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Baby girl due on Friday (CS!): please vote on name!

84 replies

lenaleave · 30/08/2017 10:58

  1. Alma White
  2. Hana White
  3. Livia White

Any thoughts???

(White is the surname)

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SilverAndCold · 31/08/2017 06:45

Love Estella. Stella is also a lovely variant. Also Alba that was suggested upthread.

SuperBeagle · 31/08/2017 06:41

Hana is not pronounced like Hannah. It's pronounced hah-nah. If that's what you're going for, then Hana is lovely. But if you're wanting the pronunciation of Hannah, it's best to stick with that spelling.

Livia reminds me of the Ancient Roman.

Alma is outdated, IMO. I know a few in their 70s and 80s.

I'd choose Livia. But I'd pick Hannah if that was an option.

Garliccalamari · 31/08/2017 06:40

I absolutely love the name Livia but the history of her murdering half her family makes me wonder if the child might mind being called that. On the other hand she was considered very intelligent and beautiful.

Pemba · 31/08/2017 06:32

Estella is gorgeous. Actually the only one of your names I'm not keen on is Alma.

segc94 · 31/08/2017 05:32

Alma Flowers

Mol1628 · 31/08/2017 05:04

Alma is fine. If you google any name there will be someone bad with it! No one will associate it

SerfTerf · 30/08/2017 23:21

Oh great minds Grin

oddleofnoodle · 30/08/2017 23:21

I love Estella.

SerfTerf · 30/08/2017 23:21

Amla autocorrects to 'anal' on my phone. I don't know if that will be generally true.

How about Lydia?

Mrsfloss · 30/08/2017 23:21

Lydia?

oddleofnoodle · 30/08/2017 23:20

I don't like any of them at all. If you are going to name your child Hanna just spell it the conventional way and save her a lifetime of correcting people.

RaspberryBeret34 · 30/08/2017 23:19

I love the name Livia

WiganPierre · 30/08/2017 23:17

Livia.

Loyly · 30/08/2017 23:15

From your latest post, Estella.

rachrach2 · 30/08/2017 23:13

Hana

OhTheRoses · 30/08/2017 23:02

Alma is so unusual I think amla would be fine. Lydia? Estella will always be the unkind and damaged beauty in Great Expectations for me.

MadameJosephine · 30/08/2017 22:40

I like both Estelle and Stella but not keen on Estella

indigo13 · 30/08/2017 22:36

I vote alma still. I dont think you should be put off by that

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lenaleave · 30/08/2017 22:20

Thanks so much for taking time to comment everyone! Our favourite was Alma but we discovered that the only famous Alma White with a Wikpedia entry all to herself was a white supremacist close to the Ku Klux Klan so that pretty much ended that conversation. I (and DH) share the concern with Livia being too close to Olivia and we don't like Olivia at all. And also understand the issue of misspelling of Hana...So we are now considering Amla (which in my language means sweet) but do you think it would be systematically confused with Alma? The other entry today was Estella...What do you all think?

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daisypond · 30/08/2017 21:15

Livia. It's not related to Olivia at all.

Montsti · 30/08/2017 20:24

Livia

RockyTop · 30/08/2017 20:20

Hana

DramaAlpaca · 30/08/2017 20:11

Hana

euanthesheepiloveyou · 30/08/2017 20:10

Livia.

Salmonpinkcords · 30/08/2017 20:08

Livia