Final poll: Annabel, Eliza, Arabella & others

[Ruthshaw1980]

Hi all

Baby due Friday and after a few polls and help on here over the last 9 months we have managed to get our boy list down to 2 and girl list to 6. Having difficulty though with shortening girl list further so can people list these in order of preference:

Annabel
Arabella
Eliza
Elizabeth
Heidi
Romilly

Big thank you to all who respond 😀

I like Eliza and Elizabeth but not the others I’m afraid.

Arabella is a horse!

Absolutely loads of Annabelle / Annabel variations in my kids' friends.

From favourite yo least favourite:

Elizabeth - such a classic, timeless and versatile name.
Heidi
Eliza - love it as a nickname for Elizabeth but not as a name on its own.
Romilly- like the sound of this name, though sounds a bit pretentious to me. Love Milly and Rome/Roma as nicknames for it too.
Arabella- this name is a bit of a mouthful. But it's a pretty, feminine name, if that's what you're after.
Annabel- just feels boring and dated compared to other names on the list.

Good luck with picking your name. I hope you have a good delivery and recovery.

Annabel

Love Romilly.

Elizabeth (nn Eliza if you like)

I like Annabel and Arabella best.

I can’t believe how many Arabellas I know. In a class of 30 in my child’s Reception class, there are 3! And I know two others from baby groups. I don’t really like it. I think it’s a bit of a statement name. The statement being “we’re really posh - can you tell?” 🤭

Romilly is beautiful.

Love Elizabeth, Eliza could be a nickname. Also really like Annabel. Arabella is nice too. Not keen on the others.

Would you shorten?

I like Romilly and Romy.

I like Elizabeth for Beth or Libby but not if she’ll be called Elizabeth!

I like Arabella too.

Eliza

Eliza- still plenty of nick name options as people obsessed with saying use Elizabeth and then shorten it.
Elle, Ellie, ZaZa or anything that forms naturally over the child’s life time.

Or Heidi (DeDe) both fab.

Less commonly used but known and not weird

Elizabeth, Eliza then Heidi. Not keen on others sorry.

I have an Eliza so it's clearly going to be my favourite but I don't like Elizabeth. It's the long "I" sound I like in Eliza and the "LIZ" is too strong for me in Elizabeth.

Eliza is my fave

Romilly by far.

Heidi in second place.

Eliza then Romilly

Eliza

There are ALOT of Elizas in my community, and by the sounds of it everywhere. I think it may be the new Olivia. Lovely name though x

Heidi is very pretty, or Annabel.

Romilly

I have two dc's with names on your list. Won't say which as it might be outing. Eliza could be a shortened version of Elizabeth x