Seraphina / Theadora - what do you think?

[CharlyH]

Help! We like both Seraphina (shortened to Sef or Phina) and Theadora (shortened to Thea or Dora) but I am not sure if they sound a bit 'posh'??

What do you think?

The correct spelling is Theodora. With an 'o'.

Both lovely names, but if it was up to me I'd go for Thea. Seraphina has a slight hint of pretentiousness imo

My grandma was a Theodora married to a Theodore. Everyone called her Lola though

Seraphina is really pretty.

We've got a Theodora, shortened to Thea :)

Brazenhussy

Hi there,

I couldn't believe the title of your post....we had our second daughter in Feb this year and we have called her Teodora, the only other name we had in mind for her was Serafina!

Slightly different to what you are thinking of calling your little one but my OH is Italian and we wanted Italian names/spellings.

I still love Serafina and if we had a third girl that's what we would go for.

Don't think they are too 'posh' at all!

Oh and by the way, I'm called Charlie too!

Both lovely names :)

purlcity / Charlie - what a coincidence! Nice to have spellings that fit with your OH's roots.

I really like Theadora and to shorten it to teddy while she is little. The other half loves the nickname but hates the long version. He thinks its a bit pretentious, I find it so beautiful though. And as for the 'naughty' namesake, she was also a really successful co-leader of an empire, so very strong-willed. But now you have mentioned Seraphina, thats beautiful too. I bet he wont go for it though

Theodora but spelt like this, Theadora looks wrong.

I like both, but prefer Theadora.