Ada, Harriet, Etta, Esme, Mabel

Harriett (Hattie) is by far my favourite. It's a personal thing but I'm just not keen on Ada or Etta, or any name ending with 'a'. If you like older names why not Daphne? My friend just called her little girl Juniper, with a view to nickname her Juni.

Harriet by far the nicest. Wren though - I don't get its current popularity, bit weird as a name and it's not like a had a beautiful sound or anything.

Failing Harriet, Etta is OK. Esme is alright I suppose.

Ada and Mabel are real granny names so no.

I Etta sandwich earlier.

I'd give Etta a miss, along with Sunday.

Harriet Wren is nice!

I like Ada but it’s had a massive jump in popularity, with people looking for an alternative to Ava. It went from 2900th it something place to in somewhere in the 60th in 2018. I imagine it’s gone up a bit more in 2019.

You can sort the ONS stats by area, if you’re interested. London has its own name bubble and the top 10 names are actually less popular in London as people seem to actively avoid them and lean towards something a bit different.

In line with your pretty vintagey ideas -
Ida
Ena
Hettie
Amabel
Emmylou
Luella
Bridie
Esmae
Gracie
Cecily
Betsey

From your list I like Harriet the best although I’m not keen on Hattie as a nickname, much prefer Hettie as a name in its own right. How about Harrietta... then you get Harriet and Etta all in one and have Hattie, Hettie or Etta all as viable shortened forms and can pick and choose or interchange until your hearts content. She may want Hattie as a youngster, and the more grown up Etta when she’s older. I ♥️ Your choice of Sunday as a middle name.

I like Esme, Mabel is such an old woman’s name!

Etta Sunday Roast. I think you have to pick the middle name with extreme care if you go for Etta.

Ada Harriet or Harriet Clementine

I love them all apart from Ada Clementine. We have similar taste in names. What about... Aletta, Eliza, Louisa, Alice?

Harriet Wren is my favourite on your list.

We are in central London and one of my children has a top 5 name. Haven't met a single other one with the same name as London is so multicultural.

I like them all apart from Hattie. Always loved Etta.

I love the name Mabel but don't like the Mabelline link so I wouldn't use that myself.

I like Ada, Mabel and Harriet though agree Ada is getting popular now. I’m not keen on Etta.

Esme Josephine

as we live in London and there will likely be a couple in each class.
Less likely in London than anywhere else. Schools are very multicultural with a huge variety of names.

Harriet Wren. Ada, Mabel and Etta are all getting quite popular. Harriet feels a bit more classic.

I like Harriet and Mabel best. Both lovely names and not very commonly used at all.

Ada Clementine - lovely. Not keen on Clementine but I think the short first name and long middle name combo works nicely.

Hattie (Harriet) Wren - lovely. Harriet is unique and not too popular. Wren is growing on me.

Etta Josephine - not keen. It has a nice flow but neither of these names are my taste.

Mabel - not my taste. But I think it would work well with something like Olivia or Evelyn as the middle name.

Etta Sunday - don't like. Plus, for me she would absolutely have to be born on a Sunday for this name to be pulled off, unless Sunday has some other importance or significance. Otherwise it's a no.

As a PP said, Etta and Ada are becoming popular right now because people are trying to find something that's less popular than Ella and Ava. So if you want a name that isn't going to crop up everywhere, I wouldn't choose these. Ditto Esme. Harriet would probably stand out the most.

DD is 2 and we go to lots of toddler groups. We’re also in London. Mabel and Ada in particular are cropping up a lot - we know at least 3 or 4 of each. Ada seems to be replacing Eva/Ava so could get even more popular.

Haven’t come across an Etta yet but it seems very popular on here and could be used as an alternative to Ella etc - can see this rising in popularity too. (Sort of Hope it doesn’t though as DD is Greta with nn Etta/Ettie!)

I think counterintuitively Harriet could turn out to be the most unusual choice - we know several Hetties and Hatties but these are their full names, not nicknames. It’s also the most timeless and enduring of your choices I think.

I like Ada best. I really don't like Mabel or Harriet. Etta sounds the most unusual to me and I do like it. Esme is pretty but popular I think.

Like those. Mabel is my favourite. Ada is very popular around here.

I've lived in London and actually never came across the same name twice at baby groups as there's such a mix of names there

Ada, Harriet, Etta, Esme, Mabel are all BEAUTIFUL

Favourite is probably Mabel and Esme and Ada

I love Harriet or Mabel but they are all nice the only one I'm not as keen on is Etta

All nice. Other names in that vein:

Jean
Sally
Sylvia
Irene
Pearl
Nancy
Dora
Florence
Christabel

Really like all those, I think some will be getting more popular but who knows and it depends how much that bothers you anyway

We only had 1 name for dd because that's all we could agree on and eventually worked out the order as didn't want violet to be shortened to vi...
This time we have our boys name but I think will end up with 2 or 3 girls names to choose from if its a girl.. Depends if we can settle on something!

In my opinion, babies don't usually 'look' like a name at birth so just go with what you love most of get a feeling with