Briony, Victoria, Clara or Edlyne?

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Please rank these names 1-4 in order of preference!

1. Clara - love it
2. Briony
3. Victoria
4. Edlyne - never heard it before.

How about Evelyn pronounced the scottish way - Ev-lin rather than Eve-lin?

Sorry X post with shockers!

About the name Edlyne, my friend is researching her own family tree and I asked her if she had come across any underused first names in her tree. Last night she gave me a list with loads of unusual old names that appear in her tree over several generations. Some of them are way too unusual but I had a look into Edlyne and although I wasn't mad about it at first it has grown on me (a lot). It seems that it was a first name that was taken from a surname.
The only draw back i can really see with this name is it may get shortened to Eddie or Ed.

I felt like that about the name Lettice. DH was having none of it .

Only like Victoria (but not the NNs).

Funny that as a Clara myself (totally outing myself as I really don't think there's many of us, I don't know of ANY others!) one of my favourite names is Briony and my DDs middle name is Evelyn!

Mine is pronounced to rhyme with there though, rather that er.. thaaar.

I don't understand that last sentence as Claire and clare rhyme with there not Clara. Clara is Cla-ra!

Practically everyone says it Claaara. Rather than Clera. Oooh! I've just thought of someone actually. Doc Brown's GF in Back To The Future 3.

Just found this.
nameberry.com/nametalk/threads/93298-How-do-you-pronounce-Clara

Really surprised, IME people assume it doesn't rhyme with hair!

I've always assumed that Clara is pronounced Clar-a in the UK and Claire-a in America.

Dd1 is Briony (except with a made up spelling , she loves that she is the only Briony in her school but hates that she cannot get stationary with her name on in gift shops and has decided she will be changing her name to Amy as soon as she is old enough.

We're ordering her personalised stationary to go back to school with.

Ive decided to replace Edlyne with Louisa. As we are crap with choosing girls names I think we will just stick to these four, Briony, Victoria, Clara and Louisa and see which one of the four suits her best. We don't know the sex of the baby yet, but we are just short listing possible names for both sexes.
I wouldn't deliberately change the spelling of a name because it's a pain in the ass. I have a name that's unpopular and for me I always felt depressed on school trips to museums and such as the others always got mugs and keyrings with their names on them and my name was never there :-( By the way I often threatened to change my name too but I never did :-)

She can't Briony or Bryony ones either, so having the correct spelling wouldn't have made a difference.

Where I'm from and where oh is from Clara was always just Clara so if she gets that name that's the way it will be said. I suppose it's a regional thing.
I was watching that stupid programme the real housewives of NYC one time and they pronounced Sonia as Sew nee a yet in England it's pronounced sort of like Sawn e a yet where I'm from in Northern Ireland it's pronounced Sawn ya.

Now you're talking. I love Louisa!

Oh I like Louisa. I also like Briony, Clara and Victoria.

Clara - very pretty and kind of 'quaint' sounding

Briony - OK, but struggle to get past the 'Brian' connection
Victoria - inoffensive, but dislike most of the nns.

Edlyne - sounds a bit clunky. Old ladyish, and not in a good way! Evelyn is better.

No the middle names will be the grandmothers names or if it turns out to be male, the grandads names. I suggested this as I wanted to prevent a "Let's name the baby after such and such". And I think it's a nice thing anyway.

Re the quaint thing, YY - I once turned up at a new place of work and they were all shocked when they got a twenty-something instead of an old dear

In that case any of the 4 are lovely and I'm sure you'll decide which one suits your DD when she's born.

Providing she's not a DS

Bryony is nice.

My Sheffield great aunt was always Ev-Lin not Eve-Lin so may be its pronounced that way in all Northern parts.

Starballbunny yeah where I come from its said like Ev Lin too. Its definitely a name that gets the regional treatment.

1. Briony/Bryony (this name deserves to be more popular!)
2. Clara
3. Victoria
4. Edlyne

Of your names I'd go for... Louisa. :)