Sister for Clarissa. Please rate them :)

[ClaryIsTheBest]

DD1 is Clarissa "scandi flower" virtue name"

So, like Clarissa Akleja Temperance (for example!).

If DC 2 is a girl... I really like these:

Gemma (my favourite name tbh. It's Italian, which is great and means there will not be pronunciation issues...)
Natalia (after my favourite cousin. One of my favourite cousins. But he will be the godparent)
Antonia
Carlotta (can we have a Clarissa and a Carlotta?)

The middle names will probably Erika and an other virtue name.
Or Mirabelle Ingrid :) Maybe. Or Olympia? OR Dorothea, my mother's favourite name. We're still working on that tbh.

Thanks :)

I like gemma. Retro.

Kind of. But considering how retro some names are (I also like some of them... like Dorothea, for example) Gemma is positively modern.

Well, except for the fact that Dante Alighieri's wife was also called Gemma. That again is very very vintage ;)

Natalia, Antonia or have you considered Antonella? I like Olympia.

What about Octavia or Sylvia?

I also like Olympia :)

Just not the y sound of it in German (ü). And Olimpia would probably (?) lead to a different pronunciation in English?

Octavia is very... well, 8.

Sylvia is... hmm. I think I may really like it :) but there's the "y" again.

Yvonne? (not pronounced with an ü in German)

You can always spell it Silvia, the Italian way...

I'd say Yvonne was way more dated than Gemma. Though I'm still team Gemma, I think if you really love it then you should use it.

Ooh, what about Allegra?

I really love the name Gemma.

I don't know any British Gemmas so I don't associate it with a particular era. (I'm English but don't live in the UK).

I also love Antonia. Natalia OK but slightly less fab in my view. I don't like Carlotta. It sounds slightly twee.

I think all these names are much nicer than the ones you've subsequently suggested.

I thought Silvia might be pronounced like high in English? So, Sighlvia? Which I really wouldn't like.

Honestly, I'm also still team Gemma. I went through many name websites yesterday evening and the only names I currently genuonely love (I mean, the way I love Clarissa) are Gemma and Donata (put this on my list yesterday). But I think Donata may sound too much like Donation in English? So, Gemma is still the one I love the most :)

I didn't know Yvonne was also dated :D

Allegra is really nice. But not in the way I like Gemma. I feel so bad. Mumsnet keeps telling me that it's outdated and I'm like... yes! But it's still perfect. Poor baby. Maybe I should pray for a boy ;)

Yika I think my mother's reaction has put me off Natalia, tbh. Plus, she said my grandmother would be kind of angry... (Seeing as this was my cousins birth name and she apparently doesn't want to be reminded of it)

I like Gemma, I don't think it's really dated.

But going on some of your other likes, what about Odessa?

I do like Gemma, but with a 'J', Jemma.

Jemma with a J takes away imo most of the name's charm. And it looks slightly misspelled (I know it isn't actually misspelled).
It's hopeless. Sigh...

Odessa after the city? I don't think I want both names ending in ssa. I mean, they'd rhyme. Which would be kind of twee imo. But it is a nice name. Thank you for taking the time to suggest a name :)