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Please order my name preferences

113 replies

Floam6 · 05/12/2025 10:18

Hi all, apologies for a final name post but our daughter is here and a few days old and we have agreed to choose her name this weekend as we don’t have the same favourite. I’m not interested in any other names but please could you rank my list below from favourite to least favourite:

Phoebe
Clara
Sophie
Beatrice
Poppy

Thank you!

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User6761 · 05/12/2025 22:33

Beatrice
Sophie
Clara
Poppy
Phoebe

EmotionallyWeird · 05/12/2025 22:28

Sophie

Beatrice

Poppy

Clara pronounced Clare-a

Phoebe

Clara pronounced Clar-a

Jemimapuddleduk · 05/12/2025 21:44

Clara
Beatrice
Poppy
Phoebe
Sophie

DiggerLily · 05/12/2025 21:37

1.Poppy
2.Beatrice
3.Phoebe
4.Clara
5.Sophie

StewkeyBlue · 05/12/2025 21:13

Clara
Beatrice
Poppy
Phoebe
Sophie

Louoby · 05/12/2025 20:59

Clara
Beatrice
phoebe
poppy
Sophie

DayOfSummer · 05/12/2025 20:58

Phoebe
Sophie
Clara
Beatrice
Poppy

My 11 year old DD loves the name Poppy and would put that name second (because the first name is her name and she loves that more!)

Calliopespa · 05/12/2025 20:54

I've listed my order above, but I don't think you can go too far wrong with this list op.

Maybe just pick your gut favourite, as you can see we are all all over the place! I don't think you'll find a pattern!

LeopardsANeutral · 05/12/2025 20:41

Phoebe
Clara
Beatrice
Poppy
Sophie

YellowCherry · 05/12/2025 20:39

Sophie
Clara
Poppy
Beatrice
Phoebe

JillyGiraffe · 05/12/2025 20:36

Floam6 · 05/12/2025 10:18

Hi all, apologies for a final name post but our daughter is here and a few days old and we have agreed to choose her name this weekend as we don’t have the same favourite. I’m not interested in any other names but please could you rank my list below from favourite to least favourite:

Phoebe
Clara
Sophie
Beatrice
Poppy

Thank you!

Sophie
Poppy
Beatrice
Phoebe
I dislike the initial ‘Clar’ sound in Clara. Love Lara though!

martinisforeveryone · 05/12/2025 20:25

Way out in front by a long chalk
Clara

Beatrice, although every other girl I know lately is a Bea of some sort

Phoebe, not a big fan, but much better than the remaining two

Sophie
Poppy

Neither of those names seem to fit with the aesthetics of the previous three?

DuchessOfNarcissex · 05/12/2025 20:19

I doubt that will be the case by the time this baby is an adult. i agree. She'll be working with Alfie, Teddy, Elsie, Daisy, Rosie ...

shoopshoopdedoo · 05/12/2025 20:18

Phoebe
Sophie
Beatrice
… (long gap!)
Clara
Poppy

Pineapplewaves · 05/12/2025 20:17

Phoebe
Poppy
Beatrice
Clara
Sophie (a very common name, there are Sophie’s everywhere!)

AutumnLeavesFallingFast · 05/12/2025 20:16

saraclara · 05/12/2025 13:33

Anything but Poppy. It's an okay name for toddlers, but it's a rubbish name for an adult.

It's hard enough for women to be taken seriously in the workplace. Poppy just isn't a serious name.

I doubt that will be the case by the time this baby is an adult.

Philandbill · 05/12/2025 20:14

Clara
Sophie
Phoebe
Beatrice
Poppy

AutumnLeavesFallingFast · 05/12/2025 20:12

Clara
Poppy
Sophie

I actually like Poppy more than Clara, but I think it's an 'easier' name to have.

Beatrice

a long way further down, off any list...

phoebe. (Sorry to anyone who is one/has one) but I really dislike it.

i think though if you don't both love a name should keep looking because you just haven't found it yet.

havingoneofthosedays · 05/12/2025 20:07

I know a poppy & Clara they are the loviest girls.

The Sophie's I know are little minxes

SpringingOn · 05/12/2025 20:06

Sophie
Beatrice
Phoebe
Poppy
Clara

Congratulations 1

LivingTheDreamish · 05/12/2025 20:05

In the order you listed OP. Call her Phoebe - lovely name. Congratulations!

Rituelec · 05/12/2025 20:02

PortSalutPlease · 05/12/2025 10:40

Clara
Poppy
Phoebe
Beatrice

and Sophie is getting left off the list because I absolutely hate it!

I'd agree

Zempy · 05/12/2025 20:01

Clara
Poppy
Sophie
Phoebe
Beatrice

sundayvibeswig22 · 05/12/2025 19:54

Clara is my favourite. Not keen on the rest, sorry.

Calliopespa · 05/12/2025 19:40
  1. Beatrice
  2. Clara
  3. Sophie
  4. Phoebe and Poppy last equal

Beatrice I really like, and also consider the spelling Beatrix.

Clara to me is quite a romantic, storybook name - I think of Clara in Heidi and also the Nutcracker ... though there do seem to be quite a few lately.

Sophie is a nice name, but really, really heavily used.

Poppy to me is sort of cute but not really a "proper" name. I don't know why I feel that, because I don't mind flower names like Rose and Violet. Somehow it just sounds a bit like a noise: "pop."

Phoebe does have the benefit of being a proper traditional name, with a certain gravitas, but it's something about that "oe" it swings off in the middle that makes me think "amoeba." It also sounds a little bit like "feebly." Not an awful name, but for those reasons not one I'd choose.