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PooDogMillionaire · 01/02/2016 13:16

Pandora
Lorelei
Esmè
Clara

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TattieHowkerz · 01/02/2016 19:12

Clara and Esme are nice. Lorelei seems a bit fussy and Pandora makes me think of pandas, Adrian Mole, people saying "frightfully horrid", bracelets and "Pandora's Box". I don't think I'd appreciate the latter in particular as a teenage Pandora.

applecatchers36 · 01/02/2016 21:34

Esme is the best out of your choices

PooDogMillionaire · 01/02/2016 21:42

I also like Tamara...

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JustHavinABreak · 01/02/2016 21:46

Not wild about Pandora but the other three are lovely, particularly Clara. Given that you're also considering Tamara I wonder is it Clara you're leaning towards yourself? They kind of rhyme.

JustHavinABreak · 01/02/2016 21:49

You may need to meet your baby first. We had a couple of names picked out for our first and then when we first saw him it was just obvious iykwim. Our second was named by our first at the bump stage when he overhead us trying out the name!

ThatWentWell · 01/02/2016 21:53

Clara - beautiful.

Iwonderif · 01/02/2016 22:10

Tamara sounds like tomorrow with an American twang. Song from Annie "the sun ul come out tamara"

WoodleyPixie · 01/02/2016 22:13

Clara and esme. I'm not keen on the others.

IoraRua · 01/02/2016 22:16

Esme - lovely when pronounced Esmay
Clara - really dislike
Pandora - no.
Lorelei - pretty
Tamara - fine. Nothing hugely appealing about it

Passthecake30 · 01/02/2016 22:18

Clara and Esme get my vote

Oddoneout63 · 01/02/2016 22:19

Clara - very pretty - love it!
Esme - pretty but not so much
Lorelei - isn't she a harpie or mermaid that lures sailors to their deaths? Not nice
Pandora - reminds me of silver beads being sold for inflated prices

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DramaAlpaca · 01/02/2016 22:21

The only one I like at all is Clara.

JustHavinABreak · 01/02/2016 22:23

Oddoneout63 you have me howling laughing!!

emsyj · 01/02/2016 22:28

I like all of them except Lorelei. I worked with a woman called Lorrelly (assume same name but different spelling??) who smoked like a chimney and stank of fags, so that name just makes me think of her. She was a nice lady actually, but the fag stink was pretty grim.

I really like Pandora. Lisa on Real Housewives of Beverley Hills has a daughter called Pandora and they call her Pandy, which is pretty. Sorry, I may have put you off by telling you that about Real Housewives... Blush

My DMum had an aunt called Clara who was, by all accounts, an enormously kind, generous, fun and wonderful woman who wasn't able to have any children so loved welcoming her many nieces and nephews into her tiny house. My DMum loved her best of all her family. To me 'Clara' must always be preceded by 'Me Aunty..'. Grin

PunkAssMoFo · 01/02/2016 22:55

Clara
Lorelei
Dislike the others

Ludways · 01/02/2016 23:05

Clara

Don't like the others.

ashesandfire · 02/02/2016 06:45

Clara is gorgeous. Also like Esme.
Lorelei is OK but a bit fussy I prefer Laurel.
Really dislike Pandora & Tamara

BikeRunSki · 02/02/2016 06:59

Clara and Esme seem quite popular, but that's just a measure of what nice names they are.

I love Lorellei and wanted it for DD, but DH couldn't be persuaded. The Lorellei of mythology were horrible though!

I agree that Pandora could be s little pretentious.

CakeRattleandRoll · 02/02/2016 09:12

Esme is my favourite by a mile.

Tiredemma · 02/02/2016 09:17

Esme

I have one myself and don't know any other girls with the same name. We have an Esme Florence

JusDeFleursDeSureau · 02/02/2016 09:19

i love Clara.

cecilelliott · 02/02/2016 19:43

Ditto - love Clara

Not so taken with the rest I'm afraid

BunnyTyler · 02/02/2016 19:54

Clara is lovely, I really like how it sounds - pretty without being sickly.

Pandora = Adrian Mole
Esme = Twilight
Lorelei = a type of water spirit like a siren (lures sailors to their death)

Pidapie · 02/02/2016 19:55

I like clara and esme :)

WaitroseCoffeeCostaCup · 02/02/2016 19:55

I love Pandora!

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