asking from the states about UK girls' names

Anyone else think she went with Ada or Clare?

I got all the way to the end as well...

Oh, another old thread

Sigh!
Why did clarabell bother replying then!?

thread is old.

maybe OP had microsort! maybe she had PIGs Maybe she did shettles!

come back and explain OP

Good point nicecuppaT, my friend is due 9th march and is only 10 wks.

Spring is officially 1st march. can it be 1st of february in parts of USA?

I like them all except Rowena!

By the way if you're due in spring how do you know what sex you're having so early??? How many weeks are you?

Lol @ teirrah!!!

Prefer Rowan to Rowena
not keen on harriett but love nn hattie
henrietta not keen but nn's hennie, hen, etta and again hattie are all lovely
clare is boring and makes me think of a thirtysomething...

I like Rowena, Maisie and Clare. Harriet is OK, not so keen on Henrietta.

lol at Tierrah!!!!
All your names are beautiful
I have known people with all these names
Harriet-my ggm!was high on list for dd but chose Joanna
Maisie-Julie Walters daughter [and my dog]!
Rowena-a lovely friend of mine and my favourite from your list.
Clare....just Clare[not special imho]
Henrietta[known as Hetty]very posh but sweet.

Rowena is ok, I'm not very keen on it myself.

Harriet is a gorgeous name, the best of your list.

Henrietta is just awful, nothing remotely pretty about this name.

Maisie is nice but I like all the cutesy little girl names of this ilk.

Clare is a nice enough name but a bit boring.

Henrietta would sound ludicrous even to the majority of British people. Mumsnet is not entirely representative of the entire UK. Mumsnetters tend to like names like Henrietta and Octavia and Augusta.

So if it turns out that you're moving to Croydon or Slough or..... Yorkshire ! then Henrietta might not be a great choice.

Rowena wouldn't be to my taste, but it's interesting and unusual. If you like it which you obviously do, then it's a good choic.

Harriet is ok, not to my taste but it's not awful.

Clare spelt like the county is often used in Ireland, but it was very, very, very popular in about 1970-1978. Most of my friends have a couple of claires in their circle so it just sounds so dated to me. I don't hate it though.

Maisie is very cutesy old lady chic. I prefer a lot of other old lady names. Edie, Maggie, Daisy all better imo.

I also live in the US and certain names that I like (Poppy, etc) are just not heard of here. (At least not in Minnesota.) I always want to say "well HMMPH, it's used in the UK!" :)

I like all your names. Rowena, Harriet, and Henrietta are pretty. I know a couple who each had a grandmother named Harriet. They wanted to name their daughter after their grandmothers but didn't like Harriet, so they reversed it and named DD Teirrah (pronounced Tee-AIR-uh.)

Maisie and Claire are both cute, a little more popular than your other choices.

I think Rowena is my favorite.

Claire is the French spelling (Clair for a boy, but that has never been as popular as the feminine form of the name).
Anglicised to Clare in England in the Middle Ages. BOTH are correct. That's it - one may be more popular than the other depending on the country but there's no "Scottish" form of the name.

Rowena - a bit elderly scottish lady wearing heather tweed
Harriet - It has grown on me recently
Henrietta - posh
Maisie - completely different to your other choices. Popular-ish now, but I'd only use as a nickname, as it's a bit twee.
Claire/Clare - nice name. Popular when I was a child (1970s), but due a resurgence, I think.

Rowena - lovely!
Harriet - bossy connotations for me as there was one in my class at school. She was Hazzie for short. I still like the name though.
Henrietta - pretentious and irritating.
Maisie - I always think of Maisie Mouse, very adorable for a tiny girl but can't imagine being a teenager with it.
Clare (this spelling is less common in USA) - echo the above opinions, I only know one little one with the name but lots of 30 somethings. As far as I understand it, Clare is the English spelling, Claire the Scottish, and there is also the French Clair option too. Not my favourite name, but solid and respectable.

Rowena = my best friend at school (not posh), who now happens to live in SF, CA. Beautiful name.

Also like Harriet and Maisie.

Henrietta - not keen, but then I'm not keen on Henry as a name. Clare - know lots of clares/claires my age (mid thirties). Is very much a name of the 70s imo, though my 18 yr old niece also a Claire.

Not keen.

Claire is NOT the default spelling!!! Its very clearly the WRONG spelling....

Seriously though, speaking as a Clare (which I always felt was boring when I was growing up but I like it now) I do think that Clare is much nicer than Claire.

Shoot me down and all that!!!

Rowena - very posh/unusual
Harriet - lovely and classic
Henrietta - very posh
Maisie - very popular in the last couple of years
Clare - I think it's nice, very uncommon among girls born at the moment. Maybe due a revival?

so what''s your shortlist now?!

Rowena-bit staid
Harriet -bit horsey and posh, but I like that.
Henrietta- see Harriet above, but like Henrietta even more.
Maisie-too twee.
Clare- My name. OK simple and non offensive, but defibitely a women in her 30's name at the moment(in the UK).