What do you think of orla?

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Well just that really. Baby girl will be 1/8 Irish. Just like the name really.

Love it. Friend's dd is named this and it's a great name, pretty but also grown-up & won't date.

It's very pretty

Love it! Was on our list for DD.

I love it, wanted it for DD2 but didn't because of that stupid girl on Big Brother, which really shouldn't have put me off!

Love it!

Love it

Looks like a winner then. DP slowly coming round to it. Didn't know about big brother but that will be soon forgot.
How popular do you think it is / will be ?
Thinking about orla Elizabeth

Fairly popular in Ireland but not so much over here.

Both my DC have Irish names as DH is Irish as were my parents.

We were thinking of Orla for a name for DD but didn't go so well with our surname so check that it does with yours.

I think it's nice to have names that reflect their heritage.

Love it but prefer the Irish spelling, Orlaith. Not sure about Orla Elizabeth, something awkward about first name ending in a vowel followed by second name beginning with a vowel that makes it hard to say without putting an "r" in between.

I like it. I don't like it spelled Orlaith. It just doesn't look as pretty written down. With some names like clodagh i like the irish way because you know (even in english) not to pronounce the gh. but with Orla, it's just simpler and prettier without the ith at the end..

I prefer Orlaith, Orla looks wrong to me.

Well there are lots of Orlas my age in Ireland. The fashion to spell it Orlaith is a recent one. It's definitely not wrong. It's more established if anything. Irish names are more fashionable now than they were. Certain names have always been popular. Orla and Maeve are two that have English spellings and they are not wrong.

Don't spell it Orlaith Not if you live outside Ireland (or even in Ireland nowadays).

Or as Orfhlaith, as one of dd's friends was spelled [baffled], which I thought was made up but apparently exists

I like it. I have a cousin Orla and a friend Orlagh. Quite like the latter spelling.

Yeh, you can go too far with the irish spellings and i say this as an irish person living in ireland who likes irish names (up to a point).

Have seen Orfhlaith but that child goes to a gaelscoil, and might well be Orla at home and to the grandmas!

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Another Irish person here who thinks the Orfhlaith/Orlaith spelling is unnecessary and a bit try hard. Most Irish Orlas are 'Orla'.

Personally, the name is a bit run if the mill. It's trendy in the UK, in Ireland it's a bit of a Clare/Sarah type name, nice but unremarkable.

I love the name - but - it is having a moment and so I think will date, unfortunately. It seems to have come up out of nowhere in the last couple of years. You rarely heard it - outside Ireland, at least - before then.

I'm in NZ and it's even having its moment down here as well.

Seems be becoming quite 'trendy' in England so may well start to fall out of fashion at some point.

I love it. My DSis' middle name, and she loves it too- often adds it to her first and gives it as her whole name (Irish first name too).

It's on my short list (Irish family connections!) I absolutely love it, I think it's strong and feminine at the same time. As someone not afraid of an Irish spelling I think Orla is totally fine, as really the next step for me would be Orfhlaith which no one will be able to pronounce.
I also know one grown up Orla and she is a sweetheart!

I love it, it's on my shortlist too. No Irish connections, 100% Welsh, but Celtic is close enough I reckon!