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Please help down to 3 girls names...

43 replies

Marmy2008 · 27/04/2016 17:32

Hi any opinions would be great we are down to 3 final girls names they are very similar so having a hard time picking

Isla
Ayla - (Ay-la)
Mila - (Mee-lah)

Would love to hear your opinions and favourites finding it really hard this time round to pick and stay with one name x

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cheapandcheerful · 28/04/2016 10:31

Not keen on any I'm afraid. Isla is too popular and the other two will be forever mispronounced.

lordStrange · 28/04/2016 10:35

Ayla is very pretty

LemonBreeland · 28/04/2016 10:53

tbh if you are in Scotland then I think you can go with Isla. I find it strange when people use it in England. It seems to me like using a very French or Italian name but with no connection to those countries.

I'm English, although I have lived in Scotland a long time, and what I have noticed is that a lot of people up here, where I live anyway, use names that are traditionally Scottish, rather than going with trends. There are many Camerons, Donalds, Islas Eilidhs etc.

00100001 · 28/04/2016 16:58

What about similar names to those you mentioned?

Iona
Ava
Evie/Eve/Eva
Sophie
Maeve/Maud
Leah

LadyAntonella · 28/04/2016 17:02

Mila

VaVaVooom · 30/04/2016 22:16

Love Mila pronounced My-la though. I know a Mila (My-la) and have always loved her name.

1horatio · 01/05/2016 20:02

I absolutely love Mila, I would pronounce it like Mila Kunis...?
But Ayla is also very lovely.

Undercooked · 01/05/2016 21:32

I live in an area with a large Eastern European community and there are lots is Milas here. Much more popular than Isla. I like Ayla myself.

septembersunshine · 03/05/2016 16:07

What about Maya? Pronounced My-ah. It's softer sounding then Mila. Or you could have Maia. Isla is fine but to me it is ways prettier written down then spoken!

BabyTheCaveLion · 03/05/2016 16:26

Love Ayla. I'm a massive fan of the clan of the cave bear books and Ayla is the main character. If I had a girl she'd be Ayla but I have 2 boys.

elor11 · 03/05/2016 19:59

Isla and Ayla nice. Mila I would always pronounce My-la

Bellalilysmith123 · 09/05/2016 00:55

Isla so petty and classic

TheCaptainsCat · 09/05/2016 11:38

Mila is nice, but it is a nickname. I don't like nicknames as 'full' names, so personally I'd use Milena and Mila as a pet name.

ShmooBooMoo · 09/05/2016 11:40

Mila

then Ayla though don't really like it.

I am ed up of hearing Isla.... It seems to be everywhere!

ShmooBooMoo · 09/05/2016 11:41

I saw this somewhere yesterday Aina pronounced Eye-na

sonlypuppyfat · 09/05/2016 11:46

Ayla and if you ever had a boy you could call him Jondalar

LeonoraFlorence · 09/05/2016 11:52

Isla :)

MyNewBearTotoro · 09/05/2016 11:55

Ayla is my favourite. Isla is lovely but very popular at the moment, I know quite a few under threes with the name. I'm not so keen on Mila and also my first thought would have been to pronounce it My-la as in a female version of Milo.

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