Thoughts on Aurelia and Torin.

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Front runners for girl/boy respectively.

Finally asking for opinions on names and I'm actually pregnant

Aur-AY-lia or Aur-EE-lia?

Love Aurelia, not keen on Torin.

Oh and congratulations.

I love them both and really wanted Aurelia (nn Rory) for DD.

DH however hated it and a lot of people said it made them think of areola.

Some other slightly unusual ones that I liked, but DH didn't:

Ariadne
Persephone
Cordelia

Torin is very cute.

Fedup, we have similar taste in names! DS would have been Persephone/Ophelia/Aurelia in that order (but think DH would have wanted Aurelia) if he'd been a girl.

I like both names OP.

Grand!

I like them.

Aurelia when written down reminds me of Areola.

Torin is lovely.

Wasn't Torin one of the dwarves in The Hobbit?
Too Tolkien-y.

Love Torin! Would use it myself, if we didn't already have an immediate family member with the same surname that rhymes!

Aurelia was on our short list but we had a boy! I love the name, but when we told people what our choice for a girl was they really struggled with pronunciation which was quite a shock to me as I don't think it's difficult! Not keen on Torin although there is nothing offensive or awful about it.

It wasn't Torin in Lord of the Rings but thinking about it there is a dwarf with a similar name. Hmm.

My DH is less keen on both than I am. I'm more willing to negotiate with the boys names than I am the girls.

I'd say Aur-ee-lia but am aware it's one of those names with varying pronouciations without any actually being wrong. Think Aur-ay-lia is more common in Europe?

Fedup

Love Persephone and Cordelia! DH has strongly vetoed Persephone however.

Sorry, it's Thorin not Torin.

Very close though.

Really really like both, esp Aurelia (though I might not be quite brave enough to use it myself - partly because I actually prefer the French version Aurelie (sorry phone doesn't do accents) and I think I might not quite get away with that, not being French and having an atrocious French accent :))

Have you thought about:
Aurelien/Aurelian (boy)
Corin
Taliesin

Corinna
Leonie
Aline
Cordelia
Cecilia

It is Ottilia.

Perhaps need to have a think about the boys name a bit more!

Love Torin. Also love Corin. Considering both for DS2.

Aurelia not to my taste - too frilly and I tend to like one/two- syllable names.

Ooh I like Corin, Penguin!

I like Aurelien/Aurelius but I am definitely not brave enough.

Aurelia for me will always be the Spanish/Portugese girl who ends up with Colin Firth in Love Actually!

Aurelia is always great. Torin is absolutely fine but I'm not a fan personally.

Love both. Hope you can convince your dh.

Congratulations :o

I like Torin. To me Aurelia is a disconcerting mix of oral and areola.

If you like Cordelia do you like Coralie? Or Camilla? Cressida?

Horrible.

I really don't like either I'm afraid, both a bit try-hard.

I have never heard Aurelia pronounced Or-ee-lia, only ever Or-ay-lia, so the unusual pronunciation would put me off even more.

Cordelia is ok but I can't hear it without Buffy.