Final girls shortlist: please rank and comment

[Nameeman]

There are our final six girls names.
I would welcome any feedback. Middle name unimportant to me as nobody ever knows your mn so I will decide that later.

Matilda (nn Tilda)
Elizabeth (nn Eliza or Beth)
Isabella
Olivia (nn Oli or Liv)
Nina
Rose

Have you considered Desiderata-Mae? A sweetly pretty name.

Funnily enough I haven't Hully. Thank God you came along and suggested it...

I am interested that Rose has not got as positive a reaction as the others.

I think we are down to a short-shortlist of Nina, Isabella or Matilda. We have dropped Olivia due to popularity and Elizabeth because I am worried about not being able to control the nicknames. Rose is going due to DS1 saying "Wose" and because nobody seems to like it as much as I thought they would.

I know Isabella is popular too but I cannot drop it yet as it is so pretty. And Matilda has been less popular on here but I love it. Nina is probably the front runner though.

Forget Isabella and Olivia, lovely as they are they are both far too common now and are the Sharons and Traceys of the next generation.

I love Matilda, I love Elizabeth though I think Beth is very run of the mill and a bit dated now, so I'd say call her Libby or Lizzie. I adore Rose it's so classy and simple and I'm ambivalent about Nina.

I would rank them

1. Nina - my DD was very nearly Nina...I still love it
2. Matilda - I like the nn Tilda rather than Tilly. It makes a refreshing change
3. Elizabeth - Not massively keen on the name itself but the majority of the nicknames are beautiful. My favourite is Beth and I like Libby and Effie too.
4. Isabella - pretty but I prefer Isabel(le) even though it's very popular
5. Olivia - I like the name Olivia but I don't like the nn Liv and Oli is awful.
6. Rose - I don't like this name at all.

1 - Nina - Lovely!
2 - Isabella
3 - Rose
4 - Elizabeth
5 - Matilda
6 - Olivia - absolutely loathe it.

All lovely except Nina which sounds pinched to me. I don't know why!

My order would be
Nina - love this, beautiful, simple, classy, elegant
Rose - as above basically!
Elizabeth - but I prefer Eliza or Beth to the full name. I have a Bethany nn Beth so I am a bit biased.
Matilda - cute. I like Tilda and Tilly as nns.
Olivia/Isabella - definitely last, they are ok but overdone I think. I know loads of Olivias and Isabelle/Isobel/Isabellas. I prefer Isobel to Isabella. I think Isabella is a syllable too far for me!

Isabella - exceedingly popular, somewhat unimaginative.
Olivia - ditto.
Nina - not easily shortened. Probably my fave of your list.
Elizabeth- classy as it is. No need to be shortened. Like it more as a middle name.
Rose - and its variations...dull, dull, dull.
Matilda- dreadful, with a silly infantile nickname.

Instead of Rose, how about Rosalind? You could shorten it to Rose/Rosa, and it fits well with sibling names.

Isabella, Matilda are very common. Though really like both of them
Nina is not nice (but I know a horrible one!).
Not keen on Elizabeth.

Of those three I'd go with Nina.

Classic but also cool.

I love them all. Olivia is my favourite and Elizabeth my least. Can you name my boy please?!

Matilda- love this, both with the nicknames Tilly and Tilda.
Nina- Very pretty, but still unusual.
Isabella- I personally prefer Isobel, but this is lovely too.
Elizabeth- I personally find this a bit dull, but it's classic with good nickname potential.
Rose- As other people have said, very nice, but an extremely common middle name.
Olivia- Not a fan.

In order of my favourites:

1. Rose. Beautiful, classic, timeless, elegant, classy.
2. Isabella. I'm always banging on about this, but people so massively overplay the popularity thing on here. This morning (I have an Isobel) I added up all the 2013 Isobel/Isabel/Isabella/Isabelle's born in 2013 and worked out that they are 1 in 1000. So roughly 1 in 500 of all female babies born. I don't understand why this is a problem to anybody. 499 out of every 500 other female babies you meet will have a different name! And Isabella is stunning - really, really beautiful, and has lots of gorgeous nickname potential. I love it.
3. Elizabeth - love both Eliza and Beth, though Elizabeth on its own is a tiny bit fusty for my taste.
4. Olivia NN Liv. Nice enough.
5. Matilda nn Tilda. I like it, but I don't think it's as pretty or as timeless as your other choices. I know that Matilda is an age-old name, but it was out of fashion for a long time before it came back in, whereas all the others are perennial favourites, I think.
6. Nina. Not personally keen. You can't go wrong though - they're all good names :)

1. Nina - timeless and unlikely to come across other Ninas.
2. Matilda - I do like this but not keen on Tilda, I prefer Tilly
3. Elizabeth - But if you're going to call her Eliza then call her that - it's a name in its own right? Ditto with Beth really. Otherwise she'll spend her whole life correcting people?
4. Rose - love this but risk is that she gets called Rosie which am not keen on.
5. Isabella/Olivia - just too many of them around IMO

and I think Nina goes really nicely with your son's names.

Nina- completely underused, short, snappy, energetic, cute, pretty, not twee, cool

Isabella- just a beautifully lovely name

Elizabeth (nn Eliza or Beth)- graceful and sweet

Rose- lovely but maybe bit twee

Olivia (nn Oli or Liv)- just think pompous middle aged annoying women when hear this
Matilda (nn Tilda)- completely overused so boring

Disagree about giving Eliza or Beth as a name. You are naming another person and should be as generous as possible, rather than limit her options.

Thanks all. I think we are beginning to lean towards Nina. Probably Nina Isobel or Nina Catherine. My in laws hate the name Nina but that's the only down side so I think we will go for it.

Ah congratulations. Don't worry about your in laws - they'll love your Nina and then they'll love the name by association with your gorgeous daughter :)

Good luck OP.

Catherine as a middle name is really lovely. Classic and much less common these days. Flows nicely too.