Can you help me decide if I like this girl's name?

[DoodleAlley]

So we've been merrily going through this pregnancy without much thought that the product of it might need a name!

I tend to mull over names and then work out if I like it or not. Most I'll start out liking but then realise its not the name for us.

Except for one name that I can't decide if I love it or am completely not fussed.

So what do you think about... Moira?

Just general impressions if you heard it even if you wouldn't choose it would be appreciated. And is it too closely linked to the newsreader of the same name?!

Thank you!

I can't imagine any child being happy to be named Moira tbh, its an awful name, sorry

If we'd had a girl I'd have chosen Lara, it's such a pretty name.

It's horrible.

There's granny chic and granny vile, that falls into the vile category.

NeverQuiteSure, same here, Moira Stewart also comes to my mind. I don't think I know another Moira.

you dont need to be so vile stinky it is just a name and the op was just asking jeez .

Don't like it at all, sorry.

Are you Scottish?
There are so many beautiful names.
I think Moira is not beautiful

Go on to Google and type Moira, the first in the(very short) list is Moira Stewart. So even Google agrees that that's who Moira is.

I don't mind it but I of a Victoria wood sketch where the Moira in it was a bit posh and called herself Mwah-rah :o

One of my least favourite names.

What about Mia?

DoodleAlley, how many syllables does your surname have?

I liked Mara but thought it meant bitter - which mput me off. Ditto for Myra after Myra Hindley. Moira is pretty though....and you know, your child will make the name lovely too. My friend called her son a name I thought was god-awful at the time. He's such a lovely boy that I would - 10 years later have loved the name for my son: totally converted!

One syllable surname

My window cleaner has a dd called Mirrin. I thought it was so unusual and pretty. I like Mara too. But as uppermid says, it's not what other people think - if you like a name then I wouldn't let people put you off using it unless you were thinking of Hitler for a boy or something.

It's a very unattractive name.

Moira is a nice name, I went to school with a girl called Mira & that was quite a common name back then.

god when I had dd2 the spate of Mirrins it took over It is a strange sounding name far to many Rs especially for scots it goes on for days mirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrin

Myra Hindley doesn't bother me. I was born in the year of the last official investigation.

Nobody bats an eyelid at the million Rose's and Fred's being born. You wouldn't think twice about Harold, Ian, or Mary.

I quite like it, makes me think of Peter Pan - Wendy Moira Angela Darling :)

Myra isn't a common name, so people associate it with the one very infamous person they know of.

They won't that with Peters & Freds because there are plenty of other people to associate the name with.

The won't do that with Peters & Freds because there are plenty of other people to associate the name with.

First of all I though NO! but then I thought of a little toddler called Moira and thought awwww.

I still don't think i could use it though.

I like Mara, and lara, but not Moira, sounds too old womany to me

I don't like it.

I like Moira as a name and like more traditional names like this. (I'm Scottish so maybe that's why!).

Have known 3 Moira's in work over the years and their names really suited them. Haven't heard any children called it recently so that makes me like it even more, traditional and not overused.