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Ada or Sara?

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Ondine · 10/07/2009 17:44

Am almost sure I will go for Ada..... just a few questions?

I'm starting to worry Ada might be a bit mousey and may fall on the wrong side of retro chic e.g. Hilda and not the right side like Ava & Pearl?

Do you have an image of what you would imagine an Ada to be like? I?m hoping not mousey or matronly and more elegant and intelligent!

Sara (pronounced Sah-ra) would be the second choice. I have no concerns over it. Just a bit safe maybe.

Which do you prefer?

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mrscrocoduck · 12/11/2009 07:26

Don't worry Tidey - your reaction wasn't a bad as my mothers!!!

Tidey · 11/11/2009 23:05

Okay, should read date before posting. Hope you and your wee girl will continue to like the name anyway.

Tidey · 11/11/2009 23:03

Hearing Ada.

I prefer Sara.

KERALA1 · 11/11/2009 23:00

Much prefer Ada to Ava. Ava to me is a raddled old lady who used to be showgirl and smokes 20 a day.

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Ondine · 11/11/2009 22:54

Mine is 5 months now. I wonder if we are ahead of the trend and Ada will take off like Ava.

I hope not but then I think it's a sweet name so who knows!

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mrscrocoduck · 11/11/2009 22:27

My little Ada is 21 months and wonderful (naturally)! ;-)

I also have people repeating her name back as 'Ava' which gets my goat as everyone and their dog has/knows a baby called Ava at the moment. Not at all individual!

How old's yours?!

pranma · 11/11/2009 22:06

Sara[h] is beautiful
Ada isnt

jander · 11/11/2009 22:00

I like Sara

Vivia · 11/11/2009 19:31

I think Ada is a beautiful, classic name - very 1930s in the loveliest way.

In fact, I met a 4yr old girl called Ada a few months ago. She was bursting with confidence and smiles, thoroughly polite and charming, with definite mischief twinkling in her eyes. A wonderful combination and a wonderful name.

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Ondine · 11/11/2009 17:48

I went for Ada in the end. I still feel happy with it so think I made the right decision.

I haven't met any one else with the name yet. How old is your DD mrscrocoduck? Is she old enough to have an opinion on her name?

I get a bit of confusion with Ava but apart from that mostly a good reaction.

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birdofthenorth · 11/11/2009 15:04

Ada is lovely -not fusty at all in my mind but spirited, elegant and fun.

LOL at the Muriel discussion -my gran (who died almost 20 years ago) was called Muriel and she HATED it and always went by her middle name... she was born in 1912, and it wasn't even a fashionable name then!!

mrscrocoduck · 11/11/2009 15:01

It's my daughter's name!

suiledonne · 11/11/2009 14:59

I really wanted to call dd2 Ada. No-one, including DH, agreed and we called her Amy in the end.

I wish I had called her Ada though. So many Amys around here but you are the only other person I have heard to suggest Ada.

mrscrocoduck · 11/11/2009 14:56

What did you decide on?

MamaLazarou · 13/07/2009 08:41

WISHY-washy

MamaLazarou · 13/07/2009 08:41

Ada makes me think of an old lady with her hair in curlers, wearing a housecoat, smells a bit of wee.

Sara is pretty written down, but when spoken sounds wish-washy.

MrsSeanBean · 13/07/2009 08:36

I sometimes read the deaths section too scorpette! Seriously though, it does give different inspiration.

Scorpette · 12/07/2009 01:14

Ondine - thanks, hon. My other Gran (Doris) was pretty sensational too!

I love most old lady names. But not as much as my friend who used to look in the 'Deaths' section of the local newspaper for inspiration (I kid you not!). Her DH talked her out of Mildred and they now have a lovely Violet.

DP likes Muriel. Told him it ain't happening in a million years.

MrsSeanBean · 12/07/2009 00:07

Here are some more 'old lady' names:
Winifred
Ethel
Maud(e)
Clodagh
Marjorie
Olive
Joyce
Grace (already revived)
Gladys
Kathleen
Marion
Gertrude
May (have heard this used recently)

FireworkFury · 12/07/2009 00:03

my nans mum was ada,

i love it,

my great gran i guess,

my dds great grans are francis and catherine.

franny and kitty to those that knew them well

AppleandMosesMummy · 11/07/2009 23:57

Honestly reception classes will sound like old peoples homes soon.
Ada is certainly different, Sara is just bland IMO

hester · 11/07/2009 23:49

Sara is pretty but Ada is fabulous. I know one - she's four - and not at all mousy.

JudyBlume1019 · 11/07/2009 23:26

Ada is so so cool! Brilliant name!

TsarChasm · 11/07/2009 23:24

No to Ada - I'm thinking Les Dawson I'm afraid.

Sara is pretty.

mrswoolf · 11/07/2009 23:20

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