Please rate our girls' names list

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Belle
Dulcie
Elise (to rhyme with 'geese')
Idalia (i-DAR-lee-a)
Mia (MY-a)
Valentina.

Half are my favourites, half are my husband's. We are having a difficult time deciding. Would love to know what you think of our list. You can be as honest as you like, we can take it .

Thanks.

Belle - OK
Dulcie - not keen
Elise (to rhyme with 'geese') - could grow on me
Idalia (i-DAR-lee-a) - no
Mia (MY-a) - OK but quite popular
Valentina. - classic

love Dulcie
and Valentina

Thanks so much for your comments, I really appreciate all your replies

Dulcie is lovely and unusual. If shortened (which so many names are, do you like what it may be shortened too? Dulce, CC etc)

Personally I would avoid any name where everytime she introduces herself to someone she has to follow with an explanation of how it's pronounced... forever more!!

(That being said I love Elise and wouldn't assume it's pronounced Eleeze anyway)

Valentina and Belle also a bit Disney imho (sorry!)

Not keen on any of them

OK, thanks. This is all really helpful. Does anybody have any suggestions for names that we might like, other than the ones I have listed here?

Elise or Dulcie - not the rest.

Eloise?

Oh, I like Eloise

My niece is an Eloise, which I think is lovely, but she gets called Ellie, which is a bit more prosaic, I think, as a name.

I can't decide whether I like Dulcie or not. Of your list, I would go for Maya (you, or, more to the point, your dd) would have a lot of explaining to do to stop people always saying "Mee-a" with the Mia spelling.

Similar names you might like:
Darcy

Sorry, posted too soon.

Similar names you might like:
Darcy
Sadie
Sofia
Daisy
Veronica
Natalia
Arianna
Zoe

Lucy
Emmeline
Annabelle (and you could have Annie or Belle as nickname)
Melissa
Elspeth (Elsie for short)
Adela
Sarah
Bethany
Christina
Victoria
Felicity

Eloise is lovely

I love Daisy, but fear it's a bit too common.

Really, really like Eloise - is it not a bit of a mouthful, though? Does it flow well, do you think?

No. No. Not a mouthful. Eloise is lovely. I know one who is about 5, but it's not common the way, say Belle/Bella or Mia/Maya/Maia seem to be now.

Definitely Elise, that's a pretty name. Don't like any of your other choices at all, sorry!

Valentina is gorgeous. My favourite by a mile.

Mia to me is Mee-ah. I like Maya or Maia though.

Belle - no
Dulcie - no
Elise (to rhyme with 'geese'), its sort of stunted, like it wants to be longer, like Elisia, doesn't roll off the tongue
Idalia (i-DAR-lee-a) - I would have no clue how to say it, with your pronounciation again its sort of stunted and doesn't roll off the tongue
Mia (MY-a) like but would say mee-ah, like maya, mya, maia too though
Valentina.

Re. the spelling of 'Mia", I am not trying to be different, the name was my DH's suggestion and I just thought that's how you spell it. It seems it is actually spelt 'Maya'.

To me "Belle" could never be taken seriously before a job interview or at a meeting. Think of 20, 30, 40 years etc from now how professional does her name sound and look?
Sorry but Belle Dingle from Emmerdale springs to mind and so do the Disney princesses.

Elise to rhyme with breeze

We were going to call our daughter Maya, pronounced Mya, but completely changed our mind on the day of her birth and called her Hannah!

I like Belle on your list but not keen on the other names.

I like Freya
Isla
Dinah

A lot of the girls names i like seem to end in ah or a!

Sorry but Belle Dingle from Emmerdale springs to mind and so do the Disney princesses.

Sorry, I don't know who any of these people are.