What do you think of when you hear these names?

Aurelia - it is a little posh and tbh I wouldn't quite know for sure which way it should be pronounced. This would put me off the name. Trust me it is annoying having to say and spell out your name your whole life.

Chloe - love this name, and it's not as popular as Sophia or Olivia...even if it is in your area.

Francesca - Don't like this name. It is a bit harsh sounding, dated, boring and no nice nicknames. Sorry.

Sophia - prefer this to Olivia, but it's popularity puts me off. Sophie is a nice alternative.

Olivia - too popular, way too popular to the point where it's become boring. I have to stop myself rolling my eyes when I hear yet another Olivia! Olive is a great alternative.

I think they are perfectly safe, middle-class conventional names, all much of a muchness. No issues around being a high court judge or other such silly tests.

Aurelia - I really like this and I don't see it as posh - it's rare enough not to have any particular associations, as far as I'm concerned.

Chloe - very neutral

Francesca - love this one too.

Sophia - Don't really like this, too many different pronunciations (s'FEEA or s'FYEa or Soh-feea?) I prefer Sophie, I think.

Olivia - still like this one even though it is popular.

Ds1 would have been a Sophia. It's popular for a reason - Sophia/Sophie are pretty much the perfect names - suit both little girls and adult women, elegant, strong, international, fab meaning. It is popular, but I don't get the feeling it's in the Evie/Ava/Isla league of popular. And it'll date a lot less than the current fad of Evelyn/Violet etc.
Talking of popular, Olivia is in the Evie/Ava/Isla category. Lovely name, but she's virtually guaranteed to have about 3 others in her year, if not her class.

Aurelia's nice.

Chloe had its moment too recently, I think, but it's not 'chavvy' (hate that word).

Love Francesca - Frances still more, though.

mrsmolehill I was going to say the same thing about Love Actually!

Aurelia is beautiful OP

Hermione - no coz Harry Potter

Aurelia - a bit posh maybe and potential for mispronounciation? Nice and I would have thought easy to pronounce

Chloe - we both like but it's quite popular where we live. Ok bit 1990s

Francesca - I like but hubby less keen, doesn't think it's a pretty name. Ok bit old fashioned ie 1980s

Sophia - as per Chloe, we know lots of them. Ok

Olivia - v popular. Nice

Chloe Aurelia is very lovely .

I really like Chloe - I only know very posh private school ones!

My favourites from your list would be Francesca and Chloe. The rest are also lovely, so you should go with whatever feels right 👍

Chloe - very 90s, quite boring, not very nice, a little chavvy (I would group it with names like Shannon and Chantelle) .

^This

Aurelia - nice but too frilly

Chloe - no, don't like it and know lots, all get called Chlo.

Francesca - nice but too frilly. Prefer Frances.

Sophia - lovely, but popular.

Olivia - too popular

Vote goes to Sophia.

Chloe and Olivia are quite boring imo. I like Sophia but there are loads where I live so I wouldn't use it.

I love Aurelia and Francesca, would use them myself if DP would let me(!) I actually know two Aurelia. One is at a Baby class I used to attend and despite going for 12ish weeks the teacher just couldn't get her mouth around the name and kept calling her orrie-lia

Chloe and Olivia are too well used for my liking. Lovely names but lots of them out there.
Aurelia is beautiful and I once knew a lovely one. Francesca is pretty, but i’ve heard it a few times recently.

I have a Hermione now in her teens. We’ve only ever met one other who was ten years younger. While I had anticipated, and quite like the Harry Potter association I was not expecting a certain type of teenage boy to follow her around slobbering because they could not quite believe they had met a real one. We encountered one such specimen on holiday recently, she responded when he was actually calling his chocolate Labrador. We saw quite a lot of him after that.

You have fab name tastes OP, I love all of them (apart from Chloe as I used to live across the road from one who was a bit mean/spoilt).

Aurelia and Hermione are my favourites.

The Francescas I know go by Cesca or Frankie. I like Frankie.
Aurelia is pretty but I agree about the potential for mispronunciation. As an Essex girl I would find it difficult to say, like Aurora, but don’t let that put you off!
Chloe, Sophia and Olivia are all very pretty names that are rather popular. They are popular for a reason though and it is the luck of the draw - there may be none in your child’s class, there may be another one. I agree with HairyToity about ignoring popularity.

Love Aurelia.

Love Francesca but don’t like any associated NN, so I wouldn’t choose it for that reason.

Aurelia - lovely ! It's the name of the portuguese girl in Love Actually so automatically think of her

Hermione - too associated with HP. Don't like it
Francesca - really like this
Sophia - very common the last few years along with Sophie
Olivia - number 1 name in UK for years now isn't it ?
Chloe - really like this too! Not popular in my area for a long time

They're all very pretty names to be fair (apart from Hermione). For me I'd order them Francesca, Aurelia, Chloe, Sophia, Olivia.

I love Francesca, and it has lots of shortening to choose from. Sophia and Olivia are lovely but far too popular and so a bit boring.

I like Chloe, Sophia and Olivia. The name that occurs more than once in DD's class at primary is outside top 100. I would ignore popularity and go with the name you love.

Aurelia - don't know anyone called this. Seems nice enough. Thing you might have problems with mis pronunciation/spelling.
Chloe - ok reminds me of the perfume.
Francesca- nice.
Sophia - nice but very popular, the new Sophie.
Hermione - always remember nd me of Harry Potter.
Olivia - very popular.

I like Francesca. Fran for short.
How about Felicity?

Francesca is lovely, with options for Fran, Frannie for short.

Aurelia- I prefer Aurora but it's not bad. Would probably grow on me if I knew someone with this name. Oh and it makes me think of the Portuguese woman on 'Love Actually' so I always read it in Colin Firth's voice 😂
Hermione- will always be Harry Potter for me. It's a bit clunky sounding to me but again, it's not awful.
Francesca- Ok
Sophia- very overused! I wouldn't use it
Olivia- extremely overused!!!! I'm fed up of hearing it 😭
Chloe- Ok

Aurelia- reminds me of Areola