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Rate my girl names on a scale of 1-10!!!!

98 replies

Lannie33 · 07/09/2012 21:05

Hello from Canada! Expecting DD 2 soon (have a boy and a girl already).
Need help narrowing down...please rate my girl names on a scale of 1-10 (10 being best), and tell me if you associate the name with anything (eg. stripper, classy, old-lady, etc). I'm throwing in a few I hate just to see if our our taste in names is similar or not! THANKS!!!!
Amelia
Clara
Hailey
Kaia
Kylie
Lia
Mackenzie
Matilda
Mia
Tabitha

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Bert2e · 07/09/2012 21:09

All grim except Clara and Amelia (too popular) I'm afraid :-(

LemonLovesLilac · 07/09/2012 21:14

Tabitha 10 divine, classy
Matilda 10 again love it, classy, granny chic
Clara 6, fine just not my fave
Amelia 7, nice
All the rest.....awful teen mother choices! Sorry!

SirBoobAlot · 07/09/2012 21:16

Tabitha, Matilda, Clara, Mia and Amelia are nice. The rest are horrible (Kylie and Mackenzie being the worst. Mackenzie actually makes me wince) sorry.

purplehouse · 07/09/2012 21:20

Amelia 7 - fine, nice
Clara 5 - not personally keen on, but fine.
Hailey 3 - spelling confusion.
Kaia 3 - pronounciation Kay ah or Ky ah - confusion.
Kylie 3 - popstar.
Lia 3 (is it a strange spelling of Leah?)
Mackenzie 2 - surname. could be girl or boy. confusion.
Matilda 6 - fine
Mia 7 - fine
Tabitha 2 (cat!) - knew a bully called tabitha, so I am biased.

lottiegarbanzo · 07/09/2012 21:20

Clara, Matilda, Tabitha are nice. Amelia too but very popular here now. Mia ok, don't like the rest.

youonlysingwhenyourewinning · 07/09/2012 21:21

Mia - 10
Matilda
Tabitha
Clara
Amelia
Lia - 5
Hailey
Kaia
Kylie
Mackenzie - 1

But to be honest, I dislike everything below Lia at 5.

FriedSprout · 07/09/2012 21:23

Love tabitha and Matilda, sorry don't like any of the others

xmasevebundle · 07/09/2012 21:26

Tabitha a cat- Matilda is a filmHmm

I don't like any, they are very 'bland'

invicta · 07/09/2012 21:28

Love Tabitha and Clara. Matilda and Amelia are okay. Not keen on the others.

victoriassponge · 07/09/2012 21:30

Amelia - 4
Clara - 5
Hailey - 0
Kaia - 0
Kylie - 0
Lia - 7 (but prefer spelling would Leah)
Mackenzie - 0
Matilda - 4
Mia - 8
Tabitha - 6

indianrani · 07/09/2012 21:32

Clara or Amelia - don't like the rest sorry!

indianrani · 07/09/2012 21:32

Clara or Amelia - don't like the rest sorry!

ELR · 07/09/2012 21:33

Tabatha, Matilda, Mia, Amelia all others I don't like

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/09/2012 21:36

Amelia 4
Clara 9
Hailey 1
Kaia Minus 5
Kylie Minus 127
Lia minus 5
Mackenzie Minus 259
Matilda 7
Mia 5
Tabitha 1

Longdistance · 07/09/2012 21:41

Clara is the best name ever Grin

winkle2 · 07/09/2012 21:41

I like amelia, mia and kaia

MoonHare · 07/09/2012 21:42

Tabitha and Matilda are great - 10/10

Don't much like any of the others. Mackenzie, Kylie and Kaia are probably the worst.

oohdaddypig · 07/09/2012 21:44

I like Remus' name...

Anyway, back to the subject at hand...

Amelia 9 but increasingly v popular in UK
Clara 8 (reminds me of Dutch girlswith pigtails dancing)
Hailey 0
Kaia unscoreable
Kylie 0
Lia - 1
Mackenzie - a ghastly minus 5
Matilda - 9 and nice nicknames too
Mia - 2
Tabitha - a bit affected for me, 2

AgathaTrunchbull · 07/09/2012 21:46

Amelia - 6 (nice enough, but quite common round here and the spelling 'Aemilia' is a bit more interesting)
Clara - 7 (means 'famous' - best name on the list)
Hailey - 3 (an alternative spelling for a word meaning 'meadow'... hmm)
Kaia - 5
Kylie - 2 (ugh - seriously?)
Lia - 4 (nothing wrong with it as such, but sounds like it would be short for something)
Mackenzie - 1 (horrid, surname name)
Matilda - 5 (again, okay, but I do think of it as a little girl's name)
Mia - 4 (same as Lia)
Tabitha - 4 (bit pretentiously retro. Also makes me think of cats...)

DisabilEightiesChick · 07/09/2012 21:50

Amelia - 10 (and I personally don't like 'interesting' spellings so I'd keep it as is)
Clara - 8
Hailey - 1
Kaia - 1
Kylie - 2
Lia - 2
Mackenzie - 1
Matilda - 7
Mia - 4 (I would always go with Amelia and use Mia as everyday nn if choosing this)
Tabitha - 4

LadyMetroland · 07/09/2012 21:50

Are you a Brit living in Canada or are you Canadian? Some of those names are probably fine over there but here would definitely be classed as teen mum choices here (love that analogy, patronising but very true)

Clara is gorgeous though.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 07/09/2012 21:53

Thank you, DaddyPig. :)

PedanticPanda · 07/09/2012 21:54

I only like Tabatha.

AgathaTrunchbull · 07/09/2012 21:57

DisabilEightiesChick Interesting as in closer to the original Latin spelling. I don't like wacko spellings either (hence opinion of Hailey).

UnrequitedSkink · 07/09/2012 22:00

But surely names in Canada have different connotations and overtones than they do here... For instance Gabriel here is (IMO) kind of classic but recently cool, but in Canada it's much more common and has religion attached?