Girls name - final choice - due today!

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Am due today and if its a girl am undecided between:

Arabella Florence

OR

Florence Arabella

We have a very short surname so need longer first name.

Final curve ball is India but hubby not keen.

What does everyone prefer? I HATE Flo so would have to be very disciplined re nickname and make sure people used Florrie and love Arabella but is it the sloaney with a pony or we have moved on from that?!?....xx

Florence Arabella

I love Florence but hate the nicknames....

I would go with India Florence I think.

Florence Arabella.

I love nn Flo, and I think you may have to be prepared that that will happen anyway at some point (Although I have a friend whose DS has just finished his second year at school and is still Alexander, not Alex).

Arabella - still has sloaney conotations to me, even though I have good friend Arabella whis is not sloaney!

Florence Arabella flows better.

Pretty unanimous! Oh well, thread is only a few mins old!

Florence Arabella

ALthough I prefer Bella to Florence. It's the 'ara' part of Arabella that I don't like. Plus, yes, it is sloany.

India.

I think Arabella is very Sloaney personally! The only Florence I know has Floss as a nickname. Ooh actually, she's Flora..... Either of those any good?

Both are beautiful names and both are on my shortlist. I am not sure which I prefer, I think Florence Arabella but either are beautiful.

Definitely Florence (love it). Not keen on Arabella. India is ok but nowhere near as nice as Florence. Florence India ??

Every Florence I've met uses Flo, by choice. So, don't call her Florence if you hate the idea of her friends calling her Flo when she's older. I do find Arabella a bit sloaney, but it seems to be having a burst of popularity again so maybe it is moving on from that.

Thank you everyone for for the comments. Didn't expect it to be so unanimous!

I love India, surprisingly underused, despite a wave of popularity about 10 years ago.

Arabella also ok. Prefer Arabel, as in Arabel's Raven! :)

much prefer florence and really like flo as nn. so long as your surname doesnt begin with t you could use arabella as mn. not so keen on india espec as you then have 2 place names.
good luck!

Could possibly try to push her gently towards being nicknamed something like Florrie rather than Flo? (Has so many connotations of Aunty Flo aka Red Tide of Doom for me)

Personally I like India but that's because I taught an utterly gorgeous one a few years back!

Flo is far sloanier IMO than Arabella. They're in every posh girls school.

Florence Arabella

Arabella Florence, I think Florence will be in the top ten this year or next. Just a feeling....

Arabella here too.

Florence is a lot nicer than Arabella, I think.

But for some reason I really like Arabel. That's just odd to like Arabel but not Arabella, isn't it? I am annoying even myself.

I was worried about the increasing popularity if Florence which would be annoying if it was top 10 as i have liked the name for years.

I'm realy loving the suggestion of Arabel. It's beautiful and very unusual so thank you

Is it spelt Arabel or Arabelle?