Lorelai, Clara, Mariska, Larissa, Lalia

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Can I ask what your opinions are on these names (they all sound fine with surname)?

Lorelei
Clara
Mariska
Larissa
Lalia

I like Clara. The others are too fussy for me. And Lalia is too close to labia.

Lorelei - really like it
Clara - The nutcracker and Back to the Future. I'm not sure about it
Mariska - don't like it
Larissa - really like it. You could also have Clarissa
Lalia - I like it actually.

Lorelei- Hard to pronounce, although once you get it, probably ok. Sounds too much like L'orel (or however you spell it!!!)
Clara - like very much
Mariska - not keen
Larissa - like this know a girl called Larissa.
Lalia - not keen.

Larissa or Clara.
Or as toomuch said have Clarissa then you get both.

Clara is lovely.

Clara is lovely

The others are rather frilly and a tad 'American' in sound.

Love Lorelai, although biased as Gilmore Girls fan.

Don't like Lalia or Mariska.
Any of the other 3.

Clara or Larissa.

Clara is lovely; don't like any of the others at all - too frilly/fussy, sorry.

Like Clara. The others are too fussy and frilly for my.taste.

Clara. Pretty but works just as well if she ends up being the CFO of a FTSE100 company...

Lorelei - I'm warming to this a lot recently, may be the hormones though...
Clara - pretty, a bit Sound of Music, but I like it
Mariska - a bit whiskery to me
Larissa - I quite like this, quite unusual without being weird
Lalia - A bit genital for my liking (labia etc)

I love Lorelei (also Gilmore Girls fan!) but much as I love the name I would not actually use it in real life myself. Clara is nice, Larissa sounds ok, I like Marissa too.

Clara with the reserve name of Larissa. I know two girls, one is Clara and she is lovley ,the other is Larissa and she is horrible.

Clara my favourite by a long way.

Clara by a mile. The rest are awful to me.

Clara or Lorelai. I love Marilla too, might be up your street? Or Marissa.

Clara - but second Marissa.

Clara

Lorelai comes up a lot on MN baby names and I always say the same - it is the name of a rock in Germany where all the tourists go to oooh and aaaaah. The name of a poem/song/fairy tale about a woman who sits on a rock and lures sailors to their death on the crags.

Anyone in Germany would laugh at the name Lorelai being used. It is like naming a child Rock of Gibraltar.

I love Clara. I don't like the frilliness of the rest.

Prefer Lara, Mahalia, Marit and Eliska to Lorelei, Lalia and Mariska

Clara is def the best,

Don't like the rest.

Clara and Larissa are my favourites. The others sound a bit too frilly/fussy. Lara and Clarissa are also really nice.

I love Clara as it is the name of a dear friend of mine, always had it on my possible list of girls names :)

I have to say that I totally LOVE the name Lorelei, but hadn't realised I loved it till I saw this thread!!! Am off now to write in on my list of possible names for our as-yet-not-conceived DC2.

From what I remember Marilyn Monroe's character in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was called Lorelei.... I might be wrong though...

Mme Lindor and TryLikingClarity already made my points about Lorelei I see Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a character whose name I would not want my daughter to share plus I just don't like it.

Larissa - really like this; classic and feminine with a classic nickname (Lara)

Lalia - never heard of it, but I love Leila and it doesn't suggest genitalia.