Thea, Stella or Clio???

[islandinthestream]

Thanks to everyone who offered opinions and suggestions on my previous thread. A couple of new ideas have since been thrown into the mix and am keen to get thoughts on these - particularly from any Irish MNers as DH is Irish. DD1 is Phoebe.

Thea - how likely would this be pronounced Tia?
Stella - apparently this means chav in parts of Ireland???
Clio/Cleo - does it just make you think of the car?

Thanks!

Love Stella, like Thea, hate Clio (sorry). I just can't get past the car associations!
I personally don't associate Stella with the beer, but that's probably as its my Granny's name.
I'm not in Ireland, but get that Thea may get mispronounced over there. Still a nice name though.

Cleo = lovely name
Clio = Renault

Thea lovely

I've just named my daughter Thea (13 days old) and we love the name. On the whole people have also said they like or love it.

We've had two people say Tia so far after seeing it written down (a midwife on post natal and a work colleague of DP) which I was surprised at as I don't see how anyone can see Thea and say Tia, unless as people say their accent would make it so. But from all the congratulatory calls and visits I'd say two mispronounciations isn't bad.

Also, a French friend from work has also named her daughter Thea, but with an accent over the e (don't know how to do that on my mob). Her name is pronounced Taya. I get the feeling that she will have a lot more correcting to do than mine will!

Aww purplemunkey a sweet baby Thea. Takes me back 21yrs!

I'm Irish and have a Stella, it most definitely has nothing to do with the term "chav" or Irish equivalent! It's weird when I hear that English people associate it with the beer, it's a beautiful classic Latinate name!

(not at all defensive )

I suppose Stella Artois isn't as widely available in Ireland as it is in the UK so doesn't have the same 'downmarket lager' image.

Thanks Theas18, she certainly is a sweet baby

I love the name Stella too and wouldn't associate it with the lager.

Cleo is nice too but I'd spell it with an e rather than an i.

I have also named my baby Thea! She is six weeks old. I pronounce in Thee-a, but we have a connection to France, and over there it will be pronounced Tay-A, which I think sounds nice in a French accent, but I'm not so keen on Tay-uh in an English accent. I'm not keen on Tia, but I think it sounds better with an Irish accent!

I couple of people have asked how it's pronounced, but generally had a positive response.