Urgent Input Required: Select 1 name of my top 3 Girls Names -PLEASE

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Hi Dear Friends,

I am full term and dont have my name finalised.

In no order (spelling decisions are final)

Alivia
Savanna
Emily

WHICH ONE??? Thank you so much for helping. I REALLY am so stuck and have analysis paralysis to the enth degree!!! LOL

Alivia sounds like a type of butter substitute.

Really don't like the name Emily.

Savanna..just, noooooo.

What about Amelie?

The USA isn't that different from the UK - DS's class in a US pre school 15 years ago had some names I found unusual back then, but would be quite common in a UK pre school today.

Emily

List of (unusual) US names in 2013...

I was going to crop it down to just the more notable ones but didn't know where to start.

BOYS...
Ab
Ajax
Anibal
Apollo
Baobao
Braulio
Bright
Cadence
Caige
Cheese
Chow
Cub
Daxx
Danish
Dragos
Egypt
Enno
Finch
Holmes
Hurricane
Ivory
Jag
Kashmere
Kazz
Kodiak
Lalo
Legend
Leviathan
Lorcan
Miggy
Osbaldo
Panda
Ripley
Rocket
Stetson
Thiago
Thirdy
Tintin
Trace
Yash
Zion

GIRLS...
Amorette
Archita
Azza
Blip
Blue
Chevy
Creedence
Delara
Duda
Elektra
Eternity
Ezgi
Fairy
Feline
Flower
Galya
Green
Harlowe
Huxley
Jurie
Justus
Kalliope
Kelby
Kinzly
Kiwi
Kukua
Lovelle
Loveena
Manda
Nyx
Oceana
Pippin
Sida
Trixie
Tulip
Viggo
Wrigley
Xaviera
Zabrina
Zelia
Zona

Oh no OP. You've committed an MN sin of choosing a name "that is spelt wrong". God forbid we need another Emily (spelt correctly)

I quite like Alivia and nn Ally.

Gosh those are very different to each other.

Emily.

chocolatechip the UK isn't much different from the US when it comes to whacky names:

Boys

Boden
Dior
Drey
London
Luck
Tiger
Tory
Victory

Girls

Paradise
Peppa
Pinky
Puppy
Nirvana
Ream
Tea
Tru
Vogue

Alivia is ridiculous, Olivia would be nice. Savanna spelt any way is awful. So by default you should go with Emily.

Emily.... or Olivia, agree with the others about Alivia.

I'd go Savanna but pronounce it Sienna.

Sorry, OP, none of your names are to my taste, but I agree with everyone else that Alivia will bring a lifetime of correcting people who think you are saying Olivia. Savanna will bring a lifetime of telling people there's no 'h' on the end.

Everyone knows where they are with Emily.

I sat next to a (loud) couple in a restaurant who had a little Tiger, Phoenix and Peregrine at home...

You've committed an MN sin of choosing a name "that is spelt wrong"

No, she's chosen a name that will dump a lifetime of "No, Alivia. Not Olivia. Yes, I know." onto her child.

I like Emily (totally unbiased, of course! )

Emily

Emily is nice but a bit overused IMO.

Don't like the other two. Olivia is nice but also overused.

I don't like any, but if I had to pick one it would be Emily, as it's the best of a bad bunch.

What about Amelie as another poster suggested?

I am someone with a "special name" one that my mum chose for me. All my life, when introduced to someone it's an issue. People think I am being precious- it wasn't my fault or choice. It's tiresome. I am an accomplished, intelligent person. I don't need the crutch of an "interesting" name as a talking point.

I totally understand not wanting an over used name. But based on my own life experience (and I am just one person, others may feel differently), I would go for a known, but less used name. How about something along the lines of Claudia, Antonia, Barbara, Sarah, Frances? They sound fusty to us but to your DD's generation they will sound different and a little vintage without being cute/wacky/tacky.

Soup Well l have a very common name (3 in my class at school ) and still have to spell the fecking thing.

And only if she stays in the UK. Other countries are a bit less precious about names in my experience.

Emily at a push

Savanna or Emily

Absolutely not Alivia

Emily (or Amelie or Olivia)

Honestly I would pick Emily but why not take the 3 and see which one suits your little girl when she is born?

Emily

I knew an Elivia and people thought she was saying "Olivia" in a posh accent. They didn't even ask her to spell it, they just wrote down Olivia.

I think Alivia would have the same problem.

Savannah if she can have the H, Emily if we can't persuade you on that!