta? On its own or as a nn please suggest longer names
Frances - love the classic feel and it's timeless.

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nooka · 06/05/2017 04:54

My name ends with etta and it doesn't feel like a good name on it's own at all to me. Also makes me think about eating (I 'et' a cake).

I much prefer names that give choice, especially as my childhood nick name was very similar to etta (like Betta for Elisabetta) and I don't use it at all any more. So I'd chose a longer form personally.

My name (which I love) is on this list, perhaps one works for you OP?

lizzieoak · 06/05/2017 02:45

I like both, though slightly prefer Frances. Perhaps because it makes me think of badgers.

Etta or Frances
MistySparrow · 06/05/2017 01:55

LoveEtta !

joolspoon · 06/05/2017 00:33

I have an Etta. I love it!

JanuaryJuniper · 05/05/2017 18:35

Etta Elizabeth is a great name op Grin

supermodel · 05/05/2017 15:08

I love Etta.

JessicaEccles · 05/05/2017 15:06

Etta is lovely. Original and classy. And I love Etta James.

dillytilly · 05/05/2017 02:00

Frances is beautiful and traditional, can imagine on both a child and a woman!

Etta is still pretty though ! X

AutumnalLeaves38 · 04/05/2017 23:23

Etta's really lovely, OP. Smile

And such a legendary namesake...hope you don't mind me posting this short clip, in honour of your soon-to-be-arriving DD.

Good luck for her delivery! Flowers

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Loola24 · 04/05/2017 19:42

Thanks everyone. Etta is my favourite and I'm glad it is so well received. That's decided.
Elizabeth is my middle name of choice. That's why I loved Elisabetta and I could have had Frances as a middle name.
I will go with Etta Elizabeth. Smile
My son's middle name is Francis so I clearly love the name but maybe it would have caused problems with a boy and girl having Frances and Francis in both names. Although it doesn't bother me!!!

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gigi556 · 04/05/2017 17:49

Do you have a middle name picked out? I like both. Why not Etta Frances?

MamOfTwo · 04/05/2017 17:44

I love Etta!

With Frances, will it bother you if people pronounce it a different way to you due to their accent? I would pronounce it Frances with a short 'a' but down South it would be Fraances (long a) iyswim. Kind of like Tanya/Tarnya. Unless she becomes Frannie then it's not a problem!

putputput · 04/05/2017 17:36

Just Etta, no need for a longer name. Utterly perfect name.

Mothervulva · 04/05/2017 17:33

Rosetta nice too!

bigredboat · 04/05/2017 17:16

Mil is Rosetta known as Etta and her middle name is Frances!

Mothervulva · 04/05/2017 17:14

Etta is lovely.
Violetta?
Greta is cool actually.

JanuaryJuniper · 04/05/2017 17:12

Greta with nn Etta?

mum2be2boys · 04/05/2017 17:08

Love the name Etta!

Frances is nice but I prefer Francesca.

FluffyBathTowel · 04/05/2017 17:06

Love Etta.

Mrsknackered · 04/05/2017 16:04

Etta! No longer name needed IMO. It's a great name. Really don't like Frances I've never met a nice one

MundayCakes85 · 04/05/2017 14:58

I have an Etta- this will be totally outing as we have never come across another! No longer full name, it works really well as a stand alone name.
(We're also big Etta James fans 😊)

Mummamayhem · 04/05/2017 14:19

Etta is amazing!

lockie1983 · 04/05/2017 14:15

I have a Francis (boy) and he would've been Frances had he been a girl.

I LOVE Etta. So much. Can't even tell you. PG at the moment but the name sounds like an instruction when said with our surname.

So I love both and am jealous you could use Etta and I can't !

NoSquirrels · 04/05/2017 14:03

Beautiful names both. Secretly wish I had an Etta.

(Big jazz standards fan, this may be why!)

Rockaby · 04/05/2017 14:00

Selfobsession

For a minute there I thought you meant spell Elisabetta with a capital B! Like ElisaBetta Grin.