Arabella or Cecilia?

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Can’t seem to be making up our mind
Which one do you like more and why?
Arabella or Cecilia?

Meant the only thing “I do not like as much is” the many S sounds... did not write correctly above...

Arabella

Or rather Mirabel, too tired today 😉

Arabella has always sounded like a pasta sauce to me

I love Cecelia but I think it's too similar, personally.

ElizaDontlittle I thought so too and now I’m thinking maybe between Maribel or Mirabel... kind of going off Arabella but knowing me I may change my mind in a few days, lol
Cecilia I still love but I want to avoid getting us confused. I’m already calling DP DS name and the names are far apart, lol
Will have to think that through...

Try yelling the two names up the stairs. If it’s too essy then you’ll know. Also, are you likely to end up mixing them together and saying Lysselia etc? I know brothers called Alastair and Oliver and they get “Ollister... I mean Alliver” sometimes.

Fwiw, Arabella is nicer imo than Cecilia anyway. Cecilia strikes me as a bit fusty for some reason, though I know it’s popular on here. It definitely isn’t dreadful though.

Cecelia and LeeSEEa sound fine together imo.

Mirabel makes me think of skiing, but that's not a terrible association.

Have you considered Christabel?

I love Arabella and I’ve met more than my fair share through work. Yet to meet weak or fluffy one they are all great in their own ways.

Cecelia I don’t like as much and has different connotations for me.

How about Mabel or as a pp said, Saskia is lovely.

Both names are fine, but I much prefer Cecilia - patron saint of music, etc. Arabella is like a "spoilt rich girl" name to me. It seems very frilly somehow.

Mirabel. Add an -le and you get a beautiful golden plum. Lyssia and Cecelia are too close in sound, for me.

Cecelia. Beautiful name. Nn can be Celia, Cici, Lia.

Cecelia is a beautiful name.

Definitely Cecilia. So nice.

Cecelia. Always had this name on my list for my daughters but something always held me back from using it. Lovely name

Love Cecilia.

Do like Arabella, but hate the short form Bella, so would avoid that.

Arabella is lovely but long. Cecilia - S&G.
Lyssia - No, too difficult to get others to use the Lyss-SEE-a pronunciation.
Annella sounds like bacteria.

I love Cecilia. Arabella is fine but a bit boring imo.

(You might also like Araminta, Aminta, Celestine and Sybil.)

Cecilia. Will get shortened to Cec pronounces cess. Like cess pit. Nuff said.

I have an Arabella and people comment on how lovely her name is. I tend to think of it as more of a grown up name and for now we are mainly using Belle. She is the only Belle in her pre-school group of 25 though I think the name is becoming more popular and of course there are the other variations too - Isobel etc which can be shortened to Belle also. Belle definitely suits our dd but I can also imagine her using Arabella as an adult.

Also like the name Mariella but it is too close to dd1's name (currently expecting dd3 so watching these threads with interest!)

Arianna maybe?

DailyMail just contemplating Arianna for dd3 and spookily enough was about to start a thread along these lines!

I prefer Annabelle to Arabella, like Arianna and Cecilia too.

Annabelle, Cecilia and Arianna are lovely names imo.