Page 2 | Votes please! Lorena or Alba?

Goscat · 2025-02-07T21:28:02+00:00

Down to our final names and can't decide!

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SargeMimpson · 09/02/2025 08:11

I like Alba but only if it's pronounced correctly.

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Goscat · 09/02/2025 08:10

spilltheteapot · 09/02/2025 06:59

Lorena over Alba.
I know of a Lorena and I can’t get my head around if it’s Loh-reen-a or Loh-wren-ah.
Which way do you say it OP?

Unfortunately in a bilingual household almost any name we choose will probably need some sort of explaining on one side of the Atlantic🤣. It's Law-ren-ah, but can see where people might initially say it more like the sound in Lorraine.

There's also Lorenia, but not sure if I find it a bit frilly

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FTTTC2025 · 09/02/2025 07:55

Which pronunciation for Alba would you use? I find the anglicised version quite harsh and clunky but the traditional ‘Al-ah-buh’ is much softer which I like.
Lorena is a lovely name and won’t be as common for her.

CerealPosterHere · 09/02/2025 07:53

Alba just makes me think of Albert which isn’t a nice name.

i see OP lives in Scotland and Alba means Scotland in Gaelic. If I’m assuming a lot of Scottish people would know that then would that not be a bit odd? Is it commonly used as a name in Scotland?

LovelySunnyDayToday · 09/02/2025 07:46

Lorena.

But also have you considered Paloma?

GoodVibesHere · 09/02/2025 07:40

I agree Lorena is a hill billy name!

Alba is the name of a country, some people like using country names - I knew an India many years ago.

MumonabikeE5 · 09/02/2025 07:22

Alba Lorena has a good ring to it.

Justsayit123 · 09/02/2025 07:22

Wasn’t alba a video cassette company?

alva is to similar to Alvin or vulva

orangeblosssom · 09/02/2025 07:19

I like Alva

TiredCatLady · 09/02/2025 07:14

Another one for whom Lorena Bobbitt was the first thing to spring to mind.

Alba and the Irish Ailbhe is lovely.

TappyGilmore · 09/02/2025 07:05

What about Lorna? As others have pointed out, Lorena will forever be associated with Lorena Bobbitt. It was the first thing I thought of. Lorna is so similar and yet no negative connotations.

I don’t like Alba at all.

spilltheteapot · 09/02/2025 06:59

Lorena over Alba.
I know of a Lorena and I can’t get my head around if it’s Loh-reen-a or Loh-wren-ah.
Which way do you say it OP?

BilboBlaggin · 09/02/2025 06:49

Never heard the name Lorena but I really like it.

We have a little Alba nearby but I'm not keen on the name and always think of TVs. If you live in Scotland I defo wouldn't use it. A bit like me in England calling my child Anglo.

Onlyvisiting · 09/02/2025 06:43

I've never heard of Lorena as a name, tbh I assumed you were trying to fancify Lauren until I saw other posters mention it! So although it sounds nice and I like it much better than alba I would imagine you need to be prepared for her having to spend a lot of her life correcting people from calling her lauren.

Oh, fyi I also googled her name and the top result was the Lorena Bobbit that was previously mentioned, apparently there was a TV docu series about it in 2019, so more people might be aware of the association than you'd expect.

whatflite · 09/02/2025 06:39

I also immediately thought of Lorena Bobbitt

GreenTeaLikesMe · 09/02/2025 05:21

Lorena, definitely.

I really don't like the look or sound of Alba, and agree with the PP that it will date. There are a lot of Ava, Alva, Alma, Alia type names around in the last few years.

Lorena is nice and has never been common enough to be associated with any period, and Lori is a nice shortened form.

DramaAlpaca · 09/02/2025 02:47

Alba is such an unpleasant sound to me I had to vote Lorena even though I'm not keen.

Alva is lovely, as is Ailbhe, but not Alba.

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Goscat · 08/02/2025 18:03

theduchessofspork · 08/02/2025 13:46

Alba of the two

I don’t love it, but the other sounds a bit hill billy.

Interesting! It's a Spanish name so maybe we're just used to it seeing as my husband is Latino (Lorena that is)

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theduchessofspork · 08/02/2025 13:46

Alba of the two

I don’t love it, but the other sounds a bit hill billy.

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Goscat · 08/02/2025 07:46

groovergirl · 07/02/2025 23:37

I like Lorena, but and this is showing my age immediately thought of Lorena Bobbitt, who one night lopped off the dick of her abusive husband as he lay sleeping. It was a notorious case in the early '90s and went as global as a story could in those days. I doubt many people younger than me would remember it, but you might as well be aware of that association with the name.

Mrs Bobbitt threw the dismembered dick out of the window, but it was recovered and surgeons reattached it to Mr Bobbitt, who then had a brief career as a porn star.

Honestly, she sounds like a hero 🤣.

Hahaha thanks for the giggle. Fortunately I wasn't born when it happened so I don't think anyone I know will jump to that reference. ☺️

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CharlotteSometimes1 · 07/02/2025 23:45

Same asGroovergirl, I immediately thought Bobbit.

BatchCookBabe · 07/02/2025 23:42

They both sound like shampoos. Sorry. Don't like either one.

groovergirl · 07/02/2025 23:37

I like Lorena, but and this is showing my age immediately thought of Lorena Bobbitt, who one night lopped off the dick of her abusive husband as he lay sleeping. It was a notorious case in the early '90s and went as global as a story could in those days. I doubt many people younger than me would remember it, but you might as well be aware of that association with the name.

Mrs Bobbitt threw the dismembered dick out of the window, but it was recovered and surgeons reattached it to Mr Bobbitt, who then had a brief career as a porn star.

SkaneTos · 07/02/2025 22:38

Both great names! I voted for Alba.

There is an actress in my Scandinavian home country who is called Alba August, she is very popular right now, and the name Alba makes me think of her. (Her father is director Bille August, her mother is actress Pernilla August (from "Star Wars"!).

AubernFable · 07/02/2025 22:06

I prefer Lorena- Alba is pretty but as PP’s have pointed out a lot of different connotations which isn’t always the best thing- also Jessica Alba to add to them.