Lara - why isn't it more popular?

[GeorgianaDevonshire]

I would have loved to have called DD Lara but it didn't go with our surname: Lara Landon just didn't sound right.

My friend has called her DD Lara and people say what a lovely name it is but there don't seem to be many about.

I just find it incredibly dull.

I also find it a difficult name to say. For some reason, it doesn't roll off the tongue easily. The same goes for Clara, Laura, Lyra etc.

I find it dull as well - a bit like you can't be bothered to pronounce Laura properly. As a short form for Larissa, it's fine.

Poppy - I once had a class which had a Lara, Kara, Clara and Zara (I kid you not!)...marginally more interesting than the class with 7 Katies though, I guess!

I knew a Lara at school. She was one of the popular girls so we didn't speak much. She's a full time model now.

I think it's an ok name but it doesn't do a lot for me

I love it, was on the shortlist for DD. If I have another girl I will probably use it

It was on my girls list (along with Megan and Eleanor) and would probably have been the name we used if we'd had a girl but I wasn't keen on it for a boy!

I think Lara Landon sounds brilliant! Like a superstar name.

To me at least, on a very superficial level, it looks "incomplete" when compared with a name like Laura for instance.