Alba?

[LyraBelaqua]

What do you think of Alba for a girl? She was a time travelling child in 'The Time Travellers Wife' and quite a cool little lady. I'm wondering if this is making me like it more than I should :)

Isn't it an electronics manufacturer?

Sounds surnamey (Jessica Alba). How about Alma?

I love Alba, had it on my shortlist. The only thing that put me off was that it is the Gaelic word for Scotland. Since we already live in Scotland it seemed a bit weird.

love it, actually, for the same reasons as you. Go for it! I don't think all that many people will recognise it from the book, though.

My cousin just had her first baby last week and named her Alba after the character in TTTW. I had never heard of it before but it's really grown on me and I like the Scottish and Latin connotations too. I'd go for it. It's pretty and unusual but has a real historical feel.

Sounds like something Victoria Beckham would call a child.

It's Spanish for 'dawn' I think. I like it

Alba is a lovely Spanish name, pretty

Love it. It means loads of things, in gaelic it's 'scotland', in latin 'white' or 'bright', and other meanings I remember were 'white pearl' and 'bright dawn'. I think it's beautiful and love TTW.

Love love love it

Awful. Sounds like a cough lozenge. "Give us a packet of Albas love!"

Lovely.

don't they make cheap car radios

For some reason it makes me think of White Supremacists.

I like it, it means dawn in spanish.

Yes, it was the cheapest hi-fi manufacturer on the market. You could never take anyone seriously who had any equipment with 'Alba' on it.

i like it.

love

What's the world coming to ? (sound like my mum now)

It's not that unusual....? certainly not an eye-roller in my book

I love it, it's on my shortlist

Not keen.

I LOVE it!

Isn't there BBC ALBA in Scotland?