Norah or Isabel

[helensburgh]

Just that really!

[noitsbecky]

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.

[Yorkshirelassreturns]

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?

[GreatAuntDinah]

Norah is blooming awful. Sorry.

[FamiliesShareGerms]

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

[professornangnang]

Nora. Why the h? A million Isabels atm

[ViolettaBridgettettette]

Norah

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

[Dustybinlydia]

I prefer Isabel out of the two.

I really like Thora - Unfortunate rhyming slang though.

[Dukketeater]

Norah

[seaoflove]

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.

[GoodtoBetter]

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

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Isobel.

[MehsMum]

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.

[clairewitchproject]

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

[GoodtoBetter]

Dora, dora, dora, exploradora!

[helensburgh]

Thanks everyone.

[clairemarie5]

Norah all the way!

[RoundRobinSparkles]

Isabel is the most beautiful name there ever was!

And Charlotte. Charlotte is beautiful too