Esther or Etta?

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Me and DH have been pretty sold on Esther if it's a girl but are now considering Etta (bit less old fashioned?!). What do you think?

Also middle name would probably be Grace - so Esther Grace - work ok?

Esther, Esther, Esther!!

Etta - Etta james, great singer. Lovely name.

both just wonderful names

Etta so much nicer than Esther

They are both lovely

Yep am certainly confused now! I love both though and would be happy with either :)

Esther IMO.
Etta makes me think: The girl etta sandwich. But only because I'm a lazyspeaker-- scouser.

Damn you strikeout fail.

prefer Esther

Etta has exponentially more lewd school nickname potential.

Etta is surely short for Henrietta whereas Esther is a standalone name.

I've just had a baby Esther, so it gets my vote. Everyone comments on how lovely her name is (and I think they're being sincere...).

The end of my name is 'etta' and I've never even considered using it as a nn. To me it doesn't feel enough to be a whole name, but then I like names with at least a couple of nn options.

Etta James real name was Jamesetta

Another vote for Esther!

Esther! Lovely.

Esther - she's a biblical queen and means 'star'.

Both are lovely, but Etta is my favourite. It would be on my lust but we can't have it for family name reasons.

*list! Bloody phone.

Love Etta. I know a not very nice Esther, so that influences me against her name. Also love a name I don't know how to spell, but phonetically is Arietta.