Etta, Effie, Anya, Nina, Iona, Eva, Ella

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When name do you like best? Which least? For a child growing up in the UK (London to be precise).

Etta, Effie, Anya, Nina, Iona, Eva, Ella

Nina

Lovely list! I have a Nina and I love it, obviously. I also love Etta, but in some accents (i.e., North American) I found it sounded more like "Edda" (i.e., not pronouncing the t properly) and I wasn't crazy about that.

Etta, Iona & Nina are my favourites.

I don't like Eva or Ella, mainly because I know loads and the names just seem a bit unoriginal at the moment.

1. Etta
2. Iona
3. Nina

I met an Ethne the other day. (in her 70s)

Love the name and it's in the theme of the names you like.

I love them all, except Nina and Ella Ella Ella umbrella.

Etta - love it, trendy though.
Effie - it's okay. Very skins.
Anya - I like Anya! But its much more a grown woman name to me (not a bad thing)
Nina - I like it
Iona - love it
Eva - it's nice. Prefer Eve
Ella - nice, standard name. Boring though.

Other suggestions:

Elvie
Elfina
Elka
Ember

Also, in the nicest way possible every Ella I've met has always been 'named after Fitzgerald' eyeroll

I like Nina, because I absolutely adore Simone's music, but actually as a person, I wouldn't name my daughter after her.

If you're going for 1 of those 3, has to be Etta.

My choice for a girl, had my child been one was Elfie. I went off it when a young woman I worked with said “oh my god I love that name. Sounds like something Paula Yates would have called her kids”

Same young woman now a mum of 3 girls with not unusual but not common names. No Elfie amongst them

Love Ella and Nina from your list.

Anya is nice but very popular where I am from (north west London) there are 4 Anyas in a class of 40 in my daughters year and 2 in the year above and 3 in the year below that we know of

I like Etta and Effie, but I would prefer them to be nicknames rather than the actual name. Of your list, the only one I'd consider is Eva, but even then I prefer Evie.

Effie is lovely.

Loads of Evas and Evas around

Ellas!

I know siblings called Iona and Nina funnily enough.
I'm a fan of Nina purely because it's my name (although my parents spelt it differently).

I love Anya ask it's one of my favourite character's names in Buffy!!

Etta first, then Effie, then Nina. All great names.

Sorry I don’t like any of them. Effie is particularly dreadful.
If I had to choose one it would be Nina. What about Anna?

Eithne is a very unfashionable name choice in Ireland - it's like calling your child Linda or Cynthia.

Etta - love it
Effie - I like it in theory but it just seems a bit insipid
Anya - nice
Nina - nice
Iona - personally I just see it as "I own a"
Eva, Ella - absolutely nope to both. Overdone and bland.

I'd go for Etta or Nina.

Love Anya (but I'm a huge Buffy fan and Anya was an amazing character). Dislike Effie - reminds me of "F off". Nina is nice but I had a customer who told me that they were going to call their soon to be daughter that until they told their son (3 year old) the name and he spent the next few days running around the house going neee naaa neee naaa nee at the top of his voice (like a police siren)...they chose something else after that. Love Iona (but I know a few if that makes any difference). Etta - I like it but as a nickname. Eva and Ella are just meh.