Clara or Beatrice? Baby due this week...

[Winnie101]

Help! Which do you prefer; Beatrice or Clara? My baby girl is due this week and I'm really struggling to decide.

i prefer Beatrice but I expect you will get a fairly even split of preferences here.

How do you say Clara? c-lara or claire-a?

If you really can't decide any other way, pick the one that sounds better with your surname.

Clara

Prefer Beatrice.

Clara. Beautiful name. But probably because I always want to pronounce Beatrice as Beatrix (as in potter). We have a friend with a Beatrice and I have to think about it every time!

Beatrice sounds clunky to me, Clara is much nicer

Beatrice please. Then you've got Bea, Beatie, Trixy or just B.

Thanks very much for the responses so far, I would pronounce Clara as C-Lara rather than Claire-a.

Clara!

Like both, but love Clara.

Beatrice, but I do like both.

In a rather spooky coincidence, I'm approaching 41 weeks with DC2 and also trying to decide between Beatrice and Clara!

So I'm no help whatsoever but watching with interest

Your excellent taste has saved me starting my own thread - thanks!

Beatrice. It was one of our short list of three and ended up as her middle name.

I love Beatrice but it's the next big thing name wise. It's very popular all of a sudden.

Clara.

Both good names - how about Clarice?

Clara. Like Beatrice too (not Beatrix and dislike Trixie) so either is probably a winner. Go with what sounds better with with her surname and any middle name(s).

Beatrice a million times over.

Something about Clara, cara, Carla that makes me wrinkle my nose

Definitely Beatrice.

Love love Clara
I don't like Beatrice much, I find it a bit awkward to say, it always ends up sounding like beer-triss to me which isn't a nice sound to my ears. I do think Bea is sweet though.