To ask your thoughts on the names

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Louise/Louisa

My DH and I are expecting a baby girl at the start of May and I was wondering what anonymous opinions are on the aforementioned names.

I like French names but also simple and traditional names and I think Louise/Louisa kind of hit both of them (moreso Louise being a bit more French)

I know I should have posted in baby names but there is more traffic on here. Happy to listen to anyone else suggestions too...I find it quite hard to name this baby.

I like both, classic names and Lou is a cute nickname.

For French names I met some French girls at uni, Céline, Delphine, Natalie, Claudine and an Agnes (but not many people said it with the French pronunciation).

I love both although you lost me at Lou (totally irrational but it sort of sounds coarse to me and I really don't like it). Love Lulu though. Go figure...

Charlotte, Clara, Gabrielle, Ella, Isabelle/Isabella, Harriet, Josephine, Joanne, Kathryn, Juliette?

Baby names gets loads of traffic...

Fabienne is lovely
prefer Louisa to Louise. I also like Lois.

I prefer Louisa, but neither float my boat.
Again, it’s tarnished by knowing so many people with Louise as a middle name.

As a side note I have a French name, first and middle, and I saw them recently on names making a come back. Maybe they’re becoming fashionable! (Though I doubt mine ever will be. 😂)

I'd go for Muriel Louise

Odette
Vivienne

I have 2 friends named Louise - both lovely people, I think it’s beautiful and quite timeless x

I’m a 80’s baby. My middle name is Louise, my best friend is Louise, 6 of my other friends have Louise as a middle name, along with 80% of the girls I went to school with. Did our parents really have no imagination? So for that reason alone, it is really common to me, I do eye roll when someone says they’ve given it to their daughter as a middle name. Much prefer Eloise, it’s nicer sounding, you can have Elle or Ellie as a shortened version rather than ‘Lou’- who wants to be called a toilet? (We call our Louise a different shortened nn which would be outing if I said).

I really like Louisa!! Louise is okay but does sound a bit dated to me.

Lovely names that aren’t over used (any more!)

Elorie

Flora and Simone are big favourites of mine

For me half the girls in my year at school seemed to have Louise as a middle name (born 1990). Genuinely probably 4 Louise middle names in my form alone. I have no idea why! I never thought of it as being French, but that's probably as I see it as a "middle name name". Louisa is a bit different though!

@SnowyAlpsandPeaks I wrote my post before seeing yours! It definitely is a "middle name" name then, wasn't just my area being weird! How funny!

I know a Louisa, with the nn Weezy. It kind of suite her though.

Victorian names are coming back.
I work with names for a living.

Arthur, Mabel, Enid, Agatha, Ida, Nora...all being used more and more in my work.

We were talking other day about the backlash of over-egging in the digital age, that people will get fed up of ‘creative’ names they’ve made up from scratch or silly ways of spelling names

and resort back to plain old Kevin, Laura, David, Susan, Mary, Mark, John,... at some point.

My sister is Louise, when little and I couldn’t say her name right I called her Wheeze.

@FelicisWolf I think it was in lots of places. The strangest was the amount who had the same first names too. So we had more than one of:-
Emma Louise (5)
Sarah Louise (5 maybe 6)
Rachel Louise (4)
Rebecca Louise (5)
Victoria Louise (2)

And then the individual Siobhan Louise, Bethan Louise, Donna Louise, Rhiannon Louise, Katie Louise etc

Like I said, it was as if none of our parents had any imagination. So of course everyone was known as Emma K, Emma J, Sarah J, Sarah R and so on. I remember a teacher during the first week of high school joking that she was going to call everyone by their middle names as so many had the same first name. Then she was told they were all Louise and she was 🤦‍♀️Lol

Another 80s baby over here with middle name Louise and knew a dozen others with the same.
Eloise is lovely though

Marcheline
Vivienne
Evangeline
Camille
Nicole
Eloise
Claudia

There are some lovely classical sounding French names. Out of Louise or Louisa I’d go for Louise, I also like LouLou as a nn.

Some of us (including me) are saying how common it is from our school days. But in years to come having name-May will be seen the same. I know a silly amount of children that have their name hyphened with the name May, and to be honest it comes across now as really ‘common’, there is nothing special about it. Some of the more popular ones here are:-

Ellie-May
Gracie-May
Ella-May
Ruby-May
Sophia-May
Amy-May
Georgia-May
Chloe-May
Nora-May

It’s like, once you’ve heard them once, you’ve heard them 100 times. Again it’s like lack of imagination. There is so many beautiful names out there, why do people want their child to have the same as 4 others in their class?

Louise is boring and very 80s. Every girl in my class (and most of the school tbf) in the 90s was a Sarah, Jennifer, Louise, Rebecca or Katie.

Dull dull dull name.

Louisa or Eloise are both very common now too. Go unusual and go for Ettienne or something.

My DD1 is Abigail Louise... so I'm biased! Purely because my best friend, growing up in the 80s was Louise. Abby has never complained
(I also had a Lucy, a Charles and completely different..a Zachary. .. and he turned out to be the unconventional guitar playing musician of the pack! Make that of it what you will... )