How many Norah’s or Lydia’s do you know?

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Just that really? I want a lovely name but I would rather they not be one of 4 in their class as I was! DH and I both agree on these names although I think I’m swaying more towards Norah.

Norah - 0
Lydia - 4 - aged 19, 10 and 2 toddlers.

Really like both of these!

One of each.
Funny how the people you know with certain names colour how you regard those names. Lydia was beautiful, tall, rich. And a total cow, to everyone. So I really dislike that name now. Norah was a name from my Nan’s generation and I didn’t like it at all. But the Norah I knew was, unlike Lydia, interesting looking shall we say, and was the most lovely, kind and generous person I’d met in a long time. So now the name Norah has lovely connotations for me and I really like it. Lydia would be in her forties now and Norah probably late sixties, don’t know any younger versions amongst my Dds friends.

I know one Nora who is about 70.

My SIL is a Lydia (mid-30s).

My DD aged 7 has Lydia as a middle name and I know one other Lydia aged 9.

1 Lydia (30 yo) no Norahs. Love Norah, was on our list for a girl was Also considering it as NN for Eleanor but told off here

I know a Lydia in her 20s and a Norah who is 6.

I know 2 little girls named Lydia, I’m not keen on the name myself and for some reason it always reminds me of labia

Norah is a gorgeous name and I’ve never come across one yet, I’d go with this one if I was you

One of each , both under 10.

Norah one 90-something neighbour.

Lydia, one 21 and one 14. Lovely name

Oh sorry but I always think of Norah Batty when I hear the name Norah.

I own a 13yo Lydia, but she's the only one I know. There isn't another one in her current school (that's she's aware of anyway) and there was only ever 1 other in Primary School, who was a few years above her.

Not keen on Norah, I think it sounds a little harsh but Lydia I love. It's elegant, phonetically pleasing and looks nice written - Yep, Lydia.
Someone called Lydia could do anything.

1 x Norah, aged 4y
Know of maybe half a dozen girls called Lydia - ages range from 7y to 16y

I love the name Lydia and there is one in my daughters class (aged 4). Not come across a Norah, although I know an adult Nara. I have a Claudia which to my ear is very similar to Lydia and we have never met another child called Claudia.

I know one Lydia in her early 20s. I don't know any Norah's though.

0 Norah's, 2 Lydia's.

Norah was on my shortlist but im expecting a boy!

Many Lydias, no Norahs.
Norah is an awful name.

None of either at the moment, although I did know a young woman called Lydia when she was around 14, she'd be about 30 now. I thought then what a pretty name it is.

I love Lydia.

Love for Lydia is on BBC iplayer at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007ncy6

One teenage Lydia and have only met a Norah (middle aged) once in my life.

None! Both lovely names.

1 Lydia, mid-twenties - genuinely one of the kindest people I’ve ever met, DH and I are already considering her for godmother if we do manage to get pregnant

No Norahs or Noras but I do know a Nola who is about 10. That probably doesn’t help much.

No Norahs. I did have a great Aunt Norah but she died over 30 years ago.

One Lydia - she is mid 50s I'd day. The name makes me think of that woman in Breaking Bad.

2 Norah's - one aged 11 and one adult in her early 60's.

One Lydia in her late teens.

Both lovely names but I think I prefer Norah.