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Have a while to ponder these names but wonder if people think these are popular or are becoming ?

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MillyMollyMoo · 10/10/2009 16:53

We've tried to keep out of the top 20, but failed with another DC's name, here goes.

Clare or Clare
Eliose
Sadie
Talia

DH likes Sally too but it's the name of a bunny boiler ex of my brothers

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bellissima · 10/10/2009 19:32

El-i-ose weird. Eloise is a bit candy-coated but is saved from total Barbie-land by having been recorded by the Damned.

Clare/Clara both nice.

Sexy Sadie - ok.

Talia - dunno.

sweetkitty · 10/10/2009 18:40

Clara - nice
Eliose - like this too
Sadie - DD1's middle name so like it too
Talia - DD2's name so love love love it, always getting compliments on it, have yet to met another, in the year she was born there were only another 2 in Scotland so not that popular yet

nappyaddict · 10/10/2009 18:31

Ah see you meant Clara in your OP. Other similar names are Claribel, Claribella, Clarette, Claramae, Clarice, Clarinda, Clarissa.

Paige is another popular one. Fawn has a similar feel to it.

India is nice as is Indiana.

Eloise is popular but Heloise, Eloisia or Ilona aren't and have a similar feel.

I know you weren't keen on another name ending with A but how about Louisa, Luisa, Ophira, Ophelia or Aurora?

Tillyscoutsmum · 10/10/2009 18:26

Clara is lovely. Eloise is pretty too but might well become Ellie which is fairly popular

Sadie is too close to Sadist for my liking. Really dislike Paige

nappyaddict · 10/10/2009 18:23

I like Clare. It's definitely not very popular. The others however are increasingly so.

How about Clara?

TheMysticMasseuse · 10/10/2009 18:23

dd is CLara. it's beautiful and not at all common

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MillyMollyMoo · 10/10/2009 18:20

Hubby knows a stuck up Elodie so that's out,
Sadie is my first choice, Eloise is our compromise name as he wants Emma Louise.
I also like Paige (which nobody else does) and India but I'd have three children's names ending in an A then and quite fancy a Y for a change.

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ChairmumMiaow · 10/10/2009 18:08

I like Eloise too. Its on my list

Jamieandhismagictorch · 10/10/2009 17:56

I like Clara, Clare is nice but was very popular when I was a child in the '70s, so I associate with 40 year olds

Eloise (sp?) is pretty

Sadie is a bit of a hard-sounding name, IMO

Talia is nice

What about Elodie ? - it has a similar feel to your names, but more unusual

GhostWriter · 10/10/2009 17:37

Clare a much better spelling. That interloping, superfluous i is just tarnishing something that's already lovely.

Dizzyclarebear · 10/10/2009 17:03

Nickelbabe - you are completely wrong!

nickelbabe · 10/10/2009 16:57

don't like the spelling Clare, but i like Clara.
Claire is better if you're going down that route, much more elegant.

Eloise is lovely.

GhostWriter · 10/10/2009 16:56

Clara is lovely too. Prefer it to Clare.

GhostWriter · 10/10/2009 16:55

Out of Clare or Clare, I prefer Clare.
Talia quite popular and not that nice imo.
Sadie is cutesy
Assume you mean Eloise. Quite pretty but again cutesy.

I like Clare. Classic. Pretty.

janeite · 10/10/2009 16:54

DD1 would have been Eloise Claire if dp hadn't vetoed it, so I like that!

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MillyMollyMoo · 10/10/2009 16:54
  • oh dear meant Clare or Clara
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