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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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123456abcdef · 05/12/2025 19:10

Beatrice
Clara
Sophie
Poppy
phoebe

TomatoSandwiches · 05/12/2025 19:05

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

RegalDiamondMonster · 05/12/2025 19:01

Phoebe
Sophie
Beatrice
Clara
Poppy

The only one I dislike is Poppy.

Peachypips78 · 05/12/2025 18:28
  1. Clara
  2. Poppy
  3. Phoebe
  4. Beatrice
  5. Sophie
Elsraspberry · 05/12/2025 18:21

Phoebe
Poppy
Clara
Sophie
Beatrice

Mum3354 · 05/12/2025 18:20

Clara
Phoebe
Sophie
Beatrice
Poppy

I had a gma called Beattie for short. It puts me off a bit.

Moreteaandchocolate · 05/12/2025 18:09

Clara is my current favourite girls name! I’d be happy to use any of them except Beatrice (I find it a bit formal / stuffy sounding, and “Bea” is a bit informal for work etc)

  1. Clara
  2. Phoebe
  3. Sophie
  4. Poppy
  5. Beatrice
Blueskies77 · 05/12/2025 17:46

Clara
Poppy
Sophie
Beatrice
Phoebe

Although it depends how your surname ends. I’m not a fan of -y sounding first names and surnames together for example, but that’s just a personal preference of mine!

Congratulations and let us know what you go for!

HighburyHope · 05/12/2025 14:12

Sophie’s the nicest! I’d say:

  1. Sophie
  2. Clara
  3. Phoebe
  4. Beatrice
  5. Poppy
steppemum · 05/12/2025 14:05

I think Sophie and Poppy are lovely names but so overused that they just blend into nothing, especially Sophie.
Of the other three:
Beatrice - love this name and some cool abbreviations of you wnat them (Bee, Be-a, Trixie etc )
Phoebe
Clara

aintnospringchicken · 05/12/2025 13:59

Sophie
Phoebe
Poppy
Clara
Beatrice

17caterpillars1mouse · 05/12/2025 13:59

Favourite to least favourite

Phoebe
Beatrice
Clara
Sophie
Poppy

The only one I don't like is Poppy

AgnesMcDoo · 05/12/2025 13:57

Soohie
beatrice
Poppy

i don’t like the others

luckylavender · 05/12/2025 13:55

DuchessOfNarcissex · 05/12/2025 13:13

@luckylavender , Hell would freeze over before I’d use the same name as Boris Johnson Doesn't that limit the number of names available to only a few? Smile

You’re right

WintersintheWorld · 05/12/2025 13:50

Sophie
Clara
Phoebe
Beatrice
Poppy

domesticslattern · 05/12/2025 13:46

Phoebe
Beatrice
Clara
Sophie
Poppy

LoudPlumDog · 05/12/2025 13:43

Clara
Beatrice
Sophie
Phoebe
Poppy

Bigboldfont · 05/12/2025 13:41

Clara is lovely

Sophie
Poppy

Beatrice, although Trixie and Bea are better.
Phoebe - feebs urgh.

ThePieceHall · 05/12/2025 13:35

Beatrice
Clara
Phoebe
Poppy
Sophie

ArcticBear · 05/12/2025 13:35

Phoebe
Beatrice
Clara
Poppy
Sophie

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.

Trickletreat · 05/12/2025 13:32

Beatrice
Sophie
Phoebe
Poppy
Clara

MissedItByThisMuch · 05/12/2025 13:28

Clara
Poppy
Sophie
Beatrice
Phoebe

They’re all nice though, can’t go wrong with that list.

DuchessOfNarcissex · 05/12/2025 13:13

@luckylavender , Hell would freeze over before I’d use the same name as Boris Johnson Doesn't that limit the number of names available to only a few? Smile

ResusciAnnie · 05/12/2025 13:06

Aw congratulations! How special.

Beatrice - really like Bea, pretty cool

None of the others really do it for me, they’d all be equally in 2nd place :)