What does this name make you think of?

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Clara

Doctor who. It's a lovely name

Silence of the Lambs

Heidi

Dr who

Clara’s are always maids or servants in old fashioned plays.

It's hideous! All the ones I've ever taught have been vindictive.

Brown hair

Long Distance Clara, then Doctor Who.

Neither of these are enough to take it off our girl list though.

(In my head Clara plays piano and something slightly less mainstream - cor anglais/French horn/cello)

Dr Who and The Nutcracker.

Also a lovely little girl with a brown haired bob, a red ribbon in her hair and blue eyes 😍

Back to the future 3

Nutcracker and Heidi, so therefore I imagine a rich upper-class teenager. As names percolate through a generation and into mass consciousness it does end up as a servant name though - but that's like lots of names - Harriet and Ada are like that too. But I think Nutcracker and Heidi first.

Pigeon street's long distance Clara

A Friesian. I don’t know why though.

Clara in the ballet The Nutcracker.

Below stairs

oh and Clara Hutt, from India Knight's My Life On A Plate. A decent character who was utterly rewritten/ruined in two shoddy sequels

the nutcracker.

Oswald in Dr Who

And a drippy friend from 6th form

An ongoing debate with my aunt who believed English Claras should be pronounced Claira, while German ones were Claara (she also said English Marias were traditionally pronounced Mar-eye-a while Italian/Spanish ones were Mar-ee-a). Something to think about!!

Heidi book and a little girl who's friends with my son.

Heidi here too. Clara is a lovely name.

Nothing really. It's just a lovely name to me.

I have a friend called Clara who pronounces it Claire-a. It took me a while to get used to this but now I struggle to pronounce it the other (more popular) way.

Heidi and a very good friend. I might have used it if I'd had a daughter.
It's strong and feminine. No nonsense. No soppy nicknames.