Muriel and Clio/Cleo

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Muriel - is this nice, underused and classic, or just terribly dull and frumpy? We have a lovely friend (who admittedly is in her 60s) called Muriel so I've always liked it.

Clio/Cleo - I love this, but are the car/cat associations just too strong?

Not sure about Muriel, maybe it grows on you.

Clio = Renault
No cat associations for me?

Love love love Clio, though DH also nixed it due to the car thing. But I know a lovely (female) Mercedes, and never thought of the car after the first meeting!

Muriel is a bit old lady and a bit Muriel's Wedding for me.

Muriel is pure old lady and Clio sounds like a car

I like Muriel. I imagine it feeling much different when it's on an actual person. I'd love to meet a baby Muriel!

I really dislike Clio/Cleo though, it's not very classy where I live. Even apart from that, I can't get past the car.

You're terrible, Muriel!!

Nuff said...

Cleo is okay, but only if you spell it with an 'E'. Spelling it Clio like the name makes it a bit naff.

I don't like Muriel. Marielle?
Clio, no! I know it's a name but it's too well-known as the car. Clea?

Sorry but Muriel is awful and that's coming from someone who adored the Muriel in her life, Muriel Kathleen was my gran.

Cleo, it's a car.

However nice Muriel might sound it doesn't, I always hear You're terrible Muriel in my head when I hear it. For that reason I would also have to discount Mariel! :o

Cleo is nice, Clio is the car although I'm aware that elsewhere that is the correct spelling.

Clea is better - pretty and no car repercussions

I really like Cleo, had it on my list, to me it is classic. The car thing is a real shame, both DH and BIL said 'Renault Clio' so have had to rule it out :-(

Not keen on Muriel. Would you consider Ariel?

Muriel is awful. Cleo is nice, Clio is also awful. And out of interest the Mercedes car was named after the designer's daughter.

I know a Muriel who is called Moo.....

What about Meriel?
Or Meryl?

Muriel is a bit old fashioned but ok. Think if I knew a baby Muriel it would grow on me really quickly.

Clio is the name of the Muse of History. It is perfectly okay to dislike Clio, but it is a different name from Cleo, not an 'awful' version of it.

Muriel is just awful, twin set wearing, net curtain twitching busybody who thinks shes a cut above because her husband Colin drives a Rover.

Cleo is gorgeous. Snappy and sassy.

Cleo is the flirty goldfish from.Pinnocchio

Muriel is draaaab.

Muriel just makes me think of how Hilda Ogden spoke of the mural on her kitchen wall.

Clio too car, Cleo too cat, IMO.

Sorry!

Thank you badtime! Muppets - like Mercedes, Clio was a name before it was a car, in fact a couple of thousand years before... Though I see that my husband was right about how most people think of it now

A friend has just had a girl and named her cleo.. Shes the cutest little thing and i didnt even think 'car' when she told me her name.

Muriel's Wedding (enough said)

sqoosh Muriel was not! She was my very lovely great grandmother who would do anything for anyone and never twitched a curtain in her life thankyouverymuch.

I genuinely like the name actually, not something that anyone of my generation would have been called, but don't really understand why it's not in the new 'rehabilitated' names that have become so popular. I guess the film.

Clio is a car. Cleo, I think of Cleo Lane (good) but also Cleo Rocos (not bad necessarily but she was on Celebrity Big Brother...)

I know a Meriel which I think is nicer but similar. It meas sea sprite

Hmmm, I think I really like Meriel. Thanks!

Muriel - Terribly dull and frumpy
Clio - Car
Cleo - Great name.