Helena or Claudia?

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Pleeeease don't say "I hate them both, call her Madison"!!!

Love both names

Don't see Claudia as a baby's name and think it's rather hard....Helena is much more classical but there is also the issue about pronunciation....Both nice middle name material though!

Claudia... which pronunciation though? English or Italian?

one of my dds is Claudia (& Helena was on the shortlist for our third dc who turned out to be a ds) so I like both :)

My Claudia is a bit of a history buff & very much admires the achievements of Claudius & doesn't mind the meaning at all. I don't think the meaning is unfortunate - the name certainly has good provenance - but then I have a child who is actually disabled & that isn't the end of the world either. She does occasionally get called Claude though which she hates.

What is the Italian pronunciation?! I assume we would go with English, since we are... But none of the other pronunciations really bother me, unlike Hel-AY-na, which I really don't like...