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What comes to your mind when you hear these names?

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LivLavender · 27/01/2021 14:42

Livia
Clelia
Lavinia
Virginia

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DorothyHarris · 27/01/2021 15:20

Just posting to say my maternal great grandmother was called Clelia, she was a lovely lady and its a beautiful name (she was italian)

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LivLavender · 27/01/2021 15:18

It's pronounced KLEH-lya.
It's an old fashioned name but it's making a comeback in Italy, entered the top 200 a few years ago.

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Ellmau · 27/01/2021 15:15

I love Livia!

Wearywithteens · 27/01/2021 15:10

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Peeteea · 27/01/2021 15:08

Ooh, see you’ve explained Clelia! How do you pronounce OP? Really interested as it’s a new one for me!

Peeteea · 27/01/2021 15:04

Livia feels like a typo when trying to write Olivia for me.

Clelia also feels like a typo when trying to write Celia. It’s not one I’ve come across before but I see a pp has sad it makes them think of something so I’ll have to look it up.

Lavinia feels like a cross between Lavender and Virginia- it’s not my fave and I know that my mother would immediately comment on the “lav” bit as other posters have done so I don’t think I could get past that.

Virginia is a nice name and in an ideal world would be my favourite of the names mentioned but personally brings to mind a girl who lived on my estate when I was a child. I’m not usually fussed about bullying from other kids over names because they do always find a way, but the girl I knew routinely got bullied with comments about her being a Virgin or not even from the age of 8 or so... so I might be a bit worried about that. It’s a name that really does lend itself to that specific kind of bullying quite quickly and I did always feel terrible for her when people were unkind because it was relentless and pretty vicious all the way into her late teens. Might not be an issue now but worth thinking about how likely that is to happen where you are!

If I was to choose, I would choose Livia, but would be inclined to adjust to Olivia myself.

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LivLavender · 27/01/2021 15:00

Clelia is not made up. It's an Italian name, derived from ancient Roman Cloelia.

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LauEli · 27/01/2021 14:57

Middle age toffs 😂 sorry to say

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YANBULTB · 27/01/2021 14:49

Labia, Cello, Romeo & Juliet then a lovely hotel in Sri Lanka, Creeper.

JemimaTiggywinkle · 27/01/2021 14:48

Sorry it’s not very positive from me, but the first things that popped into my head were:

Livia - sounds unfinished - short for Olivia?
Clelia - hope this a typo for Celia
Lavinia - frilly
Virginia - the US state/ virgins.

AuntyPasta · 27/01/2021 14:48

Livia the O fell off the front (I know it’s a name but it sounds unfinished to me)

Clelia Towie

Lavinia someone who runs the local WI in Midsummer Murders

Virginia tobacco; virgin

AuntieStella · 27/01/2021 14:46

Livia - lovely name
Clelia - think of Margaret Drabble's Jerusalem the Golden - like it
Lavinia - I like, but I would never use a name that starts 'lav'
Virginia - like, but also awkward shortening - one to go in the middle?

ofwarren · 27/01/2021 14:46

Livia - Labia
Clelia - Misspelled Celia
Lavinia - Lav, as in toilet
Virginia - The Virginia Company, tobacco