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Help us choose

40 replies

KnightFaith · 01/10/2023 08:34

Help us choose a baby girls name as husband and I can't decide! Love classic, elegant names:
Phoebe
Olive
Aria
Edie

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Mumofgirls2017 · 01/10/2023 13:37

Olive or Edie (I like as short for Edith!)

PickledScrump · 01/10/2023 13:29

Edie and Aria have had a major surge in the last 10 or so years, they are already starting to feel dated, wouldn’t say they are classic or elegant. Olive seems to be having a sharp rise. Phoebe is the best from your list.

LadyWithLapdog · 01/10/2023 11:04

All nice. I prefer Phoebe. I’d also go for Olivia rather than Olive.

beatrice89 · 01/10/2023 11:03

Olive

That's our daughters middle name and so beautiful x

airfresh123 · 01/10/2023 11:01

Olive is lovely.

user1492757084 · 01/10/2023 10:58

Think elegant, classic ..
Olivia
Edwina
Phoebe
Charlotte
Camille
Arabella
Elizabeth
Ellen
Leonor

MerryChristmasToYou · 01/10/2023 10:52

Phoebe - ok
Olive - not keen, Olivia is much nicer
Aria - completely nothingy
Edie - ok but a bit too close to Evie

PortalooSunset · 01/10/2023 08:58

Girl here would have been called Dorothy (nn Dolly). Think dh secretly glad we did not have girls!

From your list I prefer Edie, but I'd give her a longer name on the birth certificate as Edie sounds like a nickname to me (Edith, Edina, Eden).

BreatheAndFocus · 01/10/2023 08:56

Olive or Edie are my favourites of those. I really don’t like Phoebe. Aria is very common at the moment.

How about:

Edith
Lucia
Anna
Emily
Charlotte
Inez
Rachael
Maeve

wellingtonsandwaffles · 01/10/2023 08:47

So you like 2 syllables, pretty sounding, vowel heavy, it seems

phoebe is nice

3 syllables but… Elodie?

or

Josie (Josephine)
Rosie (Rosanna)
Esme (can be pronounced May or Me at the end)
Iris
Ivy
Lydia

thiswasabadone · 01/10/2023 08:43

Actually love them all
Edie is possibly the least used at the moment

NuffSaidSam · 01/10/2023 08:40

Phoebe is by far the nicest imo.

I'm not sure Olive, Aria or Edie could be described as classic or elegant!

Scottyme · 01/10/2023 08:37

I really like your names, but don't think any of them are particularly elegant, especially Aria, if that's what your going for. I'd also personally use Edith or Eden with nn Edie.

smallshinybutton · 01/10/2023 08:36

Phoebe and Aria are quite "in" names at the moment where I am.

I like Edie

I wouldn't describe Edie as classic though but I love it. Do you like Erin?

PerfectMatch · 01/10/2023 08:35

I like all of these, Olive is my favourite.

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