Susannah or Eleanora/Elinora/Elinor?

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Which? :)

Susannah.

Susannah-but then I am a little biased

Eleanora is lovely.....though would it get shortened to Nora...but that is cute!

Elinor. It's a lovely name.

Susannah

Eleanora is lovely and I agree that Nora is cute too.

If we have a Girl we have settled on Eleanor Kate.

All lovely, but Susannah is more unusual and has a good "strong" feel to it.

We went for Elinor but she always goes by Nell. I like the look of the "i" better than the "ea".

We really wanted Eleanora for our DD, but I was so concerned that she might be called ' Ellie'.

We decided on Leonora and love it so much! She has only ever been called Leonora!

But Ellie is lovely

Susanna

Love Susannah (Susie for short). If you choose any of the others, she'll end up being Ella / Ellie - and there are millions of them.

Susannah

Elinor - though I prefer Eleanor is one of the most beautiful names, and she doesn't have to end up being Ellie/ella - i know Eleanors who don't abbreviate. But if you were to use a nn i'd use Nell or something less used

Susannah is pretty but i still think makes me think of older/middle aged people whereas i think elinor has made the transition of being associated with all ages from an old persons's name... maybe susannah in a few years

Susannah. Lovely, classic name.

The others are all a bit flowery and fluffy. Eleanor is nicer than Elinor, too.

Susannah.

Susannah

Both great names.

I'd go with Susannah. I like the sound of it, and its nickname potential (Susie is very cute), and it's easy to spell: you just say 'with a H' or 'without a H'.

The title of your thread shows just how many ways you can spell Eleanora. I think Eleonora was the 'authetic' way but could be wrong.

#1 Susannah
#2 Elinor
#3 Eleanora
#4 Elinora

My daughter is an Eleanor (although we are in Wales and everyone seems to spell it Elinor) - but we do pronounce it Ell-a-nor. I wanted to shorten it to Nora, but my husband won't let me, and in fairness Eleanor prefers to be "Eleanor" rather than an abbreviation.

Well this is a close to home thread - my name and my sister's! I would say Susannah I think - much as I love my name. Thing is - nobody ever hear's Eleanor right - I spend a hell of a lot of time being called Helen and spelling out my name. Don't even get me started on the people who go for the really long hard 'or' sound on the last syllable. Fine if that's how you have it but I don't.

Oh, we have the "or" at the end. Eleanor corrects people if the call her EleanEr :)

That's the thing - both are 'right' but you have it one way or the other.

Thanks for all the feedback! :)

Since I'm American it's definitely Ell-a-nor, though sometimes with a softer -ner at the end.

If I did go with Susannah (for my as yet unconcieved baby :o), she would probably be an Annie rather than Susie. I love, love, love Annie Rose (I know, double names) but would like it to be short for something like Susannah Rosamund rather than the stand alone name.

Either of the first two, the others just look like illiterate versions of Eleanor.

Elinor is a real name, I promise! :)