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What are your thoughts on Lorea?

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Maitea · 12/07/2017 15:33

Dear All,

DH is British and I'm Basque/Spanish and we both want a Basque name for our daughter. We live in England, so nothing too complicated though.. our preference is also that the name means something in Basque, which is tricky as so many girl names are different names for Virgin Mary or place names!

So the list was quite short to begin with! LOREA means flower in Basque and it is pronounced Law-reh-ah.

Would like to know how it sounds to you, if you find it too strange, or think she could be teased in school for it! Also what NN would you assign to it? I guess the obvious one is Lori or maybe also Lottie?

Thanks in advanced!

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MargotLovedTom1 · 16/07/2017 08:03

Yep, never heard of the name Laurayah and it looks like Laura with yah tacked on the end which is why everyone was . Everyone commenting has said the same, which suggests it would happen in RL too.

MargotLovedTom1 · 16/07/2017 08:04

Lorayah seems like a more natural spelling for that name.

Dinosaursdontgrowontrees · 16/07/2017 08:13

I think Alaia is absolutely beautiful! I would definitely use Alaia.
When I read the thread title I did instantly think of the shampoo, sorry.

TrainedGiant · 16/07/2017 08:20

Yuli, Amaia and Arrosa and lovely Basque names.
I like Alaia too. And Naia.

MerryMarigold · 16/07/2017 08:34

Yuli is really lovely

ilivebythesea · 16/07/2017 09:07

FrancisCrawford - I find your response rude and insulting.

My friend is in her 30's and doesn't have her name mispronounced, and to say "her incontinence problems are not due to her name" is so wrong.

It must be marvellous to be right about everything and know that your opinion is always correct...

If Lorayah is a more natural spelling for my friends name, MargotLovedTom, I'll get her to change it by deed poll and also for everybody called Lauren, Laurence, Lawrence I know.

MargotLovedTom1 · 16/07/2017 09:20

Yeah ok, you do that.

MargotLovedTom1 · 16/07/2017 09:29

Obviously nobody has ever heard of the names Lauren, Laurence and Lawrence, and would pronounce them in all kinds of wrong ways when first confronted with them .

Your first post "Could you anglicise the spelling a bit to Laurayah?" suggested you'd made it up, and the reaction of everyone else commenting suggested they believed it to be made up too.

If you'd said "I know a Laurayah: would that work?" I suspect we'd think "Laurayah? Never heard of that," and would probably leave it there.

Mupflup · 16/07/2017 09:32

I actually thought the thread title was 'what are your thoughts on l'oreal'! Sorry OP!

Hulder · 16/07/2017 09:37

Whatever you do, don't Anglicize the spelling. You'll take a perfectly lovely name, with deep cultural meanings for you, and make it look like you made it up.

Lorea is lovely and I think most people would get it right first time. I have a name no-one gets right first time and generally I answer to both right and wrong ways. It's not a problem.

Theveryhungrybutterfly · 16/07/2017 10:02

Lorea is pretty. I think many brits will pronounce it to rhyme with Korea first time but your child would just have to correct them. Could you spell it Loreya to emphasise the sound without changing much? Or what about Leora - that's what I read originally as I know someone with that name. Very pretty too.

RiverTam · 16/07/2017 10:06

It is pretty, but equally I thought of L'Oreal (which I boycott, so particularly negative connotations for me), or perhaps a skin disease (thinking of rosea, perhaps).

Sorry!

ilivebythesea · 16/07/2017 10:34

I love how some people know exactly what I'm thinking/suggesting and know exactly what other people are thinking/suggesting...

Anyway, this thread is about the OP's question...

NanooCov · 16/07/2017 10:36

It is a lovely name but think the L'Oreal link is too strong possibly.

I like Sua from your other suggestions and don't think it would be pronounced "sewer" incorrectly.

Laurayah - no. Just no.

Hulder · 16/07/2017 11:15

Small children - which is mainly what your child will meet for 10 years - won't think of L'Oreal.

Plus there are lots of happy girls called Flora and people don't think they are named after a margarine.

RiverTam · 16/07/2017 11:20

Yes, but for the following 70 odd years (I think L'Oreal isn't going anywhere, unfortunately) they will. I don't think you can compare to Flora, which was an established name in the UK long before the margarine. Not the case with this name.

It's a pity as its a very pretty name.

MargotLovedTom1 · 16/07/2017 18:11

Oh fgs ilivebythesea I used 'suggesting' in the sense of 'causing a person to think something is the case'. As every other person on the the thread also thought you'd made it up, it was hardly a bizarre thing to infer from your post.

bruffin · 16/07/2017 18:14

I knew a Loria at school, she was greek (cypriot i think)

Dukesofhazzard · 16/07/2017 18:30

I love it and think it's easy to pronounce.

PoppyPopcorn · 16/07/2017 20:19

There are some lovely basque and Spanish girls names - Miren, Arantxa, Amaia. Or something like Nuria which is easy for English speakers.

FrancisCrawford · 16/07/2017 20:28

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PlainSocks · 16/07/2017 21:21

Beautiful name, beautiful meaning, I love it. Yes it's one letter away from L'Oréal, but nowhere near the same pronunciation, and great point about there being lots of Floras not being associated with margarine! I think it's silly to overthink these things, if you like it, and it means something special to you, use it and people will get used to it and the child will 'become' the name.

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