Thoughts and feedback on girl list :)

[claireanne36]

We are due with a girl next month and are having a hard time deciding on a name. Here is our list so far but open to suggestions as well. Brother is Lincoln.

Names:
Fiona
Camilla
Serena
Hazel
Cassia
Saige
Felicity

Thanks!

Cassia by absolutely miles! I love it.

Nice names but not keen on Cassia and Saige. Odd names and spellings.

I like fiona and felicity. Hazel is meh.

Cassia is my favourite and then felicity.

I only like Camilla and Serena. Camilla is such a classic, lovely name. And Serena is really nice and strong-sounding.

Fiona - ugly name (sorry). The ogre from Shrek.
Hazel- bleugh.
Cassia - okay but slightly hard to say and would probably be mangled by children in pronunciation.
Saige - the herb. Awful.
Felicity - the most wet fish their name their is.

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Serena

Cassia and Saige are lovely.

Fiona - not a fan of this one
Camilla - nice
Serena - lovely
Hazel - nice, makes me think of the nut but that's not a bad thing
Cassia - lovely
Saige - prefer as Sage but feel it's a difficult one to say
Felicity - lovely

Overall you have some great names in that list

I love Camilla. I really don’t get why people say ‘hate it because of Camilla P-B’. There are so many names that could be associated with a famous person (and not a unilaterally loved one) but this gets singled out. When people meet a baby/ toddler/ child called Camilla are they really going to get stuck on C P-B?! No. The baby becomes the Camilla they know. There was a Camilla on Love Island () and it never occurred to me to think of C P-B.
Your baby’s generation are very unlikely to associate her quite so strongly with questionable behaviour re Charles/ Diana (if that’s what people are reacting against) and mainly just to know her as the wife of King Charles (hard to imagine as it is!!)

If I saw Saige i’d struggle to pronounce it because I would assume you didn’t want it to be Sage like the herb, but I wouldn’t know how to say it differently.

Serena sounds a bit whiny, I prefer Seren.
Camilla is nice, I never give PB a thought, to be honest.
Fiona is dowdy.
Hazel is extremely dowdy.
Saige, Autocorrect doesn't like it, hippy but not in a good way. Bit weird and will have to be spelt every time.
Cassia, I'm not sure how this is pronounced.

Wolf I think you are confused about Serena. It has been around in Western culture for a long, long time. It may be one of those names that coincidentally sounds the same as a name from another culture but actually has a different origin. Another example is Sarita which is both an Indian girls name and a Spanish name deriving from Sara, in the same way that Anita derives from Ana /Anna. As for Serena Williams being black that's not relevant. Her family were presumably using the Western name Serena. Most African-American people have Western names. Serena is absolutely fine for a white child, I like it.

I'd agree with pps that Saige is a bit odd. I like all your other choices though.

I think Saffron goes nicely with Lincoln, and has the herbs and spices vibe of Sage and Cassia.

Hazel, Cassia and Camilla are my favourites

Felicity and Camilla are both great names, and my easy favourites of these.

I don't like Saige and Hazel, the others are okay.

Love Cassia but don't like the pronunciation 'Cash-uh', only like "Cass-ee-uh". Which would you use?