Is this amount of name alliteration ridiculous?

[ThePieSmuggler]

So am 20 weeks pregnant and don't know the sex yet but would like opinions on our favoured girls name... Clara.

Both DH and I love the name but the problem is our surname - it's the same as Superman's first name! i.e. there's a huge amount of alliteration present.

Does this rule it out? If you heard this name would you think it ridiculous? I alternate between loving Clara so much that I feel it doesn't matter and then worrying we're saddling our baby with a daft name! Help!

Have avoided writing our surname to avoid the whole name being searchable

Other names on my list to go with our surname - Cassia, Christabelle, Kenza, Carenza, Myla, Nola, Elka, Bianca (beautiful Shakespearian name) Trudy, Tamar

Naomi was a contender but then we decided there were other names we preferred, my niece is called Tabitha so that's out, Alice and Florence have also been considered

As far as middle names go we've got as far as deciding that we'd definitely have one but it depends what first name we choose as to what it is.

If I'm honest I'm struggling to let go of Clara and I think that sounds better with a longer middle name, probably one beginning with a consonant.

Can you hyphenate her surname.

My dd has a short 5 letter name and a long surname.

Does your maiden name fit nicely in there

Lydia?

This is nearly me! I'm a Clare though but I have a (unusual) 5 letter surname beginning with C, it's my married name (probably outs self )

I love it now, I even got a parcel delivered once where the sender had written 'We love your name!' on the envelope.

I have a long middle name too, Elizabeth. Go for it if you love it so much, if I wrote my full name on here loads people would probably say don't do it but it works for me

Lydia always makes me think of Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice

Ladyonarooftop I love your story

I know of:

2 William Williams
1 Matthew Matthews
1 Evan Evans
2 Thomas Tomlinsons
And 1 which is even more extreme than any of the above but can't say as it would completely out me!

To be honest, nobody ever comments (they do on the extreme one but only once and then it's just accepted)

So although I agree, it is a bit too much- I don't think it sounds appalling. In fact with a nice one syllable middle name I think it sounds quite nice! x

My mother gave me alliterative first and middle names. Then I married a man whose surname began with the same initial. Really frustrating sometimes.

The more I say it, the better it sounds actually - it's grown on me already

It has a nice rhythm to it; my first name ends with the same letter that my married surname begins with - that's annoying!

Clara Cla.,,,,,

What the hell is wrong with that!

It's not too bad.

Alternatives?
Freya
Isla
Maya

But if you worry too much about lisps or speech impediments nobody would ever use names with S or L or R in!

Everlong, I'm obviously losing my sense of humour after pondering the name for so long!!

The baby will probably turn out to be a boy and then I'll have to start a while new thread anyway!

My HV when I had DS 1 & 2 , was called Gill Gill. Her married name, but still I think much more obvious and less easy than Clara Cl... . I like it, it flows well together, I think she would probably be called by both first and surname as there is a nice rhythm to it.

Harriet from your list would work very well indeed, result is a lovely pretty classy name. Or Rosa as suggested above (not Rose, too short IMO with one-syllable surname).

I do agree you can't do Clara Lucy has a similar meaning, is lovely and not used a lot these days. If you had two middle names you could get away with Clara as the first one - e.g. Lucy Clara Harriet?

I think you may be "over thinking" it....I know 3 Claire's with your surname and it had never occurred to me that it was odd, and obviously the same alliteration sound.

Beatrice and Louisa, suggested above, are lovely. Or how about Verity or Laetitia? Or Charlotte?

I think Clara Clar.. Sounds quite cool actually.
I like it.

Lara would work great.