Norah or Isabel

[helensburgh]

Just that really!

Nora! Drop the H.

There was a character on HIMYM called Nora, played by a beautiful, beautiful actress. Fell in love with the name there.

Izzy is bleughhh.

Really don't love Norah as a stand alone name but Isabel is v popular. Would you consider Eleanor as the full name and Norah as a nn?

Norah is blooming awful. Sorry.

Loads of Isabel / Isobel / Isabelle / izzy girls round here

Nora. Why the h? A million Isabels atm

Norah

Could easily call her Elinor and use the nn nell or Norah

I prefer Isabel out of the two.

I really like Thora - Unfortunate rhyming slang though.

Norah

Isabel/la's (plus variant spellings like Isobel and Isabelle) are ten a penny, so I would opt for Norah purely to avoid being one of three in a class.

Don't like Norah. Makes me think of Nora Batty (I know that dates me) and I don't like the sound of it. I do like Isabel, although I'm biased with it being DD's name. It's not that common where we are (not UK) so we don't get the whole ten a penny thing with it here. I like that Isabel has lots of nice short forms: Isa, Izzie, Bella

Isobel.

I told my DM about 35 years ago that I liked the name Nora. She looked at me as if I just arrived from Mars and said it was a ghastly name, there were girls in her class at school called that (along with ones called Ina, Peggy, Sylvia, Monica etc: all born mid-1920s).

But I still like the name Nora. Makes a nice change from Isabel, of which there are 1000s, though it's a lovely name as well.

I think Dora is a million times nicer than Norah.
Isabel is very very common.

Dora, dora, dora, exploradora!

Thanks everyone.

Norah all the way!

Isabel is the most beautiful name there ever was!

And Charlotte. Charlotte is beautiful too