shortlist help!

[Cosycottage4]

After much agonising, we've drilled the list for DD2 down to the toll

Flora. Don't like any of the others, sorry

Annabel - too sloaney and too horsey
Portia - love it
Aurelia - pretty
Aurora - too much of a mouthful
Flora - sturdy hipped farmer's wife from Auchtermuchty

Aurelia :) xx

I agree with mrsshu's comments.

Aurelia or Aurora for me!

Flora definitely. And I don't think that IRL the margarine connection will really be a problem, partly because there are loads of margarines these days and so I don't think Flora has the strong association it used to have.

Portia

I love all of them except for Portia, which apparently means pig :(

1. Annabel
2. Flora
3. Aurelia
4. Aurelia

. . . Portia....

Oops, number 3 should have been Aurora...
So:

1. Annabel
2. Flora
3. Aurora
4. Aurelia

I wouldn't use Annabel, as there are already very many Belles & Bellas and versions of them, and Annabel is sure to get a version of Belle as a nn.

Flora, very pretty for a little girl and makes the transition to a grown up name well, but getting more popular just now.

Portia, Aurelia and Aurora, these are a bit "trying too hard" for my taste, and how well they worked would depend a lot on your surname, of the three I think Aurelia is pretty.

1. Aurelia
2. Flora
3. Portia
4. Annabel
5. Aurora

Only name I like is Aurelia. I know an Aurora & she's a 5-year-old nightmare!