Seren, Elsie or Nuala ???

[siennabella11]

i like all three , but others opinions have been putting me of :(

thanks.

I love Seren. But if you find it too similar to Sienna, how about Nahla instead of Nuala?

Am Irish, and yes, Nuala is essentially Mavis/ Doreen. I cracked up years ago when some supermodel called her chic yoga clothes range Nuala.

Nuala sounds like a chocolate bar. With nougat and honey. But still, a chocolate bar. (I socially know a Nuala, btw. She's a bit cooler than a Mavis. I haven't told her I get chocolate cravings when I hear someone say her name though...)

Oh, yes: so Seren or Elsie from me.

You won't find too many Nualas in Ireland under the age of sixty. It would be the equivalent of an English mum introducing her lovely new baby Doris or Edna to appalled friends.

By the way Nuala isn't an abbreviation of Fionnuala. It's a name in its own right.

Well, Doris or Edna will probably be fashionable soon. And anyway, Nuala, despite associated connotations, is quite a beautiful collection of vowels and consonants.

All nice. Seren us too close to sienna though.

Beangarda I remember having a laugh at the yoga clothes range called Nuala. I think the model who started it was Christy Turlington, and she pronounced it Noo-AH-la if I remember correctly. It actually sounds much nicer pronounced that way.

Still made me laugh, though.

I quite liked Nuala when I thought it was pronounced Nu-ah-la - now I know it's Noolah, I'm not so keen!

Seren = too close to Sienna, definitely

Elsie = therefore your best option. :)

I like them all but Elsie is my favourite. Was a contender for DD after DH's granny but she asked us not too! I still love it though and it's fairly popular in our part of West London.

Elsie from your list. Seren v similar to sienna. If you like Nuala, what about Nyla/Nylah/Nilah? X

Seren, also really like Nia/Nyla,Niah

I had a cool teacher called Nuala - so I really like it :-)

In my totally unbiased opinion Nuala is an amazing name only given to legendary people

I'm 32 and have met 3 other Nuala's, one of them was younger than me! It's a good conversation starter (where's that from etc) and I love having a pretty unique name.

I totally ignored others opinions when choosing our Daughters name and went with something different to what we planned (Poppy and Madison didn't suit her so we chose Lucy) whatever you choose someone will always be 'hmm I don't like that' so just go with what you really like, time to save the world!

My mum always used to spell mine Nula as she hated it being pronounced 'Nu-ar-la' it's more New-la, 'noo-lah' makes me think 'Noooo-la'