A list of girls names

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It's early days, I'm only 16 weeks, but thought I would start canvassing opinions. Obviously have no idea of gender but thinking about girls names today as they seem to be a lot harder.

I'd appreciate your brutally honest opinions on this little lot please...

Ivy
Ingrid
Seraphina
Ines
Aurelia
Alice
Harriet
Cecilia/Cecelia
Martha
Ariadne
Astrid
Thomasina
Lyra

I have no objections to any of these. I LOVE Harriet and would have considered it for any girl I had, mainly because of the character Harriet Vane in the Peter Wimsey books.

I like Cecilia better than Cecilia.

I found boys names harder, and then ended up with two boys....

DOH. Cecilia better than Cecelia.

Yes Harriet is a lovely name. I'm pretty convinced I'm having a boy actually and the names I like are pretty standard and classic top 100 (probably top 50) names and my list is much shorter hence the reason why I find it easier.

I'd go a bit more 'out there' with a girl, not too unusual, but would prefer to avoid the top 10

They are all very pretty but my faves have to be Seraphina, Harriet, Alice, Astrid and Lyra

I like Alice and Lyra best.

Like:

Ivy
Cecilia
Aurelia

OK:

Seraphina
Harriet
Lyra
Ariadne

Dislike:

Ingrid
Astrid
Ines
Martha
Thomasina
Alice

I LOVE Ines - it's concise, a little bit exotic and quite classy in an understated way...

Alice, Harriet or Martha.
Don't go for poison Ivy.

Ivy - Tilsley from Corrie
Ingrid - OK if you have Scandinavian background
Seraphina - OK: are you Pullman fans?
Ines - lovely, but may be mispronounced, are you OK with correcting people
Aurelia -OK
Alice - lovely
Harriet - lovely
Cecilia/Cecelia - lovely (prefer first spelling)
Martha - like
Ariadne - fantastic name!
Astrid - OK if you have Scandinavian background
Thomasina - no, sorry
Lira - not really (variant of anther Pullman name)

Ivy
Ingrid
Seraphina
Ines
Aurelia
Alice
Harriet
Cecilia/Cecelia
Martha
Ariadne
Astrid
Thomasina
Lyra

The only one I dislike is Martha. The rest are fabulous imo. I especially love Ines, Thomasina, Lyra and Alice.

Ivy - love this
Ingrid - like this my cousin is called Ingrid, no Scandinavians in our family really don't think that matters
Seraphina - too flouncy for me
Ines - OK
Aurelia - again, too flouncy
Alice - like this
Harriet - like this, it's on our girls shortlist
Cecilia/Cecelia - not keen
Martha - love this
Ariadne - no
Astrid - love this, again who cares if you're Scandinavian or not
Thomasina - no
Lyra - ok

Have fun deciding!

congrats and the time will whizz by! Funnily enough i found girls names far far easier which was lucky as i had all DD's!
out of your list i only like cecilia, seraphina and alice.

I likemost of your names other than Ingrid, which is a bit cold and hard, and Thomasina, which is beyond awful.

Lyra is a bit made up sounding. Martha is a bit 'meh'.

My favourites are Cecelia and Ines.

Not quite so keen on Ivy or Lyra. But they are all quite nice names. I think I like Cecilia best. Other girls names I like are Rosemary, Violet, Iris and Pandora. I've never know a Pandora. Only in books.

Fab names OP. I don't normally comment on girls names (not a fan of most of them!) but yours I love so here goes:

Ivy - Reminds me of an old Primal Scream song, which is great, but not sure I'd want to be named after something so insidious.

Ingrid - love. Quite a sexy name though, in my brain for some reason.
Seraphina - fraid I used to know one of these, she's rather put me off. It's a little flouncy as someone else has said.
Ines - Fab. I imagine a rather amazonian beauty
Aurelia - not for me sadly. A bit too fabulous, if you know what I mean.
Alice - love. Simple, classic, not well used
Harriet - not for me, I know too many Harriets.
Cecilia/Cecelia - I think this might be a bit ruffly as well
Martha - love this. On my list too!
Ariadne - like, not sure I'd want to be called it
Astrid - love love love! My DS was going to be called this, until he turned out to be a little boy... (we're not Scandinavian by the way)
Thomasina - nope
Lyra - Okay, but not as outstanding as some of the others!

Good luck with your decision. It's quite fun isn't it?

Thanks for the opinions

It is great fun thinking about names, it's a big responsibility though isn't it. Still got a fair few months to mull it over.

At the moment I have my top girls name which is in amongst that list that I have LOVED for years and whenever I tell people their response is always quite negative. I wonder if it'll still be my top name in November (assuming this small human that I'm growing in my tummy is a girl )

Ivy - no, it sounds 'hard'
Ingrid - nice
Seraphina - no - too fussy
Ines - no
Aurelia - no: fussy
Alice - love it
Harriet - love it
Cecilia/Cecelia - I like Cecily
Martha - yes
Ariadne - yes
Astrid - yes
Thomasina - hate this, sorry
Lyra -ok

Love:

Alice

OK:

Martha (a bit clunky though - prefer Tabitha as a similar/alternative)
Harriet
Astrid
Aurelia
Cecilia

Don't Like (sorry!!! just my opinion... I'm sure loads of people won't like my DCs names either but that's OK, we're all different!):

Ivy - short/harsh
Ines - short/harsh
Ingrid - harsh
Seraphina - fussy, perfume-like. The best of these in here though.
Lyra - a bit "meh"
Thomasina - clunky and totally unfeminine, no real decent shortenings other than (obvs) Tommy. Most girls won't thank you for this one in the future.
Ariadne - awkward to spell out x 10000000 in a lifetime

Any thing but Thomasina..

Love Aurelia and Martha.

Serenityundercover - I think Sina is a lovely shortening of Thomasina, and of course Tamzin/Tamsin which is actually a derivative of this name.

And don't apologise for not liking names, that's your opinion which is exactly what i wanted

Great list: I like them all in the abstract.

Applying the test of which of these would I, as an adult woman, like to have, I'd use:
Alice
Harriet
Cecilia
Martha

You're probably different to me so you might think, 'Yeah, I could imagine introducing myself as a Seraphina or an Ariadne!' and if so, great - put it on your list. I just think some of them are a bit clunky for day-to-day life and I'm not sure I'd want personally want to spell out my name every time I met someone new.

I don't think Ines sounds as pretty in English as it does in French and I think Thomasina is wonderful but they are just too many Thomases for me to use it.

I love Aurelia and Ines, I like Cecilia, Alice and Harriet, the others I am ambivalent about except Thomasina and Ingrid.
Ingrid always makes me think of Ronnie Barker's daughter in Porridge.
I am very old though.

Hiya, going to give you my automatic responses (I.e. Gut feeling, not thinking), hope that's okay!

Ivy - 'Ivy the Terrible' from The Beano; 'Poison Ivy'.Hmm, not sure I like this one
Ingrid - old Swedish woman
Seraphina - Sounds great, like the angelic tone
Ines - Lovely, although I am also thinking of an old woman (maybe this is a fault with me??)
Aurelia - Cool
Alice - Lovely; timeless
Harriet - Hamster
Cecilia - Like it, but prefer Celily as it sounds younger/fresher
Martha - Very sweet; cute
Adriane - Beautiful and quite exotic sounding. A strong woman.
Astrid - Hate it. Far too New Age for my liking.
Thomasina - No, not feminine enough
Lyra - Its alright; not particularly strong.

at "early days, only 16 weeks" - I have been thinking about names since we started ttcing and possibly before that!

My favourites are Ingrid, Cecilia and Ariadne. I really like Ines but it seems a bit strange if you are not Spanish.

Ivy - It's ok.

Ingrid - Really like this name. Also like Inga
Seraphina - Pretty but a bit over the top. What would nn be?
Ines - Lovely (people will assume spanish heritage)
Aurelia - see comments on Seraphina
Alice - ok
Harriet - not keen (but I am unusual in this)
Cecilia/Cecelia - Like this name, I think Cecilia is the usual spelling. Prefer Cecily though. Cece is a lovely nn.
Martha - like
Ariadne - lovely
Astrid - it's ok. Bit too much like a car name.
Thomasina - not keen, sounds a bit "we wanted a boy"
Lyra - ok but a bit faddy.