Decision between Delia and Linnet?

[Zeldamoo]

DH and I can't decide which we like best...both are really pretty and our final choice.

Linnet! Unusual but lovely.

There is a children's book by Leon Garfield that has a girl named Linnet as a character (I think she may be a bit of a trickster if long-ago memory serves).

Delia is unfortunately a bit too associated with Smith. Celia...?

Delia.Linnet is awful.

Linnet is gorgeous-I really dont like Delia-you would be calling her after a cookery book!

Definitely delia

Or cordelia

Delia was our first choice for a girl, I love it! We're having a boy and really struggling with names. I think Delia is really elegant, a toddler can be dilly, a teen can be Lia (although I'm less keen on this).

Both terrible in my opinion. Sorry!

Love Linnet.

Songbirds rock.

Linnet's a lovely name. It was on my shortlist for DD.

Looks lovely. Wonderful Green Knowe connotations. But just sounds a bit meh.

Linnet. Innit?

How about Corinna?

The only Delia I know is a very miserable dinner lady. Linnet is lovely.

Linnet. Green Knowe fan here too!

Delia is ok, but it makes me think of Delia Smith too much.

I like Delia, feminine and sweet!

Linnet?? Sorry that's not a nice thing to call a baby, book or no book.

Delia gets my vote.

Linnet - despite making me think of the main murder victim in Death On The Nile!

Linnet is lovely, yet another Green Knowe fan here. I was trying to think of another girl's name form the series,but the grandmother is called Linnet too I think, isn't she? Oh, there's Susan I suppose.

I have an Alexander, partly because of that book.

Linnet. Gorgeous!

Stella - not Toseland then?
Poppy - why is it 'not a nice thing to call a baby'? Is there some unfortunate overtone the rest of us aren't getting, or do you just not like it?

Minty - I just don't like it! It doesn't sound like a name to me, let alone a girl's name. Makes me think of rennet, limpet, lichen.

Love Linnet but nickname Lin is very dull.

But what about if Linnet gets called Linnet the Winnet?!

Eh? What's a Winnet?

Linnet
Larch
Sorrel

All beeYOOtiful.

Oh God I can't tell you! Look it up online.