Isobel or Isabel, Joy or Grace?

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Just musing. Baby not due until next summer and may not be a girl - if it's a boy DH and I both like Luke William but girls names are contentious. The only one we can seem to agree on is Isobel/ Isabel but not the spelling.

For a middle name I like Joy as it's more unusual, and also the name of a teacher who I loved to bits and inspired me hugely. DH prefers Grace as it's more 'normal' but I quite like it too.

So:

Isobel Joy

Isabel Grace

Or neither?

OP, my sister's name is Isabel and nobody spells it right in this country. Isabella, Isobel, Isabelle

1horatio it is Isabel for both the Castilla one and Isabel II .

Isabella is not Spanish, Isabel is

ever

Thanks :)
History is in our family DH's thing, not mine...(not at all mine. I'm kind of surprised I remembered any Spanish Isabel, tbh :) )

Isabel or Isabelle just look nicer. Isobel is that miserable woman who works in the post office in every other Scottish town.

Joy is nicer than any of them though.

I tell you what, once you've seen your own or your child's name casually derided on MN it makes you a lot lot more circumspect about commenting on other people's choices

Practice

TBH, I'm actually terribly curious about that... I do wonder what mumsnetter would say about DD's name...

Indeed practice, dd's name is boring, overused, safe.......but I love it.

I also love the spelling Isobel and really love joy. I don't know any Joy's a few Joyce's who go as Joy but no one who is just a Joy, and who wouldn't want to be a Joy.