Which girls name would YOU choose?

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Our DD1 is due soon, and it feels like we've been thinking of names forever! The only names we have agreed that we both like so far are:
Zara
Emmeline
Harriet
Sadie
We would like to use Emmeline as a middle name (as there is a little Emily already in the family and it sounds a bit same-y). I've liked all of those names for a long time, but now it comes down to choosing one to give to my child, one which I will undoubtedly say thousands of times over the coming years I just can't choose one, I'm stricken with doubt that I don't actually love any of them and there's a much better name out there somewhere. So which would you choose? Why? Do you know any babies/children/teenagers/adults with those names? What do they remind you of?

sighhhh it looks like a pretty even split on which name people favour. To those of you who had more than one 'nice enough' name in the running, but no names that you were utterly in love with, HOW and when did you choose? Is waiting till she arrives going to be the best option? Will it provide some clarity?! I think all of those names have something going for them, but they all have something that is holding me back too.
This. Is. Hard.

I hadn't considered Sara/Sadie, I'll have a good think on that one!

Harriet is my favourite. Like Emmeline. Really dislike, Sadie - sorry.

Love Sadie and Zara. Sadie is my DD and we are absolutely not council estate as per previous poster. Not keen on Harriet and don't like Emmeline at all, it's very try hard.

Like Having I'm biased as a mother to a Sadie but also like Hattie as nn for Harriet. My glam-ness varies!

How old is your Sadie Having? What sort of reception did you get from family/friends/others when you introduced her?

Harriet
Zara

Sadie
Emmeline too like Emily, and too frilly.
I don't like Isabella, Lauren, Sophia or Alison either, what on earth is wrong with Isabel, Laura, Sophie or Alice? What's with the extra letters?

Sadie

I like Harriet best.

Like Sadie but knew an unpleasant one so that has slightly put me off an otherwise lovely name.

Not keen on Emmeline it sounds pretentious and twee to my ears - like a Victorian version of Chardonnay.

I love Harriet, Hattie for short

Ah, same to you then myrtle, how old is your Sadie? Do you still love it? What kind of comments have you had about the name? What made you choose it over every other name in the world?

Harriet is a beautiful name I love it such a good strong name

Yy to Hattie as a nn so cute

Alice is beautiful!
Emmeline pretty
Harriet is ok
Zara I don't like
Sadie horrible, sorry!

I love Alice (maybe because it was the name of a girl at my school who was so nice, very intelligent but also down to earth)
I like Harriet very much.
I am not so keen on Zara.
Sadie, i am sorry is really not nice at all.

Zara. I've never met a Zara of any age, but it's a pretty and unusual name.

Why don't you keep all four & when you cuddle your little lady you'l know which one her name is.
I like Sadie and then Zara from your list. What about Sienna, or Zoe similar but different to yours

Hehe OP, I'd love to be the inspiration for your DD's nickname

Have you considered Clementine (pronounced Teen) instead of Emmeline? You could still use the nickname Emmie and there would be no confusion with Emily.

Sadie is nearly 11 and was pretty much always going to be Sadie, we contemplated Nina, I liked Nico in a Velvet Underground stylee but Sadie she was! DH had been reading a cyber feminist/philosopher called Sadie (dd's middle name is a nod to another female philosopher - there's a theme here!) but aside from that we thought it was a cool, strong, cute and sassy name. Good on a small child as not too twee but still a bit old fashioned yet kick ass enough be anything she wants to be when she grows up - Astronaut, Prime Minister or current favourites -Vet/Dogs Trust, teacher or chef.. I know it's a marmite name but it suits her, we've met only one other in real life although we have met several people say they had a great aunt called Sadie. The bbc tv series called Sadie J was aimed at dd's demographic so that made it very cool her in her eyes! Good luck in choosing and don't worry if the name doesn't arrive until after your lovely dd!

Please don't ruin a beautiful name like Emmeline with a dull nn like Emmy. You might as well call her 'blah'

Emmy/Ems/Em are perfectly reasonable NNs.

And anything long will get shortened, I am and both DDs and DH all are and we don't have anything like as many letters as Emmeline (which I agree is pretty)

We are snowed under with Ellis and Izzys despite them being Elsie, Eleanor, Isabel, Isobel, Isabbelle and Isabella, they still prefer to be as confessing as possible, just as the Susanne, Suzanna and Susan's of my school days did. No idea why they and Lynnettes and the several Linda's all became Sue and Lyn, except to confuse me.

If the nn Emmy is a foregone conclusion, I would dismiss the name Emmeline entirely and opt for Harriet nn Hattie.

Emmeline without a doubt. I really wish we had called dd this name, chose the more popular shortened version.
I really regret it now.

The nn thing you can never be sure of anyway. My dd gets em or emmygems