I'm new! Please rate my girls names list, thanks!

[FullaDoll]

Hi,

Although I am English, we don't live in the UK, so have no idea what names are popular right now. I have come up with a list and would really appreciate your thoughts.

Please feel free to be honest - I can take it!

Thanks,

Fulla x

Betty
Dakota
Dolly
Dulcie
Idalia
Isolde
Eden
Ella
Layla
Lola
Marnie
Poppy
Rosa
Valentina
Verity

I like Eden, Lola or Ella (quite popular though). Dulcie and Betty sound like OAPs. Marnie and Dolly are terrible (sorry!). I LOVE Valentina, however I am biased as I have a (2 yr old) Valentina. I love her name, we call her V for short sometimes, (mainly when writing her name). But we have always called her Valentina, never felt the need to shorten it. I too detest Tina or Val as nicknames, her nursery sometimes call her Valley which i don't mind. Everyone always comments on what a beatiful name she has!!

Betty - nope, too 1950s
Dakota - nope, too Hollywood brat
Dolly - nope, too Parton
Dulcie - like it
Idalia - nope, sounds made up to me
Isolde - nope, too Shakespearian
Eden - like it.
Ella - like it. But so do millions of others.
Layla - nope, too Clapton
Lola - nope, too showgirl
Marnie - like it. But what's it short for? Armani?
Poppy - nope, too girly
Rosa - like it.
Valentina - nope, too ... Valentina
Verity - like it

Love Dulcie, quite like Isolde and Dolly.
The rest are a bit meh, but none of them are horrible!

Love Rosa. Simple, feminine and classic.

Quite like Valentina, too. Very pretty.

I am not a fan of cutesy names like Dulcie, Dolly, Poppy, Marnie etc.

Dakota and Eden are awful, sorry.

i like poppy (as i have one) and verity

I know a Dakota (in the US)and an Eden who are both boys!

I think Rosa, Ella and Lola are all very popular, but nice. Verity is lovely and a bit more un usual.

Dulcie and lola are my faves

I love Ella and Rosa. don't like the rest.. I like classy simple names,

I know a Glastonbury Eden (boy)

I also know a Dakota (dog) small, fluffy Pommeranian.

I teach a lovely Dulcie. Thumbs up.

To largeginandtonic,

Loved your post, thank you! Actually, I would have a house full of boys over a house full of girls any day. But, well, I am feeling a bit outnumbered...

Anyway, if anybody is interested, this is how I came up with my list...

Betty (after Betty Page)
Dolly (after Dolly Parton)
Dulcie (my Nana)
Idalia (after a beautiful, inspirational Mexican woman I knew)
Isolde (actually, it's Wagner, not Shakespeare)
Eden (a strong association with my name - I am DEVASTATED that it has become so popular)
Ella (after my first car)
Layla (ouch, love Clapton!)
Lola (also love the Kinks - showing my age!)
Marnie (from the Hitchcock movie
Poppy (actually, on reflection, not so cool)
Rosa (after Rosa Luxembourg)
Valentina (just love this name)
Verity (just love this also).

Gosh, it's so hard, isn't it?

From your last list, you said "just love this name" for Valentina and Verity....for no reason other than you love them. I would go with one of those and have a name related to a person you know (nan) or something you remember fondly (music) as a middle name perhaps?

Rosa - this is my favourite girl's name :)

I love Dakota its in my list too! x

Betty - love
Dakota - no
Dolly - love
Dulcie - love
Idalia - not sure
Isolde - okay
Eden - no
Ella - boring
Layla - okay
Lola - okay
Marnie - like
Poppy - too popular
Rosa - nice
Valentina - love
Verity - like

I had a couple of these names (Dolly, Dulcie) on my list for DD2 but went for something else in the end!

Betty - ok, but there are so many better nn for Elizabeth
Dakota - No, horrid
Dolly - No
Dulcie - No, ok if you're giving birth to a 90 yr old
Idalia - ? No
Isolde - Nope
Eden - Nope
Ella - passable
Layla - nope
Lola - Nope
Marnie -nope
Poppy - nope
Rosa- ok
Valentina - Lovely
Verity - ok

Betty -- a name with chutzpah, I like it
Dakota -- nooooo
Dolly -- a sheep
Dulcie -- 'what a silly gel I am' songs of the early 1900s come to mind
Idalia -- a bit over the top and madey uppey
Isolde -- Beautiful
Eden -- a bit overused
Ella -- way overused. very second girl in my local park is named Ella or Ellie
Layla -- Nice
Lola -- Nice
Marnie -- rhymes with Sarnie
Poppy -- too frilly
Rosa -- nice but meh
Valentina -- Beautiful
Verity -- very twee

Betty - Old woman, albeit a kind and friendly type

Dakota - I like it a lot, although it is very LA I agree

Dolly - She is Betty's clone, down to the last tiny white hair

Dulcie - Not really, I think of a girl like Ermengarde in A Little Princess. Dull.

Idalia - Try hard

Isolde - Good name. I think of a rich woman in a big house somewhere in Europe who wears designer only. Or a talented musician

Eden - Beautiful. End of.

Ella - Too cutesy

Layla - Uh...no. She is a nine year old in a sparkly minidress shwoing her bum, and God knows what'll happen in a few years time.

Actually, I like the name, it's just the spelling. Leila is beautiful.

Lola - See Layla

Marnie - Don't like it

Poppy - Bad association here. Its not a bad name

Rosa - Beautiful

Valentina - Try hard unless you actually are very posh, which sounds awful to say. Therefore don't use it at all, beautiful as it sounds

Verity - Pretty name

Love Isolde and Verity. Like Poppy.

Don't like the others.